Bob Atkinson (police officer)

Bob Atkinson
Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service
In office
November 2000 (2000-11) – October 2012 (2012-10)
Preceded byJim O'Sullivan
Succeeded byIan Stewart
Royal Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
In office
13 January 2013 – 15 December 2017
Serving with Peter McClellan, Jennifer Coate, Robert Fitzgerald, Helen Milroy, Andrew Murray
Nominated byJulia Gillard
Appointed byQuentin Bryce
Personal details
Alma materCharles Sturt University
ProfessionPolice officer

Robert Atkinson, AO, APM is an Australian police officer who served as the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service from 2000 until his retirement in 2012. In 2013, Atkinson was appointed as one of the six Royal Commissioners to the Australian Government Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.[1]

  1. ^ "Letters Patent". Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Commonwealth of Australia. 11 January 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.