Tony William Negus is an Australian diplomat and retired police officer who was the Commissioner of the

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(AFP), being sworn in on 7 September 2009 for a five-year term. He was the sixth Commissioner of the AFP and the second appointed from within the AFP. On 1 December 2014, he was appointed Australian High Commissioner to Canada, effective on 15 January 2015.

Education

Negus holds a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration, and a Graduate Diploma in Executive Leadership. At

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he has completed the Executive Leadership Program.

Career

Negus started his law enforcement career in traffic operations in

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in 1982, and later as a

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in the

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. He worked in community policing, federal investigations, human resources, and protection as well as in national operations in Brisbane, Sydney, and Canberra. In June 2005, Negus was awarded the

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(APM).Australian Police Medal
13 June 2005; accessed 18 January 2015. One year later, in July 2006, Negus was appointed National Manager of Human Resources, with responsibility for learning and development, professional standards, and people strategies. Before he was appointed as Commissioner of the AFP he had been Deputy Commissioner Operations since October 2007, where he had responsibility for border operations, economic and special operations, forensics and data centres, high technology crime operations, internal liaison networks, and international deployments. He stepped down from his role as Commissioner at the end of his term in September 2014 and was replaced by his former deputy Andrew Colvin.

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External links

AFP Police Commissioner official website
accessed 18 January 2015
Profile
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