New South Wales Police

The New South Wales Police (also NSW Police or NSWPOL) is the primary law enforcement agency in the State of New South Wales, Australia. It has existed in various forms since the foundation of the colony of New South Wales at Sydney in 1788, when Governor Captain Arthur Phillip authorised the formation of a nightwatch to protect the infant town against thieves and petty criminals after dark. Ironically enough, this first police force was formed out of the ranks of convicts who then dominated the penal colony (albeit relatively trustworthy and docile convicts).

The NSW Police in its current form was established in 1862. Its current Commissioner is Ken Moroney. The Cabinet Minister of the State Government responsible for the policing portfolio is John Watkins.

Like all other States of Australia, municipalities and shires in NSW have no or very limited law enforcement responsibilities. The Australian Federal Police is relatively unobtrusive and is not very visible in the day to day lives of New South Welsh residents. Therefore, state police forces—the NSW Police included—are much more powerful and ubiquitous than equivalent state or provincial police forces in other federal nations such as the United States or Canada, where the total law enforcement task is more evenly shared among three or four tiers of government.

This concentration of policing power in the NSW Police is thought to have led to the multi-generational and endemic levels of corruption, graft and vice that were revealed to the public in the 1990s at the Wood Royal Commission, a State-sponsored judicial inquiry into police corruption led by Justice James Wood of the New South Wales Supreme Court. This Royal Commission which lasted approximately two years uncovered many crimes and institutionalised corruption throughout the NSW Police Service (as it was then known), but also illuminated the existence of paedophilia and serious moral and criminal vices practiced or condoned by some officers. This unexpected discovery by the Royal Commission led to a widening of its terms of reference to include the investigation of paedophilia and sex crimes outside the Police Service.

The biggest impact of the Wood Royal Commission was the uprooting of many corrupt officers in the force (which, despite the almost daily revelations of depravity and criminality, consisted of only a small minority of the total Police Service) and the establishment of the Police Integrity Commission - an independent, permanent tribunal with some judicial powers that now stands as a permanent watchdog over police corruption, but is not part of the NSW Police (unlike the old Internal Affairs Bureau).

The NSW Police currently consists of 14000 officers, with a growing percentage being female and/or of an ethnic minority; all are issued with firearms as a matter of routine. Current policing policy favours community liaison over confrontation, however, much social tension still unfortunately exists between marginalized groups such as Aborigines, Middle Easterners and low-income groups on one hand, and the NSW Police on the other.

The NSW Police motto is Culpam Poena Premit Comes: "Punishment Follows Guilt Swiftly". Its coat of arms features the state badge of New South Wales, a soaring eagle carrying a scroll with the word Nemesis, a wreath and the Crown of the British monarch.

Contents

1 Commissioners 2 Timeline 3 Deaths in the line of duty 4 External links

Commissioners

It should be noted that the term Inspector General was used until 1930.

• William Spain: 1851
• Captain William Mayne 1852–1856
• Captain John McLerie 1856–1874
• Edmund Walcott Fosberry 1874–1904
• Thomas Garvin 1904–1910
• Ernest Charles Day 1911–1915
• James Mitchell 1915–1930
• Walter Henry Childs 1930–1935
• William John McKay 1935–1948
• James Frederick Scott 1948–1952
• Colin John Dalaney 1952–1962
• Norman Thomas Allan 1962–1972
• Frederick John Hanson 1972–1976
• Mervyn Thomas Wood 1977–1979
• James Travers Lees 1979–1981
• Cecil Roy Abbott 1981–1984
• John Keith Avery 1984–1991
• Anthony Raymond Lauer (Tony Lauer) 1991–1996
• Peter James Ryan 1996–2002
• Kenneth Edward Moroney (Ken Moroney) 2002–

Timeline

• 1862– Existing forces are amalgamated into the New South Wales Police Force headed by Inspector-General John McLerie under the Police Regulation Act 1862. Sub-districts, each led by Inspectors, are created across the State. Issuing of .36 calibre Colt Navy revolvers begins. Prior to this, police had use of various ineffective single-shot weapons.
• 1871– Police have their wages reduced by sixpence per day. Many leave the Force as a result.
• 1872– 70 new Police Stations established since 1862, with a total of 803 men in the force. Police begin photographing prisoners.
• 1874– Edmund Fosberry becomes Inspector General of Police.
• 1890– The Bertillon system of criminal identification is published by Alphonse Bertillon.
• 1891– Juan Vucetich of Buenos Aires establishes the world's first Fingerprint Registry.
• 1893– Police use bicycles in Sydney and some country areas.
• 1894– Sydney Police are issued with firearms for general use.
• 1900– E.R. Henry refines Vucetich's system of fingerprint identification by dividing print patterns.
• 1903– The Police Fingerprint Branch is established.
• 1911– Ernest Charles Day is appointed Inspector General of Police.
• 1913– Telephones are being introduced into country Police Stations, vastly improving communications.
• 1915– James Mitchell is appointed Inspector General of Police. The Police Prosecuting Branch is established. The first Police patrol car is brought into use in the state. Lillian Armfield and Maude Rhodes are appointed as the first Policewomen in the state.
• 1916– Significant uniform changes occur and a new style of cap and tunic is introduced. Police motor cycles are introduced.
• 1921– The New South Wales Police Association is formed.
• 1924– New South Wales Police begin using wireless telegraphy.
• 1925– The Public Safety Bureau (traffic unit) is established.
• 1927– The Drug Squad and the Police Motor Vehicle Branch are established.
• 1929– The Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and the Consorting Branch are both established.
• 1930– Walter Henry Childs becomes Commissioner of Police. The Missing Friends Bureau is formed (renamed the Missing Persons Bureau in 1974). The Bogus Agents & Company Squad is formed (renamed the Fraud Squad in 1961). The Modus Operandi Unit and Police Motor Squad are formed.
• 1934– The first New South Wales Police Wireless Room is established.
• 1935– William John McKay becomes Police Commissioner.
• 1937– The Police Radio Telephone System is established.
• 1938– The Police Scientific Investigation Branch is established.
• 1941– The Police Prosecuting Branch is formalised and expanded. The Central Fingerprint Bureau of Australia is established.
• 1942– The Police Cliff Rescue Squad is established.
• 1946– New South Wales Police have further uniform changes. Open-necked tunics with ties are introduced. The Police Aviation Section is established.
• 1947– The School Lecturing Section is formed.
• 1948– James Frederick Scott becomes Commissioner of Police.
• 1950– The Police Aviation Section is disbanded. It re-emerged as the Police Air Wing in 1979.
• 1952– Colin John Delaney becomes Commissioner of Police.
• 1953– The Police Flood Rescue Squad is established.
• 1958– The New South Wales Police Driver Training School at St Ives is opened.
• 1961– The New South Wales Police have more uniform changes. Tunics become optional dress in summer. There would be no more uniform changes until 1972. There are now 5717 men and women in the New South Wales Police Force, with 1700 serving in country areas.
• 1962– The year of the Centenary of the New South Wales Police Force. There are 507 Police Stations in New South Wales. Norman Thomas Allan becomes Commissioner of Police.

Deaths in the line of duty

• Constable Joseph Luker 26 August 1803
• Constable Joseph Haynes 31 January 1804
• Constable William Cosgrove 1 April 1819
• Inspector Peter Prosser 1839
• Constable John McGuire July 1841
• Constable John Connell 23 November 1841
• Corporal Stephen Kirk 12 November 1845
• Sergeant Jipp 1853
• Trooper Robert Codrington 22 December 1857
• Constable William Haviland 16 June 1862
• Senior Constable John Foy 23 February 1863
• Constable Jeremiah O'Horrigan 25 February 1863
• Constable Thomas Cavanagh 2 March 1863
• Constable Michael Farralley 13 July 1863
• Constable Michael Quinlivan 3 September 1863
• Constable Henry Rucker 19 October 1863
• Sergeant Robert Robinson 22 January 1864
• Constable Michael Kinsella 8 April 1864
• Senior Constable James Johnston 8 May 1864
• Sergeant David Maginnity 24 June 1864
• Senior Sergeant Thomas Smyth 29 September 1864
• Constable James Moffatt 8 October 1864
• Sergeant Edmund Parry 16 November 1864
• Superintendent John Aitcheson McLerie 25 November 1864
• Constable Samuel Nelson 26 January 1865
• Senior Constable John Ward 3 February 1865
• Inspector Sir Frederick William Pottinger 9 April 1865
• Senior Constable John Herbert 13 April 1865
• Sergeant John Walsh 29 March 1865
• Constable Miles O'Grady 9 April 1866
• Constable William Raymond 14 April 1866
• Special Constable John Carroll 9 January 1867
• Special Constable Patrick Kennagh 9 January 1867
• Special Constable Eneas McDonnell 9 January 1867
• Special Constable John Phegan 9 January 1867
• Constable William Effe 24 January 1867
• Trooper Thomas Madden 30 April 1867
• Constable Hugh Campbell 7 April 1868
• Senior Constable John McCabe 1 November 1868
• Constable Thomas Byrne 8 May 1869
• Senior Sergeant Andrew Therland 1 May 1872
• Constable John Vance Blain 20 June 1877
• Constable George Robert Armytage 11 September 1877
• Constable Michael Costigan 11 September 1877
• Senior Sergeant Thomas Wallings 20 September 1878
• Senior Constable Edward Mostyn Webb-Bowen 23 November 1879
• Constable 1st Class John Mitchell 12 March 1885
• Constable 1st Class William Hird 13 August 1885
• Constable David Sutherland 3 June 1889
• Sergeant James Beatty 11 January 1890
• Senior Constable Henry Murrow 4 October 1897
• Senior Constable James Gibson Murdoch 25 December 1900
• Inspector James Bremner 2 January 1901
• Constable Denis Guilfoyle 19 July 1902
• Constable Samuel William Long 19 January 1903
• Constable 1st Class William Justin 8 March 1905
• Constable 1st Class John James Wallace 11 February 1906
• Probationary Constable William Cochrane Adie 11 October 1908
• Senior Constable Thomas Smith 19 April 1910
• Sergeant 2nd Class James MacDonnell 26 December 1911
• Sergeant 2nd Class Edwin Stuart Hickey 2 May 1913
• Sergeant 1st Class William Bowen 2 March 1916
• Constable George Joseph Duncan 26 September 1916
• Sergeant 2nd Class Ramsay Dobbie 11 December 1917
• Detective Sergeant 2nd Class William Robertson 19 October 1918
• Constable 1st Class Joseph John Hush 6 November 1919
• Constable 1st Class Frederick William Mitchell 17 December 1920
• Constable Frederick William Wolgast 21 January 1921
• Constable Frank McGrath 1 January 1923
• Constable James Phillip Flynn 9 March 1924
• Sergeant 2nd Class Edgar John Williams 28 August 1926
• Constable Owen Edwin Bell 27 February 1927
• Constable Laurence Alpen 17 February 1928
• Constable Norman Thomas Allen 3 January 1931
• Constable Ernest Andrews 3 January 1931
• Sergeant 3rd Class George Thomas Whiteley 25 March 1931
• Sergeant 3rd Class Patrick William Matthew Carmody 19 April 1931
• Constable Joseph McCunn 5 August 1932
• Constable Clifford James Bush 5 August 1932
• Constable 1st Class R. George Stephenson 9 April 1933
• Constable George Frederick Boore 2 April 1937
• Constable 1st Class Frederick James McLaughlan 3 December 1938
• Constable 1st Class Harold William Sturgiss 2 February 1939
• Constable Lionel George Guise 26 February 1939
• Constable Nicholas Glen Smith 28 February 1939
• Constable Alistar Royal Osgood 28 February 1939
• Detective Sergeant 3rd Class Cornelious Carroll 6 June 1939
• Detective Constable 1st Class John Edward Dunn 25 April 1940
• Constable William James Webb 3 June 1940
• Constable 1st Class Duncan Hughie McCallum Murphy 27 September 1940
• Constable Henry Stanley Lees 22 August 1941
• Constable 1st Class John Lindsay Marsh 9 November 1942
• Constable George William Matthews 31 July 1943
• Sergeant 3rd Class Eric George Bailey 12 January 1945
• Constable 1st Class Alfred George Henwood 23 June 1945
• Sergeant 1st Class Allan Bernard Eisenhuth 12 July 1945
• Sergeant 3rd Class Lawrence Benjamin Armitage Newell 13 September 1945
• Constable 1st Class Reginald Ambrose Williams 20 July 1946
• Detective Constable 1st Class Victor Donald Ahearn 11 August 1946
• Sergeant 3rd Class Noel Ainsworth McCarthy Porter 19 September 1946
• Constable Clement Kitchener Wharton Wallis Bloomfield 7 February 1947
• Constable 1st Class John Hawkes Malone 1 May 1947
• Constable Lawrence Ernest McNeil 25 October 1947
• Sergeant 3rd Class Edwin Oliver Pratt 19 October 1948
• Constable Allen Boyd Patch 5 February 1949
• Constable 1st Class Raymond Dillon Morley 25 June 1949
• Sergeant 1st Class William Roy Smith 1 September 1951
• Senior Constable Frank Alexander Mills 6 December 1951
• Constable Garnet Frederick Mortley 1 June 1953
• Constable Evan Clyde Williams 11 August 1953
• Constable Frederick George Martin 26 November 1953
• Constable Reginald Thomas Sutherland 20 May 1954
• Constable Cecil Edwin Sewell 2 June 1954
• Constable Edward Henry Dilks 21 October 1954
• Constable Bernard Alfred Orrock 26 February 1955
• Sergeant 2nd Class Cecil William James Ellis 29 April 1956
• Sergeant 3rd Class Allen William Nash 22 August 1956
• Detective Senior Constable Alexander Strachan 15 March 1957
• Constable 1st Class Trevor William Dodds 16 May 1957
• Senior Constable James Alfred Gregory 21 May 1957
• Constable 1st Class Kenneth Desmond Coussens 29 July 1957
• Constable Jack Harman 28 August 1957
• Constable 1st Class Neville Patrick Jury 15 September 1957
• Constable John Graham 23 April 1958
• Constable 1st Class Athol Joseph Johnson 26 April 1958
• Constable 1st Class Stanley Peter McInerney 24 May 1958
• Constable Brian James Boaden 14 November 1958
• Constable William John Lord 23 December 1958
• Constable James Thomas Clifton 31 July 1959
• Sergeant 2nd Class Raymond William McLean 11 September 1959
• Constable William Thomas Green 2 October 1960
• Senior Constable Clarence Roy Pirie 13 October 1960
• Constable Francis Lauren Burke 20 January 1961
• Constable Ronald Francis Sommerville 15 April 1961
• Constable 1st Class Douglas James Harries 2 September 1961
• Constable 1st Class Graham Ponter 14 October 1961
• Constable James George Kinnane 14 October 1961
• Constable Eric Peter Oliff 18 April 1962
• Constable Peter Hardacre 21 October 1962
• Constable David Colin Murray 5 June 1963
• Constable Colin Douglas Robb 7 September 1963
• Sergeant 3rd Class Cyril Edgar Howe 20 December 1963
• Constable Allan Shaw 11 May 1964
• Senior Constable Oswald Travase Watts 21 April 1965
• Sergeant 2nd Class William Smith McKie 8 July 1966
• Constable Peter George Mahon 5 October 1966
• Constable Colin John Hollingsworth 6 November 1966
• Probationary Constable Geoffrey Joseph Daley 27 December 1966
• Constable 1st Class Paul John Baines 23 March 1967
• Constable Colin Roy 12 May 1967
• Constable Edward Simpson Stephen 8 October 1967
• Sergeant 2nd Class Adam Boland Schell 8 October 1968
• Probationary Constable Warren Dennis Burns 30 October 1968
• Constable Raymond James Paff 19 March 1969
• Constable 1st Class Robert Vincent Turnbull 15 April 1969
• Constable David Bruce Reiher 21 December 1969
• Constable 1st Class Warren Melvin Hilliary Sargent 9 February 1970
• Sergeant 3rd Class Ronald Osborne McGowan 25 April 1970
• Detective Constable 1st Class Denis Robert Ware 2 October 1970
• Senior Constable William Edward King 13 August 1971
• Constable 1st Class Patrick Mark Hackett 29 August 1971
• Sergeant 1st Class William Watson Riley 30 September 1971
• Sergeant 3rd Class Maurice Raymond McDiarmid 30 September 1971
• Detective Sergeant 2nd Class John Joseph McEntee 27 February 1972
• Senior Constable Neville Charles Parker 12 November 1972
• Constable Joseph Edward Matthew Gibb 23 January 1973
• Constable Robert Wayne Thomson 24 March 1973
• Constable Clifford Henry Wadwell 15 April 1973
• Sergeant 2nd Class John Thomas Gill 12 May 1973
• Constable 1st Class Christopher Andrew McIntosh 22 September 1973
• Constable 1st Class Robert Thomas Dominish 16 February 1974
• Constable James Ralph Martin 24 May 1974
• Detective Sergeant 3rd Class Dallas Cyril Kemp 13 July 1974
• Constable Victor Edward Devine 14 August 1974
• Constable 1st Class Ian Donald Ward 12 November 1974
• Sergeant 3rd Class Robert Edward Lynch 22 March 1975
• Detective Sergeant 1st Class Stephen Gerard Powell 7 July 1975
• Constable Terry John Moncur 2 December 1976
• Senior Constable Douglas Ronald Eaton 30 April 1977
• Senior Constable Alan Wayne Thompson 3 May 1977
• Senior Constable Raymond James Scorer 3 May 1977
• Senior Constable Lindsay Vincent Gilfeather 15 October 1977
• Constable 1st Class Paul Burmistriw 22 February 1978
• Detective Sergeant 3rd Class John Henry Walton 23 June 1978
• Constable Gordon Peter Patrech 10 January 1979
• Sergeant 1st Class John Thomas Colbert 11 March 1979
• Detective Inspector Reginald Hugh Stevenson 19 January 1980
• Constable 1st Class Kevin John Coulson 2 February 1980
• Senior Constable Ronald James Burley 5 May 1980
• Sergeant 3rd Class Keith Alfred Haydon 24 November 1980
• Sergeant 3rd Class Lindsay William Spence 13 May 1981
• Constable 1st Class Mark Joseph Kohutek 4 March 1982
• Inspector Keith Allan Riley 4 June 1982
• Senior Constable John Benjamin Hutchins 17 November 1983
• Probationary Constable Wayne Dennis Lee 26 December 1983
• Sergeant 1st Class Rhoderic Francis Lindsay 20 February 1984
• Constable Pashalis Katsivelas 4 April 1984
• Constable 1st Class Wayne Allen Rixon 3 January 1985
• Detective Constable Steven John Tier 24 July 1985
• Sergeant 3rd Class Ralph Lloyd 12 September 1985
• Sergeant 3rd Class Paul Mitchell Quinn 30 March 1986
• Detective Sergeant 3rd Class Jillian Cupit Hawkes 22 April 1986
• Sergeant 3rd Class Harold James Evans 17 July 1986
• Sergeant 3rd Class Ross Francis Jennings 1 September 1986
• Senior Constable Warren Keith James 10 September 1986
• Constable Mark Ian Postma 23 February 1987
• Probationary Constable Dana Therese Heffernan 17 April 1987
• Sergeant 2nd Class Stewart Cook 7 May 1987
• Probationary Constable Andrew Thomas Dixon 3 June 1987
• Senior Constable Gregory John Earle 21 June 1987
• Probationary Constable Themelis Arthur Macarounas 20 October 1987
• Senior Constable Ronald Noel Roe 25 December 1987
• Constable 1st Class Craig Francis Zuchetti 16 March 1988
• Constable 1st Class Mark John Burns 16 March 1988
• Constable Kurt Brian Schetor 8 May 1988
• Constable 1st Class Peter William Carter 24 August 1988
• Constable Gregory Malcolm Ashworth 29 August 1988
• Constable Brett Clifford Sinclair 25 October 1988
• Probationary Constable Sharon Louise Wilson 30 November 1988
• Detective Senior Constable Risto Vic Baltoski 2 January 1989
• Constable 1st Class John Hedley Ward 17 March 1989
• Constable 1st Class Andrew James Murray 23 March 1989
• Constable John Irving Burgess 27 April 1989
• Constable Allan Wayne McQueen 5 May 1989
• Senior Constable Glenn Donald Rampling 13 June 1989
• Constable 1st Class Peter Allen Figtree 13 June 1989
• Sergeant Paul Anthony Kilkeary 29 October 1989
• Senior Constable Grant Charles Eastes 13 January 1990
• Sergeant Warren Patrick Hobson 11 March 1990
• Constable Kenneth John Short 11 July 1990
• Detective Constable 1st Class David Ian Oakley 14 August 1990
• Senior Constable Peter Tickle 17 December 1990
• Detective Sergeant Richard Charles Whittaker 28 September 1991
• Detective Constable 1st Class Bradley Bernard McNamara 31 October 1991
• Constable 1st Class Juan Carlos Hernandez 1 December 1992
• Constable Adam David Brook 30 April 1993
• Sergeant John Sidney Proops 22 May 1993
• Senior Constable Dallas Leonard Tidyman 15 August 1994
• Detective Senior Constable Jack Alexander Nugter 17 March 1995
• Senior Sergeant Wayne Raymond George 8 June 1995
• Senior Constable Peter John Addison 9 July 1995
• Senior Constable Robert Bruce Spears 9 July 1995
• Constable David Carty 18 April 1997
• Constable Peter Justin Forsyth 28 February 1998
• Senior Constable Ronald McGown 10 June 1998
• Sergeant Raymond Keith Smith 13 July 1998
• Constable Matthew Potter 7 January 2000
• Senior Constable Jim Affleck 14 January 2001
• Student Police Officer Robert Brotherson 1 February 2002
• Constable Glenn McEnallay 3 April 2002
• Senior Constable Christopher Thornton 13 April 2002
• Constable Kylie Smith 3 February 2003
• Detective Sergeant Mark Speechley 15 September 2003
• Constable Shelley Davis 19 June 2004
• Constable Graeme Lees 4 April 2005

External links

• NSW Police website (http://www.police.nsw.gov.au)
• www.policensw.com — Unofficial site with much information about the NSW Police