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commemorating the anniversary of the date when SAPOL was founded in 1838. A museum spread over five galleries contains policing objects and uniforms, historical and recent. One of these galleries is a vehicle collection displaying police transport through the ages. Another gallery exhibits the plaster cast made in 1949 of an unknown man's head and chest from the unsolved
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to be sworn in with equal pay and conditions to male police. In 1880 SAPOL were the first
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Inman : first commander of the South Australia police
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