Police History Dug Up In Kingaroy

An architect’s impression of what the new Kingaroy Police Station will look like when finished
(Photo: Conrad Gargett Architects)

20160506 Horseshoe and Hobbles — The horseshoe and hobbles found on the police station construction site … the hobbles, which would have had leather cuffs at each end, were placed around a horses’ lower leg to stop them wandering at night

May 6, 2016

Does anyone have any information about the early history of Kingaroy Police Station? If so, Officer-in-Charge Senior Sergeant Duane Frank would like to hear from you.

Workers building the new police station recently unearthed a watering trough, horse shoe and hobbles from the construction area.

This was probably part of the old Police Paddock.

The trough was in pieces but the iron items have been put aside for display in the new police station when it opens.

The station that has just been demolished was built in 1967.

Ironically, while the construction work continues, Kingaroy Police have shifted into the Artie Kerr building which is believed to have been part of the original police station and residence.

The first Kingaroy Police Station is believed to have been built in 1908.

On August 3, 1906, the Brisbane Telegraph reported that the government had accepted a tender from Neilson and Peterson to construct a new police station in Kingaroy for £424.10s.

Six years later, the Brisbane Courier reported on November 27, 1912, that J.G. Jacobsen had won a tender to build a new cell and a constable’s room at the station for £95.