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Police Commissioners Of New South Wales

NumberNameRegistered #TitleTerm StartTerm EndTime in Office
1SPAIN, WilliamNilInspector General of Police1 January 185131 December 1851 ( Resigned )364 days
2MAYNE, Captain William ColbourneNilInspector General of Police1 January 185217 September 18564 years, 260 days
3McLERIE, Captain JohnNilInspector General of Police28 October 18566 October 1874 ( Death ) 17 years, 343 days
4FOSBERY, Edmund WalcottNilInspector General of Police7 October 187430 June 190429 years, 267 days
5GARVIN, Thomas'Q' 1012Inspector General of Police1 July 190431 December 19106 years, 183 days
6DAY, Ernest Charles'Q' 4473Inspector General of Police1 January 19119 January 19154 years, 8 days
7MITCHELL, James'Q' 4795Inspector General of Police1 January 19158 January 192615 years, 78 days
7AMITCHELL, JamesCommissioner of Police9 January 192620 March 1930
8CHILDS, Walter Henry'Q' 6328Commissioner of Police21 March 193023 March 19355 years, 2 days
9MacKAY, William John'Q' 9113Commissioner of Police24 March 193522 January 194812 years, 304 days
10SCOTT, James Frederick'Q' 9264Commissioner of Police18 February 194813 October 19524 years, 238 days
11DELANEY, Colin John00574Commissioner of Police14 October 195227 February 19629 years, 136 days
12ALLAN, Norman Thomas William03333Commissioner of Police28 February 196214 November 197210 years, 260 days
13HANSON, Frederick John03958Commissioner of Police15 November 197231 December 19764 years, 46 days
14WOOD, Mervyn Thomas04169Commissioner of Police1 January 19775 June 19792 years, 155 days
15LEES, James Travers04529Commissioner of Police17 October 197929 December 19812 years, 73 days
16ABBOTT, Cecil Roy04668Commissioner of Police30 December 19817 August 19842 years, 221 days
17AVERY, John Keith06028Commissioner of Police7 August 198412 March 19916 years, 217 days
18LAUER, Anthony Raymond08019Commissioner of Police31 March 199119 September 19965 years, 190 days
18ATAYLOR, Neil Owen ( Acting ) 09204Acting Commissioner of Police20 February 199629 August 1996191 days
19RYAN, PeterNil. Appointed from England ConstabularyCommissioner of Police30 August 199617 April 20025 years, 230 days
20MORONEY, Kenneth Edward14414Commissioner of Police18 April 200231 August 20075 years, 135 days
21SCIPIONE, Andrew Phillip19214Commissioner of Police31 August 200731 March 20179 years, 212 days
22FULLER, Michael John24552Commissioner of Police31 March 201731 January 20224 years, 306 days
23WEBB, Karen23998Commissioner of Police1 February 20226 June 20253 years, 125 days
23ATHURTELL, Peter ( Acting )22192Acting Commissioner of Police9 June 202530 September 2025113 days
24LANYON, Mal23420Commissioner of Police1 October 2025

4 thoughts on “Police Commissioners of NSW

  • Celeste Olssen

    Dear Ms Webb

    I write this email on behalf of a little old lady named Mrs Clare NOWLAND–I do not know her but I’m writing to support her and her family–the news of what was done to her is quite familiar to you I’m sure. I write and send this huge outraged protest to you as the Chief Commissioner of the NSW police, to register my absolute horror at the assault on her by members of the NSW police at Cooma with a taser.
    When one thinks that the world and the society cannot get any worse, one hears something like this!!!! AND that it has been perpetrated by law enforcement people who are supposed to PROTECT the community which I am sure includes PROACTIVE responses by the way??). This lady was 43 kilograms and 95 years of age!!!!!!!! Does police training these days consist of such a weak pathetic standard, that it cannot even deal with a little person of this age who I’m sure it will be revealed, was disoriented obviously as a result of her dementia??!!
    I write on behalf of her beautiful family, and the dear little lady herself who has had an exemplary life on this earth for most of her time upon it. God help us if this is ‘policing’ in the future where an incompetent nursing home rings the police to ‘rescue them from a tiny little lady with a knife’ –a 95 year old fragile, 43 kg frightened little person who just needed to be dealt with in a much more intelligent basic way, than TASERING!!!!!!!! This is one of the most appalling stories for 2023 so far I have to say. I hope the family claim and receive compensation from every quarter as a result of this disgraceful unnecessary brutal assault.

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    • Celeste, I invite you to join the NSW Police, or any other Policing Forces of Australia and even to become a Nursing Practitioner in order that this sort of outrage simply doesn’t happen again.

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  • Andrew Morriss

    Tasering a 95 year old woman is the bottom of the barrel. I think that the problem stems from the top. Its not an issue of training its a mental illness that would give an officer the idea to taser a 95 year old regardless of what she had as a weapon. The ego of some of these officers is rediculous. Its us against them if this officer isn’t removed from the force and charged with gbh or assualt at least. Already the NSW police are covering up as we speak as Cotter has closed ranks. If you can’t take a knife off a 95 year old lady then you should be in other work. What is the name of the scumbag who did it?

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    • Step up Andrew,
      NSW Police are always seeking highly trained and professional people.
      This could be your opportunity to walk in the shoes of policing.

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