Alexander Riley (1884-1970) was an Australian Aboriginal tracker from the Dubbo area and the first Aboriginal person to gain the rank of sergeant in the New South Wales Police Force.
[1] He was the son of a labourer, John Riley, and his wife Mary, née Calligan.
[1] After working as a stationhand, Riley joined the New South Wales Police Force as a tracker on 11 June 1911.
[1] He found a barefoot six-year-old girl who had been lost for twenty-four hours in the mountains near Stuart Town.
[7] Riley retired on 13 July 1950[1] but was denied - alongside female employees and other aboriginals - a police pension (due to him being regarded as a "special part-time employee") even though he had been contributing to the pension from his salary.