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The New South Wales Police Force is a law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia, established in 1862.With more than 17,000 police officers, it is the largest police organisation in Australia, [6] policing an area of 801,600 square kilometres with a population of more than 8.2 million people.
The Justice and Police Museum is a heritage-listed former water police station, offices and courthouse and now justice and police museum located at 4-8 Phillip Street on the corner of Albert Street, in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
The New South Wales Mounted Police Unit is a mounted section of the New South Wales Police Force.Founded by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane on 7 September 1825, [1] the Mounted Police were recruited from the 3rd Regiment of Foot, stationed in NSW at the time, to protect travellers, recaptured escaped convicts and suppress Indigenous resistance to colonisation.
Mounted police officers in New South Wales. By agreement between the various commissioners, most police cars in Australia are predominantly white, with a blue and white Sillitoe tartan checkered strip on the side. Historically, police fleets were composed predominantly of domestically built models such as the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon.
The Australasian Centre for Policing Research (ACPR) approved a national specification for police vehicle markings in 1995 which saw all vehicles marked with a chequer band stripe running the full length of the vehicle. This was adopted by all states with the exception of New South Wales which eventually adopted the national standard in 2002. [6]
Police and emergency vehicles in New South Wales, such as ambulances and police vehicles, are using aaa-nna slimline plates for cars. Some police vehicles have had personalised plates fitted, for example several Highway Patrol vehicles have plates featuring the HWP series from 1975 and in recent decades the initials of officers killed on duty.
The Border Police of New South Wales was a frontier policing body introduced by the colonial government of New South Wales with the passing of the Crown Lands Unauthorised Occupation Act 1839. The Colony of New South Wales was expanding rapidly in the late 1830s, and the colonial government was concerned with the illegal occupation of lands and ...