page_title: Border Police of New South Wales
section_title: Initial districts of operation
hierarchical_section_title: Border Police of New South Wales / Initial districts of operation
caption_attribution_description: English: Districts of settlement in New South Wales in 1841
context_page_description: The Border Police of New South Wales was a frontier policing body introduced by the New South Wales colonial government with the passing of the Crown Lands Unauthorised Occupation Act 1839.
  The British colony of New South Wales was expanding rapidly in the late 1830s and the Government was concerned with the illegal occupation of lands and the rights of the Aboriginal people. The Government of New South Wales in 1839 legislated for a new policing body that would control these issues. This force was called the Border Police.
  The Border Police was organised into a number of sections and these were deployed to the various districts along the frontier. Each section was under the authority of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for that particular district and each commissioner had about 10 troopers. In order to reduce the cost of the force as much as possible, the troopers were taken from the population of convicts that existed in the colony at that time. The convicts assigned were usually ex-soldiers who had been transported to Australia due to crimes of military indiscipline.
context_section_description: In 1839, there were nine districts in New South Wales legislated as being beyond the boundaries of settlement. These districts were Liverpool Plains, New England, Port Macquarie, Bligh, Wellington, Lachlan, Maneroo, Murrumbidgee and Port Phillip. All of these districts were deemed frontier areas and Border Police troopers were assigned to each.
caption: 1841 map showing the districts of settlement in New South Wales
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image Software": "Chrome OS Gallery App", "Image DateTime": "2019:01:26 19:18:01", "Image ExifOffset": "104", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "794", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "754"}