CASEY, Mark
Mark Casey overcame a childhood shaped by forced removal to become a respected Aboriginal Community Police Officer, former soldier and community leader, serving Daly River and the Northern Territory with distinction and acting as Squad Parade Commander for multiple NT Police graduations.
In 2011 Mark Casey had served 17 years as an Aboriginal Community Police Officer in the Northern Territory Police. Mark Casey was born in Daly River and was taken from his family at around one month of age and raised at the Garden Point Mission. Years later he was taken by Bishop O’Loughlin to Darwin and from there sent to a foster family of Dutch migrants in Mt Gambier.
As an 17 year old he came back to the Northern Territory and met his biological mother in Darwin the following year. He went to work at Oolloo Station as a stockman and later worked as a Buffalo shooter and then Buffalo catcher at Mount Bundey as a ‘gasoline cowboy’. He then joined the Army and served for nearly 15 years before moving home to Daly River.
Mark joined the NT Police Force and has served for 17 years (in 2011) as an Aboriginal Community Police Officer.
