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Director of Prisons of Rhodesia information


Director of Prisons
Coat of arms of Rhodesia
Inaugural holderDavid Charles Cameron
Formation1954; 70 years ago (1954)
Final holderFrank Leslie Patch
Abolished1980; 44 years ago (1980)

The Director of Prisons was the head of the Rhodesia Prison Service, responsible for the administration of prisons in Southern Rhodesia and later Rhodesia. The post was established in 1954 as the head of the Federal Prison Service of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and became head of the Southern Rhodesia Prison Service upon the Federation's dissolution in 1963. In 1965, upon Rhodesia's independence from the United Kingdom, it became the Rhodesia Prison Service. In 1980, upon Zimbabwe's independence, the office was nullified and replaced by the Director of the Zimbabwe Prison Services.

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