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Victorian Police Motorcycle, Geelong, Aust, jjron, 30.9.2010
A Victoria Police officer on a motorbike

Victoria Police provides police services to the people of Victoria, Australia. It employs more than 13,800 people and has 339 police stations.

Victoria Police started in the 1850s. One of their early jobs was to collect licence fees from miners searching for gold. In 1854 the miners at Ballarat refused to pay the fee and built a defensive fort, known as the Eureka Stockade. A military force of the British Army and 94 policemen attacked the stockade. About 30 miners and four soldiers were killed.

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  • Australian Mounted Police Victoria-edit1

    Mounted officers of the Victoria Police

  • Mounted Police - Gold escort guard - Mt Alexander (BM 1969,0614.16)

    Mounted Police - Gold escort guard - Mt Alexander (1852) by "S.T.G." (S. T. Gill), from his "Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are"

  • Mansfield-police-photomontage

    Clockwise from top left: Constable Lonigan, Sergeant Kennedy, Constable McIntyre and Constable Scanlon.

  • VictoriaPoliceMelbourneParlimentMayDay2011

    Victoria Police officers outside the Parliament of Victoria.

  • XTS 5000 Motorola Radio used by Victoria Police

    Motorola Radio model XTS 5000 used by Victoria Police

  • S&W M&P .40 left side

    The Smith & Wesson M&P is the standard issue firearm of the Victoria Police

  • 2013 Ford Territory (SZ) TX RWD wagon, Victoria Police (2015-01-06)

    2013 Ford Territory (SZ) TX RWD

  • 2014 Holden Commodore (VF MY14) Evoke sedan, Victoria Police (2015-01-02)

    2014 Holden VF Commodore Evoke

  • Victoria Police Highway Patrol

    Mercedes Benz E400D

  • Victoria Police (CHC Helicopters Australia) Eurocopter AS-365N-3 Dauphin 2 Vabre-2

    Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin 2

  • Victoria Police, operated by Starflight Victoria, (VH-PVO) Leonardo Helicopters AW139 at Wagga Wagga Airport (6)

    AgustaWestland AW139

  • Victoria Police VP10 Naiad patrol boat docked on the Yarra River (1)

    Police boat

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