Troopers used the lock-up to secure convicts who were working on chain gangs building the roads in the area and to secure any felons they may have apprehended.  

Police were also stationed at Binda at this time, although there is no building left standing that served as a barracks or lock-up.

In a letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday October 30, 1848, it is stated that the former Police Station at Funny Hill near Binda had closed because it was felt that both life and property were secure.  

However the situation had now changed and there was a definite need for a permanent Police presence.

In 1857 tenders were called for the building of a new Police Station.  

This was to be on the site where the present school is situated.

A new Court of Petty Sessions was appointed in Binda in March, 1863 and operated until 1881.   

In 1888 a notice was published calling tenders for the purchase and removal the old Police buildings comprising court house, police residence, stables and the whole of the buildings on the ground.

All were to be removed within one month after the date of a sale.

Tuena’s  jail and Court of Petty Sessions were in existence from 1865.

A Police station at Wheeo Creek was listed in 1879.

Crookwell area had been inundated with bushrangers for some time when a petition was drawn up for a Police station to be erected and staffed in Crookwell.  

It was in the early 1870s when the first police lock-up was erected and first policeman assigned.   

The first Court House was built in 1875 but was far too small and in 1881 it was re-built in its present location on Goulburn Road.

Young men have always played tricks on each other and caused a bit of mischief now and then.  

It was nothing for someone to be ready to depart for his destination in his horse and cart only to find that nothing was happening.  

It was the thing to put the horse on one side of a fence and the cart on the other side of the fence, so that when the driver tried to take off, the cart couldn’t follow the horse. Another trick was to hobble the horse’s feet.