An Outback Police Officer's Life
1952
An Outback Police Officer's Life
1952
- NFSA ID8J28DP7T
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormDocumentary
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1952
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
The full title is available to purchase via sales@nfsa.gov.au
Outback Patrol, narrated by Chips Rafferty, follows the annual patrol of police officer Robert Darkin.
If there is a spot of lawbreaking, Darkin can convene a court but in this job he’s also collector of public monies, Commonwealth electoral returning officer, commissioner for affidavits for the Supreme Court, postmaster, inspector of stock, and registrar of births, deaths, marriages, mines, motor vehicles and dogs.
He checks that there is water in the government bores for the drovers and keeps an eye on the lone prospectors who roam the trackless hills and parched plains.
Other horse and camel teams, operating from scattered police stations, patrolled the whole Northern Territory.
.
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
The full title is available to purchase via sales@nfsa.gov.au
Outback Patrol, narrated by Chips Rafferty, follows the annual patrol of police officer Robert Darkin.
If there is a spot of lawbreaking, Darkin can convene a court but in this job he’s also collector of public monies, Commonwealth electoral returning officer, commissioner for affidavits for the Supreme Court, postmaster, inspector of stock, and registrar of births, deaths, marriages, mines, motor vehicles and dogs.
He checks that there is water in the government bores for the drovers and keeps an eye on the lone prospectors who roam the trackless hills and parched plains.
Other horse and camel teams, operating from scattered police stations, patrolled the whole Northern Territory.
.
- NFSA ID8J28DP7T
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormDocumentary
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1952
- ProducersNational Film Board and Department of the Interior
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