Mills, Assistant Commander Ian Lindsay Biography 1991

MILLS, Assistant Commissioner Ian Lindsay
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order 1981, Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1990,
Retired Commander, Number 3 Police Region;
Born Auckland, 16 March 1935, son of Kenneth William Mills and Elsie Gwendoline (nee Piper); married Glennis Draper, daughter of John George Draper and Adele Reardon, 1960; two sons.
Educated: Nelson Park Primary School, Napier; Napier Boys High School; Churchill Scholarship 1979 to Australia, Philippines, Japan, United States, Mexico, Guatamala to study disaster contingency planning.
Clerk, National Bank of New Zealand, Napier, 1952; Senior Clerk, Newman Brothers (NZ) Limited; Joined Police, Wellington 1955; Detective Sargent, Wellington, 1960; Senior Sargent, Lower Hutt, 1965; Inspector, Wellington, 1969; Second in Charge, Palmerston North Police District, 1970; Chief Inspector, Deputy Director, Operations, Head Quarters, Wellington, 1975; Superintendent, Director, Support Services, Head Quarters, Wellington, 1978; Area Controller, Auckland City,1981; Detective Chief Superintendent, Regional Criminal Investigation Branch (later redesignated Officer Commanding, Auckland District Criminal Investigation Branch New Zealand Police), 1983; Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Number 3 Police Region (Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Taranaki districts), Palmerston North 1987, Assistant Commissioner 1988-90 (retired); designed Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) procedures 1978-79, later used Antarctica and Auckland Mortuary during Erebus DC-10 disaster 1979 and led police DVI team, Auckland Mortuary, for first 10 days during which first 114 victims identified.
Publications: Organiser, police consultant, adviser for production of training film Operation Overdue (National Film Unit) on DVI
techniques used during Erebus disaster.
Recreations; golf, fishing, swimming.
Address; 8 King Richard Place, Browns Bay, Auckland