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As custodians, our aim is to collect, preserve and exhibit  historical artefacts, photographs, documents, uniforms, vehicles and stories which illuminate the history and ongoing achievements of law enforcement in New South Wales.  Through the telling of stories we bring the past alive, fostering understanding and appreciation of the rich and fascinating history of the NSW Police Force and Emergency Services.

Our Museum is designed to educate, inspire and inform, so we offer guided tours, activities and curriculum-linked and enrichment programs, designed to support student learning and to enrich public education.  Our mock court room, mock trial experience and Law moot provide  unique opportunities for students to engage with mock court proceedings against opposing counsel and before a judge in our fully equipped court room.  

On the 16 July 1897 at the age of 27, Isaac Grovenor (Ike) joined the New South Wales Police Department as a Police Tracker. 

During his 52-year service with the Police Department and until he retired on 12 January 1950, he performed duty at various country stations namely, Animbo, Cooma, Wee Jasper and Braidwood; took part in the stock stealing cases; the tracking of criminals and lost people, and was transferred in 1926 from the country to the Police Depot, Redfern, where he rendered outstanding service in breaking in and handling of police horses. 

On the 6 March 1951, His Excellency the Governor Sir John Northcott, presented Tracker Sergeant Grovenor with the Imperial Service Medal in recognition of long and meritorious service, rendered to the NSW Police Department. He was one of only two trackers in New South Wales to attain the rank of Police Tracker Sergeant. 

On 11 June 1911 Alexander Riley joined the NSW Police Force as a Police Tracker. 

Based at Dubbo, his tracking skills helped to break a cattle-thieving ring in 1913 while in 1914 he assisted in the recapture of two escapees from the Dubbo gaol. Though he resigned from the police force on 31 August 1914, he was reappointed on 1 January 1918.  On Christmas Eve that year, Tracker Riley found a barefooted 6 year old girl who had been lost for twenty-four hours in the mountains near Stuart Town. 

He helped to apprehend George Earsman in 1921 who was later sentenced to death for the murder of Alexander Matheson and in  the early 1920s was credited with the capture of one of the state's last remaining bushrangers Roy Governor, younger brother of the notorious Jimmy Governor.  Roy, an expert bushman had evaded thirty policemen and trackers for the previous three months until Tracker Riley discovered he had tied pieces of sheepskin, wool-side down, to his feet to disguise his tracks.
 

In 1939 Tracker Riley helped in the arrest of Andrew Moss who had reputedly killed thirteen people over twenty years. It had taken him more than twelve months of painstaking investigation and when caught, Moss was charged with three murders, convicted and sentenced to death (however his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment).  That year Tracker Riley was officially commended for his tracking work, and in 1940 was able to demonstrate that the death of a child whose remains had been found in a gorge near Bugaldie, was the result of an accident rather than foul play.
 

On 5 August 1941 Tracker Riley was the first Aboriginal person to gain the rank of Sergeant in the NSW Police Force.  Officially commended for finding a missing man in April 1942, he was awarded the King's Police and Fire Services Medal for Distinguished Service in January 1943. 

Aboriginal Police Tracker ‘Tommy’ was a Police Tracker at Broken Hill from from the early 1890s through to 1910.  

He participated in numerous investigations in the Broken Hill district, including the pursuit of robbers who stole a safe from the Commercial Hotel in December 1899 while earlier in the same year,  had  followed bicycle tracks across gravelly ground which led him to the camp of the notorious “pantry robber” at a cave near Stephens Creek to the north of Broken Hill.   

Tracker Tommy also gave evidence in court, including an 1895 case against man who allegedly stole sheep formerly owned by the well-known Kidman pastoral family.  Tommy testified that he had tracked the stolen sheep and a horse from a slaughter yard in West Broken Hill to Mount Gipps, a distance of about 15km.  

His dedication and skill as a tracker was renowned and widely reported in the press.  His police work saw him employed at the Silverton Police Station, along with other Aboriginal trackers.