Queensland Police Museum
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The Queensland Police Museum includes 25 displays describing police heritage, Queensland crimes, police investigative techniques, medals, the history of police women, operational equipment and transport, amongst others. Our simulated murder scene is a popular attraction - come in and try your hand at solving this crime. |
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Research - The Museum’s resources include archival, library and image collections. A large quantity of our research material is digitised but unfortunately not yet available on the internet. We are working towards making our collections more accessible to the wider public. You are welcome to contact us for information and we will endeavour to check our resources for answers to your question/s. We can also direct you to other sources of information and ways to advance your research. We have an extensive personnel database from which we can usually supply a complete police officer service history. However full police officer personnel files dated prior to 1970 are held by Queensland State Archives (QSA) and can be accessed on site. Keep in mind that these files have a closure period of 65 years. Gaining access to personnel files within the closure period requires an application to the QPS Right to Information Unit. We hold summary information on a number of Queensland murders but the bulk of these files are held at QSA. Keep in mind that murder files have a closure period of 75 years. USEFUL RESEARCH LINKS QPS Right to Information - http://www.police.qld.gov.au/rti/ Trove - http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Find and get over 314,725,499 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. Queensland State Archives - http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx QSA is the custodian of the largest and most significant documentary heritage collection in Queensland. It manages, preserves and facilitates public access to the state's permanent archival public records. QSA will copy information for you at a cost, contact them directly for details about this service.
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The Education Program caters to both upper primary and secondary school groups and is most suited to students in years 5 - 12. Informative talks, focusing on forensic science and solving crime, are given to groups who visit on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Bookings are essential. | |
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Education Kits linked to the new Australian Curriculum for Science are available to cater for years 5-8 and years 9-12. Each kit comes in two sections – one for the teacher that contains information about the Museum, and one for the student that contains museum activity sheets. We will supply a copy of the Education Kits when you make a booking with us. |
