Superintendent
Robert Edmund SHEPHERD
YEAR OF DEATH
1993
JURISDICTION
Australian Federal Police
DETAILS OF DEATH
Superintendent Robert Shepherd commenced with the Commonwealth Police Force in June 1975, being sworn into the Australian Federal Police in 1979. Superintendent Shepherd was killed on 19 May 1993 when a Colombian plane crashed into a mountain in Colombia. The crew of seven and about 125 passengers were killed. At the time Superintendent Shepherd was the AFP’s Liaison Officer at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
