Adrienne Ryan is a current Councillor

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 and the former Mayor

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 of Ku-ring-gai Council

Ku-ring-gai Council

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 in Sydney, New South Wales

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. She was also married to, and now divorced from former Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Peter Ryan

Peter Ryan (police commissioner)

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. Ryan was born Adrienne Butterworth in Yorkshire

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, England

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, Adrienne Ryan moved to Sydney in 1997 after her husband became the New South Wales Police Commissioner. Prior to coming to Australia, Adrienne Ryan was also a police officer for a period of time, being involved in the Brixton Riots

Brixton Riots

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 and Notting Hill race riots

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 in the 1980s. Adrienne Ryan has an honours degree in politics and international relations from Reading University in the United Kingdom. She has also published a book called A Silent Love about stillborn children. In May 2005, Adrienne Ryan moved to the Sydney suburb of Wahroonga after her divorce. She now studies Law at the College of Law, Bloomsbury.