Superintendent Darren Rath is a secondee to the ACMC from Australian Federal Police (AFP), joining the Centre in February 2011. Darren brings to the Centre 27 years experience with the AFP across a broad range of roles and functions – locally, nationally and internationally.
Much of Darren’s early service with the AFP focused upon the provision of community policing in the Australian Capital Territory, and in particular as a senior Detective with the AFP’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit and Drug Operations Branch. He was also actively involved in the development and delivery of specialist policing capabilities including emergency response, crisis and consequence management and intervention.
Internationally, he has served with the United Nations in Mozambique (1994), as a community police officer on Norfolk Island, South Pacific (1998-2001), as the Senior Police Liaison Officer to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2006-2009) and most recently as a senior member of the AFP Mission to Afghanistan (2009-2010).
Darren has joined the Centre’s Conflict Management and Prevention Program, where he will undertake a range of activities focusing upon security sector issues.
He counts amongst his pastimes as living life vicariously through his four children as he ferries them from one sporting/leisure pursuit to another, travel, photography (still mostly on film!), gardening, reading and watching forlornly as his much-beloved Wallabies continue their fall from rugby ascendancy.