Ord - The Commandant at the Police Training School while I was there was Jim Sweeney with his South African-born wife Madge, and their 3 sons.

Gazette - 13/4/1927 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Police Constable - J. Sweeney

Blue Book 1938 appt 3.3.1927

After World War one he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary. When that was disbanded in 1923 he joined the Palestine Gendarmerie and served in Palestine until 1927 when he was transferred to the Kenya Police. He worked in the various branches of the Kenya Police, including the CID. He was promoted from Inspector to Gazetted rank in 1935 and was posted to the Northern Frontier District. During World War 2 he commanded the police in the NFD and was closely involved with the military forces during the army concentration and advance against the Italian forces through the NFD into Abyssinia and Italian Somalia. He held the honorary rank of Colonel during that time. After the war he was posted to various provinces as Provincial Police Officer in the rank of Senior Superintendent and later Assistant Commissioner of Police. His last appointment was commandant of the Kenya Police Training School at Kiganjo. He was awarded the King's police medal in 1950. In 1953 he was appointed Service Brother in the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and in 1953 he obtained MBE in recognition of his maintenance of law and order in the NFD. In 1960 he was appointed to the Imperial Service Order. He retired in 1960 and for the following nine years served as first-class District Magistrate in Coast Province, after which he left to live in retirement in South Africa. He had the invaluable ability to exercise firm command in a kindly, almost fatherly way that evoked respect and affection and created a happy atmosphere in his units. This integrity and sense of fairness earned for him the esteem and respect of the community.