Max Mitchell

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Zero Limits Podcast · Ep. 253 Max Mitchell Assistant Commissioner (Retired) NSW Police Force · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

But with Dad, it got to a stage where, you know, about 16, I was looking at leaving school and there was just no apprentices anywhere and I always wanted to be a carpenter of all things.

But anyway, went back to year 11 and 12 at Gateshead High, which was a pretty rough, rough knock around school back then.

Yeah, it is.

But dad pulled me aside one day and he said, look, what are you going to do with yourself?

And I said, oh, I don't know.

I haven't really thought about it.

And he said, well, it's one of two things.

You're either going to go and join the police or you're going to go into the military.

And I went, yeah, police sounds pretty good to me.

And that's, like, I didn't want to go and change the world, you know, be the super cop or anything like that.

It was just simply I had great respect for my father.

So, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So 1981, I joined as what was then a junior trainee.

So we used to have police cadets.

Because of my age, I was 18 at the time.

So you couldn't attest until you were 19.

So I did a little bit of time as a junior trainee down at Chatswood and I worked for what was then the education and training branch.

And Jack Avery was the...

the boss back then.

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