Robert Josiah Walton CMG OBE QPM ED (8 December 1921 – 16 July 2008) was a New Zealand police officer who served as Commissioner of Police between 1978 and 1983. His tenure was marked by the end of the Bastion Point occupation, the Mount Erebus disaster, the 1981 Springbok tour, and the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the convictions of Arthur Alan Thomas for the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe.
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8 December 1921 Auckland, New Zealand
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Died |
16 July 2008 (aged 86) Wellington, New Zealand
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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