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Elder Abuse – Trust your instinct
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is recognised annually on June 15 to raise awareness of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. This year’s Queensland Government campaign “Trust your instinct” is...
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FROM the VAULT – The Illicit Lab Investigation Task Force
In recent decades drug offences continued their upward trend. In 1993, the State’s Drug Squad has been expanded, improved technology was introduced to keep abreast of modern methods of criminal...
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QPM SUNDAY LECTURE – Scientific Section: Who We Are & What We Do
Scientific Section: Who We Are & What We Do 28 June 2015 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY These Scenes of Crime officers are first response...
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FROM the VAULT – Various QP Buildings
Timber, stone, brick, louvered, picketed…so many building variations have been utilised by the Queensland Police. Architectural differences are dependent on many factors including available materials,...
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FROM the VAULT – Mungindi, a Sergeant’s perspective
Picture a two man station in the 1950’s, policed by one cranky Sergeant and one busy Constable. A letter written by Sergeant Gilbert Barwick, Officer in Charge of the New South Wales Mungindi Police...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Mungindi during the flood of 1921
In 1921 the border town of Mungindi on the Barwon River, which divides Queensland and New South Wales, was the scene of a flood. Acting Sergeant Reynolds from Queensland’s Mungindi Police Station had...
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QPM SUNDAY LECTURE – Send in the Dogs
Behind the Scenes of the Police Dog Squad 26 July 2015 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Did you know a dog’s natural hunting instinct can be modified...
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FROM the VAULT – Bomb Outrage Shocks Sunshine Coast Community
On Monday morning, 5 August, 1974, Detective Sergeant 1/c Kevin L. Dorris, Nambour Criminal Investigation Branch, received a tip from an anonymous male caller regarding a quantity of heroin concealed...
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FROM the VAULT – Our First Forward Command Post
The Queensland Police mobile office was first organised as an aid in a 1974 homicide investigation in Maroochydore. In August, 1974, a small Sunshine Coast community was shaken by the tragic news of a...
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FROM the VAULT – Leyburn Police Station
Prior to inauguration of the Queensland Police Force in 1864, Sub-Inspector William Harris with Constables Henry Harris, John Brophy and John Broderick policed Leyburn. The policemen served from...
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FROM the VAULT – Crop-A-Cop
Sergeant Greg Clarke of Alderley was one of the 180 Queensland Policemen and Policewomen who got ‘cropped’ in a joint fundraising event with the Royal Children’s Hospital, Banksia Ward (Oncology). The...
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FROM the VAULT – The death of Senior Constable Michael Low
Michael Low was sworn in as a Queensland Police Constable on May 14, 1980. He was stationed at Rockhampton, Cherbourg, Tewantin, Longreach and North Rockhampton. At 6.17pm on February 29, 1984...
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FROM the VAULT – Policemen with their children
A typical country station showing an unknown Policeman with his wife, child and the resident Tracker, c1910.Image No. PM0618 courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum. Dads with their children. It’s a...
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Queensland Police Museum on izi.TRAVEL
Find us on izi.travel Police parade at Petrie Terrace, 1867.PM0159 Courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum. Download the Brisbane’s policing history: Walking the Long Blue Line audio tour or the...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Queensland by Bicycle
Bicycles were introduced to the Queensland Police Force in 1896, when horses and bicycles were the main form of transport. Bicycles allowed police officers increased mobility and speed in the field....
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FROM the VAULT – Black Baton Friday
In writing of this book, my primary objective is to present in readable form, a chronicle of the more interesting crime with which I was associated in my official capacity during my thirty five years...
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FROM the VAULT – Constable O’Driscoll and the Battle of Merivale Street
The battle, a fierce and violent display of street fighting, was the highlight of a series of processions, meetings and riots held by left-wing militants and Russian Bolsheviks on the one hand and...
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FROM the VAULT – Police and Horses
From a mode of transport to a specialist policing branch The horse has always played an important role of the policing of Queensland. Horses were a principle means of transport for police officers...
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FROM the VAULT – More Real People
Back by popular demand, more images from the Police Museum’s collection. Here are four favourites chosen by our Museum Assistant, in chronological order. A MOBILE PHONESergeant Cecil Trower on his...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police Pipes and Drums
In April 1958, the State Government formally approved the formation of the Queensland Police Pipe Band, Australia’s third police pipe band after Victoria and New South Wales, and provided £2000 for the...
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