If you have issues viewing or accessing this file, please contact us at NCJRS.gov. Q L/ LI7 '73 charge of each. There are 34 divisions, spectors. The State has about Police Rescue Squad each headed by an ins:1ector. 1,245,000 people. Several special squads are based at The force's motto is "The Safety of . the Sydney CIB, including the Armed the People is the Highest Law". Its role Hold-Up Squad, Homicide Squad, is laid down as the preservation of life Australi a:::'~sr'1fTK~TI·~hf~o: rces Special Breaking Squad, Consorting and the protection of property, the Squad, Drug Squad, Crime Intelligence prevention and detection of crime and Unit, Fraud Squad, Vice Squad and the maintenance of peace and good Motor Squad. Detectives and order. plainclothes police are also stationed at most police stations in the metropo!itan Western Australian area and at the larger country stations. Police Force This force has a strength of about Victoria Police Force 2,290. They serve about 1,116,000 Under its Chief Commissioner this people. The higher ranks include a senior force has about 6,500 members (some assistant commissioner, and three assis­ 300 of them policewomen). The~' in­ tant commissioners (for administration, clude one deputy commissioner, five crime, traffic) a chief superintendent, 21 assistant commissioners, two com­ superintendents, 20 senior inspectors manders, 24 chief superintendents, 29 and 25 inspectors including one woman superintendents, 87 chief inspectors, police inspector. and 173 inspectors. They serve about To bring about more effective un­ 3,700,000 people. derstanding among the State's Victoria is divided for police purposes Aboriginal population, 18 Aboriginal into 26 geographical districts each com­ police aides are part of the force (since manded by a chief superintendent. The July 9, 1975). They help their fellow districts are in turn broken down into police officers, particularly in the very for bodies like the U.N. Economic and ACH OF Australia's six States, its modern police work, organisations in the divisions and sub-divisions, giving the remote northern areas of the State. Social Council and Interpol. During ENorthern Territory and the Australian Commonwealth Police Force include: state 363 police stations at the begin­ Western Australia is divided into 11 The New South Wales Police Rescue Australia Crime Intelligence Centre; 1976, 85 per cent of all Australian drug Capital Territory (ACT), has its own ning of 1977. police districts, each under the control of Squad in action. Australian National Central Bureau (liais­ charges involved marihuana '- there police force. The assistant commissioners have a superintendent, and the districts are ing with Interpol); Central Information had been a 29 per cent increase in As well, based in the Nation's Capital, these areas of responsibility: Crime, traf­ again divided into sub-districts, Bureau; Currency Squad; Companies heroin offences compared with 1975. Canberra, ACT, is the Commonwealth fic, operations, services, personnel. Their The force also has various special Squad; Document Examination Bureau; (Federal) Police Force whose special joint areas are co-ordinated by the direc­ branches such as the CIB liquor and and welfare matters, but he often acts as Firearms Safety Testing Section; and duties include protection of political New South Wales tor of administration. The first three have gaming, firearms and inquiries, an Ombudsman (adjudicator). Each leaders and other VIPs. In most cases Neutron Activation Analysis Section Police Force been described as "the working of the' transport, communications, women police district has a superintendent in the State and Territory police handle the (located at the Australian Atomic Energy Under its Commissioner, the New machine" and the last two as "getting police, scientific branch, prosecutions, charge, with a subordinate structure of crime in their area, but there are pieces Commission, near Sydney). South Wales (NSW) Police Force has the machine to work". ballistics, security, gold stealing, police inspectors in charge of special sections of Federal territory all around Australia, The Neutron Activation Analysis Sec­ about 9,100 members, It is responsible lecturing, public relations and crime (such as the Information Bureau, com­ such as airports, and these are the tion, with expertise in various analytical directly to the State's Premier. The force prevention branch, water police, munications, search and rescue, etc.). province of the Commonwealth Police. fields, handles cases for State police, the serves about 4,800,000 people. The Queensland Police Force mounted police, underwater recovery Inspectors also are in charge at strategic The senior members of the force are However, there is flexibility. Like all the Federal Narcotics Bureau, State health force's functions have been defined as unit and an air sea ~escue intelligence geographical locations throughout the separate Australian police forces, the departments and hospitals. It carries out "prevention of crime, detection of and its commissioner, a deputy commis­ co-ordination centre. State which is divided into 12 main Commonwealth Police assist their analyses of distilled liquor and captLiring offenders, protection of life sioner, three assistant commissioners , police divisions. colleagues where necessary. morphine-based drugs for the Federal and property, preservation of good order (country districts, metropolitan, The force's transport (cars and motor With wide ranges in population den­ Department of 8usiness and Consumer and control of traffic". administration and training), one chief Tasmanian Police Force cycles) are the most modern available. sities, Australia offers policemen beats Affairs. The Sydney Metropolitan Police Area superintendent, eight regional The Tasmanian Police Force has The cycles include many trail-bike types which can range from a few streets in a The Currency Squad works closely comprises 1° police districts with a superintendents, and four other about 1,0:;!3 members, 38 of them and many vehicles are four-wheel drives. densely-populated area like Kings Cross, with overseas and Australian State law­ superintendent in charge of each. A dis­ superintendents (traffic, training, service, women. The State has about 405,000 These are used mainly in the island's Sydney, to a'lmost 4,000 square miles, in enforcement agencies. Among the trict is made up of a number of divisions, crime). The force totals about 3,800 people. The force includes a deputy rough and mountainous areas ~ some the Northern Territory and in the north of squad's visitors in the year was a United controlled by inspectors. There are 36 of members in a State with a population of commissioner and two assistant com­ of Australia's most difficult - for search Western Australia. States Secret Service special agent who these divisions in Sydney. There are two two million people. missioners (one i& in charge of logistics, and rescue operations. In Australia, the commissioner, or gave evidence against a man in special divisions - No. 20, at Police one of operations). These top positions The State's territorial ruggeqness chief of police, in each State and Brisbane, Queensland, charged with Headquarters, and No. 21 Special Squad South Australian Police Force are in essence Public Service ap­ demands and has a first rate police com­ Territory is usually chosen from senior forging US$100 and US$20 bills. Other which comes under the control of the Under its commissioner the force has pointments and, in October 1977, were munr,"ations system plus the best in police ranks by State legislators. He is visitors included two of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and about 2,700 members. They include filled by former police officers with long search' and rescue equipment. There are responsible di(l1ctly to a Cabinet Counterfeit Division when forged British is sometimes used for operations against one deputy commissioner, three assis­ experience. about 20 police base radio stations. The Minister. A police commissioner retains banknotes were discovered in Sydney. gangs of known criminals. tant commissioners, two senior chief Chief Superintendent is the highest force also has 14 coastal high-speed his non-politica! position even if a During the year, the members of the The rest of the state is divided into superintendents, 11 chief superinten­ rank for a serving (uniformed) police of­ small craft and a larger deep-sea rescue government changes, He then becomes Operations Branch were positioned to nine districts with a superintendent in dents, 27 chief inspectors and 37 in- ficer. His main functions cover discipline vessel, the Vigilant, with;:! range of 800 responsible to the new administration. protect 66 Visiting dignitaries, Their miles. Crewed by three or four, the most extensive operation was for the J' i~' vessel can carry 24 people on rescue Silver Jubilee visit of Queen Elizabeth. ".- .... :~ Commonwealth (Federal) . 'j~~ missions . Police Force Within this branch is a counter-terrorist For land rescue work in the moun­ The executive officers of the force - section, " tains, police exGerts are often helped by the Commissioner and three Assistant The Plainclothes Branch of the force special parties of, civilian. climbers and Commissioners (of Crime, Crime investigated in the year 25,440 cases of walkers. They use a fully equipped Inteiligence and Operations) are general crime ranging from breaches of mobile communications base. members of the Federal Public Service. the Wireless Telegraphy Act to hard drug The force's. Diving Squad is'in con­ The remaining personnel are employed offences, from tampering with the Elec­ tinual demand, the work ranging from under the Commonwealth Police Act, toral Act to aircraft bomb threats. shipwrecks to finding bodies, discarded 1957. On June 30, 1977, the force The force acts as a national agency weapons or the proceeds of robberies. totalled 1,505. for the collection, collation and dis­ All diver!'i., .are volunteers and receive no The Plainclothes Branch of the force semination of Criminai Intelligence. special relrliards for service, investigates breaches of Federal law.