Queensland Police Service
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The Queensland Police Service is the principal law enforcement agency in the Australian state of Queensland. The QPS has its origins in colonial-era constabularies, and was constituted as a unified or
Roma Street Police Station, Brisbane, erected 1878
Roma Street Police Station, 1883
Officers on patrol in Brisbane
A Queensland Police officer in standard uniform
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Queensland is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most-populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the wes
Queensland Police Service
…The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency in the Australian state of Queensland. The QPS has its origins in colonial-era constabularies, and was constituted as a unified organisation in 1864. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force…
Captain James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain at Possession Island in 1770
The peninsula of Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, where Captain Cook landed in 1770
Fighting between Burke and Wills's supply party and Aboriginal Australians at Bulla in 1861
Aftermath of the 1861 Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in which 19 settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, the deadliest attack on settlers in the frontier wars