- Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN HUGH McMULLIN

Commissioner British Columbia Provincial Police

BORN AT MADRAS, in 1868, the son of Colonel John McMullin, |.A., the present Commissioner of the Provincial Police was educated at Hailey- bury, England. Commissioned to the East Surrey Regiment, he trans- ferred, after three years’ service, to the Third Hussars, with whom he remained until 1893.

In that year he came out to Western Canada, settling in the Okanagan. With the outbreak of the Boer War, he served with Strathcona’s Horse in Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal and the Transvaal, and for his services received the Queen’s South African medal with four clasps.

Returning to Canada, he joined the Provincial Police in October, 1901, and was stationed at Cascade City. Later, he was made Government Agent at Fernie; and in 1909 was appointed Inspector of Police for the Province. In 1910 he left the Police again to become Government Agent at Prince Rupert.

He still maintained a keen interest in army matters, first as Lieutenant and Captain in the Kootenay Rifles and then as Major in the 68th Militia Regiment. During the war he had charge of northern recruiting, and subsequently was rewarded by command of the new post-war unit, The | British Columbia Regiment, which commemorates the 102nd Battalion, Calenie.

| In 1923 Colonel McMullin was appointed Superintendent of Provincial Police (the title afterwards being changed to Commissioner), and with his advent a total re-organization of the police resulted.

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