Commissioner Patrick Glynn salutes assembled officers at a medal ceremony held at Petrie Barracks, 1956.
Image No. PM2328h courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum.
In 1951 Queensland Cabinet approved the first Deputy Commissioner position for police. Chief Inspector Patrick Glynn was appointed to the position. Glynn had originally served in the Royal Irish Constabulary before joining Queensland’s Police Force in 1922. Consistently promoted for good work performance, and a keen ideas man, Patrick Glynn provided the following ideas as a young Detective in 1935;
Provide competent typists to type out particulars on modus operandi forms at the dictation of the respective members of the staff concerned. There are few, if any, competent typists on the staff of this office (apart from Cadets), consequently the average Detective would be able to dictate much quicker than he can type. These remarks would also apply to the typing of reports, unless those of a confidential nature.
I do not regard the present building occupied by the Detective Staff as suitable for the purpose. Whilst there are several rooms provided for suspects, interviews etc., there is no privacy in any of them, in that they are only partitioned off, one from another. This gives rise to this position: A Detective may be typing out an important statement from a highly respectable citizen, say, a respectable and sensitive female in one of the rooms. A suspect is placed in one of the other rooms and he forthwith gives voluble expression to his feelings in language more forcible than polite…..
With service in the Crime Investigation Branch, and eventual promotion to the rank of Sub Inspector in 1939, Patrick Glynn oversaw the creation of a Detective College. Many Favourable Records were received and commendations from the Department of Justice for ‘ability, efficiency and impartiality’ and after more than thirty years’ service, Patrick Glynn was appointed Commissioner of Police in 1955.
Police Commissioner Patrick Glynn, on appointment in 1955.
Image No. PM2301 courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum.
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