Popular AFP Deputy Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour’s shock resignation

He is one of the most knowledgeable AFP senior executives. Now AFP Deputy Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour has quit, leaving colleagues stunned.

Exclusive: One of Australia’s most senior and respected police officers has resigned, five months after he was stood down pending a professional standards investigation.

The shock resignation of Deputy AFP Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour has prompted an outpouring of support across the law enforcement world for one of the most experienced and well-liked executives in the AFP.

Outgoing AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin paid tribute to Mr Jabbour saying he is a friend and colleague who will be surely missed. Commissioner Colvin announced Mr Jabbour’s resignation in an email to staff.

Commissioner Colvin said his career highlights include leading complex and challenging high profile organised crime and people smuggling investigations in Australia and internationally.

“Ramzi’s energy and committment to challenging us to be bold and to think of new ways to deliver our roles differently, has been best reflected in his capacity as Deputy Commissioner Capability,” Commissioner Colvin wrote.

AFP Deputy Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour at a press conference. Picture: News Corp

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“Ramzi’s ability to apply the breadth of his operational experience and his capacity to build sustainable relationships has been instrumental in assisting us to evolve into an organisation well positioned to respond to the challenging future.

“His work on imaging the future of this organisation has set us up to confront the challenges we will face.”

Mr Jabbour was widely seen as a potential future Commissioner on the back of his reputation for getting things done and for forging close relationships with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies and also the different state police forces.

He has worked with the Australian AFP for three decades and was sworn in as deputy commissioner in September 2015 for a five-year term.

Mr Jabbour began his career with the AFP in 1990 and has extensive operational experience in a wide array of disciplines.

Australian Federal Police (AFP)'s former head of domestic counter terrorism Ramzi Jabbour.

Over the past few decades he has held senior law enforcement roles covering community policing, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism operations including Pendennis and Rain, major drug importation and trafficking, people smuggling, serious fraud and human trafficking.

He was one of the first AFP officers deployed to Bali in the wake of the 2002 bombings.

Mr Jabbour has also performed the role of National Manager Serious and Organised Crime and has been responsible for the AFP’s International Network, investigations and the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce.

Mr Jabbour has resigned ahead of the new AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw taking over the reins of the organization in October.

It is understood in a separate unrelated move another senior executive member has been told their contract won’t be renewed.

Commissioner Colvin announced last month he would not seek to renew his term after his five-year contract expires on October 1.

Originally published as Popular AFP Deputy Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour’s shock resignation