Recollections.

Nathaniel Hailes was a wry chronicler of early colonial South Australia. A courageous lone traveller, he got to know the Aboriginal people, saw fire destroy Adelaide's first Government House, and became well acquainted with some of the colony's first murders and executions. He worked as Superintendent of Emigrants, auctioneer, the first librarian in the State, Clerk of the Court, Clerk to the Government Resident, Registrar, Harbourmaster and Postmaster. Hailes’ witty and affectionate Recollections appeared in the South Australian Register newspaper in 1878. They are published here for the first time in book form.
 
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Tales of the Troopers.

When the land was vast and the living hard, mounted troopers went where no European had been before. Carrying the mail, guiding royal parties, chasing criminals through hostile territory, travelling by camel, guarding prisoners in tin sheds, and escorting gold overland, were just part of a colonial policeman’s lot.
Tales of the Troopers is a book about crime and punishment in South Australia's wild colonial days.
 
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South Australia Police 1838 – 2003

A History of the Development and Operations of the Force from its establishment.   2nd Edition. A comprehensive and detailed account of the development of every aspect of policing from personnel through to transport, duties, communications and equipment to the present day wonders of technology and science.

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To Walk a Fair Beat.

This book is important as a record of the contributions made by women to the work of the South Australian Police Force from 1915 to 1987. It was, then, a very different age from that of the present in which early women police officers worked. They came into an area in which most of the men engaged must have been suspicious of their presence. However, they demonstrated that women could occupy positions of authority at a time when there was widespread suspicion, that, except in traditionally female spheres of employment authority was not appropriate for women.

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Colonial Blue.

The story of Australia's first and oldest organised police force. Colonial Blue is a warts and all examination of the South Australia Police Force from 1838 to 1916. An authoritative and honest account, it makes for provocative and compelling reading. With extensive and original use of primary source material, Colonial Blue explores the makeshift and disputed beginnings of the police in South Australia – a colony where crime was not meant to exist.

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