{"id":92,"date":"2019-02-15T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T04:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/?p=92"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:08:07","slug":"luke-cornelius-apm-leading-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/2019\/02\/15\/luke-cornelius-apm-leading-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rte text parbase\">\n<p><strong><br \/>\nOn the wall in the office of Luke Cornelius APM (LLB &#8217;99) is a picture showing a dog and a cat sheltering under an umbrella while it rains humans \u2013 an interesting juxtaposition \u2013 and somehow not what you\u2019d expect in the office of the Assistant Commissioner of Victoria Police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rte text parbase\">\n<p>Mr Cornelius, however, is no stereotypical policeman. His unconventional approach to wearing the navy blue uniform stems from a long-held conviction about the importance of police in supporting the community.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cornelius had several years of drug busts and surveillance operations under his belt by the time he scouted around Adelaide\u2019s law schools as a mature age student, landing on Flinders University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really liked the Flinders program \u2013 the class sizes were great and it had a really good balance between written and oral presentations and exams,\u201d Mr Cornelius said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first lecture for torts and legal method, Professor Elliot Johnson said, always remember you are here for the little person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what role we have within the organisation, our key job is to look out for the little people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a long and distinguished career in both the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police, Mr Cornelius is now charged with multiple jobs \u2013 in particular leading cultural change to make the Force a safe, supportive and respectful workplace for women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have retained a couple of fundamental truths from my legal education at Flinders which have remained guiding principles for my career \u2013 the importance of respect for people and also for upholding the rights of all people in the eyes of the law,\u201d Mr Cornelius said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose principles have stood me in good stead during my career and I\u2019m not sure I would have learned them as well anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Luke Cornelius - The Investigator Transformed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvVyuAhhSew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the wall in the office of Luke Cornelius APM (LLB &#8217;99) is a picture showing a dog and a cat sheltering under an umbrella while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3211,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825,2080,1228],"tags":[911,909,912],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-business-government-and-law","category-study-law","category-stories","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-police"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}