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Jock MacDonald recalls regional patrol duties around Coen
Regional patrolling was a common duty required of outback police Jock MacDonald was sworn-in as a Constable on 28 June 1961, he was 19 years old. He spent most of his career in regional areas such as...
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FROM the VAULT – The Gatton Murders, 26 December 1898
‘We have failed because from the very outset we had no chance of success’ Inspector Frederick C. Urquhart in his police summary for the Gatton Murders Gatton murder scene with police trackers at work,...
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Sunday Lecture Series – The Evolution of Boggo Road Gaol – October 27
The Evolution of Boggo Road Gaol October 27 11.00am – 12.30pm Did you know that construction of Boggo Road Gaol, by A. Lind & Son, began in October 1901, was completed in June 1903. The gaol opened...
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FROM the VAULT – The death of Constable George Young, 1938
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE LEADS TO A TRAGIC PLANE CRASH Marjorie Rose Norval, mysteriously disappeared on 11 November 1938. Her body was never found.Image PM1849 Courtesy of the Queensland Police...
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THEN and NOW: Bicycles
Queensland police walked “the beat” until the first issue of bicycles in January 1896. Bicycles allowed police to patrol a wider area of a town. By the 1920s there was even a pedal powered night patrol...
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FROM the VAULT – The “White Ghost”
THE “White Ghost” – A VEHICLE FOR ROAD SENSE EDUCATION The “White Ghost” Police Chevrolet utility at the Petrie Terrace Depot, c1946Image No. PM0864 courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum A 1941...
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FROM the VAULT – It’s raining again…floods and police work
Floods are not new to Queensland. We can look back to the 1840s to see the effects of rising rivers on low lying areas. In the 1890s there were a series of huge floods which devastated Brisbane and...
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Sunday Lecture Series – Queensland Police Special Branch 1948 to 1989
Police Museum Sunday Lecture Includes Morning Tea November 24, 2013 10:00 – 12:30 Special Branch was established in April 1948 and was often surrounded by controversy, but always by a veil of secrecy....
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THEN and NOW – Petrie Terrace Depot 1938 to 1972
Between 1864 and 1869 Queensland police occupied buildings in the city centre and then in 1870 they moved into Victoria Barracks. In 1885 they moved next door into the old Brisbane Gaol buildings after...
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FROM the VAULT – Secretary to Marsupial Board
In the early decades of the force’s existence, a Brisbane city policeman was truly a jack-of-all-trades. Apart from the extensive policing duties (peace preservation, crime prevention, prosecution,...
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Queensland Police Museum turns 120
The Queensland Police Museum has celebrated its 120th birthday today with festivities hosted at Police Headquarters on Roma Street. Commissioner Ian Stewart said on November 27, 1893 Mr Finucane,...
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FROM THE VAULT: Look Left & Right: Road Safety Lecturing in the 1950s & 1960s
Main Roads Department Vincent HRD motor cycle and side car for carrying projector, equipment etc for school lectures, is presented by the Markwell Brothers to the Road Safety Council for use by Police...
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Book Launch in Police HQ “VOICES FROM THE PAST”
Book Cover – VOICES FROM THE PAST Retired QPS Senior Sergeant Neil Bradford has written a definitive history of law enforcement in the Central Highlands. Tracing the explorative past from Ludwig...
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FROM the VAULT – Brisbane’s First Traffic Lights 1936
As the amount of cars, trucks and other conveyances increased on Brisbane’s roads so did the propensity for pedestrians to be hit as they tried to cross busy thoroughfares. It was the responsibility...
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ON SALE NOW – Official QPS 150 Year Commemorative Calendar
Purchases can be made through the following: Queensland Police Museum Email: museum@police.qld.gov.au P: 3364 4652 or QPS 150 Year Celebrations Project Office Email:...
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FROM the VAULT – Fauna Protection Squad
Today, the variety of extraneous police duties carried out by the officers, for the most part is limited to civic commissions and enquiries with the exception given to specialist squads. In the 1970s,...
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FROM the VAULT – Frank Gardiner, an Australian Dick Turpin
Image: Frank Gardiner, ‘The Bushrangers’ from The Farmer and Settler, 20 April, 1915 p. 7. ‘After discovery of gold in 1831, a number of bad characters took to the bush who were satisfied to rob...
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FROM the VAULT – Boats, boats and moor boats!
The Queensland Police Service have commissioned a long and fine list of vessels for use by the Water Police. In 1893 the Annual Report to the Commissioner of Police suggested “this branch of the Force...
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FROM the VAULT – Drayton Police Station
Drayton was the first township established on the Darling Downs. The township was named after a local house owned by Thomas Alford who in turn named his house after a village in England. Drayton Police...
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THEN and NOW – Police Vehicles
During the 1920’s written suggestions to the Commissioner of Police, Patrick Short, requesting the purchase a vehicle for use by the CIB where politely refused with a standard letter sent to several...
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