Kevin Michael LAWLER
Kevin Michael LAWLER
Late of ?
New South Wales Police Cadet # 0397
Penrith Police Training Centre – Class ??
New South Wales Police Force
[alert_yellow]Regd. # 5511[/alert_yellow]
Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced 1 March 1943
Probationary Constable – appointed 17 March 1947
Constable – appointed 17 March 1948
Constable 1st Class – appointed 17 March 1954
Senior Constable – appointed 17 March 1959
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 27 June 1962
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 13 August 1968
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 30 November 1973
Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 30 September 1977
Inspector – appointed 14 April 1978
Senior Inspector – appointed 1 August 1981
Superintendent – appointed 31 March 1983
Kev took Optional Retirement as of – 11 July 1985
Stations: As a Cadet, Kev was stationed at: # 3 Division- Darlinghurst from 1 March 1943
Traffic Office from 15 September 1943
# 20 Division from 8 May 1944 on the switch ( this could have been HQ )
Redfern – # 7 Division from 1 February 1945
‘possibly’ Daceyville – # 15 Division from the 16 October 1945 in the Plain Cloths Room
Darlinghurst – # 3 Division from 20 November 1945 in the Vice Squad Room
# 20 Division from 11 June 1946 in the Commissioner’s Correspondence Branch
# 5 Division – ‘possibly’ Newtown from 9 December 1946
As a Sworn member: Redfern Depot ( Academy ) from 17 March 1947 ( Trainee )
# 3 Division – Darlinghurst from 31 March 1947 – on General Duties
Riverina District – Cargelligo ( “A” Class ‘possibly’ plain clothes ) – General Duties
# 3 Division – Darlinghurst from 5 December 1949 as Reserve Constable
C. I. Branch from 27 August 1951 in the M.O. ( Modus Operandi ) section
Scientific Technical & Other Services from 31 January 1973
S.T.O.S.G. from 17 February 1974 – M.O. section as O.I.C. ( Officer in Charge )
To perform two months supernumerary general duty at # 34 Division ( Fairfield ) from 3 June 1974 to 2 August 1974
To perform two months supernumerary general duty at # 18 Division ( Parramatta ) from 1 August 1976 to 25 September 1976
# 34 Division – Fairfield from 23 January 1977 on General Duties
# 8 Division – Balmain – from 25 September 1977 as Assistant Officer
# 22 Division – Liverpool – from 12 March 1978 as Assistant Officer
Technical Support Branch from 31 August 1980 as Information Officer
# 22 Division from 9 May 1982 as OIC of Division
Wollongong from 11 February 1983 as Assistant Superintendent
Service: From 1 March 1943 to 11 July 1985 = 42+ years Service
As a Cadet – Kevin passed the ‘Outfit Cycles’ course on 19 May 1943 and, it appears, again on 18 October 1948. He was ‘authorised’ to driver General Duty Cars on the 6 October 1977 ( as a Sgt 1/c it would seem ). During a class test on the 1 October 1948, he could do 110 words per minute in Shorthand.
As a Policeman – Kevin successfully completed course of training in the “Identi-Kit” system.
Completed the 1969 Course in Criminology
Attended Disaster Commanders Course # 2 from 20 to 24 November 1978
Attended Course # 803 – Disaster Control at the Aust. Counter Disaster College, Mt. Macedon, Victoria.
Awards: On the 13 May 1971 he was awarded the Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal
National Medal – granted 29 June 1984
Born: 10 May 1926 in Moss Vale
Died on: Sunday 18 March 2018 at noon
Age: 91
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ?TBA
Funeral location: ?TBA
Funeral Parlour:
Buried at: ?TBA
Memorial located at: ?
[alert_yellow]KEVIN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow] *NEED MORE INFO
Funeral location: TBA
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May they forever Rest In Peace
Middle row: Dennis Toohey, Kevin Lawler, Frank Parkes, Dick Lascelles, John Eisenhuth, Bob Smith, Ron Bunt
Front row: Jim Pyne, Jock O’Keefe, Fred Aldred, Charlie Crittle, Joe Hall, John Wilson, Ken Donald
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), Saturday 28 April 1984, page 9
New search for girl’s body
WOLLONGONG: Police are planning a new search for the body of five year old Renee Aitkin who vanished 10 weeks ago from her home in Narooma.
Renee disappeared during the night from the bedroom she shared with her brother, Bradley, 8.
Superintendent Kevin Lawler, of Wollongong, said yesterday it would be at least three weeks before the police needed for this fourth search would be available.
“We’ve got too many on leave at the moment to raise the numbers, and there’ll be more sitting for exams during the May holidays,” he said.
Early this month Chief Inspector Bob Snape, of Wollongong, said research in Victoria had led them to conclude that Renee had been murdered and that her body was somewhere around Narooma.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/125006746
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001), Friday 11 March 1949 (No.37), page 677
The 18th day of February, 1949.
BY virtue of the authority vested in me by the District Courts Act, 1912, I hereby appoint Constable Kevin Michael Lawler to act as Bailiff at Lake Cargelligo of the District Court holden at Wyalong during the absence of Sergeant Richard John Law.
(6213) F. W. BERNE, Judge.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224787803