Graham Gerald BISHOP
Graham Gerald BISHOP
AKA Graham BISHOP, BISHO, BISH
* Nickname: Gomer
Late of Tweed Heads, NSW
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NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 110
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 1183
Regd. # 12551
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 20 February 1967 ( aged 24 years, 8 months, 8 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 3 April 1967 ( aged 24 years, 9 months, 22 days )
Constable – appointed 3 May 1968
Constable 1st Class – appointed 3 May 1972
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Senior Constable – appointed 3 May 1976
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 21 July 1984
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Sergeant
Stations: North District ( 1968 ), ?, Armidale (GDs )( HWP ), ?, Goulburn HWP – Retirement
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From Monday 20 February 1967 to 21 June 1989 = 22 years, 4 months, 1 days Service
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From Monday 20 February 1967 to 21 June 1989 = 22 years, 4 months, 1 days Service
Time in Retirement from Police: 36 years, 2 months, 6 days
Age at Retirement / Leaving: = 47 years, 0 months, 9 days
Awards: National Medal – granted 22 April 1983 ( SenCon )
Born: Friday 12 June 1942 in Canungra, Qld
Died on: Wednesday 27 August 2025
Age: 83 years, 2 months, 15 days
Organ Donor: No – Age restrictive
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Funeral date: Monday 8 September 2025 ( Held – private funeral with immediate family only )
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Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( September 2025 )
GRAHAM is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Friday 18 March 1977, page 10
Policeman gets compensation
SYDNEY, Thursday. — A police officer who still has fragments of a thief’s bullet in his body, was awarded $4,000 compensation today in Central Criminal Court.
Mr Justice Slattery awarded Senior Constable Graham Gerald Bishop, 35, of Ashfield, the maximum compensation under Section 437 of the Crimes Act.
Constable Bishop was shot at Narrandera in January, 1976, in an attempt to arrest an escaper, Mr Mark Robert Evans, 17.
The .22 rifle bullet struck Constable Bishop in the back of his left shoulder, chipping the shoulder-blade and fragmenting.
Mr Evans later pleaded guilty to five charges, including one of maliciously wounding Constable Bishop with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and last November was sentenced to seven years’ jail for that offence.
Mr Justice Slattery read reports from four doctors which said it was likely Constable Bishop‘s future ” would be associated with increasing pain “.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110729162
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Cal
19 September 2025