| Surname: | Campbell |
| Initials: | W P |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Army Number: | 23900322 |
| Notes: | RMP. SIB BAOR. Wayne Pritchard Campbell. |
Decoration Record: | |
| Decoration: | British Empire Medal (London Gazette: 45860 Page: 23 Jan. 1, 1973) |
| Citation: | New Year Honour. 23900322 Sergeant Wayne Pritchard Campbell, Munster Detachment, SIB. RMP. October 1969 to June 1972.Citation: For the past two and a half years Sergeant CAMPBELL has been the sole specialist investigator of drug abuse in the Munster Detachment of the Special Investigation Branch which has responsibility for OSNABRUCK as well as MUNSTER; each amongst the largest Garrisons in BAOR. MUNSTER particularly, with a student population of 23,000 and situated as it is very close to the drug distribution centres in HOLLAND, is a high risk drug area for the British Garrison and abundant evidence is available to show that all types of drugs are readily available in a very large number of places to anyone who wishes to buy them. It is to Sergeant CAMPBELL's credit that in these unpromising circumstances the incidence of drug abuse amongst the British Garrison has been minimal and that those few who have made use of drugs have been very quickly caught and very often their German suppliers with them. The local German police, who knew very little about drugs until Sergeant CAMPBELL instructed them, freely admit their gratitude for his assistance and their initial dependence on his knowledge. his liaison with them continues to be excellent. it is, however, in the field of prevention that Sergeant CAMPBELL has probably achieved most. In addition to the long hours of his physically taxing job he has devoted much of what would otherwise be off-duty time to lecturing to officers, warrant and non-commissioned officers, families and secondary school children on the angers of drug abuse and the methods of detection an prevention. His reputation as a lecturer has spread far beyond the Garrisons of MUNSTER and OSNABRUCK and the good which his human, amusing and highly professional talks have done must be incalculable. For his unceasing energy, unremitting hard work and considerable skill and enthusiasm in projecting a subject which many do not wish to know about Sergeant CAMPBELL's is richly deserving of an award for which he is now recommended.Recommended by: Brig 4 Guards Armoured Brigade. Maj. Gen. GOC. 2 Division. Gen. C in C BAOR |