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{{main|History of the Queensland Police}}
[[File:Roma Street Police Station, Brisbane, erected 1878.jpg|left|thumb|Roma Street Police Station, Brisbane, erected 1878]]
[[Colony of Queensland|Queensland]] came into existence as a colony of the [[British Empire]] on 1 December 1859.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3722828 |title=LETTERS PATENT, &c., IN REFERENCE TO SEPARATION OF MORETON BAY |newspaper=[[The Moreton Bay Courier]] |location=Queensland, Australia |date=10 December 1859 |access-date=15 March 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove |archive-date=20 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520223823/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3722828 |url-status=live }}</ref> The region was previously under the jurisdiction of the New South Wales governance with towns policed by small forces controlled by the local magistracy. ''The Police Act of 1838'' (2 Vic. no. 2) which officially codified a variety of common behaviours as criminal and regulated the police response to them, continued as the template for policing. On 13 January 1860, [[Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset]] was appointed the Inspector-General of the Queensland Police.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77427233 |title=OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. |newspaper=[[The North Australian, Ipswich And General Advertiser]] |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 January 1860 |access-date=15 March 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove |archive-date=20 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520223824/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77427233 |url-status=live }}</ref> Queensland was divided into 17 districts, each with its own police force headed by a Chief Constable under authority of a local magistrate.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dukova |first1=Anastasia |title=To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane |date=2020 |publisher=Queensland University Press |location=Brisbane |isbn=9780702260148 |page=56 |url=https://www.uqp.com.au/books/to-preserve-and-protect-policing-colonial-brisbane |access-date=18 May 2020 |archive-date=9 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609082831/https://www.uqp.com.au/books/to-preserve-and-protect-policing-colonial-brisbane |url-status=live }}</ref> The position of Inspector-General was abolished soon after it was established, in July 1860, and most of the operations of the police until 1863 reverted to the control of local police magistrates and justices.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dukova |first1=Anastasia |title=To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane |date=2020 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |location=Brisbane |isbn=978-0-7022-6014-8 |page=4 |edition=1 |url=https://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1537/To%20Preserve%20and%20Protect-%20Policing%20Colonial%20Brisbane |access-date=21 February 2020 |archive-date=28 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228114206/http://uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1537/To%20Preserve%20and%20Protect-%20Policing%20Colonial%20Brisbane |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Roma Street Police Barracks in Brisbane 1883 (7960197828).jpg|left|thumb|Roma Street Police Station, 1883]]
The Queensland Police underwent a major reform in 1864 and the newly re-organised force commenced operations with approximately 143 employees under the command the first Commissioner of Police, [[David Thompson Seymour]]. The service had four divisions: Metropolitan Police, Rural Police, Water Police, and [[Native Police]]. At the turn of the century there were 845 men and 135 [[Aboriginal tracker]]s at 256 stations in Queensland.
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