Glass negative, quarter plate, portrait of NSW policeman A243, Tom Lennon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1932-1947

Thomas (Tom) Trembath Lennon (1908-1992), commercial and portrait photographer, 64 Victoria Road, Drummoyne, 1930s-1950s and Wagga, 1955-70s.

Lennon, Tom

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Profile of the NSW Police
The NSW Police Service:
* is Australias oldest and largest police organisation and one of the biggest in the English speaking world
* has 17,000 employees, including more than 13,300 police
* serves a population of seven million in the state of New South Wales, an 801,600 square kilometre area comparable in size to Texas in the USA and double the combined geographic areas of England, Scotland and Wales
* operates on land, sea and from the air
* provides community based policing from more than 500 police stations to a wide range of ethnic communities speaking more than 30 languages
* is a non profit statutory authority funded by the NSW Government at a net cost of almost $1.2 billion in 1997-98.
We aim to protect the community and property by
* preventing, detecting and investigating crime
* monitoring and promoting road safety
* maintaining social order
* performing and coordinating emergency and rescue operations.
Our other major services include
* traffic control
* communications
* intelligence analysis
* anti-terrorist negotiation
* security coordination for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Our history
* in August 1789, Governor Arthur Phillip established the first civilian police force in Australia
* the NSW Police was established by the Police Regulation Act 1862, which was replaced by the Police Regulation Act 1899.
* in June 1987, the NSW Police Force (operations) and the NSW Police Department (policy and administrative support) were amalgamated and formalised by the Police Service Act 1990, which, as amended, is the legislation governing our organisation.
Authority
The Commissioner of Police is the employer of all members of the Police Service under the Police Service Further Amendment Act 1996.
The Commissioner reports directly to the Minister for Police.
Source - http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/about/About.cfm

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94/63/1-14/1 Glass negative, quarter plate, portrait of NSW policeman A243, Tom Lennon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1932-1947

Negatives formed on photographic glass plates.

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Glass plate negative of NSW policeman photographed by Tom Lennon

Object No. 94/63/1-14/1

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