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FROM the VAULT – Policing Expo 88
On 30th April 1988 Brisbane’s World Expo 88 opened. It was heralded as the leading international event of the Australian Bicentenary, and promised to be the most spectacular celebration of leisure,...
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FROM the VAULT – Exercising Witchcraft or Telling Fortunes
Queensland’s Criminal Practice Rules, 1900, ushered in a number of critical amendments throughout the following century. The Rules passed in 1900 were extensive and encompassed all levels of the...
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FROM the VAULT – The Narella Street Tragedy
At about 7:30 am on 18 February 1957, Constable First Class John Christopher “Jack” Strickfuss was dressed for work and finishing his breakfast. A big man, Jack had joined the Queensland Police Force...
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Sunday Lecture – Feb 23 – The Modus Operandi Recording System
Queensland Police Museum, Sunday Lecture Series February 23 – Free Entry 11:00am – 12:30pm Queensland Police Headquarters, 200 Roma Street The Modus Operandi Recording System Speaker: Lisa Jones, QPM...
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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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FROM the VAULT – Women in the Queensland Police
Celebrating International Women’s Day – 8th March 2014 On March 16, 1931, Eileen O’Donnell (aged 35) and Zara Dare (aged 45), became the first female police officers in Queensland. Although they were...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland’s First Driver’s Licenses
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Police Commissioner Parry-Okeden (1895-1903) regularly remonstrated against the inadequate control of metropolitan traffic, which contributed to the increasing...
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FROM the VAULT – The Luck of the Irish
Kissing the Blarney Stone, 1897 Michael O’Sullivan was born at Grenagh, co Cork, not far from Blarney Castle. In the early 1880s, he left Ireland for Australia in an attempt to stay out of trouble for...
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FROM the VAULT – Patricia Anne Garnaut
Born in Cairns on 24th March, Patricia Anne Garnaut joined the Queensland Police as a Probationary Constable on 22nd October 1973, and was sworn in as Constable on 8th February 1974. The young...
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FROM the VAULT – The Death of Constable 1/c Roy Doyle, 1956
Roy Doyle was sworn into the Queensland Police on July 2, 1948 and served at Cairns before being transferred to Mackay in 1952. On 29 March 1956, heavy rains fell in the Mackay area with torrential...
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FROM the VAULT – The Coen Cyclone of 1943
In the early morning of 16 December 1943 a cyclone visited the township of Coen, in the Cairns Police District. The severe weather front blew with such force that tree branches, iron sheeting and...
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Sunday Lecture – Forensic Science in Queensland – April 27
Last Sunday of the Month – April 27 – Free Entry 11am – 12.30pm Ground Floor, QPS HQ 200 Roma Street, Brisbane Forensic Scientist, Sergeant Donna Stewart Major Crime Unit, Scientific Section Have you...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police Headquarters
The first Police HQ in Queensland was within an old wooden house on George Street, Brisbane. From 1901 Police Headquarters was moved to the old Church of England’s Diocese and Synod Meeting Rooms,...
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FROM the VAULT – Our collection under the spotlight
AWARDS – Moreton Bay: the blue tidal playground where water sports, recreational fishing and commercial trawlers share the home of a diverse range of plants and marine creatures. The Bay was also the...
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FROM the VAULT – Spring Hill Siege 1976
In mid-1966, Jack Pizzey, then Minister for Education and Police, instructed the Commissioner of Police to form a Police Emergency Squad. After hand picked Queensland officers, completed specialised...
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FROM the VAULT – Kilkivan Police Station
In 1867 the Commissioner of Police reported, ‘the opening up of the extensive gold field close to the port of Maryborough will, I expect, give the police some work before the close of the present...
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Sunday Lecture Series – May 25
Criminal Behavioural Profiling May 25 Sergeant Jeremy Keith Behavioural Specialist Unit, State Intelligence Group Behavioural Specialist Unit members Sergeant Jeremy Keith and PC Senior Constable...
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FROM the VAULT – Operation Birdman
Since 1978, the Queensland Police Service Wildlife Response Unit (WRU) has successfully apprehended and prosecuted offenders and broken up illegal poaching rings. Individual operations required...
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FROM the VAULT – Wildlife Response Unit: The Later Years
The QPS Wildlife Response Unit, formerly known as the Fauna Protection Squad, was established on 17 April, 1978. In its two and a half decades existence, a significant number of offenders were...
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FROM the VAULT – Footlockers
Equipment issued to police officers has changed and developed over the years, with some items, although still useful, no longer supplied. One such object is the footlocker, a mostly timber box with...
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