The Commissioner of Police (abbreviation

Abbreviation

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: CP, Chinese: 警察总监) is the top-ranking police officer

Police officer

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 of the Singapore Police Force

Singapore Police Force

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. Assisted by the Deputy Commissioner of Police

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Singapore)

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, he reports to the Minister for Home Affairs

Minister for Home Affairs (Singapore)

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.

The post was created with the passing of the Police Act

Police Act

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 in 1857, in response to calls for a full-time dedicated police officer to helm the police force in response to escalating cases of violent crime in Singapore during that period. Thomas Dunman

Thomas Dunman

Thomas Dunman was the first Commissioner of Police in Singapore from 1856 to 1871. Dunman Road and Dunman Lane in the Katong area of Singapore are named after him....

 thus became the first police commissioner

Police commissioner

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, and the first full-time superintendent

Superintendent (police)

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 of police, with a salary of 800 rupees per month.

When the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, Penang) became a Crown Colony

Crown colony

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 in 1867, the role of the police commissioner was expanded to include that of the entire Straits Settlements

Straits Settlements

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, with the title changed to that of Inspector-General of Police

Inspector-General of Police

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. This lasted until the Japanese Occupation of Singapore

Japanese Occupation of Singapore

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 in 1942, before the post was restored as the Commissioner of Police in 1946 with the return of the British and the gradual instatement of local rule.

Commissioner of Police, Singapore Police Force, Straits Settlements Police

• Thomas Dunman
  Thomas Dunman
  Thomas Dunman was the first Commissioner of Police in Singapore from 1856 to 1871. Dunman Road and Dunman Lane in the Katong area of Singapore are named after him....
  
   (1857-1871)

Inspector-General of Police, Straits Settlements Police

• C B Plunket (1871-1876)
• Samuel Dunlop
  Samuel Dunlop
  Samuel Dunlop, CMG served in several capacities as a member of the Straits Settlements civil service but is perhaps best known as the Inspector-General of Police, in Singapore.-Pangkor Treaty 1874:...
  
   (1876-1890)
• R W Maxwell (1891-1895)
• E G Pennefather (1895-1906)
• W A Cuscaden (1906-1914)
• A R Chandellor (1914-1923)
• G C Denham (1923-1925)
• Harold Fairburn
  Harold Fairburn
  Harold Fairburn, CMG, KPM, was the Inspector General of the Straits Settlements Police in Singapore from 1925 to 1935.The son of a schoolmaster, he spent his early life in Suffolk, England before joining the Straits Settlements Police as a cadet in 1904...
  
   (1925-1935)
• Rene H de S Onraet (1935-1939)
• Arthur Harold Dickinson (1939-1942)

Commissioner of Police, Singapore Police Force

• R E Foulger (1946-1951)
• J P Pennefather-Evans (1951-1952)
• Nigel G Morris (1952-1957)
• E Alan G Blades (1957-1963)
• John Le Cain (1963-1967)
• Cheam Kim Seang (1967-1971)
• Tan Teck Khim (1971-1979)
• Goh Yong Hong (1979-1992)
• Tee Tua Ba
  Tee Tua Ba
  Tan Sri Tee Tua Ba is a diplomat and former Commissioner of Police of the Singapore Police Force. He is currently serving as Ambassador-Designate to the United Arab Emirates.-Background:...
  
   (1992-1997)
• Khoo Boon Hui
  Khoo Boon Hui
  Tan Sri Khoo Boon Hui , born in 1954 in Singapore, is the Senior Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the current president of INTERPOL...
  
   (1997-2010)
• Ng Joo Hee (2010-Present)