Miscellaneous (Extraneous) Police Duties in the first 100 years of SAPOL

  • Assistant Returning Officer
  • Authorised Driver Testing Officer
  • Bailiff of Local Court
  • Bailiff of Water Works
  • Clerk of Local Court
  • Clerk of Licensing Bench
  • Clerk of Revision Court
  • Collector of Agriculture Statistics
  • Commissioner for Taking Affidavits
  • Commonwealth Electoral Registrar
  • Crown Lands Ranger
  • Crown Prosecutor under the Education Act
  • Customs and Excise Officer
  • Destroyer of Wild Dog Scalps
  • District Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  • Fireman (Police responsibility until 1870)
  • First Aid Officer
  • Funeral Undertaker
  • Goldfield Warden
  • Government Land Bureau Agent
  • Harbourmaster
  • Health and Sanitary Inspector
  • Inspector Brands and Stock
  • Inspector Destruction of Thistles Act
  • Inspector Fisheries
  • Inspector Foul Brood in Bees
  • Inspector Public Houses
  • Inspector Shearers Accommodation
  • Inspector Slaughter Houses
  • Inspector Vermin
  • Inspector Vine, Fruit and Vegetables Act
  • Inspector of Width of Tyres
  • Issuer of Bull Licences
  • Issuer of Firearms Licences
  • Issuer of Liquor Permits
  • Issuer of Marine Store Licences
  • Issuer of Mining Licences
  • Issuer of Rations to Aborigines
  • Keeper of Gaols
  • Keeper of Life Saving Apparatus and Rocket Equipment
  • Mail Courier
  • Post Master
  • Public Vaccinator
  • Registrar of Aliens
  • Registrar of Dogs
  • Sanitary Inspector
  • Sheep Inspector
  • Telegraphic Operator