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The Commonwealth Security Service (CSS) was an arm of the earlier forms of the
Commonwealth Police The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979. A federal police force was first established in 1917, and operated under different names and in some periods as multiple organisations. I ...
of
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. It operated in the 1930s and 1940s, and was amalgamated with the Commonwealth Investigation Branch, to form the Commonwealth Investigation Service (CIS) in 1946. It was involved in monitoring events and organisations considered problematic by the government of the time, including strikes 1948 Queensland railway strike


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Commonwealth Police The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979. A federal police force was first established in 1917, and operated under different names and in some periods as multiple organisations. I ...
Defunct law enforcement agencies of Australia Defunct Commonwealth Government agencies of Australia