About Tony Negus
Tony Negus was a diplomat.
Tony William Negus is an Australian diplomat and retired police officer who was the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (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 Harvard University he has completed the Executive Leadership Program.
Career Negus started his law enforcement career in traffic operations in Canberra in 1982, 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.
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Australian police commissioner
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Tony Negus was born in Cowra.
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