Executive Director Australian Institute of Police Management
Tom Rogers has broad experience in senior leadership, management and consulting positions within Australia and overseas. He has also worked extensively in training and development, project management, event management, and logistics.
Tom has a particular interest in all aspects of leadership and command. During his extensive military career, he fulfilled a range of different roles such as commanding an independent logistics organisation, commanding a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Middle East, and appointment as the Senior Instructor in Leadership at the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
Since retiring from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel, Tom has undertaken a number of different roles in the private and public sectors. He worked for a major multinational corporation as a training and project management specialist including, amongst other consultancies, being the project manager of the Sydney Olympic's major preparedness activity: the Sydney 2000 Operational Readiness Exercise. Tom was the Director of Academic Programs at the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM) from 2002 until the start of 2007. Tom was appointed as the Australian Electoral Officer for NSW in March 2007, and, in that capacity, was responsible for all (NSW) aspects of the 2007 Federal Election. Tom acted as the First Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Electoral Commission from September 2008 until June 2009, and was then appointed as the Executive Director of the AIPM in June 2009.
About the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM)
Australia needs police executives with great integrity, skill and ability. The AIPM has played an important role in helping achieve this outcome through the provision of executive development programs for almost 50 years. During that time, Institute programs have garnered a reputation for outstanding quality, and more than 6000 senior officers have attended AIPM programs.
The AIPM develops police managers and executives through management and leadership programs. The Institute also provides similar programs for the fire and emergency services, and volunteer organisations involved in public safety. Administratively, the AIPM comes under the corporate umbrella of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and all AIPM staff are employed under the Federal Police Act. However, whilst the Institute is administered by the AFP, the Executive Director reports to a Board of Control that is composed of all the Police Commissioners in Australia and New Zealand.
AIPM courses involve police from every state and territory of Australia and New Zealand. They also now include senior police from our neighbouring nations in the Pacific and South East Asia. There are Visiting Fellows from the policing jurisdictions seconded to the AIPM on 12-18 month terms. In addition, there are Visiting International Police Fellows on our programs – these are senior police officers from organisations such as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Metropolitan Police in London, the Scottish Police College, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Hong Kong Police Force. This diversity brings an international dimension to our courses, resulting in senior Australian police officers not only learning about how other police operate, but also developing international professional networks that are essential in their future careers.
The Australian Graduate School of Policing (AGSP) at Charles Sturt University is co-located with, but independent from, the AIPM on its site in Manly. The AGSP offers a range of postgraduate courses in policing and currently has 468 students enrolled in these distance education courses.