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Police have been around in Australia almost since the start of European settlement on the continent. The very first police force in the colony of New South Wales was formed on 8 August 1789, and it was composed of about a dozen convicts.

In 1862, the Police Regulation Act was passed, and this established the police force in its current form.

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