Policing was done on horseback for the entire time a police station existed in the Towamba district.
One elderly resident remembered one policeman who would take his dog with him on his rounds. The dog would be several hundred yards ahead of the mounted officer and so the locals always had an early warning system when the policeman was on his way.
When the gold mining town of Yambulla, south-west of Towamba, was at its peak the closest station was at Towamba.

SOME POLICEMEN STATIONED AT TOWAMBA BETWEEN 1893 AND 1922.
Campion. William Edward - Constable - 1893 - 1899
Lord. - Constable - ?
Colmer. Donald - Sen. Constable - 1910 - 1914
Dunn. Reginald Clarance - Constable - 1913 -
Glomer. Constable - 1913
Taper. John Bede - Constable - 1919 - 1922
Allmond. Constable - 1933
Crawford. Constable - 1934

'Pambula Voice' July 7, 1893.
TOWAMBA
* The Towamba police barracks were opened on the 20th ultimo. Senior Constable Campion late of Eden is placed in charge.

'Pambula Voice' October 20, 1893
* A new fence has been erected around the recently completed police barracks and these premises are quite an ornament to the place. A movement is on foot to have a court of petty sessions established here and the growing importance of the district as well as its central position is a strong argument in favour of such a thing.

Towamba Police Station. c 1911 Constable and Mrs.Colmer and family. Photo courtesy K. Gardaya

Newspaper Unknown
April 7, 1913
* Constable Glomer has returned to his post in Towamba after an absence of a few weeks, during which time he was stationed at Eden while Constable Chaney was away.

'Magnet' February 1929
* Constable Allmond of Towamba.

'Magnet' August 3, 1929
* Mr. R. H. Richards - Towamba police constable who was stationed at Jerilderie when Ned Kelly and gang robbed the local bank in 1878.

THIS STORY RELATED BY WILFRED INGRAM OF 'WIDDEN FARM' TOWAMBA.
Harry Richards, a quiet man of unassuming disposition, a farmer and teamster, using at times a team of twenty bullocks to take produce and wattle bark to the steamer at Eden.
Harry Richards in his youthful day had been a member of the New South Wales Mounted Police stationed at Jerilderie with another policeman, Constable Devine who was married with wife and children.
At midnight on Saturday, 9th February 1879 the Kelly Gang of bushrangers, comprising Ned Kelly, his brother Dan Kelly and Joseph Byrne (the only one who could read and write) and one Steven Hart a close friend of Dan, surrounded the police station and locked Devine and Richards in the cells. On the Sunday, dressed in police uniforms, they went about the town in company with Richards who was forced to introduce them as new constables. The gang had their horses shod by the blacksmith telling him they were special men on watch for the Kellys.
At ten past midday on Monday the 12th, the gang entered and robbed the bank on New South Wales, herding all the people into the Royal Hotel under guard of Steve Hart and Dan Kelly. The telegraph operators, with others, were taken prisoner by the Kellys and poles carrying the lines were cut down. At nightfall the gang started to disperse. Joseph Byrne going first, the others covering his retreat. The last ones to leave were Dan Kelly and Steven Hart.
Richards and Devine were summarily dismissed from the police force on the grounds of failing to do their duty and arrest the gang. However, the gang had complete command of the situation. Had there been any shooting the civilian people would have been in the centre of the strife.
As mentioned earlier, Harry Richards who was engaged to be married, lived a long life remaining single as his girl friend gave him up on account of his failure to do his duty. He is buried in Towamba cemetery.
This account is from official police records of both states of New South Wales and Victoria of 1879.

PERICOE
'Magnet' July 15, 1933
* Constable and Mrs. Allmond of Towamba send off - transferred to Taralga.

'Magnet' January 27, 1934
* Constable Crawford of Towamba requested repairs to road out the front of the police station.

'Magnet' March 17, 1934
* Constable Crawford and his wife still at Towamba Police Station in 1934.

'Magnet' October 19, 1935
TOWAMBA
The local P & C Association held a meeting recently and decided on having a petition sent to Police Headquarters requesting that on officer be stationed here. Also a deputation waited on the Superintendent of Police Mr. Parker during his last visit to Towamba and are now awaiting a decision.