Alan Carmody

Sir Alan Thomas Carmody (8 September 1920 — 12 April 1978) was an Australian public servant and government official, who was knighted for his contributions.

He was born at Malvern, Melbourne. His father, Thomas, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and Bar for bravery in World War I. Alan Carmody attended St Patrick's College, Goulburn. Aged 16, he joined the Commonwealth Public Service on 18 March 1937 as a clerk for the Department of Trade and Customs in Canberra.

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World War II

Carmody enlisted in 1940 in the Citizen Air Force of the Royal Australian Air Force. He was commissioned in February 1943, serving as a radar officer. He was demobbed in 1945. He graduated from the University of Melbourne (BA, 1946/BCom, 1947/MCom, 1950).

Post war career

(In Canberra unless otherwise stated.)

In 1975, Carmody pushed for the establishment of an agency to be known as the Australia Police, which he would have headed initially, formed by combining the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Commonwealth police forces, roughly modelled on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The force would have dealt with smuggling and white-collar crime. The project never came to pass for political reasons.

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Family

A practising Catholic, Carmody married Elizabeth Mary Brennan in St Patrick's Catholic Church, Adelaide, on 25 October 1944. They would have five children.

Death

He died suddenly from coronary vascular disease on 12 April 1978, aged 57, at home. He was interred in Canberra. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and three sons.

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