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The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously the New South Wales Police Service and New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is an agency of the NSW government within the NSW Ministry for Police and Emergency Services. Divided into seventy six local area commands (LAC),〔(Company Profile of the New South Wales Police ). ''Graduate Careers Australia''.〕 the NSW Police Force consists of more than 500 local police stations and covers an area of 801,600 square kilometres in a state of some seven million people. Under the , the organisation of the NSW Police Force was formally established in 1862 with the unification of all existing independent police units in the state. The authority and responsibility of the entire police force was given to the inspector general of police.〔(Archives in Brief 20 – Police service records ). ''State Records NSW''. Retrieved 7 January 2007.〕 The 1990s were a turbulent period in NSW police history. The Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service was held between 1995 and 1997. The Royal Commission uncovered hundreds of instances of bribery, money laundering, drug trafficking, and falsifying of evidence by police. The police commissioner, Tony Lauer, resigned as the level of corruption in the service became clear and his own position untenable. Peter James Ryan was recruited from the UK. Wide-ranging reforms occurred as a result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission, including the establishment of a permanent Police Integrity Commission. The current commissioner of the NSW Police Force is Andrew Scipione, , who replaced Ken Moroney, , on 31 August 2007, with Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson, , Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas, and deputy commissioner Catherine Burn, . The minister for justice and police, Troy Grant, is responsible to the NSW parliament for the police portfolio. Grant is a former NSW police officer who served 22 years before entering politics. As of October 2014, the police force consists of some 16,467 officers〔 ==Mission and authority== The motto of the NSW Police Force is the Latin ''Culpam poena premit comes'' ("Punishment follows closely upon crime").〔http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/175270/Corporate_Branding_Policy_and_Standards.pdf〕 The police insignia includes the motto. Its coat of arms features the state badge, a soaring Australian wedge-tailed eagle carrying a scroll with the word ''Nemesis'', a wreath and the St Edwards Crown, the crown of the Queen as the NSW head of state.〔Hunter, I, (The Meaning of the Police Insignia ). Retrieved 6 January 2007. (The insignia was first used in 1959 at the South Pacific Police Commissioners' Conference in the table placenames of each of the attending commissioners. It was designed for this purpose by then detective-sergeant Norm Merchant and subsequently adopted as the official insignia.)〕 The overall mission of the police is to protect life and property and to detect and prevent crime. Services provided by the New South Wales Police Force include:〔 * Preventing, detecting and investigating crime; * Monitoring and promoting road safety; * Maintaining social order; * Performing and coordinating search and rescue operations; and * Emergency management Further policing duties performed are traffic control, intelligence analysis and anti-terrorism investigation. Like all other states of Australia, municipalities and shires in NSW have only very limited law enforcement responsibilities. The police perform the primary law enforcement role in all areas of the state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New South Wales Police Force」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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