 The same year also saw Banks’ involvement in the proposed deportation of Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, an Anglo-Australian Marxist activist, investigated by a Commission of Inquiry.As a result of this much publicised case the Foreign Office transferred him to Ethiopia in 1942, as Commissioner of Police, where he was responsible for re-establishing the Ethiopian police force.In July 1949 Banks was awarded the Officer of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia by the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie.