Mitchell resigned as Chief Commissioner, and Charles MacMahon was appointed acting chief commissioner that same year. From a report at the time: 'the troops and Police were under arms, and just at the first blush of dawn they marched upon the camp at Eureka'. Their first major engagement was the following year, 1854, in support of British soldiers during the events leading up to, and confrontation at, the Eureka Stockade where some miners (mostly Irish), police and soldiers were killed. Victoria continues to be the only state in Australia with a Chief Commissioner of Police. In 1853, Victoria Police was the first police organisation in Australia who merged all its police entities into one organisation under Victoria Police Chief Commissioner William Mitchell. Later that month, William Henry Fancourt Mitchell was 'gazetted as Chief Commissioner of Police for the Colony of Victoria'. The Snodgrass Committee was established in early 1852 to "identify the policing needs of the colony", and, following the committee's report in September 1852, the Victoria Police was formally established on 8 January 1853 from an existing colonial police force of 875 men. Gill), from his "Sketches of the Victoria Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are" Mounted Police - Gold escort guard - Mt Alexander (1852) by "S.T.G." ( S. In 1901 it became a state of the new Commonwealth of Australia. From 1851 until 1901 it became the Colony of Victoria, with its own government within the British Empire.
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