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Dallow was a significant personality in the management of race relations in the Auckland Police District in the 1970s. As Inspector, he was originally in charge of the Task Force which Graeme Dallow had set up as a temporary expedient to deal with street disorder among the large Māori and Pacific cummunities that had migrated to [[South Auckland]].<ref name="Ross"/> Later Ross Dallow headed the Community Relations Co-ordinators for five years. As leader of both units, Dallow worked on improving communications with Māori and [[Pacific Islander|Pasifika]] leaders. For example, he took [[Pita Sharples|Assistant Race Relations Conciliator Pita Sharples]] out with the Task Force one night to show him the problems on the street, and won the influential support of the Conciliator's office. In the face of the reluctance of many of his colleagues, Ross Dallow |
Dallow was a significant personality in the management of race relations in the Auckland Police District in the 1970s. As Inspector, he was originally in charge of the Task Force which Graeme Dallow had set up as a temporary expedient to deal with street disorder among the large Māori and Pacific cummunities that had migrated to [[South Auckland]].<ref name="Ross"/> Later Ross Dallow headed the Community Relations Co-ordinators for five years. As leader of both units, Dallow worked on improving communications with Māori and [[Pacific Islander|Pasifika]] leaders. For example, he took [[Pita Sharples|Assistant Race Relations Conciliator Pita Sharples]] out with the Task Force one night to show him the problems on the street, and won the influential support of the Conciliator's office. In 1976 Dallow promoted the expansion of Police education programmes in secondary schools. Hitherto such programmes were aimed at acquainting pupils with the role of the Police in society and creating a sense that the Police were trustworthy and approachable. Dallow believed that the Police had to introduce more sophisiticated programmes because pupils were acquiring knowledge of law-related issues from "radical and civil liberties types who enter the schools under the guise of 'liberal studies' ".<ref> Dallow quoted in Susan Butterworth, p. 240.</ref> After he became a superintendant, in the face of the reluctance of many of his colleagues, Ross Dallow spent much of his time addressing opinion-formers and cultivating a positive relationsip with the media in relation to race relations and other Police issues in Auckland.<ref>Susan Butterworth, pp. 247-248.</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:15, 13 December 2012
Ross P. Dallow QPM, NZSSM (Erebus), JP (born 1930) is a former senior member of the New Zealand Police who had an important influence on improved race relations in Auckland. He is an Auckland local politician.
Early life
Dallow spent his childhood in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland.[1] He is the younger brother of Graeme Dallow.[2]
Police career
Dallow was a significant personality in the management of race relations in the Auckland Police District in the 1970s. As Inspector, he was originally in charge of the Task Force which Graeme Dallow had set up as a temporary expedient to deal with street disorder among the large Māori and Pacific cummunities that had migrated to South Auckland.[2] Later Ross Dallow headed the Community Relations Co-ordinators for five years. As leader of both units, Dallow worked on improving communications with Māori and Pasifika leaders. For example, he took Assistant Race Relations Conciliator Pita Sharples out with the Task Force one night to show him the problems on the street, and won the influential support of the Conciliator's office. In 1976 Dallow promoted the expansion of Police education programmes in secondary schools. Hitherto such programmes were aimed at acquainting pupils with the role of the Police in society and creating a sense that the Police were trustworthy and approachable. Dallow believed that the Police had to introduce more sophisiticated programmes because pupils were acquiring knowledge of law-related issues from "radical and civil liberties types who enter the schools under the guise of 'liberal studies' ".[3] After he became a superintendant, in the face of the reluctance of many of his colleagues, Ross Dallow spent much of his time addressing opinion-formers and cultivating a positive relationsip with the media in relation to race relations and other Police issues in Auckland.[4]
Local goverment
In 2010 Dallow was elected as an Independent councillor on the Henderson-Massey Local Board of Auckland city[5]
Sources
Main reference
- 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).