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The Australian Federal Police [52] and the New Zealand Police [53] sent their condolences, as did the Queensland Police Union [54] which subsequently announced plans to purchase the property, to serve as a memorial for the fallen officers and to prevent the site from "falling into the wrong hands".
In 1905 he was promoted to chief inspector of police. Urquhart again had a leading role in crushing striking unionists during the 1912 Brisbane general strike, the first mass strike of its kind in Australia. Urquhart mustered 2,000 police officers and special constables to attack a group of 15,000 striking workers.
In 1900, Douglas was transferred to Brisbane to be the chief inspector for the Queensland Police [25] and while in this position, Douglas took on the role of Acting Queensland Police Commissioner on four occasions. [26] Douglas retired from the Queensland Police in 1905, when he returned to England. He died on 5 February 1914, near Portsmouth.
A Queensland Police officer in standard uniform. The Queensland Police Service has two classes of uniformed personnel: police officers ('sworn' and 'unsworn'), [a] and staff members (public servants, including police liaison officers, watchhouse officers, protective services officers and pipes and drums musicians). Both classes wear the same ...
Carroll was born in the police station at Woombye, Queensland, [2] on 8 July 1888, the son of Patrick Carroll and Margaret (née McGrath). [3] Patrick Carroll was then a country policeman who rose to the rank of inspector and retired after 44 years of service.
Frank Bischof was born at Gowrie Junction, Queensland, on 12 October 1904, the fourth child in a family of nine, and grew up on a dairy farm.He attended Toowoomba Grammar School, and worked in a cheese factory before joining the Queensland Police Force in 1925.
Mervyn Henry Stevenson (1926-2001) served as a Queensland police officer from 1947 until 1982. He started as a bush cop and ended up as the superintendent in charge of the Townsville Police District, though his retirement years were tainted with the spectre of corruption. [1] [2]
Robert Atkinson, AO, APM is an Australian police officer who served as the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service from 2000 until his retirement in 2012. In 2013, Atkinson was appointed as one of the six Royal Commissioners to the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.