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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.
Carroll was appointed to the State Land and Income Tax Department. He was rapidly promoted from assessor, inspector (1922), senior inspector (1923), assistant chief inspector (1927), and chief inspector (1929). He was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the payment of secret commissions in the dairying industry in 1932. [2]
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 ...
Terence Murray Lewis GM (29 February 1928 – 5 May 2023) was an Australian police officer who, as Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, was convicted and jailed for corruption and forgery as a result of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. He was stripped of his knighthood and two other awards in consequence. [1]
A Florida man allegedly shot his ex-fiancée in the head after she called off their engagement. Timothy Hyder, 57, then allegedly asked the victim's daughter to call 911.
Four Metropolitan Police officers are under investigation for misconduct after two women were murdered by a man they had complained about to the force. ... is believed to have died around two ...
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.