Justice & Police Museum
![Two half pig carcasses placed on a wooden chair with tags reading, EXHIBITS - To be kept for evidence.](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/12/de187d83de0e481da32fad254b21deee.jpg)
A Christmas crime
As Christmas approached, the Magistrates at the Water Police Court, now the Justice & Police Museum, were often faced with a very seasonal crime – the theft of Christmas hams
![Students participating in A Trial Run at the Justice & Police Museum](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/bdb5e04b574b40cd944a36727790497b.jpg)
Onsite
A Trial Run
Within the setting of a historic police station and courthouse, this program gives students the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between the law and society
![Dual mugshot in black and white; man seated and then man standing, with white naval cap on.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/97618e95295d4426b6218c952ef58074.jpg)
WW1
A dubious defence
On 19 October 1921 Herbert Burridge was listed in the New South Wales Police Gazette as a deserter from HMAS Cerberus
![Dark haired woman wearing a red dress and black blazer leaning on a wooden door frame](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/ce27df3e9a0045e0896f1c3acba5fe60.jpg)
A life in crime
Curator Nerida Campbell has got the dream job – rummaging through the grit and grime of Sydney’s criminal past to help us to come to terms with the city’s dark side
![Sergeant Tracker Alexander ‘Alec’ Riley, standing in police uniform](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/92e8deb95e9d0497e4d992b2166fd5c2851d3fc6-1600x1884.jpg?rect=0,0,1600,1247&fit=max&auto=format)
Permanent display
Alexander Riley, legendary Aboriginal police tracker
The remarkable talents of Aboriginal trackers who worked for NSW Police in the 20th century are featured in a display at the Justice & Police Museum
Monday 18 September
![Sergeant Tracker Alexander ‘Alec’ Riley wearing his police uniform](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/92e8deb95e9d0497e4d992b2166fd5c2851d3fc6-1600x1884.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Alexander Riley, legendary Aboriginal police tracker
The remarkable talents of Aboriginal trackers who worked for NSW Police in the 20th century are featured in a display at the Justice & Police Museum
![](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/935729f57d9442558da077ec5e6f02fe.jpg)
Onsite
Bailed Up!
Students explore the impact of the gold rush on law and order in the colony of NSW, and of bushrangers on the Australian identity
![DES17_FP07_0026_004detail.jpg](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/cdad812fcb264f66a02ef2666dfca1c1.jpg)
Underworld
Behind the scenes: How to read a ‘special’
Around the world, police forces followed established conventions when taking mugshots. But Sydney police in the 1920s did things differently