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Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard William Little JP (Justice of the Peace) - Australia's Smiling Policeman.

New South Wales, Australia, Police Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard William Little 'The Smiling Policeman' otherwise known as `Australia's Smiling Policeman' became a household name in Australia and overseas in the mid 1970's, firstly in his hometown of Sydney, Australia, where he gained much media attention for the smiling and friendly manner in which he directed traffic.

Over the years Geoffrey Bernard William Little became wellknown around the world as he embarked on numerous overseas promotional tours on behalf of the Australian Section, New South Wales Region of the International Police Association (IPA) in the promotion of his proud vocation of Police and Law Enforcement.

The Smiling Policeman became renowned over the years for the number of cities around the world where he directed traffic and in the promotion and marketing of Rotary based programmes which highlighted the work of Community Based Policing, Local Community, and Child oriented programmes, through organised `Fund' Runs e.g., Sydney's `City to Surf Fun Run', San Francisco's `Bay to Breakers Fun Run', the `Honolulu Marathon', and the `Cebu Marathon'(and to name a few cities of the world where Geoffrey directed traffic), Manila and Cebu City in the Philippines, Kathmandu in Nepal, Indianapolis in the USA, Delhi in India, Jerusalem in Israel, Trafalger Square in London and Belfast in Ireland.

In 1979 Geoffrey was appointed an `Ambassador of Goodwill' for the International Year of the Child by the New South Wales Division of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA,NSW).

In 1982 Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard William Little became a member of the Rotary Club of East Sydney, District 9750, and in complementing earlier initiatives, went on to become the only person in recorded history to have run from Jericho to Jerusalem in Israel on three occasions between 1979 and 1982, a distance of 37 kilometres, from the lowest point on earth - Jericho Square 380 metres below sea level on the Dead Sea, to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem 780 metres above sea level, raising funds for the Netanya Blind Institute through the Rotary Club of Netanya situated in the Sharon Valley north of Tel Aviv.

Geoffrey Little went on to plant a tree in Talpiot on behalf of United Nations Association of Australia, New South Wales Division, and engage in a Torch Relay run with athletes from Macabbi in Ramat Gan starting from the traditional grave site of Jonas Maccabia to Peta Tikva, and then on to the Wailing Wall and Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, running on the Jerusalem leg in the company of a contingent of Israeli Paratroopers. Geoffrey also was a guest of Neve Shalom in Latrun, Israel, where he planted a number of olive trees which in the intervening years have grown to maturity and are now reported to be fruit bearing.

At the Holocaust Memorial Yadvashem Geoffrey was greatly honoured as a Gentile, to be charged with the turning up of the Holy Flame.

During 1979's International Year of the Child Geoffrey Little bussed and part jogged from Kathmandu in Nepal, down the Raj Pass into India, and then on to London via Afghanistan and the Middle East in the promotion of child oriented programmes on behalf of the United Nations Declared Year of the Child.

Twice a Rotary Club Past President (PP), Geoffrey Bernard William Little has been a member of the Rotary Club of Wollstonecraft (now known as the Rotary Club of North Sydney Sunrise - District 9680), the Rotary E-Club of Greater Sydney and is currently a member of the Rotary Club of Sydney D9650.

In 1996 then Past President Geoffrey Little was recognised by the Rotary Club of East Los Angeles, USA, as a Paul Harris Fellow (PHF) for his work on behalf of the Rotary Peace City Project and for his collaborative work with then President Paul Warner in the first Peace City Conference held on the campus of the East Los Angeles Community College, where a Peace Monument stands in the Student Park.

Past President Geoffrey Little has become the driving force over the years for the Rotary Peace City Project which was created by the Rotary Club of Wagga Wagga-Kooringal, Australia - District 9700, the Project having been the initiative of then Past President Tony Quinlivan of Wagga Wagga.

After Manila, Philippines, where through the Rotary Club of Manila and Rotarian Mayor Alfredo Lim, Manila had been declared the first `International Rotary Peace City' in the world - and after the first Peace City Conference was staged in East Los Angeles, USA, Past President and Project Special Ambassador Geoffrey became the `Dean' of the Ambassadorial Chair of the Distict 9700 Peace City Project.

The Peace City Project went on to become an internationally recognised initiative, and after the Wagga Wagga Peace Conference in 2001, the Peace City Project later became known as the `Rotary District Peace Communities Programme (RDPCP)`.

At the 2008 Rotary Presidential Peace Summit in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, convened in the first instance by Past District Governor Douglas Vincent of Woodstock, Ontario, the Wagga Wagga Rotary Peace City initiative (launched at the Melbourne Rotary World Convention in 1993)a Resolution was passed from the floor of the Summit to see the Wagga Wagga Peace City Project initiative adopted by the Council of Legislation (COL) as a Rotary International Programme, and to be hereafter known as the Rotary International Peace Communities Programme (RIPCP).

This Resolution went on to become adopted by the Rotary Council on Legislation (CoL) in Chicago, USA, in April, 2010.

There are over fifty declared Rotary Peace Communities in the world today. This programme has gone a long way to complement, enhance and embrace Rotary's Fourth Avenue of Service, along with the numerous existing Peace based Rotary Programmes including the Peace Scholar Programme, in the exercise and promotion of the main plank of Rotary Service, the Promotion of Understanding and Peace in the world.

Now Retired Sergeant Geoffrey Bernard William Little JP, has continued to progess the Rotary District Peace Communities Programme through his work with the Rotary Clubs of Manila and Makati San Lorenzo in the Philippines, Past President Niels Colov of the Rotary Club of Pattaya in Thailand, and Rotary colleague Monotobu (Moto) Nishimura in Japan.

`Sir' Geoffrey Little KCR became a Knight Commander of Rizal, a civic and patriot honour emanating from the Philippines which commemorates the National Hero Jose Protacio Rizal, for his services to the Philippines.

As founding International Chairman of the Police/Law Enforcement Professionals Fellowship of Rotarians (Polepfor) The Smiling Policeman Geoffrey Little has been recognised by overseas Police Agencies for his services to Community Based Policing and Restorative Justice.

The Smiling Policeman holds a number of honorary ranks from Sergeant in Scotland, Officer rank in the Philippine National Police (PNP), through to Deputy Chief of Police in the United States of America.

Geoffrey Little is an honorary member of Nevada Region 38 of the International Police Association (IPA), United States of America Section of IPA.

Geoffrey Bernard William Little retired from the New South Wales Police in 2001 but has continued a working career in the Private Security Industry, where as a Master Licence holder he is qualified in Security Risk Management and Workplace Training and Assessing. Geoffrey Little also performs duties in Prisoner Court Security with the Department of Corrective Services in New South Wales.

Recognised as a Life Member, and as an Executive Member of the New South Wales Divison of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA,NSW) Geoffrey Bernard William Little has been Convenor and Master of Ceremonies of Sydney's Annual United Nations Day Wreath Laying Ceremony these past twenty years and recently received a United Nations Association of Australia (New South Wales)`Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his twenty years of service to the conduct of Sydney's Annual United Nations Day Wreath Laying Ceremony, a recognised template for United Nations Day Wreath Laying Ceremonies.

Geoffrey Little `works` in collaboration with the United Nations Police Association of Australia (UNPAA), Australian Federal Police, New South Wales State and other Police Services of Australia, the Australian Navy, Army and Air Force, and Australian Army Cadet Corps, to conduct this colourful and very significant annual recognition of Australia's contribution in the service of United Nations peace keeping around the world since the Second World War. In recent years he had conducted a very successful programme with the Shore School Cadet Unit and the Shore Cadet Band Ensemble.

As a guest of the Australian Mission to the United Nations in New York, in company with Assistant Governor Walter Greene of the Rotary Club of Detroit, Geoffrey Little recently visited the United Nations Organisation (UNO).