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  • | Return of police officers, Police Strength , Approximate Expenditure from Police Contingent | Police Memos, Statements by Const Falkiner, Mr Rawlins and Com Chomley
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  • == CHAPTER V - POLICE PREPARATIONS == ...much of it mountainous and uninhabited country; while the total number of police charged with the duty of keeping order therein did not exceed 120.
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  • ...r was relatively disadvantaged by want of money. For the former period the expenditure was £11,371, and for the latter and longer one, only £6,722—Mr Nicolson
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  • ...strange coincidence that none of the rifles stolen by the outlaws from the police at Jerilderie or the Wombat ranges were used by them at Glenrowan, but they ...ride by night only, and lie in the thick scrub during the day. Parties of police were sent out to watch the different crossing places directly we received i
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  • ...armed and mounted; and that a grave error was committed in abolishing the police station at Glenmore, and in reducing the strength of the stations at Stanle ...hat the conduct of Captain [[Standish|Standish]], as Chief Commissioner of Police, as disclosed by the evidence brought before the Commissioners, was not cha
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  • ...ding February 1st, was read. The income from all sources was £2167 4s 9d, expenditure £1619 19s l0d; leaving balance to credit of £547 4s 11d. The odd money, l At the police court, the first case was the children (three little girls), of Mrs Jones,
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  • ...t of the Kellys has [[Cost of KellyGang|cost]] the country an extra police expenditure of £20 000.
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  • ...timely exploit in the destruction of a bushranging gang, the [[NSW police|police of New South Wales]] having yesterday fought, and with loss of life, dispos ...We should be well pleased to be able in turn to congratulate the Victorian police on a corresponding success, for nothing but the capture of the Mansfield mu
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  • '''THE POLICE FORCE AND RED TAPE''' ...fication of the baneful effects of this circumlocution as practised in the police department, a rule as strictly adhered to by all connected with the constab
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  • '''UNVEILING THE MONUMENT TO THE POLICE AT MANSFIELD''' ...reward]] of £8000 offered for them dead or alive, and notwithstanding the expenditure of nearly £30,000 in their pursuit, the authorities are to day as far off
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  • ...hree men to join me for the purpose of doing nothing but shooting down the police. ...al thousand pounds. Further, I cannot conceal from myself the fact that an expenditure of £50,000 has been rendered necessary in consequences of the acts with wh
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  • ...ree men to join me, for the purpose of doing nothing but shooting down the police." ...housands of pounds. Further, I cannot conceal from myself the fact that an expenditure of £50,000 has been rendered necessary in consequence of acts with which y
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  • '''THE POLICE AND THE KELLY GANG''' ...).  I have vainly [[Royal Commission|inquiry]] into, or amendment of, the police administration in these respects.  Other representatives of the people hav
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  • ...idual in the community would have dreamed of, is, we submit, unfair to the police. ...e issues to be tried. It would, we contend, be as decent to put one of the police officers on the commission as it is to nominate a gentleman who will practi
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  • ...the proceedings that the relations between the late chief commissioner of police and the two gentlemen named are of a most hostile character. Captain Standi '''THE POLICE COMMISSION'''
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  • ...or the position. Mr Nicolson at that time was inspecting superintendent of police, with the honorary title of assistant-commissioner. That latter title was c
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' '''CH [[Nicolson|Nicolson]]''' , acting chief commissioner of police, continued his evidence. He put in a private letter dated Benalla, 19th Nov
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  • ...pressing his regret that I was wounded, and stating that for some time the police there were unfortunately left without a leader until Mr Sadleir's arrival. ...s done three months before he relieved me. He also read a return of police expenditure in connexion with the Kelly business. When Captain Standish and I went up w
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  • ...ry; the state of complete un- preparedness in which the outbreak found the police — without proper arms, ill-mounted, and destitute of bush experience; the ...ange the nature of a great establishment by hasty legislation or a profuse expenditure of money. If we want good fruit, we must patiently and laboriously and pers
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  • ...ans of capturing the gang and preventing the loss of life and the enormous expenditure of money incurred subsequently in the extermination of the outlaws. Your co ...on desire also to express their approval of the assistance rendered to the police at Glenrowan by the members of the press present.
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  • ...es, and that a spirit of dissension and rivalry exists in the ranks of the police. ...resist, at all points, the threatened raid, owing to the inadequacy of the police force placed at Mr Nicolson's disposal.  
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  • ...o the outbreak scarcely a day passed without reports being received by the police of cattle having been stolen, and only in comparatively few instances were ...who were said to have been seen in the Strathbogie Ranges . Two parties of police were organised, the one to start from Mansfield and work across the ranges
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  • ...number of police stationed in the district, and in the amount allowed for expenditure in connexion with the pursuit. The Garrison Artillery were also withdrawn, ...outlaws into a false sense of security, to induce them to believe that the police were utterly at fault in every attempt to trace their whereabouts, to surro
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ..., and the other grades in proportion. It has also been submitted, that a [[Police Organisation|secret service]] fund should be established, and that the trav
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  • '''THE POLICE COMMISSION''' ...These cadets should be thoroughly instructed as to the duty of officers of police, either in the metropolis or other large centres of population, but in no c
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  • ...1883|Saturday]] portion of the final report of the Royal Commission on the Police Force .The remainder of the report is as follows :- Under the Police Regulation Statute 1873 section 52, any member of the force who having serv
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  • ...olice" (2,756) "acted as a damper upon the men's efforts. If the police," he adds, "were properly supported by the bench, larrikinism wou ...on the part of the Crown Law officers, and that a more frequent chance of police magistrates would probably be attended with beneficial results to the commu
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  • ...the charge of Sergeant [[Steele|Steele]] or some other sub officer of the police. ...the police properly. I may state that the regulation weapon of the mounted police has only been a revolver for years. I saw a considerable number of the men
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  • ...I think any sensible man must be aware, were not only calculated to do the police a great deal of harm, but to prevent their receiving material assistance fr ...I have not now. I found very good occasion to doubt him before I left the police force.
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  • 51 He was in the service of the Victorian police at that time?- Yes. 52 Was he a part of the police force of Victoria?- He was sworn in when he arrived. With reference to a pa
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  • 714 Men outside of the constables?- Yes,[[Police Agents|townsmen]]. This done quietly, and the names of the men being concea ...civilians who might assist?- Not altogether; there were sufficient for the police; they were thoroughly well armed at that time and a surplus over; and as fa
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  • 732 Because, on your abandoning the [[Police Search Parties|search parties]], you did not need so many horses to be kept ...ome cases, would be about a week old. I have in my hand a return of police expenditure in connection with the search of the gang of outlaws.
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  • ...possible will be drawn to the subject. C. H. NICOLSON, Asst. Commissioner Police. ...some reason?- There was no increase to the estimates, to the number of the police force at all, so that there was no increase with the number of men with thi
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  • The Commission asked for something in writing as to the police arrangements and the formation and. organisation of these search parties. N ...or £15, and got the horse. The stable was a large one, and it was full of police horses on full rations. There was beautiful grass at this season. I had the
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  • ...he answered me that not only should I have ''carte blanche'' in regard to expenditure and the conduct of affairs generally, but in the event of the capture of th ...lled guns taken from [[Lonigan|Lonigan]], and they had the New South Wales police rifles.
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  • ...it, and they then began to send in their vouchers, and, of course, all the expenditure incurred before we came up there was paid during the time we were there....
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  • ...n> Were they drawing extra [[Police pay and Conditions|pay]] besides their police allowance?— They were drawing 5s. a day for travelling allowance. 2509 That is the expenditure?— You are asking, I suppose, now from [[events 1879-05/ 1879-07at KellyGa
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  • ...an opinion as to the advisability of amalgamating the two branches of the police force, the detective and the general?— I have formed an opinion, but what
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  • ...is a list sent by [[Army|Colonel Anderson]] of the arms served out to the police; I see 160 Martini Henry rifles, and 6 Martini Henry carbines, and 26 Westl ...and making suggestions as to the more efficient mounting of the Victorian police—the case is submitted to the Commission?— Yes.
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  • ...ments, £33 each. We believe that we have given entire satisfaction to the police authorities at the depot ...nd represent the matter and the position that he was in with regard to the expenditure he had been at to the Chief Secretary, and upon that declaration being rece
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  • ...istake, and, unless we had real information, that it would be foolish to [[Police Tactics|send parties]] galloping about the country—that it had no object. ...ds they had in the district kept them informed of all the movements of the police.
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  • ...been only temporarily transferred, and that made a great reduction in the expenditure. ...ware that, with friends and sympathizers in every part of the country, the police are very heavily handicapped when they have not only to work against the ou
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  • ...placed in his judgment that his proceedings would not involve unnecessary expenditure, but that if money could be profitably employed in the capture of these men ...e resident in the district were afraid of giving the slightest clue to the police, for fear their lives might be sacrificed. All these matters were gone into
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  • ...to the accounts that I handed in, and which are printed in the accounts of expenditure, you stated that the cause of the excess in your accounts over mine was owi ...payments, but for the services rendered?— I was not responsible for any expenditure there—you were—I was not except on the second occasion.
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  • ...very lavish. In the latter portion of Mr Hare's letter he refers to the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], and expresses his opinion that they should be re ...satisfaction they expressed at my conduct there, and my management of the police there. I do not deny that Mr Hare suffered greatly, as did Mr Sadleir , eve
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  • ...private feelings in this matter to interfere with my duty as an officer of police, and that I served Captain Standish as loyally as if he and I had never had ...his, I would point out some admissions made by him as to his career in the police force and the conduct of his pursuit of the Kellys . Although by no means i
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  • ...ch a manner where such matters were concerned, the secret movements of the police “?— Yes. ...your evidence in chief, on page 31, that you effected a saving: you found police horses in the stable turned into the paddocks. Have you found out now that
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  • Also that the Secretary obtain from the Police Department a monthly return of expenditure connected with the pursuit of the Kelly gang from 1 st June 1878 to 1 st Ju
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  • ...rticularly a superintendent of police. I do not know any superintendent of police about the country who has leisure for indulging in that pleasure. They have ...of was that the seventy [[Army|artillerymen]] were taken away and about [[Police Organisation|twenty constables]]?--Yes; I do not complain about the twenty
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  • ...by re-instating Mr Nicolson in the office of Acting Chief Commissioner of Police. Further, we recommend that in consequence of his age and impaired constitu ...receive an additional allowance of £100 per annum, under clause 29 of the Police Statute, No. 476.
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  • | Police Officers Return | Police strength in NorthernVictoria
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  • ...hat the conduct of Captain [[Standish|Standish]], as Chief Commissioner of Police, as disclosed in the evidence brought before the Commissioners, was not cha ...by reinstating Mr. Nicolson in the office of Acting Chief Commissioner of Police. Further, your Commissioners recommend that, in consequence of his impaired
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  • ...pecially by the Government of a neighboring colony to assist the Victorian police, was the more entitled to courtesy and consideration. While Captain Standis
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  • ...son [[Army|Artillery]] were gradually withdrawn, while the strength of the police in the district was also considerably reduced, as will be seen from the fol ...stationed in the North-Eastern district and the extra [[Cost of KellyGang|expenditure]] incurred during the period Captain Standish and Superintendent Hare were
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  • ...resist, at all points, the threatened raid, owing to the inadequacy of the police force placed at Mr. Nicolson's disposal. ...they had with them double the number of men, and incurred double the extra expenditure, in prosecuting the pursuit, allowed Mr. Nicolson.
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  • ...lony. However, none of those men have spoken to me about not assisting the police in future. 49 If your system be adopted as to stationing the police and so on, there would not be the same necessity to seek for private inform
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  • ...d="_Toc43994066">[[#_Toc43994066|Statement of Approximate Expenditure From Police Contingent]]</span> | Ordinary district [[Cost of KellyGang|Expenditure]],
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  • ...tes of Proceedings at Meetings Held by the Royal''' '''Commission''' '''on Police''' Mr. Hare, Superintendent of Police, called and examined.
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  • ...a police to [[Standish|Standish]], and with [[Hare|Hare]] commander of the police hunting after the '''KellyGang'''. Some people saw me as a dour Scot and th I led the police team against the '''KellyGang''' '''''' from the time it was formed after t
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  • '''Early Years''' I took charge of the police station at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] on the [[1874-1877 Events|6/11/876]]. ...[[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] and a man called '''Newman''' who had escaped from the police at Wangaratta.
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  • ...t on duty at night they recieved a five shillings a day increase. See also expenditure == police pay at KellyGang ==
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  • == Importance of the police aboriginal trackers == The police used aboriginal trackers to follow the '''KellyGang'''.
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  • The police called people who supported the '''[[KellyGang|KellyGang]]''' sympathizers. The sympathizers kept watch on the police and their coming and goings. They also did lots of other things to assist t
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  • The Chief Secretary was the Colony of Victoria's minister for police. The position regulated many other aspects of local life and this made this ...v78-10--4Mansfield Murders|28/10/1878]] and Berry approved that additional police be sent to the Kelly Country and that they should be armed with better weap
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  • ...Officers and Police stationed in the North-Eastern district and the extra expenditure incurred during the period Captain Standish and Superintendent Hare were in | Extra Expenditure
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