Retired Police Officers Day Friday 5 September at the Nowra Police Station. This afternoon we dropped over to the Nowra Police Station Museum in preparation for this Fridays Retired Police Officers Day being held from 10.30am to 1.30pm at the Nowra Police Station. Retired Police Officers Day not only recognises the work of former police, it provides an opportunity for yesterday’s officers to meet and mix with today’s. Presentation of National Police Medals, a talk about working at the Shoalhaven LAC and tour highlighting challenges in technology that police use have been scheduled as part of the event. All retired police officers are invited to attend this event, however we need for you to RVSP by 4pm tomorrow after by contacting Executive Officer, Kerry Smith on 02 44219699. Going to museum has inspired us to start doing some posts on our Facebook page about the history of policing in the Shoalhaven. In these posts we look at policing in the area and sometimes compare it to modern day policing and technology to highlight the then and now. Here is our first installment and its a little bit about Shoalhavens first police officer, Constable Bernard Brown. The first police appointment by the Bench in Shoalhaven was that of Bernard Brown on 1st January 1852. A Court of Petty Sessions was established at Numba that year and a slab lock up was built ‘from which prisoners easily escaped and much of Constable Brown’s time was undoubtedly spent recapturing them’. From the Bernard Brown diaries we learn that on the 1st June 1857, Constable John Ross succeeded John Smith as lock-up keeper at Numba. Noted in his diary on 30th May 1857 Went down to steamer wharf, the young man came that is to success [sic] Smith, he seems to be likely. Went up to Mr De Mestre with John Ross who is come to succeed John Smith as Lock Up Keeper. Mr De Mestre gave me authority to demand of Smith keys of lock up and arms ammunition etc. We know that in those days Constable Brown rode a horse whilst on patrol, a far cry from todays V8 Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons used by the Traffic and HWP Command, which also have Mobile Data Terminals, Automatic Number Plate Recognition and In Car Video. Called at Thomas’ copied out Oath for Mr Lovegrove. It wasn’t until 1861 when a Court & Watch House (with lock-up) was completed in Plunkett Street Nowra that a constable, Constable Thomas Grieve, was stationed at Nowra. Source: Nowra Museum Former Police Residence & Lock-up Conservation Management Plan prepared for Shoalhaven City Council. We will also do some post about some of the more notable policing and crime events events that have occurred in the Shoalhaven such as the arrest of fugitive Jockey Smith in 1977. southcoastregister.au/story/103039/nowras-day-of-terror/
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