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The New South Wales Mounted Police Unit is a mounted section of the New South Wales Police Force.Founded by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane on 7 September 1825, [1] the Mounted Police were recruited from the 3rd Regiment of Foot, stationed in NSW at the time, to protect travellers, recaptured escaped convicts and suppress Indigenous resistance to colonisation.
The New South Wales Police Force is a law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia, established in 1862.With more than 17,000 police officers, it is the largest police organisation in Australia, [6] policing an area of 801,600 square kilometres with a population of more than 8.2 million people.
The British Army lacked a mounted division in the Australian colonies and in 1825, after a conflict with the Wiradjuri people, it was deemed necessary to form one. The New South Wales Mounted Police was thereby created which consisted of soldiers from various army regiments who volunteered to join the force. This mounted infantry was eventually ...
Members of the New South Wales Mounted Police on patrol in Sydney. The New South Wales Mounted Police is a mounted section of the New South Wales Police Force, and the oldest continuous mounted group in the world, [10] formed on 7 September 1825. Currently they have a strength of 36 officers and around 38 mounts and their duties include traffic ...
A Sydney mounted police detachment was dispatched by acting Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, to track down the Namoi, Weraerai and Kamilaroi people who had killed five stockmen in separate incidents, on recently established pastoral runs on the upper Gwydir River area of New South Wales. [3]
In Sydney, the Governor of New South Wales, George Gipps despatched Major Samuel Lettsom of the 80th Regiment to Melbourne with a contingent of Mounted Police troopers to enforce order. [16] Major Lettsom had a list of Aborigines wanted by the authorities as "objectionable characters" which included Winberri.
The Border Police of New South Wales was a frontier policing body introduced by the colonial government of New South Wales with the passing of the Crown Lands Unauthorised Occupation Act 1839. The Colony of New South Wales was expanding rapidly in the late 1830s, and the colonial government was concerned with the illegal occupation of lands and ...
Victoria Police. New South Wales Police Force Mounted Police Unit [3] Queensland Police Service Mounted Police Unit [4] South Australia Mounted Police Cadre [5] Victoria Police Mounted Branch [6] Western Australia Police Force Mounted Section [7] Australian Federal Police Ceremonial Mounted Cadre [8]