Portrait of Peace Officer George Henry Doxey, of Derbyshire, England. Doxey emigrated to South ...

Accession Number P04128.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: South Australia
Date made 1942 - 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Peace Officer George Henry Doxey, of Derbyshire, England. Doxey emigrated to South Australia in 1923 as part of the 'Barwell Boys Scheme' for young apprentices. Owing to poor eyesight, he was rejected for active service in the Second World War, and instead became a Peace Officer, providing night time security at the Islington Railway Workshops (SA) from about 1942 until the end of the war. He died in Adelaide in May 1969. The Peace Officer Guard organisation was originally established in 1935 and was set up as a section of the Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB), the first national (rather than state) police organisation. The Peace Officers provided personnel for the guarding of Commonwealth establishments, and were the first uniformed element of national law enforcement. In 1960, they combined with the plain clothed element, the Commonwealth Investigation Service, (CIS) to form the new Commonwealth Police, which in 1979 became the Australian Federal Police (AFP).