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FROM the VAULT – 40 years since Cyclone Tracy
This year marks the 40th anniversary of devastating Cyclone Tracy. Her destructive winds made landfall in Darwin during the very early hours of Christmas day, 1974. 66 people died as a result of the...
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Personal safety tips for New Year’s Eve
Police are urging revellers to use common sense and personal safety strategies to ensure New Year’s Eve celebrations remain safe and enjoyable. Brisbane Event Commander, Acting Superintendent Mick...
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FROM the VAULT – The Early Days
After the colony’s separation from New South Wales in 1859, the young police force was mainly concerned with patrolling the largest city, Brisbane. Rural areas were still looked after by the NSW...
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FROM the VAULT – Arthur Albert Bock
Arthur Albert Bock, previously a Labourer from South Australia, joined the Queensland Police as Constable 467 in May 1904. Between 1904 and 1915 Bock served at Roma Street, Charters Towers, Croydon,...
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FROM the VAULT – Sly Grog Patrol
The following is an account by Albert Austin Montague, an American and former WWII Submariner and retired Sergeant Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, now deceased, of time spent in Brisbane, on...
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FROM the VAULT – Bank Bandit and a Wild Car Chase, Brisbane 1978
On 12 April 1978, just before the 10am opening time, notorious bank bandit David Lawrence Hunter entered the Bank of New South Wales on Waterworks Road of Ashgrove and held up the staff with his...
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FROM the VAULT – A Verbal Portrait
‘Signalment is the description of the one whom it is desired to identify.’ In 1882, Alphonse Bertillon developed anthropometry, a criminal identification system also known as bertillonage. Bertillon...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Kit to Fit the Criminals
The first uniform forensic identification method was developed by Alphonse Bertillon over a hundred years ago. In the twentieth century, his descriptive signalment and signalment by peculiar marks...
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POLICE MUSEUM SUNDAY LECTURE – iDcare and how it can help you
iDcare and how it can help you 22 February 2015 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Have you ever lost your wallet? Had a burglar snoop around your home?...
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FROM the VAULT – Crow’s Nest Police Station in the 1950’s
Sergeant 2/c Thomas Doyle was transferred from Toowoomba Police Station to Crow’s Nest with his family in 1949. In November 1950 Sergeant Doyle requested a lawn mower for use on the station grounds:...
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FROM the VAULT – The Patient and the Brave
On the 3rd March 1954 advice was received at the Ipswich Police Station that a man had armed himself with a rifle and fired shots at his father. Constable C.H. Lebsanft, of Redbank, proceeded to the...
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FROM the VAULT – Senior Constable William Conroy
Senior Constable William Conroy was transferred to Thursday Island in 1886. He became a well-respected officer. On 1 July 1895 Amelia Tinyana went to the Thursday Island Police Station and complained...
View ArticlePOLICE MUSEUM SUNDAY LECTURE – The Prosecution Project
The Prosecution Project Uncover the details of Australia’s criminal past 29 March 2015 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY On 13 October 1941, Patrick...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Women in Queensland
Historically, policing organisations were male-dominated and remain so to this day. The Queensland Police was no exception, in line with the majority of police forces, the department was exclusively...
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FROM the VAULT – Jupiter’s ready to take on the cheats
In November 1985, the Queensland Police created the first Casino Crime Squad in Australia. The Squad was set up at the Conrad International Hotel and Jupiters Casino at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast,...
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FROM the VAULT – Kiss-A-Cop
1979 started on a fonder note for the Queensland policemen and policewomen than usual. In December, 1978 a Kiss-A-Cop campaign was launched by the Queensland Police Force to foster public relations....
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POLICE MUSEUM SUNDAY LECTURE – QPS Diving Unit
Under Water Investigations: The QPS Diving Unit 26 April 2015 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY An appreciation of the value of a police diving squad...
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FROM THE VAULT – ANZAC Day and the 100th anniversary
When WWI was announced, many Queensland police officers heard the call and took leave to join the Australian Imperial Force. Of those police officers who went to war, 30 paid the ultimate price and did...
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FROM the VAULT – Real People…
The Police Museum’s image collection includes many interesting police related images. Today we show you five of the Curator’s favourites, in chronological order. A SCRUFFY BUNCHQueensland Police...
View ArticleThank you for 150 years of support, Queensland
As our 150th year of policing draws to a close, we want to say thank you to Queenslanders for their support. This video is a reflection of the gratitude our officers have for the communities in which...
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