Western Australia Police Gazettes Indexes

The Police Gazette of Western Australia (1876 onwards) is a valuable resource for researching police and criminals in Western Australia. Information can be found under various headings:

– apprehensions (name of person arrested, arresting constable, charge and sentence);
– police appointments, dismissals, discharges, promotions, resignations and transfers;
– tickets of leave, certificates of freedom, and conditional pardons issued to convicts;
– physical descriptions of prisoners (name, condition, build, age, height, hair and eye colour, visage, complexion, trade, nationality and distinguishing marks);
– deserters from military service;
– escaped prisoners;
– expirees leaving the colony;
– inquests (where held, date, before whom, name and date of death of person, verdict);
– licences (publican, gallon, eating, boarding and lodging houses, railway refreshment rooms, wine and beer, colonial wine, spirit merchants, club, wayside house, packet and billiard table – name of licensee, name of hotel etc and town or district given);
– missing friends;
– prisoners discharged;
– people tried at Quarter Sessions (name, offence, district, verdict, how disposed of);
– special inquiries;
– stealing in dwellings;
– and warrants issued.