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The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland.In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve".
The Queensland Police Force was established by the Queensland Government on 1 January 1864 with strength of 287 officers serving a population of 61,467. David Thompson Seymour appointed as Acting Commissioner and later as Commissioner.
The Queensland Native Police Force alone were responsible for an estimated 24,000 "violent Aboriginal deaths" between 1859 and 1897, as calculated by professor Raymond Evans in 2009. [26] Slavery in Australia was sanctioned by law (before being banned in 1901 following Federation) and was officially upheld by many police forces and government ...
Contents. List of countries and dependencies by number of police officers. The following list compares the size of police forces and police per head. In 2006, an analysis by the United Nations indicates an approximate median of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. [ 1 ] Only nine countries disclosed values lower than 100 officers per ...
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. Australian Communications and Media Authority. Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. Australian Energy Market Commission. Australian Fisheries Management Authority. Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Australian National Audit Office.
Commonwealth Police. The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979. A federal police force was first established in 1917, and operated under different names and in some periods as multiple organisations. In late 1979, the Commonwealth Police and Australian Capital Territory Police ...
Queensland Police Service [16] 1975–1978 No equivalent: No equivalent: Commissioner Deputy commissioner Assistant commissioner Chief superintendent: Superintendent: Inspector: Senior sergeant Sergeant first class Sergeant second class: Senior constable Constable first class Constable Queensland Police Service [13] [17] 1978–1991 ...
Complaints about the police are rarely investigated by the CCC which passes police matters back to the service for internal review. [9] Community crime Facebook groups have grown in number and influence, becoming de facto lobby organisations. [10] Police have raised concerns about the rise of vigilantism stemming from comments online. [10]