Nick Kaldas Author

Nick Kaldas was born in Egypt in 1958. In 1969 he moved with his family to Australia. In 1981 after graduating from the NSW Police Force's academy, he worked for more than ten years as a hostage negotiator. Later, as head of the New South Wales homicide squad, Kaldas was responsible for a number of high-profile murder investigations, including the death of Samantha Knight, the murder of John Newman and the investigation into the murders committed by Sef Gonzales. Then, in 2004 Kaldas spent eight months in Iraq where he trained the local police. He was seconded to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri. On 4 March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision to leave the Police Force. Most recently he has been Commissioner and Chair of the Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide.