Graeme Dallow
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Graeme Augustine Dallow {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE}} (18 August 1930 – 20 January 2014The Dominion Post, 22 January 2014, p. B15.) was a senior member of the New Zealand Police, attaining the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police.
Early life and family
Dallow was born in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College, Grafton.St Peter's College Magazine 1960, p. 83.Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982, photograph No 6, pp. 36–37 He was the older brother of Ross Dallow and uncle of Simon and Matthew Dallow.
Career
Dallow joined the New Zealand Police in the late 1940s. He commenced duty as a constable in Police street patrols in Auckland and noticed how high the number of Māori offenders was and how much Police work was devoted to them.Susan Butterworth, p. 254. In 1969, Dallow, as Superintendent, was appointed as the Police representative on the joint committee of Government Officials and the New Zealand Māori Council to discuss the interaction of the Police and the Māori Wardens established under the Maori Welfare Act 1962. This resulted in increased cooperation between the bodies.Susan Butterworth, p. 242. In the 1970s, Dallow, as Chief Superintendent, was a member of the Police National Headquarters planning team for the 1973 Springbok tour (which in the end did not take place). He saw the possibility of utilising the training in crowd control for that tour to deal with increasing levels of street violence, especially in Auckland, which followed the extension of liquor-licensing laws from 1968. "Operation Cleanstreet" was set up to test these techniques.Susan Butterworth, pp. 161, 192 and 193. Following on from this, in 1974, Dallow was instrumental in setting up the Task Force to deal with street disorder among the large Māori and Pacific communities that had migrated to South Auckland.Susan Butterworth, p. 247. In 1977, Dallow was placed in charge of the new Public Affairs Directorate in Police National Headquarters.Susan Butterworth, p. 248. In 1981, Dallow, then Assistant Commissioner of Police and having responsibility for Police training and personnel, introduced martial arts into the training of the New Zealand Police. He was a martial arts practitioner himself.Susan Butterworth, p. 200. After his retirement, Dallow was a keen exponent of ballroom dancing, especially the Tango, and he taught dancing in Wellington.[http://www.dancetango.co.nz/about-us.php Wellington Tango School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219101512/http://www.dancetango.co.nz/about-us.php |date=19 February 2014 }} (Retrieved 23 January 2014)
In the 1979 New Year Honours, Dallow was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.{{London Gazette |issue=47725 |date=30 December 1978 |page=42 |supp=3}}
Sources
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Main reference
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- Susan Butterworth, More than Law and Order: Policing in a Changing Society 1945-92, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2005 (Volume 5 of The History of Policing in New Zealand).
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