Christine Nixon
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Christine Nixon (Born: June 7 1952) was appointed to the role of Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police by the Victorian government in 2001. Nixon has been a police officer for over thirty years, and interacting with people from all walks of life.
She attended Macquarie University before attaining a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University and spending time with the London Metropolitan Police Service. Nixon, the first woman to become a police commissioner in Australia, is renowned for her anti-corruption stance. Nixon inherited something of a morale problem with sixty officers resigning every month when she started in her current position. This has been reduced to twelve resignations each month.
Nixon also gained fame for marching in uniform during Melbourne's gay and lesbian 'Midsumma' pride march. She is heterosexual herself, but stated "What I’m doing is supporting decent and reasonable people who want to get on with their lives, and they have been treated appallingly previously by the Police, and I’m prepared to do something about it. And if it’s a small symbol of marching with them, then that would be a reasonable thing to do."[1]
