page_title: Border Police of New South Wales
section_title: Later districts of operation
hierarchical_section_title: Border Police of New South Wales / Later districts of operation
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the squatting districts of NSW in 1844
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 1840, the Port Phillip district was split into two resulting in Western Port and Portland Bay districts being created. In 1842, the Port Macquarie district was also split in two, with Clarence and Macleay being the resultant districts. The Moreton Bay district was also added in that year. In 1843, the Darling Downs, Gippsland and Murray districts were formed. Some of these regions included areas that later became part of the colonies of Victoria and Queensland, but were at the time under the governmental control of New South Wales. Contingents of Border Police troopers were assigned to the Commissioners of Crown Lands for each of these frontier districts. The last squatting district to be formed that included an assigned section of Border Police was the Gwydir District in 1847.
caption: The squatting districts of New South Wales in 1844
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