Participating Police Force identity card : Sergeant D J Quigley, Participating Police Force, RAMSI

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands
Accession Number REL34722
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Heraldry
Physical description Plastic
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 2003-2005
Conflict Solomon Islands (RAMSI), 2003-2013
Description

Card has photograph of bearer on the left hand side with her name underneath. The right side has the insignia of RAMSI showing a dove on a blue, yellow and green background surrounded by a yellow circle and the words ' PARTICIPATING POLICE FORCE HELPEM FREN'.

History / Summary

Identification card for Sergeant Delia 'Dee' Josephine Quigley during her service with the Participating Police Force, part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Their role was to restore basic law, order and security to the Islands, to remove illegally held weapons from the community and disarm and neutralise key militants. Prior to her time in the Solomon Islands Sergeant Quigley served with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on peacekeeping missions in Haiti, East Timor and Cyprus between 1994 and 2000. Sergeant Quigley was born in Victoria in 1961 and worked in communications for the RAAF and Army Reserve before joining the AFP in 1983. In October 1994 she was one of three women selected in a contingent of 30 police to become part of an International Police Monitoring Team in Haiti. The mission was the first where armed Australian Police served overseas.

The contingent arrived in the province of Jeremie on 23 November and remained there until March, 1995. In 1999 Quigley trained as a reserve for the Australian contingent to East Timor, which was part of the UN mission which oversaw the ballot for independence. She finally saw service with the 2nd contingent and arrived in Darwin in September to begin a gradual personnel changeover. She returned to Australia in December 1999 and left for Cyprus in February 2000 for nine months with the 63rd Cyprus contingent.