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Sunday Lecture Series – 26 March
Queensland Police during WWII Seminar by historian Peter Dunn OAM 11:00 – 12.30 Tickets via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au During World War II, the Queensland Police were heavily...
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FROM the VAULT – The bank hoax that wasn’t 1969
A lesson for all hold-up victims… if a person claims to be armed, believe them! On 26 January 1969, a young man walked into the Rocklea Branch of the Commonwealth Bank carrying a brown paper wrapped...
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FROM the VAULT – Gangland Revenge – Part 2
…the case of an explosive can of shaving cream At 2.30 am sharp on Thursday 10 April 1969, the explosives expert, and Officer in Charge of the newly formed ‘Emergency Squad’ attached to Brisbane’s...
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FROM the VAULT – The Confession 1971
…‘She wrecked my life. I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill her.’ On 6 December 1971, the ‘Emergency Squad,’ from CIB’s Scientific Section, were called to an address in a northern suburb of Brisbane. An...
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Sunday Lecture Series 30 April
Behind the Scenes in the Missing Persons Unit Seminar by Senior Constable Kathryn Collins 11:00 – 12.30 Tickets via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au This lecture will be livestreamed Have...
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FROM the VAULT: Fool me once, shame on you
Photo courtesy City of Gold Coast Libraries Local Studies Collections, ca 1970. On a cold night in July 1969, the Emergency Squad was called to a hostage situation in Holland Park. A man was holding a...
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FROM the VAULT: The Best Job in the World – Part 1
From time-to-time television news captures our attention with images of heavily accoutred police storming high risk incidents. Today’s SERT, the elite tactically trained Queensland Police squad based...
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FROM the VAULT: The Best Job in the World – Part 2
Tactical Response Group in training ca 1987 Transformation from part-time Emergency Squad to fulltime S.E.R.T. Less than three months later, the new Tactical Response Group was dealt a grievous blow....
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FROPM the VAULT-History of the ‘Traffic Office’ 1905 to 1934 Part 1
Introduction of the Traffic Act 1905 Intersection of Queen and Edward Streets, Brisbane, March 1940 (JOL Negative 82490) During the beginning of his tenure as Police Commissioner in 1958, Frank...
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Sunday Lecture Series 2023 – May 28
Brisbane Crime & Criminals In collaboration with the Brisbane History Group Sunday 28 May 2023 12:30 – 16:00 Conference Room, Queensland Police Headquarters Bookings via Brisbane History Group...
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FROM the VAULT-History of the ‘Traffic Office’ 1905 to 1934 Part 2
Trailblazers of Technology James Trackson and his wife in their steam powered locomobile, Brisbane, ca. 1903. (JOL Negative 10160) James Trackson, a local industrialist, entrepreneur, and electrical...
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FROM the VAULT-History of the ‘Traffic Office’ 1898-1934 Part 3
Walking the beat with Edward Blackmore Senior Sergeant Edward Blackmore, 1928 (Taken from the Telegraph 12 April 1928) Edward James Blackmore was sworn in as Constable 674 on 25 November 1898 at the...
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FROM the VAULT – The Maguire Trial Part 1
The following blog is based on one of the more interesting cases investigated by the Brisbane CIB in the early 1950s. It was the only case in Queensland’s legal history at that time (apart from...
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Sunday Lecture Series – 25 June
The Coolangatta Hotel Fire 1 January 1975 Seminar by retired police officers Ian Rogers QGM and David Lacon QGM 11:00 – 12.30 Tickets via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au On 31 December...
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FROM the VAULT: The Maguire Trial Part 2
Jury Selection In the previous blog, ‘The Maguire Trial – Part 1,’ a sting operation effected by a political party unveiled vote tampering in the Queensland State Election of 1950. The subsequent...
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Sunday Lecture Series: 30 July
Under Water Investigations: The QPS Diving Unit 11:00 – 12:30 Queensland Police Headquarters Bookings via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov An appreciation of the value of a police diving...
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FROM the VAULT: The Maguire Trial Part 3
Jury Reform Suffragist Annie Golding (centre) with other feminists who campaigned for jury rights for all Australian women in 1902. (Photo: Freeman Studio Collection) In the previous blogs, ‘The...
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FROM the VAULT: A Million in One Shot
8.22 calibre Lithgow Slazenger single shot bolt action rifle Circa 1955 – 1960. A basic, affordable rifle, light and easy to ‘handle, and often a teenager’s ‘first rifle.’ Photo Courtesy of Australian...
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FROM the VAULT: A Million in One Shot Part 2
A Flash of Insight Example of .22 calibre rifle Photo Courtesy of Australian War Memorial REL3249 Les Bardwell in retirement, Sunshine Coast (Photo by Stuart Cumming) Flash of insight from past case...
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FROM the VAULT: ‘Murdercide’ in 1971
In 1971, police waited for the coroner’s verdict on the controversial death of a Swedish national (name omitted). Did he die by his own hand, was he somehow assisted, or was he murdered? Having...
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