The Northern Territory Police have legal jurisdication over the Northern Territory of Australia. The Northern Territory Police service has 760 Police, 52 Constable Recruits, 122 Auxiliaries and 53 Aboriginal Community Police Officers, including unpaid members (December 2003).
Police in the Northern Territory are part of a "Tri-Service": the Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Service.
Police in the NorthernTerritory are part of a "Tri-Service": the NorthernTerritoryPolice, Fire and Emergency Service with the Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul White, APM as the CEO of the "Tri Service".
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 NorthernTerritory than as a police force.
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