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Commissioner Of Police (New Zealand)
The Commissioner of Police is the head of the New Zealand Police and the position is currently held by Richard Chambers. The Commissioner is appointed for a term not exceeding five years by the Governor-General, and reports to the Minister of Police. The position combines two functions, that of chief constable in charge of policing and cases, and chief executive responsible for assets and budgeting. The rank insignia is a sword and a rectangular cylinder crossed over each other with a single crown above. In military terms, the rank is equivalent to Lieutenant General. History The Police Force Act 1886 split the police from the earlier body known as the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, which had performed both civil policing functions as well as being the standing army and militia, on 1 September 1886. Sir George Whitmore was appointed as the first commissioner, reporting to the Minister of Defence. Early commissioners came from the United Kingdom with military or law enforcemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chambers (police Officer)
Richard Chambers is the Commissioner of Police (New Zealand), Commissioner of Police of New Zealand. He succeeded Andrew Coster on 25 November 2024. Early life As a child, Richard Chambers had ambitions of joining the Police and owned a Police imitation helmet at the age of five. He is the son of Auckland barrister Roger Chambers. Career Chambers joined the New Zealand Police in 1996 working as a constable based at Avondale, Auckland, Avondale Police station. He was quickly promoted through various ranks including that of detective and inspector. In 1998, Chambers joined the Criminal Investigation Branch and later became a detective. In 2005, Chambers was promoted to Inspector at the National Police Headquarters in Wellington. In 2007, he was appointed to a senior role as Area Commander for Lower Hutt and continued with other top roles in the Tasman District, Tasman and Southern districts before a stint in Auckland City. In 2016, Chambers was promoted to the position of Assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Service Commission (New Zealand)
The Public Service Commission (PSC; ), called the State Services Commission until 2020, is the central public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing, and improving the performance of the state sector of New Zealand and its organisations. The PSC's official responsibilities, as defined by the State Sector Act 1988, include: * appointing and reviewing Public Service chief executives, * promoting and developing senior leadership and management capability for the Public Service, * providing advice on the training and career development of staff in the Public Service, * reviewing the performance of each department, * providing advice on the allocation of functions to and between departments and other agencies, * providing advice on management systems, structures, and organisations in the Public Service and Crown entities, * promoting, developing, and monitoring equal employment opportunities policies and programmes, and * any other functions with respe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wright (police Officer)
Arthur Hobbins Wright (8 April 1861 – 26 January 1938) was a New Zealand policeman and police commissioner. He was born in South Hamlet, Gloucestershire, England in 1861. He was Commissioner of Police from 1 January 1922 until his retirement on 31 January 1926. He died after a short illness in Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ... on 26 January 1938. References 1861 births 1938 deaths New Zealand police officers British emigrants to New Zealand People from Gloucester {{NewZealand-gov-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Donovan (police Commissioner)
John O'Donovan (22 May 1858 – 8 April 1927) was a New Zealand police commissioner. He was born in Ross Carbery, County Cork, Ireland, in 1858. He came to New Zealand in 1878 to join his brother Richard, who had represented Okarito on the Westland County Council (1872–1873) and on the Westland Provincial Council (1874–1876). In the 1920 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours, O'Donovan was appointed a Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order The Royal Victorian Order () is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the monarch, members of the royal family, or to any viceroy or senior representative of the m ..., and in the 1922 King's Birthday Honours, he was made a Companion of the Imperial Service Order. References 1858 births 1927 deaths New Zealand Commissioners of Police Police officers from County Cork Irish emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand Lieutenants o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Donovan
John O'Donovan may refer to: *John O'Donovan (scholar) (1806–1861), Irish language scholar and place-name expert *John O'Donovan (politician) (1908–1982), Irish TD and Senator *John O'Donovan (police commissioner) (1858–1927), New Zealand police commissioner * John O'Donovan (Gaelic footballer) (1889–1920), Irish footballer *John O'Donovan, guitarist with The Adolescents The Adolescents are an American punk rock band formed in Fullerton, California in 1979. Part of the hardcore punk movement in southern California in the early 1980s, they were one of the main punk acts to emerge from Orange County, along with ... punk band See also * John Donovan (other) {{hndis, Odonovan, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey River Argus
The ''Grey River Argus'' was a New Zealand newspaper which was published between 1865 and 1966. The paper served the West Coast Region, focussing mainly on the area around the town of Greymouth. Its chief rival was the '' Greymouth Star''. Founding and early years The ''Argus'' was founded in later 1865 by James Kerr, who had previously worked on newspapers in Australia and for the ''Otago Daily Times''. A friend of Premier Richard John Seddon, Kerr remained the owner of the paper until his death in 1901. Kerr's son James became manager of the paper after his father's death. The paper was originally published three times a week, changing to a daily in 1871. Notable early editors included William Henry Harrison (from 1868 to 1879) and Florence Romuald McCarthy (from 1880 to 1914). Labour connections The newspaper was a rarity in New Zealand in that it openly declared its left-wing affiliation. The West Coast was a leader in the founding of the labour movement in New Zealand, fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cullen (police Officer)
John Cullen KPM (28 March 1850 – 26 October 1939) was a New Zealand police officer and commissioner. He was born in Glenfarne, County Leitrim, Ireland. John Cullen was the first warden of Tongariro National Park and in 1912, he introduced heather to the park to provide cover for game birds such as grouse, which had been introduced for recreational hunting. The introduction of game birds was an attempt to attract more visitors to the park, however the grouse could not live in the climate of the area. The heather, on the other hand, thrived and is now considered a pest, with conservationists The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the ... trying to eradicate it. References 1850 births 1939 deaths New Zealand Companions of the Imperial Service Order New Zea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Waldegrave
Frank, FRANK, or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a Germanic people in late Roman times * Franks, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Aargau frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Dinnie
Walter Dinnie (26 December 1850 – 7 May 1923) was a British and New Zealand police officer, private detective and land board chairman. Life Brother of the strongman Donald Dinnie,''Dundee Evening Telegraph'', 6 April 1903, page 4 he was born in Aboyne to Robert and Celia Dinnie (nee Hay). His father worked as a contractor but also as a poet and local historian in his spare time. After Aberdeen Grammar School and time as a bank clerk, in 1873 he became a clerk for the West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary before three years later becoming an officer in the Metropolitan Police in London. In the latter he moved from clerical to detective work, specialising in forgeries and fraud, such as extraditing Charles Wells in late 1892 and the 'Harry the Valet' case of 1898, the latter alongside Frank Froest and Walter Dew. After retirement from that he was appointed Police Commissioner of New Zealand. In 1901 he collaborated with Edward Henry to set up the Met's Fingerprint Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago Witness
The ''Otago Witness'' was a prominent illustrated weekly newspaper in the early years of the European settlement of New Zealand, produced in Dunedin, the provincial capital of Otago. Published weekly, it existed from 1851 to 1932. The introduction of the ''Otago Daily Times'', followed by other daily newspapers in its circulation area, led it to focus on serving a rural readership in the lower South Island, where poor road access prevented newspapers being delivered daily. It also provided an outlet for local fiction writers. It is notable as the first newspaper to use illustrations and photographs and was the first New Zealand newspaper to provide a correspondence column for children, which was known as "Dot's Little Folk". Together with the Auckland-based ''Weekly News'' and the Wellington-based ''New Zealand Free Lance'' it was one of the most significant illustrated weekly New Zealand newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. History Background Nine months after the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bennett Tunbridge
John Bennett Tunbridge (17 November 1850 – 6 October 1928) was a notable British police officer who became the fourth Commissioner of Police for New Zealand. He also served in New Zealand as a local body politician. He was born in New Romney, Kent, England, in 1850. He initially served in the Metropolitan Police in London in 1867-1868 and 1869-1895, rising to Chief Inspector in that force's central CID and frequently pursuing cases around the British Empire and Dominions. While New Zealand premier Richard Seddon was in London for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria was officially celebrated on 22 June 1897 to mark the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession on 20 June 1837. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch ever to celebrate a Diamond ..., Tunbridge was recommended to him by Met Commissioner Sir Edward Bradford to head the New Zealand Police, the first professional police officer to do so ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hume
Arthur Hume (1838 – 2 February 1918) was an Irish-born British military officer and New Zealand civil servant. He served in the Cameron Highlanders in India. After serving briefly in Millbank, Dartmoor, Portland and Wormwood Scrubs prisons, he was appointed the first New Zealand Inspector-General of prisons starting in 1880 and was later simultaneously Commissioner of Police A police commissioner is the head of a police department, responsible for overseeing its operations and ensuring the effective enforcement of laws and maintenance of public order. They develop and implement policies, manage budgets, and coordinate .... From June 1888 Hume was inspector of volunteers in the New Zealand Militia. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hume, Arthur British prison officials Military personnel from Dublin (city) Irish emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand public servants 1830s births 1918 deaths Year of birth uncertain Place of birth missing category:Queen's Own Cameron Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
