Northern Territory Police
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The Northern Territory Police (NTP) have legal jurisdication over the Northern Territory of Australia. The Northern Territory Police service has 1081 gazetted police positions made up of 41 Senior Sergeants, 134 Sergeants,31 Brevet Sergeants, 612 Constables, 141 Auxiliaries and 63 Aboriginal Community Police Officers. The rest of the positions are members of Commissioned rank and 18 inoperative positions (as of 12 January 2006). It also has a civilian staff of 251.
Police in the Northern Territory are part of a "Tri-Service": the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Service with the Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul White, APM as the CEO of the "Tri Service".
[edit] History
The NTP traces its roots back to the South Australian Mounted Police from the late 1860s and Native Police Corps formed from 1884. Their role was mostly as a security force to protect the early inhabitants of the Northern Territory than as a police force. The current NTP came into existence in 1911.
