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Jacob Chestnut Funeral Procession . US Capitol . from Grant Circle . NW WDC . Friday, 31 July 1998 . 1:55 PM
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Police cadets in Bromley host their opposite numbers, the explorers, from Industry Station, County of Los Angeles Seriff's Department.
This picture, and others in this set , was used in a 5 minute video I made to illustrate the extent of the blight caused by arson inclined joyriders and trolls in and around Hunters Hall park in Craigmillar.
See: Hunters Hall
Policing in the Bedourie district began in 1882 with the opening of the Eyre Creek Native Mounted Police depot. Established in 1848, the Native Mounted Police was an armed retaliatory force engaged to displace and dispossess Aboriginal people of the land that European pastoralists intended to occupy. Aboriginal people had assisted the European expeditions to the Channel Country in the 1840s and 1860s, but in the 1870s, several violent incidents occurred in the district between Boulia and the border, including spearings of Europeans and Aboriginal deaths at the hands of the Burketown Native Police Pastoralists called for a police force in the area, and the Native Police depot was opened at Eyre Creek, a short distance from the future town of Bedourie. The depot lasted six years, closing in 1888, and was replaced by a permanent police station in 1889. The station building, constructed circa 1890, was a simple corrugated iron-clad structure which served as the office, accommodation and courthouse. The station was staffed by two constables and two Aboriginal trackers.
Introduced to Queensland police stations from 1874, Aboriginal trackers were engaged to find missing persons, trace criminals, and search for lost or stolen stock. Their abilities allowed them to trace paths indistinguishable to Europeans, providing vital services in remote and rural areas. Trackers had become part of the police forces across Australia after first working for Europeans in the 1820s, and the skills of Queensland trackers were particularly renowned. By 1896, 112 trackers were employed across the colony, though numbers varied from year to year. Most trackers were not local to their station, and from 1900 were drawn primarily from the Fraser Island and Durundur Aboriginal settlements. If married, the tracker’s wife would be employed in domestic work at the police station.
The initial police presence in Bedourie was short lived: only one tracker was recorded in Bedourie with the two constables in 1891, and all three had departed by 1893. In 1895, three police were despatched to Bedourie to re-establish the station, and a tracker was employed again by 1897. In 1900, he was one of 127 trackers engaged by the police in Queensland, the peak of tracker numbers. The tracker’s role in Bedourie was largely deterrent: crime rates in the town were low, with few offences reported in the 19th and 20th centuries. The need for the station was questioned on multiple occasions, but local residents argued that the presence of a police officer and tracker discouraged crime in the remote district, and the station remained open. A series of trackers was employed at Bedourie, helping to locate a murder victim in 1908; a missing man in 1913; cattle in 1925; and a lost theatre troop in 1940.
As part of their employment, trackers were to be provided with wages, food, and accommodation. Wages were well below the average rate (and later well below the minimum wage), and food was supplied by the officer in charge of the station. No standard for accommodation was stipulated, and the accommodation provided across Queensland varied, from not being supplied, to bark huts or storage rooms within the police building, to a large brick building at Townsville. The Department of Public Works provided plans for tracker accommodation (called ‘huts’) at Burketown (1906), Gilbert River (1908), Emerald (1917), Ingham (1927), Thursday Island (1928 and 1954), Toowoomba (1929), Almaden (1934), Cooktown (1935), and Mount Molloy (1936). None of these buildings appear to survive in 2019.
When the Bedourie tracker’s position fell vacant in 1934, the police applied for the services of a new tracker. The Bedourie police horses had been transferred due to the lack of water in the area, and a tracker’s service was considered ‘essential’ in the absence of the horses. A 26 year old tracker in Boulia, Doctor Jack, indicated his willingness to take the position, and he was appointed in September 1934. Tracker accommodation had not been supplied at Bedourie, so Doctor Jack constructed a humpy for himself and his wife, Norah, out of bush timber and kerosene tins, which he erected on the police reserve in Bedourie.
Doctor Jack had been recommended by the Boulia police as a ‘master horseman and splendid tracker’. Over the next several years, his skills with animals were also recognised; and he was employed around the town on construction and repair work.
In 1945, while requesting verandah extensions to the Bedourie police station, the local constable described the conditions under which Doctor Jack had been living:
… there is absolutely no timber or iron in the present Tracker’s Hut, at this Station, which would be of any use in the proposed new hut. The present hut is a humpy… this humpy has been erected many years and is now in very bad state of repair, a lot of the kerosene tins having been blown away and the bush timber has rotted… There is no bucket shower at present supplied for the tracker, whenever the Tracker or his Gin [sic] desires to have a bath they are compelled to walk to the town bore, which is situated approximately half a mile from their camp.
Architectural plans for Bedourie’s new Aboriginal ‘tracker’s quarters’ were drawn in 1946 by the Department of Public Works. The quarters – described in police correspondence as a ‘hut’ – was a small, one-roomed, timber-framed building with a gable roof. It had a 9ft (2.7m) wide earth-floored verandah on one side and its walls and roof were clad with corrugated iron sheets. It was lowset and its single room was 14ft x 12ft (4.2 x 3.6m) with a timber board floor and no internal wall or ceiling linings. It had a single glazed window (casements) and three other window openings, able to be closed with awning-hung shutters of corrugated iron sheets, not window sashes. The hut was built 20 yards (18m) away from the main station building, on what transpired to be land outside the Police Reserve. The hut and police station verandahs built concurrently were erected in 1947 at a cost of £1,025.
The hut was occupied for approximately eight years. In 1954, Doctor Jack, now 50 years old and with a small child to support, requested to resign to take up a better-paying position as a stockman. His request was granted in 1955, and a replacement tracker found. The new tracker, after requesting that a double bed, mattress, mosquito net, and a portable radio be purchased for the hut, resigned in 1956.
The number of trackers employed in the police service had fluctuated through the 20th century, largely for economic reasons: budget cuts (on the part of police), and the availability of better conditions and wages for stockmen (on the part of the trackers). This was also the case at Bedourie, where the tracker’s position had often fallen vacant, but had eventually been refilled. However, tracker employment declined through the mid-20th century, falling to 68 by 1925, 34 by 1943 and 23 by 1958. The Bedourie tracker’s position remained vacant and the hut was offered for sale in 1961. The police station, which had become inadequate for requirements, was replaced at the same time. The old galvanised iron police station building was sold to the Clanchy family and relocated to Kamaran Downs Station. The vacant tracker’s hut was sold to Cedric Smith and removed to Ethabuka Station, northwest of Bedourie.
The tracker’s hut remained on Ethabuka Station until the station was sold to Bush Heritage Australia in 2004. It was sold to the Diamantina Shire Council and relocated to the site of the Pisé House in 2011.
The Aboriginal Tracker’s Hut survives as one of the few tracker’s huts in Queensland. Other trackers’ huts extant in Queensland in 2019 include Birdsville trackers’ hut (built 1948), on the site of the Birdsville Courthouse, and the Normanton trackers’ hut (unknown construction date), on the site of the Normanton Gaol. The Birdsville hut is similar in form and materials to the Bedourie hut, while the Normanton hut is timber-clad.
In 2019, both the Pisé House and the tracker’s hut serve as part of the tourist interpretation of Bedourie.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Police officer Erin Marcotte, Omaha Police Department, hands out stickers during a Police Week fair May 14, 2019, at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Police week was established in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy to honor officers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kendra Williams)
Blow me, i come out of Hobbycraft and another one has turned up. Guessing they stopped at Costa Coffee.
The City of Sandy Springs held a special ceremony to retire K-9 officer “Amos” on August 18th at the regularly held City Council meeting The drug and patrol dog is retiring for health reasons. Also at the meeting, the Police Department will be welcoming their newest addition, K-9 officer, “Seven.”
Amos has a much heralded career of patrolling and taking drugs of the street. In his three-year career, he and handler K-9 Officer Michael DeWald have taken $3.7 million worth of cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and heroin; 50 handguns; multiple vehicles; and $300,000 in bulk US currency off the streets.
As the first Sandy Springs K-9 Officer, Amos has also had many notable arrests: He tracked and located property belonging to a Councilmember and found the suspect who broke into her home; he apprehended an armed robbery and aggravated assault suspect after a shoot out on GA 400; and he sniffed out a hidden compartment in a car that led to Cobb County’s largest methamphetamine Super Lab arrests.
Mounted Police Refueling - A great shot taken by driver Steve Cole of mounted Gardai heading into a filling station with their colleagues looking on from their car across the road. Butlers Bus Tours Ireland
Both SFPD and BART police are present on Market St, San Francisco. You do feel a little safe with their presence.
Corner of Loves Grove.
See my picture taken from about the same spot in the early 70's [http://www.flickr.com/photos/clivestanley/3219315619/in/set-72157613318291907/] The trees and houses beyond the Police Station are clearly still here.
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Police barricade to block the demonstrans regarding the visiting of US President George W Bush to Bogor Indonesia, my beloved city, that spent 6 billion rupiahs just for welcoming Mr. Bush's arrival.
Mr. Bush only stayed in Bogor only for 5 hours from 5pm-10pm but the blockage of the central of the city was from 6am until 10pm that made Bogor looked like a dead city.