Contents: Sergeant Patrick Dowling no. 279 p7. Constable Robert Dunne no. 354 p8. Constable David Siske no. 1123 p9. Constable Richard May no. 974 p9. Constable Henry Rogers no. 1100 p9. Sergeant John Brown no. 81 p10. The Courthouse and Police Stations p12- South Yarra Police Station p14. Toorak Police Station p15. Armadale Police Station p15. Windsor Police Station p16-17. Enforcing the law p20. The Press and the Police p24. Crime and tragedy p30. Fredrick Deeming alias Albert O. Williams alias Mr Druin p30-34. Windsor Rail Disaster p34. A valour badge p35. The motoring menace p37-40. Police and the local community p41. Local crime p41. Licensing duty p42. Administrative tasks p42. Police and the Council p43. Sergeant McCarthy and the policeman's paradise p46. War and peace p48. Crime in wartime p49. Police attitudes to the community p50. Return to peace p50. Changing times p51. Police and sport p51. Daughter's betrayer p51. The Police Strike p53-56. The first police fatal car accident p56. Calls for increase in number of police p57. The depression years p58. A local hero p58. A tragic murder p58. The end of Little Lon p59. A ghoulish theft p59. The Council persists p61. The C.I.B. comes to Prahran p61. Doctor Bretherton p61. The 1940s p63. Air raid precautions p66. The taxi driver murder p66. Kidnapping comes to Victoria p69. The sly grog merchants of Prahran p70. Modern times p72. Police transport comes to Prahran p72. The South Yarra Police Station burglary p72. The Starting Price S.P. Bookmaker p76. The Death Falls (suicides) p76. Policing in the 1960s and 1970s p78. Changes in crime p79. Building the new Prahran Police Station p80. ILLUSTRATIONS Early police transport p11. Prahran Police Court p13. The former Prahran Police Station p14. The former Toorak Police Station p16. South Yarra Police Station p17. The former Toorak Police Station of the 1930s p18. The former Armadale Police Station of the 1890s p18. Lower, the former Armadale Police Station of the 1930s p19. Lower, Windsor Police Station p19. Nine months for lamp stealing p21. Constables parading before commencing beat duty p29. Emily Mather and her memorial at Melbourne Cemetery p32. The interior of the Windsor Villa p33. Facing page of the Motor Act of 1909 p36. Various styles of Victorian Police uniforms p44-5. Policing of the 1920s p54. Wislers Patrol Cars commencing night patrol p60. The Lancia Tourer in which Currie lost his life 1925 p60. A constable directing traffic p64. Wireless Patrol Cars commence patrol p64. Policewomen of the late 1940s p65. The site of the Coates murder and reported in the Argus p68. The scene of the Rawdell kidnapping p70. An early divisional van p73. Triumph motorcycles p73. A policeman of the 1940s p74. The St Kilda Junction in the early 1950s p74. Police investigating an accident scene p75. Entrance to South Yarra Police Station 1965 p75. The scene of Seckolds death p77. The present Prahran Police Station 1988 p81. A cartoon by Constable Chris O'Mallon (O'Hallon) of Prahran at the time of Chief Superintendent Goodings retirement p83.