Nigel Hadgkiss

Nigel Clive Hadgkiss APM is a British-born Australian police officer and public servant, who was the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner until resigning on 13 September 2017. He was previously an Assistant Commissioner with the Australian Federal Police and was the Director of Operations at the Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Force.

Hadgkiss was born in the Midlands of England into a working class family. His father worked at the BSA Motorcycle factory in Birmingham. He was encouraged by his uncle to pursue a career in law, but gave up a university place in London to join the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. He served in Hong Kong for eight years, starting as a constable in the Tsim Sha Tsui district, and eventually investigating complex fraud in the Commercial Crime Bureau.

On a ship back to England for police training, Hadgkiss met Moira, an Adelaide-born nurse who returned with him to Hong Kong where they married. When his contract in Hong Kong expired, Hadgkiss applied to join the Australian Federal Police and the couple moved to Melbourne, Australia.

Hadgkiss holds Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Masters of Commerce (MComm) degrees from the University of New South Wales.

Between 1994 and 1996, Hadgkiss was the director of operations at the Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police. Later that year, the Australian Federal Police promoted him to Assistant Commissioner.

In 1997 Hadgkiss was invited to Toronto to appear before a Royal Commission examining the wrongful conviction of a man for first degree murder, assisting the Commissioner in formulating recommendations to improve the administration of criminal justice in Ontario. In 1998 he was invited to York University, Toronto, as a Visiting Fellow to Canada’s largest law school, Osgoode Hall, for their 1999 winter semester. In May 1999 he presented seminars at All Souls College, Oxford University, and at the Inner Temple Hall of the Inner Temple Inn of Court, London.

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