CO 18/72 Fitzgerald to the Secretary of State, January 12, 1852.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Deciphering signatures on documents where every available space was used to make comments is extremely difficult. It is not helped by scrawled signatures which defy encoding.
4.
CO 18/72 Comment in the margin of a reported communication between the writer and the Commissioner of the London Police.
5.
Cited in FinnaneM. (1994) Police and Government, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 10. The author of the quote, V. Doherty, did not take into account subsequent events nor the influence of Acts of Parliament which vested authority in the magistrates over police. In the Northwest of Western Australia, government residents were also magistrates and did not hesitate to assert their authority over the local police. The altercations between the resident doctor Lovegrove and the serving police in Derby in the late 1890s were infamous. The police had to obey Lovegrove on orders from the commissioner himself.
6.
Document cited in BentleyM., Grandfather was a Policeman: The Western Australian Police Force, 1829–1889, Victoria Park: Hesperian Press, p. 43.
