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Originally Posted by chico20854
In New South Wales, Australia, the local governor authorizes the reorganization of federal and state police, augmented by private security guards, into a new force, designated the Main Force Patrol, to combat rampant crime in rural areas and along the state's highways.
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I'm assuming your intention there is to have the head of the parliamentary government taking that action? That would be the Premier of New South Wales (the leader of the ruling party in each Australian state is called the Premier, or Chief Minister in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory). Premiers are the equivalent of state governors in the US.
Australia's states do each have a Governor, but that's the Crown's representative and Governors' responsibilities are largely ceremonial. Likewise the Commonwealth of Australia has a Governor General, again largely ceremonial (although in at least one infamous case the Governor General did dismiss the government of the day, ousting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975 and sparking a constitutional crisis).
I can't imagine a scenario where the state police and local federal police would take orders from a state governor and not from the democratically elected state government.