Arthur Harold Dickinson CMG OBE KPM (5 October 1892 – 23 November 1978) was a British senior colonial police officer who served as Inspector-General of the Straits Settlements Police from 1939 to 1942.
From 1931-32 he was sent on special missions to study police methods, to Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Batavia, Bangkok and Saigon.
In 1937, he was awarded the first officership of the OBE ever conferred upon a member of the police force for his "tactful handling" of serious strikes in the Federated Malay States.
[4][5] On 15 February 1942, he was at the meeting of senior officers, as the only member of the civilian government, which decided to surrender Singapore to the Japanese army.
[7] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1938 New Year Honours.