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LONG RECORD OF SERVICE

6 SIR. JOHN CULLEN'S RETIREMENT. Mr. John Cullen, Commissioner of Police, retired from that position as from yesterday, and his successor, Mr. John CDonovan, will take up duties of that office to-day. v Mr. Cullen has had'-17 years of polico service. As a youth-of IS he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1869, serving in that celebrated force until 187G, when he camo to New Zealand. On arrival ho joined the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, and later came into the ■New Zealand ordinary• police force. He took the rank of sergeant in 1878, and ho served on stations all over New Zealand—Blenheim, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch, Napier, and Wanganui— until he went to Auckland as inspector in 1899. He administered that big district with conspicuous success, aud iu 1912, when the Minister controlling the police (the Hon. S. L. Herdman) decided to appoint a new Commissioner from the Now Zealand force—the first time such a thing had been done—he choso as his man Mr. John Cullen. He had not been long appointed when the TVaihi strike broke out, and when the police had' to use some force to restore, order in the town Mr. Cullen was there to take control of the force there assembled. Ho also had to organise/not long afterwards the police force to cope with the big watcrsiders' strike in 1913. These were two of the most difficult tasks any New Zealand Commissioner of Polico has ever had to perform. His last adventure was on the occasion. when he led the band of police into tho Hrewera Country, and liaptured Rua after armed resistance from his tribesmen. In his administrative capacity he has mado several very important changes in the force. The most obvious, but probably the least important, was the discarding of the oldshako head dress and the substitution of the helmets the men now weaT. He also altered the stylo of uniform, which has improved the appearance of the men. Most of his more valuable is not 60 readily apparent, but it has made for very much increased general efficiency in the force. Mr. Cullen has to retire under the rules of the service because he has passed the retiring age of GS years. But he is a man still ivho could easily pass for 15 years less than that, is erect and vigorous as most men of J5, is still fit for any duty, however strenuous, as a police officer, aud is physicallv and mentally fresh and active. Ho has had a very meritorious career in the force, and liaV been able to do much good 'for the men in blue and for tho public dependent on their protection wyhile he has been executive head of the Department. f .

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 6

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LONG RECORD OF SERVICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 6

LONG RECORD OF SERVICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 6

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