Peter Denise NOBLE
Peter Denise NOBLE
AKA Peter NOBLE, Pete NOBLE
* Nickname: NOBES
Late of Tweed Heads, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’:
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘:
Charles Frederick NOBLE, NSWPF # ?
Don NOBLE, NSWPF # ?
Graeme Reginald NOBLE, NSWPF # 8289 ?
Warren NOBLE, NSWPF # ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 132
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 7229
Regd. # 15472
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 31 July 1972 ( aged 27 years, 6 months, 16 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 11 September 1972 ( aged 27 years, 7 months, 27 days )
Constable – appointed 11 September 1973
Constable 1st Class – appointed 11 September 1977
Detective – appointed ? ? ?
Senior Constable – appointed 11 September 1981
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 31 December 1987
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Sergeant 2nd Class
Stations: ?, Tweed Heads Patrol, Murwillumbah Police Stn – Retirement
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 31 July 1972 to 9 July 1999 = 26 years, 11 months, 8 days Service
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 31 July 1972 to 9 July 1999 = 26 years, 11 months, 8 days Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 54 years, 5 months, 24 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 25 years, 5 months, 23 days
Awards: National Medal – granted 14 December 1988 ( Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 28 May 1999 ( Sgt )
Born: Monday 15 January 1945
Died on: Wednesday 1 January 2025
Age: 79 years, 11 months, 17 days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Thursday 9 January 2025 @ 11am
Funeral location: St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Francis St, Tweed Heads, NSW
There was No Formal police involvement at the funeral service.
LIVE STREAM ?
Wake location: ???
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ? Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( January 2025 )
PETER is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal
May they forever Rest In Peace
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustralianPolice.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NSWFallenPolice/
Australian Police YouTube Channel
Vale Peter Dennis NOBLE. My former workmate and friend.
The funeral today was well attended by former police and friends. It was emotional. I almost got through my eulogy with one paragraph to go when the bubbling of emotion told me to call it quits.
I would hope that Pete’s son, Simon Noble, saw how much his Dad was loved.
I was hounded by former workmates to tell this story, that story and more. Most story’s about this old sailor turned copper can’t be told in Church, even on FB 
.
However as ONE LAST tribute to Nobes, I promised to tell this one.
It was late at night and the switchboard at Tweed Heads Police Station was lit up like a Christmas tree with complaints, whinging and requests for urgent police assistance queuing up.
My mate Peter Nissen and I were busier than one-legged tap dancers as we raced from job to job in the paddy wagon trying our best to keep the Tweed Patrol safe.
One job we couldn’t get to was a ‘persons on premises’ job. Burglars.
It was at a factory across the border in Coolangatta in a dimly lit industrial zone. They had radioed for help as they couldn’t get there in time. Both Tweed and Coolangatta Police helped one another where we could. They were always good coppers and we all got on well.
Sgt Noble and another legend of Tweed Heads Police at the time by the name of Mal Towers, also a shift sergeant, jumped in the police car and raced off to solve the crime. Two sergeants doing a job? Unheard of .
They turned into the street which was eerily silent before creeping towards the shop under the cover of darkness and saw that the rear door had been kicked in and lights were flickering inside.
With guns drawn and now moving like Ninja warriors, they crept into the darkness of the shop. Sgt Towers signalled he was going right, by yelling out “I’m going to the right” and Sgt Noble crept, step by step, to the left into the bowels of the premises, “OK I’ll go the other way then” he bellowed back.
The tension was palpable.
Within minutes Sgt Towers heard an explosion of smashing furniture, swearing, punches thrown and grunts as a violent fight ensued in the direction of Sergeant “I’ll go the other way” Noble.
Sgt Towers with gun out, baton out and tongue out, was now eager to arrest these villains and rushed headlong towards the melee before lighting up the crime scene with his torch.
The only ‘crime scene’ to witness was Sergeant Peter ‘Nobes’ Noble fighting with two store mannequins dressed in lingerie. Well, it was dark and he did win by a knockout.
Rest in Peace Sergeant Peter Dennis Noble, your tour of duty is now complete.
* Story behind any Nickname:
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
**********
Cal
15 January 2025
