Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism

The New South Wales Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism is a minister in the Government of New South Wales who has responsibilities which include the conduct and regulation of all police and services agencies and personnel and also deals with operational and event planning issues, and fire and rescue services in New South Wales, Australia. The Minister also serves as the Vice-Patron of NSW Police Legacy.^[1]

Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism
Incumbent Yasmin Catley since 5 April 2023 (2023-04-05)
Department of Communities and Justice
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	John Waddy
Formation	3 January 1975

The current Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism is Yasmin Catley, since 5 April 2023.

On the 21 December 2021 upon the appointment of Steph Cooke as the Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience^[2] the portfolio for the Minister of Police and Emergency Services was split.

The ministers administer the portfolio through the Communities and Justice cluster, in particular through the Department of Communities and Justice, a department of the Government of New South Wales, and additional agencies including the New South Wales Crime Commission, the New South Wales Police Force and the Police Integrity Commission^[3][4][5]

Ultimately the ministers are responsible to Parliament of New South Wales.

List of ministers

Police

The following individuals have served as Ministers for Police, or any precedent titles:

Title	Minister[6]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Police	John Waddy		Liberal	Lewis (2)	3 January 1975	23 January 1976	1 year, 20 days
Minister for Police	Bill Crabtree		Labor	Wran (3)	29 February 1980	2 October 1981	1 year, 216 days
	Peter Anderson			Wran (4)	2 October 1981	26 May 1982	4 years, 127 days
Minister for Police and Emergency Services				Wran (4) (5) (6)	26 May 1982	6 February 1986
	George Paciullo			Wran (7)Unsworth	6 February 1986	21 March 1988	2 years, 44 days
	Ted Pickering		Liberal	Greiner (1) (2) Fahey (1) (2)	25 March 1988	23 September 1992	4 years, 182 days
Minister for Police	Terry Griffiths			Fahey (2) (3)	23 September 1992	27 June 1994	1 year, 277 days
	Garry West		National	Fahey (3)	27 June 1994	4 April 1995	281 days
	Paul Whelan		Labor	Carr (1) (2) (3)	4 April 1995	21 November 2001	6 years, 231 days
	Michael Costa			Carr (3)	21 November 2001	2 April 2003	1 year, 132 days
	John Watkins			Carr (4)	2 April 2003	21 January 2005	1 year, 294 days
	Carl Scully			Carr (4) Iemma (1)	21 January 2005	26 October 2006	1 year, 278 days
	John Watkins			Iemma (1)	26 October 2006	2 April 2007	158 days
	David Campbell			Iemma (2)	2 April 2007	5 September 2008	1 year, 156 days
	Matt Brown			Rees	8 September 2008	11 September 2008	3 days
	Tony Kelly				11 September 2008	14 September 2009	1 year, 3 days
	Michael Daley			Rees Keneally	14 September 2009	28 March 2011	1 year, 195 days
Minister for Police and Emergency Services	Mike Gallacher		Liberal	O'Farrell Baird (1)	4 April 2011	2 May 2014	3 years, 28 days
	Stuart Ayres			Baird (1)	6 May 2014	1 April 2015	330 days
Minister for Police and Justice	Troy Grant		National	Baird (2)	2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days
Minister for Police				Berejiklian (1)	30 January 2017	23 March 2019		[7][8]
Minister for Police and Emergency Services	David Elliott		Liberal	Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1)	2 April 2019	21 December 2021	2 years, 263 days	[9][10]
Minister for Police	Paul Toole		National	Perrottet (2)	21 December 2021	28 March 2023	1 year, 97 days	[11]
Minister for Mental Health	Ryan Park		Labor	Minns	28 March 2023	5 April 2023	8 days
Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism	Yasmin Catley				5 April 2023	incumbent	1 year, 230 days

Counter-terrorism

Title	Minister [6]	Party		Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Counter Terrorism Minister for Corrections	David Elliott		Liberal	30 January 2017	2 April 2019	2 years, 62 days
Minister for Counter Terrorism and Corrections	Anthony Roberts			2 April 2019	21 December 2021 (2021-12-21)	2 years, 263 days	[9]
Minister for Mental Health	Ryan Park		Labor	28 March 2023	5 April 2023	8 days
Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism	Yasmin Catley			5 April 2023	incumbent	1 year, 230 days

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies

References

1. "Patrons and Board". NSW Police Legacy. NSW Police Legacy. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
2. "Tuesday, 21 December 2021". Governor of New South Wales. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
3. "Administrative Arrangements (Administrative Changes—Public Service Agencies) Order 2019 [NSW] (159)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 7-8. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
4. "The Ministry for Police and Emergency Services". About us. NSW Government. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
5. "Portfolio: Police and Emergency Services". NSW Government Directory. NSW Government. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
6. "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
7. Robertson, James (28 January 2017). "Anthony Roberts, Brad Hazzard take key roles in Gladys Berejiklian reshuffle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
8. "Refreshed NSW cabinet sworn in". Sky News. Australia. AAP. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
9. "Government Notices (30)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 1088-1090. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
10. Sas, Nick (31 March 2019). "Gladys Berejiklian says Liberal Party has no women problem as re-elected NSW Premier shuffles Cabinet". ABC News. Australia. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
11. "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.