Former and Present Heads

• Chief Magistrate (Also in charge of the Gaol)
  
  Captain William Caine

  30 April 1841
• Governor of the Gaol
  Joseph Scott

  25 August 1858
• Superintendent of Victoria Gaol
  Francis Douglas

  4 August 1863
• Alfred Lister

  28 June 1874
• Malcolm Struan Tonnochy

  10 February 1875
• Major General
  Alexander Herman Adam Gordon

  28 March 1885
• Henry Bridgeman Henderson Lethbridge

  1892
• 
  Francis Henry May, GCMG

  30 March 1897
• Francis Joseph Badeley

  23 April 1902
• Charles Mcllvaine Messer, OBE

  19 April 1913
• Superintendent of Prisons
  John William Franks, OBE

  31 December 1920
• Commissioner of Prisons
  Major James Lugard Willcocks,
  DSO, MC

  17 June 1938
• William Shillingford

  22 May 1947
• John Tunstall Burdett

  28 May 1951
• 
  Cuthbert James Norman, CBE

  26 February 1953
• 
  Gilbert Roy Pickett, ISO

  26 February 1968
• 
  Thomas Gerad Garner, CBE, JP

  27 January 1972
• Commissioner of Correctional Services
  
  Thomas Gerad Garner, CBE, JP

  1 February 1982
• 
  Chan Wa-shek, ISO, JP

  1 July 1985
• 
  Frederic Samuel McCosh,
  OBE, QPM, CPM, JP

  26 November 1990
• 
  Lai Ming-kee,
  SBS, MBE, JP

  20 February 1995
• 
  Ng Ching-kwok,
  SBS, MBE, QPM, CPM, JP

  1 May 1999
• 
  Pang Sung-yuen,
  SBS, CSDSM, JP

  1 January 2003
• 
  Kwok Leung-ming,
  SBS, CSDSM

  23 July 2006
• 
  Sin Yat-kin,
  SBS, CSDSM

  20 September 2010
• 
  Yau Chi-chiu,
  SBS, CSDSM

  26 December 2014
• 
  Lam Kwok-leung,
  SBS, CSDSM

  21 August 2017
• 
  Woo Ying-ming,
  SBS, CSDSM

  25 November 2018
• 
  Wong Kwok-hing,
  CSDSM

  24 March 2022