A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
| New South Wales Police Force | |
|---|---|
 Badge | |
 Flag | |
| Motto | Culpam Poena Premit Comes Punishment follows close on guilt (Alternative translations: "Punishment is a companion pressing closely on crime", "Punishment swiftly follows crime")[1] |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1862 |
| Employees | 21,455[2] |
| Volunteers | 495[3] |
| Annual budget | A$4.13 billion (2020/21) |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction |  New South Wales, Australia |
 | |
| New South Wales Police jurisdiction | |
| Size | 809,444 square kilometres (312,528 sq mi) |
| Population | 8,410,700[4] |
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction |
| Governing body | Government of New South Wales |
| Constituting instrument |
|
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Officers | 17,348[2] |
| Unsworn members | 4,107[2] |
| Agency executive | |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | 432 |
| Airbases | 1 |
| Drones | 1 |
| Police Boats | 52 |
| Helicopters | 6 |
| Aeroplanes | 3 |
| Horses | 38[5] |
| Website | |
| police.nsw.gov.au | |
The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously the New South Wales Police Service and New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Divided into Police Area Commands (PACs), for metropolitan areas and Police Districts (PDs), for regional and country areas,[6] the NSW Police Force consists of more than 400 Police stations and over 18,000 officers, who are responsible for covering an area of 801,600 square kilometres and a population of more than 8.2 million people.[7][8][9]
Under the Police Regulation Act, 1862, the organisation of the NSW Police Force was formally established in the same year with the unification of all existing independent Police units in the state. The authority and responsibility of the entire Police Force were given to the Inspector General of Police.[10]
The NSW Police Force currently operates with a strength of 21,455 employees (17,348 officers and 4,107 support staff), with 432 police stations, 3,300 vehicles, 52 boats, 9 aircraft and a budget of 4.8 billion AUD.[7][11][12]
Symbols, mission and authority
The motto of the NSW Police Force is the Latin Culpam poena premit comes ("Punishment follows closely upon the heels of crime").[13] The NSW Police Force insignia includes the motto.
Its coat of arms features the state badge; a soaring Australian wedge-tailed eagle carrying a scroll with the word Nemesis, the Greek goddess of chastisement and vengeance, and here signifies retribution and justice; a wreath and the St Edward's Crown, the crown of the King as the NSW head of state.[14]
The mission of the NSW Police Force, as set out in the Police Act 1990, is to work with the community to reduce violence, crime and fear.[15]
NSW Police Force aims to protect the community by[15]
- Preventing, detecting and investigating crime
- Monitoring and promoting road safety
- Maintaining social order
- Performing and coordinating search and rescue operations
Police conduct a wide variety of further specialist duties undertaken by Specialist Commands.
Like all other states of Australia, local municipalities in NSW have only very limited law enforcement responsibilities. The police perform the primary law enforcement role in all areas of the state.
History
1788 – Early forms of law enforcement
Law enforcement has existed in various forms since the foundation of the colony of New South Wales at Sydney in 1788. In order to protect the infant town against thieves and petty criminals after dark, Governor Arthur Phillip authorised the formation of a nightwatch in August 1789, consisting of eight of the best-behaved convicts.[16] After his appointment as the new governor of New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie restructured the police force in January 1811, setting up a basic system of ranks and control and recruiting free men instead of convicts into the force. Police units were under the rule of the District Magistrates.
1825 – NSW Mounted Police
After the conflict in 1824 with the Wiradjuri people around Bathurst and Mudgee, the colonial authorities in New South Wales recognised the need for a mounted force to maintain control on the frontier. As a result, the NSW Mounted Police was formed in the following year. Up until 1850, this force operated as de facto cavalry unit as the troopers were soldiers requisitioned from the British Army. Their main task in this period was to subdue groups of Aboriginals resisting European colonisation and capture bushrangers.[17] From 1850 the Mounted Police took on a more civilian role. In 2009, it had 34 horses and was claimed to be the oldest mounted police unit in the world.[18] Another specialist group formed during this time were the Water Police (formed in 1832).[16]
1839 – Border Police
By this stage, the NSW government could not afford the cost of maintaining the Mounted Police along the expanding frontiers of the colony. A new frontier police consisting of mounted convict troopers, called the Border Police, was therefore established. The convicts assigned were mostly soldiers who had run afoul of the law. The Border Police was funded by a levy placed on the squatters who had brought livestock into the areas beyond the borders of settlement. In addition to controlling the Aboriginal and bushranger threats, the Border Police were also tasked with resolving land disputes with the squatters.[19]
1848 – Native Police
With the end of convict transportation approaching, the Border Police was dissolved and replaced with another low-cost frontier force called the Native Police. This force consisted of Aboriginal troopers under the command of European officers. Exploiting intertribal hostility, the duty of this force was mostly to suppress Aboriginal resistance to European colonisation. From 1859, the responsibility of the Native Police passed from the NSW government to the newly formed Queensland government.[20]
In the early 1850s, Victoria seceded from New South Wales and it created its own force.[21]
1862 – Establishment of the Police Force
As the colony expanded, a more sophisticated form of crime management was called for; this involved unifying all the police units into a single cohesive police force with the centralisation of authority. After a failed attempt made by Act No. 38 of 1850, unified control of the police eventuated in 1862 when the Police Regulation Act (1862) was passed, establishing the New South Wales Police Force. The first Inspector General of Police, John McLerie, was appointed to assume overall authority and responsibility. The Police Regulation (Amendment) Act, passed in 1935, changed the official title to Commissioner of Police, with its role clearly defined. The position of Deputy Commissioner was also created.[22]
.jpg)
By 1872, there were 70 police stations throughout the colony in sub-districts, with a total of 803 police officers.
In July 1915, the first female police officers commenced duty, being Misses Lilian May Armfield (1884–1971) and Maude Marion Rhodes (–1956).[23]
In 1961, the year before the centenary of the Police Force, the number of members of the force increased to 5717, which rose to a total strength of 15,354 in November 2008.[24]
Bushrangers
After the formation of the New South Wales Police Force in 1862, most crimes were committed by bushrangers, particularly during the Victorian gold rush years. Constable Byrne almost single-handedly fought off the Ben Hall gang when they attacked a gold escort at Majors Creek on 13 March 1865. Constable O'Grady was taken ill with cholera when, on 9 April 1866, he left his sick-bed to confront the Clarke gang, which was incorrectly renowned as being the "bloodiest bushrangers" of the colony of NSW and of Australia.[25] Constable Walker was one of the earliest Australian-born mounted troopers to gain fame. He brought Captain Thunderbolt's enduring "bushranging" career to an end by shooting him near Uralla in New England, NSW.
Constable Ernest Charles Day (later the Inspector General of Police) showed courage under fire when he shot and captured bushranger Hobson, who was later executed by hanging. Day later investigated a string of murders involving a hawker, Tommy Moore, by tracing his activities to South Australia, solving one of Australia's earliest serial-killer cases.[26]
1894 – Arming
In 1894, a number of unarmed police were seriously injured while attempting to arrest a group of offenders as they attempted to break open a safe in the Union Steamship Company Office in Bridge Street, Sydney. The incident received wide publicity and was known as "Bridge Street Affray".[27]
Within 24 hours, the Premier announced that all Police would wear firearms at all times while on duty to prevent the escape of felons and to place them on an equal footing with armed criminals. Previously, only police in rural districts had been permitted to carry firearms.
Parliament subsequently passed legislation authorising the arming of all members of the NSW Police Force and all Police have carried firearms ever since.[28]
1979 – Lusher Commission of Inquiry
 | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (November 2020) |
In 1979, the NSW government of Neville Wran called on Justice Edwin Lusher, a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales to chair a commission of inquiry into police administration.[29][30]
1990 – Renaming
The Police Service Act 1990 was introduced to replace the Police Regulation Act. The Police Force was consequently renamed to the "New South Wales Police Service", which reflected "community-based policing at the time" of the Greiner government[31] and the public's responsibility in crime control, aided by the police.[32] In accordance with the Police Service Amendment (NSW Police) Bill in 2002, the New South Wales Police Service was then renamed again to simply New South Wales Police.[33] The then Minister for Police, Michael Costa, explains:[34]
'NSW Police' is the name on which everybody signed off and it is the name with which we were to come to the Parliament... I do not believe we need the word 'service' in the name of the police force. I do not accept the argument that we need the word 'service' in a community-based policing approach.
In 2006, the Police Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill resulted in a name change for the third time, renaming the New South Wales Police to New South Wales Police Force.[35]
1991 – Amalgamation of special security units
In June 1991, the State Protection Group (SPG) was formed, incorporating the former Special Weapons and Operations Section (SWOS), the Witness Security Unit, regional Tactical Response Groups and the Rescue Squad. The Security Management Branch and the Bomb Disposal Unit were later included in the group.
The New South Wales Police Force has grown to be the largest in Australia.[8]
1992 – Volunteering and NSW Police
After much debate, the NSW Parliament passed the Police Service (Volunteer Police) Amendment Act, 1992, which sought to trial voluntary service within the police force, along the lines of the United Kingdom's special constabularies. The trial was not successful and lapsed with the automatic repeal of the Act in 1994. The successor to this scheme was the Volunteers in Policing (VIP) program which restricts volunteer participation to non-core administration and community tasks, without enforcement duties or other powers being granted.[36]
1995 – Wood Royal Commission
The 1990s was a turbulent period in NSW Police history. The Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service was held between 1995 and 1997. The Royal Commission uncovered hundreds of instances of bribery, money laundering, drug trafficking, and falsifying of evidence by police. Then Police Commissioner Tony Lauer resigned as the level of corruption within the service became clear, and his own position became untenable. Peter James Ryan was recruited from the United Kingdom. Wide-ranging reforms occurred as a result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission, including the establishment of a permanent Police Integrity Commission. The royal commissioner was Justice James Roland Wood. The terms of reference were to look into systemic and entrenched corruption within the New South Wales Police, towards the end of the Royal Commission it also investigated alleged paedophile activities within the Police Service. Of particular note was the Detectives' Division of the Kings Cross patrol, of which almost all the senior ranks, including the chief detective, were involved in serious and organised corrupt activities, including taking regular bribes from major drug traffickers.
2003 – Police bugging
In 2003, Strike Force Emblems was established in response to allegations that warrants were improperly obtained during Operation Mascot, an investigation into police corruption in the late 1990s. The warrants authorised a large number of people, mostly police officers, to have their private conversations 'bugged'. Nearly a decade later in October 2012, the New South Wales Government announced that the Ombudsman would investigate allegations concerning the conduct of officers in the NSW Police Force, the Crime Commission and the Police Integrity Commission in relation to the matters investigated in Strike Force Emblems which occurred between 1998 and 2002. The final hearings were not completed until 31 March 2015.
The Acting NSW Ombudsman, John McMillan's report to Parliament was tabled on 20 December 2016.[37]
2015 – Police Headquarters Shooting
On 2 October 2015, 15-year-old Iraqi-Kurdish boy Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar shot dead Curtis Cheng, a 58-year-old accountant who worked for the NSW Police Force, outside their Parramatta headquarters.[38][39][40] The 15-year-old then shot at responding special constables, and died from their gunfire. NSW Police Force commissioner Andrew Scipione said "We believe that his actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism". The attack appears to have similar motives to the 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings.
Organisation
Police_Headquarters_Parramatta-2.jpg)
.JPG)
Leadership structure
The headquarters of the New South Wales Police Force is located at 1 Charles Street, Parramatta, Sydney.
The current commissioner of the NSW Police Force is Karen Webb, APM. The Minister for Police, is responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales for the police portfolio.[7]
The Force is split into four divisions, each overseen by a Deputy Commissioner.[7]
Police Area Commands and Police Districts
The state's 432 police stations are organised into six Regions, which are then divided into Police Area Commands (PACs, consisting of metropolitan areas) and Police Districts (PDs, consisting of rural areas). Each region contains 7-12 PACs/PDs, which are listed by name and CAD prefix/vehicle ID.[41]
| Central Metropolitan Region | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB | Eastern Beaches PAC | ES | Eastern Suburbs PAC | IW | Inner West PAC | KX | Kings Cross PAC | LE | Leichhardt PAC | SSY | South Sydney PAC |
| SG | St George PAC | SH | Surry Hills PAC | SU | Sutherland PAC | SC | Sydney City PAC | ||||
| North West Metropolitan Region | |||||||||||
| BN | Blacktown PAC | BL | Blue Mountains PAC | HB | Hawkesbury PAC | KU
Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=New_South_Wales_Police_Force >Text je dostupný pod licencí Creative Commons Uveďte autora – Zachovejte licenci, případně za dalších podmínek. Podrobnosti naleznete na stránce Podmínky užití. Zdroj: Wikipedia.org - čítajte viac o New South Wales Police Force
Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative
Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších
podmienok. | |||||
