Barry Matthews
| Barry Matthews | |
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| Chief Executive of Department of Corrections (New Zealand) | |
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In office 12 February 2005 – December 2010 |
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| Succeeded by | Ray Smith |
| Commissioner of Western Australia Police | |
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In office 1999–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Falconer |
| Succeeded by | Karl O'Callaghan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1946 |
Barry Matthews (born 1946) was Chief Executive of the New Zealand Department of Corrections from 2005 to 2010. Prior to that he was a long-serving police officer. Matthews worked in the public sectors of New Zealand and Australia for almost four decades. He has a Masters Degree in Business Administration, Law Professional examinations, a Bachelor of Laws Degree and a Diploma of Criminology.
Matthews served in the New Zealand Police from 1965 to 1999. He was District Commander, Auckland Services District from 1992 to 1993, then Assistant Commissioner Planning and Finance, Police National Headquarters from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he became the Deputy Commissioner of Police and was the project manager of the failed INCIS computer system, until the project was abandoned in 1999. In 1999, he left to take up appointment as Commissioner of the Western Australia Police. His over-riding task as Commissioner was to root out police corruption in Western Australia. This led to a confrontation with senior politicians who asked him to resign. Matthews refused telling the minister he had made a commitment to stay five years "and I stick by my commitments".
Matthews replaced Mark Byers as chief executive of the New Zealand Department of Corrections in February 2005.
In 2009 Matthews' leadership was questioned by the new Corrections Minister, Judith Collins, after a run of bad publicity that included the murder of 17-year-old Liam Ashley in a prison van; the murder of Karl Kuchenbecker by Graeme Burton six months after he was released on parole; and the Auditor General's critical report on the Probation Service's management of parolees. Matthews exacerbated speculation about his leadership when he stated "there's no blood on my hands", regarding Burton incident.
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