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FROM the VAULT – Doomed Patrol to Doongmabulla 1913
Part 2 – A Scotsman’s final journey This two-part blog seeks to honour the life of Constable William Murray who perished in the Outback, on or about November 20, 1913. We will explore the chain of...
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Sunday Lecture Series – The murder of Gwen Lubke 1956
25 February | 11:00am – 12:30pm Tickets via Eventbrite The lecture will be recorded but will not be live. The recording will be uploaded online at a later date. On the evening of 25 February 1956,...
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FROM THE VAULT – The Art of Directing Traffic
The art of directing traffic has been an integral part of police training since the 1920s. A number of officers took to the task with great flair. Dancing Dickie Daniells was well known for his...
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FROM THE VAULT – Roughing it
The isolated Yo Yo Creek Native Police barracks, in far north Queensland, sat on a high bank above the creek (middle right of the image), c1864. This is one of the earliest images in the Police Museum...
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FROM the VAULT: Vanished
Mary and Rod Burrows Former Queensland Police Service Administration Officer, 54-year-old Mary Burrows, who worked at the Oxley Police Academy for 16 years, looked forward to the simple pleasures of...
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FROM THE VAULT – Relax & Look Natural…
Bundaberg District police staff, 1908 This photograph was taken in early 1908 and shows a group of uniformed and plain clothed police staff, posing outside the front of the Bundaberg Police Station....
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FROM THE VAULT – Smart Horses, Clever Trainer
Constable Robinson shares the see-saw with his horse ‘Trixie’. John James Robinson, a horse breaker by trade, was sworn in as a Constable on 5 July 1906. He was obviously a talented trainer who...
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Sunday Lecture Series 28 April: Brisbane in Flood
In conjunction with the Brisbane History Group Starts 10.30am for Registration, BHG bookshop and morning tea Seminar starts at 11:10 and will conclude at 13.30 For catering book a ticket at Humanitix...
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FROM THE VAULT – 60 years – Policing Foreign Shores: Cyprus 1964
The first contingent of Australian Police arrive at the Nicosia Airport, Cyprus, to take up duties on the island as part of a United Nations Police Peacekeeping Force, 1964. Five Queensland Police...
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FROM THE VAULT – The story of one unlucky Susan McGowan
Looking east to Brisbane City from the Windmill Observatory, c1880 The case of Susan McGowan was extraordinary – even for Brisbane of the late 1800s with its prolific and unremitting petty crime. As...
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FROM THE VAULT: A life like road safety idea
Plywood cut-out motorcycle police officer used as part of a joint road safety campaign by the Gold Coast Bulletin and the Gold Coast Police Traffic Branch, 1983. This road safety idea came about in...
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FROM THE VAULT – Gold Escort Duty
Gold Rushes: Between 1861 and 1867 there were a number of gold discoveries at Clermont; Cloncurry; Cape River; Nanango, Gympie and Kilkivan. Later in the 19th century gold was also found at Normanton...
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Sunday Lecture Series 26 May
Fingerprints – a unique identification method 11am – 12.30pm Tickets via Eventbrite This lecture will be recorded but will not go live on our Vimeo Portal until the following day. Matching...
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FROM THE VAULT – Help at Hand… Cyclone Tracy – The Queensland Police Contingent
Anti-Looting Duty: On Saturday 28 December 1974, Constable 1/c Bob Latter, along with three NT Detectives, went to Millner St in Darwin. There they found 3 cars packed with goods looted from destroyed...
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FROM the VAULT – Beached WW2 Sea-Mine, 1968/1969
A distraught swimmer is removed from Surfers Paradise beach where the sea-mine washed ashore. Newspaper photographers are already there capturing the scene, 1968-1969.Image No. PM0412 courtesy of the...
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FROM VAULT – Police Duty Deserving of Mention…
At approximately 9.10pm on August 10, 1954, information was received at the Townsville Police Station regarding a suspected prowler on the premises of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co....
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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...
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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...
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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: Eagle Farm Siege
Around noon on Friday 26 July 1985, Michael Petrovic, 41 of Alexandra Hills, Brisbane, entered the Seaworld complex at the Gold Coast and arranged a four hour helicopter ride for his two children. As...
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