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Two mounted police officers at Glenelg
Colour photograph of two police officers on their grey police horses, riding past the St. Vincent Hotel in Glenelg, South Australia. On the back of the photo: Mounted police led the Police Band along Jetty Road, Glenelg, for the Parade for Foundation Day. Photograph by Roger Wyman, dated 28.4.99. This image comes from 'South Australian Politicians': a collection of photographs of people and events associated with South Australian politicians, from the Messenger Press newspaper.
Police Station, Gumeracha
Police Station, Gumeracha, 16 July 1933. The Police Station was built in 1856 and is the oldest police building being used for its original use. It was one of two police stations using the same design, the other being Riverton which has since been demolished.
Police Station, Penola
Police Station, Penola. By the mid 1860s Penola was served by a local court, police station and several resident magistrates. The Police Station was built in 1856 and demolished in the 1930s. The police moved to a house next to the National Bank building
Police officer with his horse at Willunga
WILLUNGA: Police officer with his police horse called Envoy, at the stables of the Willunga Police Station, January 26th, 1920. Nearby stands a woman and two young children.
Lake Littra police camp
LAKE LITTRA: Police camp at Lake Littra on the border of N.S.W. and South Australia. The border was closed in 1919 to prevent the transfer of influenza from the eastern states. A grandson of the policeman Ridge who is sitting in this photograph says that he was E. P. Ridge, not Charles Ridge. The police officer standing on the right with a cigarette in his mouth is Mounted Constable Patrick ('Paddy') Cashion (1895-1952). Patrick Cashion was a teacher before he joined the South Australian police force in 1917. He was born in Nackara in 1895 and moved to New South Wales in 1920. The seated police officer in the middle is Constable Edward Patrick Ridge (1889- 1968). The border crossing near Lake Littra was on the mail run between Renmark, South Australia, and Wentworth, New South Wales.
Police Station, Arltunga
[General description] Situated in desert country, this stone cottage is surrounded by post, rail and wire fencing. Trellising which is supporting climbing plants has been attached to the verandah. An early flat bed truck is parked out the front under a hand painted sign which bears the words: Arltunga Police Station. The original police station was built when a mining site was established following a discovery of gold in 1887. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the Chronicle, May 15, 1926.' (Another hand) 'Arltunga Police Station / 1926 / Outpost in Central Australia 65 miles NE of Alice Springs'.
Police Station, Melrose
Police Station, marking the site of the birthplace of the town which is the oldest in the Flinders Ranges. When Melrose Police Station was established in 1948 it was the base for the largest police district in the world. A constable, two troopers and an Aboriginal tracker were responsible for an area that stretched up to the Timor Sea in the north of Australia.
Police Station & Court-House
Police Station and Court- House, Naracoorte. A Royal Mail carriage is standing outside the Police Station. The group of three buildings contain the Courthouse and Police Station. A family is standing to the right of the carriage. The mother is pushing a pram. A group of men stand outside the Courthouse.
Police Station, Borroloola
Police Station at Borroloola which was once a major port and drovers camp at the oldest surviving example of a Northern Territory outpost station. The police station was constructed in 1886 when Borroloola was a significent riverport. The property was a police station for fifty years before it became a patrol officer's residence.
Old and new Police Stations, Overland Corner
[General description] View of the police stations taken from a distance showing the River Murray in the background. [On back of photograph] 'The old and new PoliceStations at Overland Corner / Photograph take 1890-1893 / Towards the left are three thatched slab huts forming the original station / In the centre is the cart shed and behind it the Police cell, the latter being part of the new station / The stone building on the right is the new police station which was built in 1877'.
Police Station, Roper River
Police Station, Roper River. In 1885 it is recorded that Corporal Power was returning to Mount McMinn and this is thought to be the first mention of police near Roper River. The police station was washed away in subsequent floods and rebuilt over time adding further extensions. The photograph shows a sturdy single storey building with an iron roof standing behind a fenced yard. Further buildings can be seen at the back of the station.
Foot Police
[General description] The caption of this photograph, reproduced in the 'Advertiser', 9th January, 1929 reads: 'Members of the police patrol marching along King William-street yesterday to their beats in various portions of the city. From 20 to 23 foot police leave the city watch house three times per day on main watches, at 6 a.m., 2 p.m. and ?p.m.' [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the 'Advertiser', January 9th, 1929 / Foot Police going on patrol duty in King William Street / January 1929'.
Police Officer
[General description] Police Officer McLeod sits astride his camel in a desert landscape. There is part of a windmill showing in the left of the photograph. [On back of photograph] 'Police Officer / Penong / c. 1915' (Another hand) 'Mr. C. McLeod / Local Police Officer / Penong'.
Police Motor Patrols
Motorized Police Patrols in 1938 showing the rider's supervisors sitting in the sidecars. The first uniform motor traffic police were seen in South Australia from 1931. The motorcycles are Ariels which were also used by the police in Victoria. They were made in Birmingham.
Mounted Police Barracks
[General Description] Mounted Police Barracks and Gateway situated behind the Museum north of North Terrace 4th December 1925. [On back of photograph] Mounted Police Barracks. Photographed Dec. 4th, 1925. South east corner of quadrangle surrounded by buildings erected in 1855 for the Mounted Police. (See description in S.A. Register, March 8th, 1855) For continuation to the left see B 1551. For continuation to the right see B 3182. The window on the extreme right of B3181 appears on the left of B 3182. For the southern aspect of the extreme right-hand portion of buildings see B 2414. For plan see A 559. Archway on left renovated Oct. and Nov. 1968. Quadrangle, (Buildings on north side demolished about 1923).
Mounted Police Barracks
[General Description] South west corner of the Mounted Police Barracks on 4th December 1925. Steps leading to the first floor balcony can be seen to the west. [On back of photograph] Mounted Police Barracks. Photographed Dec. 4th 1925. South west corner of old Mounted Police Barracks quadrangle. Erected in 1855. (See description in S.A. Register, March 8, 1855) For continuations to the left and right see B 3181 & B 3183. The first window on the left appears on the extreme right of B 3181. For plan see B 3181 & A 559.
Mounted Police Barracks
[General Description] South west corner of the Mounted Police Barracks in 1925. The Barracks were positioned behind the Museum on North Terrace. [On back of photograph] Mounted Police Barracks. Photographed 7th December 1925. South west corner of the Old Mounted Police quadrangle. Erected in 1855. (See description in S.A. Register, March 8, 1855) For continuation to the right see B 3184. For plan see B 3181 & A 559.
Mounted Police Barracks
[General description] The west side of the Mounted Police Barracks in 1925. The Barracks were positioned behind the Museum on North Terrace. [On back of photograph] Mounted Police Barracks. Photographed December 7, 1925. West side of Old Mounted Police quadrangle, erected in 1855. (See description in S.A. Register, March 8, 1855) For continuation to the left see B 3183. for plan see B 3181 and A 559.
Mounted Police Barracks
Mounted Police Barracks, showing the old Armoury (at the rear of the South Australian Museum). The stairway in front of the Armoury was removed July-August, 1958.The Armoury and Inspector's residences, although built for the Police Force became part of military history when contingents left from here for the Boer War. The mounted police vacated the premises in 1921 and the rooms were used by the Teacher's Training College and the Children's Library.
Police Charity Carnival
Four mounted police officers riding towards wooden hurdles on their police greys: (from left) Archie Badenoch on 'Cosma', Hughie Fraser on 'Warpoo', Keith Tucker on 'Confidence', and Bill D'Arcy on 'Scamp'.
South Australian police officers with Sir John Bice
A group of police officers with Sir John Bice, politician sitting centre front row and Sir Raymond Leane, South Australian Police Commissioner sitting second left; other names not known.
Police Commissioner Leane with senior police officers
Police Commissioner Raymond Leane standing third from the right with five senior police officers.
Police Commissioner Leane with senior police officers
Police Commissioner Raymond Leane of South Australia standing with five senior police officers.
Adelaide police during a visit of inspection
Adelaide police in a formal group outside their barracks during a visit of inspection by the Chief Secretary and Police Commissioner Edwards; members of the police band stand in the back row.
Police officers in Adelaide, South Australia
Inspector Raymond, Commissioner of Police and police officers outside the Mounted Police Barracks, Adelaide, South Australia.
Police Commissioner W.H. Raymond and members of the South Australian Mounted Police riding the traditional greys
Police Commissioner W.H. Raymond and members of the South Australian Mounted Police riding the traditional 'greys' on their barracks square.
Members of the Metropolitan Police attending a monthly parade on the Mounted Police Barracks Square, Adelaide
Members of the Metropolitan Police attending a monthly parade on the Mounted Police Barracks Square, Adelaide.
Police Camp, Arltunga
Police Camp at Winnecke's Depot. Aboriginal police tracker on left of the group.
Police Stn., Blanchetown
[General description] The old Police Station building is set on top of one of Blanchetown's several hills. It is built from stone with a corrugated iron roof and wide verandah. [On back of photograph] 'Police Station, Blanchetown / 1932 / Reproduced in the Chronicle for July 28, 1932'.
Police at Karoonda
Mounted Constable Bates outside the Police Office at Karoonda.