Commissioners

Rank	Name	From	Till
Inspector (Commander)	Henry Inman	28 April 1838	18 May 1840
Commissioner (Major)	Thomas Shuldham O’Halloran	8 June 1840	3 April 1843
Commissioner	Boyle Travers Finniss	13 April 1843	12 May 1847
Commissioner	George Frederick Dashwood	12 May 1847	31 December 1851
Commissioner	Alexander Tolmer	28 January 1852	29 November 1853
Commissioner (Colonel)	Peter Egerton Warburton	29 November 1853	13 February 1867
Commissioner	George Hamilton	13 February 1867	24 May 1882
Commissioner	William John Peterswald	3 May 1882	30 August 1896
Commissioner	Lewis George Madley ISO, VD	9 September 1896	31 December 1909
Commissioner	William Henry Raymond	1 January 1910	30 June 1917
Commissioner	Thomas Neptune Edwards	30 June 1917	30 June 1920
Commissioner (Brigadier General)	Sir Raymond Lionel Leane CB, CMG, DSO & Bar, MC, VD	1 July 1920	30 June 1944
Commissioner	William Francis Johns CBE	1 July 1944	1 July 1950
Commissioner	Ivor Bren Green LVO	1 July 1950	10 April 1957
Commissioner (Brigadier)	John Gilbert McKinna CMG, CBE, DSO, LVO, ED	1 July 1957	1 June 1972
Commissioner	Harold Hubert Salisbury QPM	1 June 1972	17 January 1978
Commissioner	Laurence Desmond Draper QPM	19 January 1978	27 May 1982
Commissioner	John Bryan Giles AO, GM, BEM, QPM	27 May 1982	30 June 1983
Commissioner	David Alexander Hunt AO, QPM	30 June 1983	31 December 1996
Commissioner	Malcolm Arthur Hyde AO, APM	10 February 1997	20 July 2012
Commissioner	Gary Thomas Burns BM, APM	20 July 2012	20 July 2015
Commissioner	Grantley John Stevens APM, LEM	21 July 2015	Incumbent

South Australian Deputy Commissioners of Police

This Rank/Position was not established in SAPOL until January, 1956

Name	Period Served
John Gilbert McKinna	2 January, 1956 – 11 July, 1957
Geoffrey Leane	12 July, 1957 – 30 June, 1972
Laurence Desmond Draper	1 July, 1972 – 18 January, 1978
John Bryan Giles	6 April, 1978 – 27 May, 1982
David Alexander Hunt	27 May, 1982 – 30 June, 1983
Raymond Elmo Killmier	7 July, 1983 – 31 March, 1988
Patrick Michael Hurley	31 March, 1988 – 3 January, 1997
Neil John McKenzie	24 March, 1997 – 30 June, 2002
John Ronald White	15 August, 2002 – 31 March, 2007
Gary Thomas Burns	1 April, 2007 19 July, 2012
Grant Stevens	20 July, 2012 – 21 July, 2015
Linda Williams	22 July, 2015 (Incumbent)

South Australia/Northern Territory 1870 to 1911

SA Police Commissioners Serving whilst NT was under SA administrative control

Police Commissioner	Period Served
George Hamilton	January, 1870 – 24 May, 1882
William John Peterswald	3 May, 1882 – 30 August, 1896
Lewis George Madley	9 September, 1896 – 31 December, 1909
William Henry Raymond	1 January, 1910 – 1 January,1911 (control of NT transferred to Commonwealth Govt.)

Inspectors in Charge of NT Northern Region during SA Administration

Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche	16th December, 1869 – January, 1904
Nicholas John Walters	January, 1904 – 1 January, 1911 (1911 to 1923 was Commissioner of North Australia Police)