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Name: GRIFFITHS, Llewellyn OBE, KPM, CPM
Photo Source: David Reeve; Kenya Police Review Aug 1951
Birth Date: 21.1.1910 Westbourne, Sussex
Death Date: 30.12.1988 Newbridge, Wrexham
First Date: 1930
Profession: Asst. Inspector in the Kenya Police Awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1936 for his services in the NFD. Senior Super in 1953. Originally Constable 1930.
Area: Nakuru
Married: In Nairobi 1940 Cecilia Irene Searle b. 21.11.1922 Cambridge (dau. of Charles Frederick Searle)
Children: Charles (6.6.1948)
Book Reference: Police, Staff 53, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, A. Allen, Staff 39
School: Portsmouth Grammar School
General Information:
Police - Put in charge of refugee camp at Isiolo for Ethiopian refugees who had escaped from the Italians - at one time there were approximately 10,000 men, women and children refugees. He later became Asst. Commissioner and Commandant of the Police Training School at Kiganjo.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 14/6/56 - OBE
Colonial - Supt. 1951; Asst. Commissioner 1954
Ancestry Passenger list 1956 Durban-UK for dates - he is 'colonial police officer'
Habari 11 He enrolled in the Force n 1930 as a European Constable and worked his way up through the ranks to become ACP Rift Valley Province from 1954, being in charge of the Province throughout the Emergency. When awarded the OBE in 1956 his citation read 'His ability, tirelessness and physical and moral courage set an outstanding example to his officers and men and to the Europeans and loyal Africans of his Province'. From April 1956 to May 1958 he was seconded as Director of Colonial Police Studies at the Police College, Ryton on Dunsmore.
[this man is not to be confused with Arthur Llewelyn Griffith, also a police officer]