Dennis Malcolm Anderson

Dennis Malcolm Anderson was born in London in 1930. Having moved to
Rhodesia, he attested in the BSAP on 28 October 1956 and initially
served in the uniformed branch at Rhodesville, Salisbury, later joining
the CID and then Special Branch, where he became closely associated with
nationalist leaders during the course of political rallies in the
1960s. For the first time he came into contact with educated black
people, not ‘domestic servants’ or ‘garden boys’, interaction that very
few Rhodesians or even his colleagues experienced. He subsequently
served in Manicaland province where politically inspired crime became a
daily event. In 1967 he was promoted to Detective Inspector and
transferred to Salisbury. In the September 1971 he was posted to
Marandellas as Member-in-Charge of the CID and Special Branch station.
Promoted to Superintendent he was transferred to Salisbury but after a
short posting he was transferred to Umtali where he was engaged in
counterinsurgency operations with the infiltration of ZANLA into the
Chipinga district as the Special Branch JOC officer; he was also the JOC
officer on Operation Thrasher. In 1976 he was transferred to Special
Branch HQ and posted to the Terrorist desk with Superintendent Pelissier
preparing monthly analysis on the war for the Director-General. In 1977
he was transferred to Operation Hurricane as the SB JOC Officer. His
final posting prior to retirement in 1979 was to COMOPS.