Norman Allan

Norman Allan served as Commissioner of Police from February 1962 to November 1972. His decade-long tenure spanned the height of the criminal law era in New South Wales, during which male homosexual acts remained offences carrying penalties of up to fourteen years imprisonment. This was also the period in which the Beats and Kings Cross gay subculture were emerging in Sydney, with police regularly using consorting and vagrancy laws to surveil and arrest gay men. No specific documented statements or LGBTIQ-related policy decisions by Commissioner Allan have been identified for this project at this stage.

Tenure dates sourced from Wikipedia: List of commissioners of the New South Wales Police. Wikipedia is used for reference only; substantive claims are sourced to primary documents cited elsewhere in this project.