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It’s just not as simple as working your lastever shift one day and starting a new life the next, as six recently retired cops explain.

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Secretary 19 Newly elected Police Association secretary Tom Scheffler is prepared to be as tough in this role as he had to be in policing.

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06 Police Association 08 PRESIDENT 29 Opinion 30 Letters 31 Q&A 32 INDUSTRIAL 35 Health 36 Motoring 39 Banking 41 Legal 42 Books 44 DVDs 45 Cinema 47 Wine 48 The Last Shift 49 Police Scene 54 HEROeS

amazing association

It brought him great satisfaction but David Russell has left his job as the Police Association’s media and communications officer for a rare opportunity abroad.

26 The craziest thing I’ve ever done

Hard to believe that police prosecutor Jo Kruk could have taken on anything crazier than the desert marathon she ran last year – but she did…

COVER: Former detective senior sergeant Trevor Jenkins Photography by Steve McCawley

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DELEGATES Metro North Branch Elizabeth...........................Glenn Pink Henley Beach...................Matthew Kluzek Gawler..............................David Savage Golden Grove..................Simon Nappa Parks.................................Sonia Giacomelli Salisbury...........................Taryn Trevelion Northern Prosecution.....Tim Pfeiffer Port Adelaide...................Anne-Marie Hockley

Country North Branch Port Lincoln.....................Lloyd Parker (chair) Ceduna.............................Scott Price Coober Pedy...................Jeff Page

Kadina...............................Ric Schild Nuriootpa.........................Michael Casey Peterborough...................Andrew Dredge Port Augusta....................Peter Hore Port Pirie...........................Gavin Mildrum Whyalla.............................Wayne Davison

Crime Command Branch Elizabeth.........................Kym Wilson (chair) Major Crime.....................Campbell Hill Adelaide...........................Dac Thomas DOCIB..............................Jamie Dolan Forensic Services............Adam Gates Fraud.................................Rhett Vormelker Holden Hill........................Narelle Smith June 2013 Police Journal

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Intelligence Support........Kevin Hunt Port Adelaide...................Craig Johnston South Coast.....................Jason Tank Sturt..................................Brad Scott

Metro South Branch Southern Traffic.............Peter Schulze (chair) Adelaide...........................Kim Williams Netley...............................Mark Williams Norwood..........................Ralph Rogerson South Coast.....................Peter Clifton South Coast.....................Russell Stone Sturt..................................Michael Quinton Southern Prosecution.....Andrew Heffernan

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Organizer Bernadette Zimmermann

Editor Brett Williams

Media and communications

Assistant secretary Darren Cornell

Nicholas Damiani

Executive secretaries Finance Michael Kent

Wendy Kellett

Anne Hehner, Anita Hamilton, Sarah Stephens

Reception Shelley Furbow

REPRESENTATIVES Country South Branch Mount Gambier..............Andy McClean (chair) Adelaide Hills...................Joe McDonald Berri...................................John Gardner Millicent............................Nick Patterson Murray Bridge..................Kym Cocks Naracoorte.......................Grant Baker Renmark............................Dan Schatto

Operations Support Branch Dog Ops..........................Bryan Whitehorn (chair) Police Academy...............Francis Toner ACB ..................................George Blocki Police Band......................Neil Conaghty

Comcen............................Athalie Edman Firearms............................Jon Kemplay-Hill HR ....................................David Wardrop Mounted...........................Kelly-Anne Taylor-Wilson STAR Operations.............Allan Dalgleish Traffic................................David Kuchenmeister Transit...............................Michael Tomney

Womens Branch Jodie Cole (chair)...........(no delegates)

ATSI Branch Robert Agius (chair)......(no delegates)

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COHSWAC......................Darren Cornell Superannuation...............Bernadette Zimmermann ..........................................David Reynolds Housing............................Tom Scheffler Leave Bank.......................Tom Scheffler Legacy..............................Allan Cannon

PRESIDENt Mark Carroll

Tough job done, gratitude deserved One

might rightly think of a long career in policing as a letter in an envelope. Someone pens the script, folds the paper flat, straight and true and places it in an all-embracing environment and, then, posts it.

The crux of this letter analogy is that, during 40-odd years in policing, six of our recently retired Police Association members have been sent to many destinations. They share their short experience of retirement with us in our cover story, After 40-odd years in policing‌ (page 10).

The Police Association will honour 47 of its members who have retired in the 2012-13 financial year at its annual retiring members dinner late this month.

Our organization regards this tribute event as the most important one it stages. Not for a moment does the association underestimate the value of the contribution its members make to their union, to SAPOL and, of course, to the South Australian community.

By virtue of their long periods of service, our retirees have all witnessed, indeed, taken part in, massive change within not only their workplaces but also society. And this change has necessitated a complete transformation in the way police respond to community expectation.

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Those who now move into retirement have laid the most solid of foundations on which SA policing now rests.

Throughout the working lives of these retirees, societal norms and family structures changed, as did the past, simpler way of life they all knew – and likely relished.

The emergence of large-scale importation, manufacture and use of illicit drugs changed the innocence in Australian life forever, and that would prove a scourge all of us would rightly lament.

Crooks got smarter, but so too did the police who had to take them on. And what helped police better protect their communities were advances in equipment, the IT revolution, legislative reform, and breakthroughs in evidence-gathering, such as DNA. From a call-box key to a multi-faceted high-tech police vehicle, the change has been truly vast.

But as each generation follows, it has the responsibility to build upon that which its predecessors have achieved. Those who now move into retirement have laid the most solid of foundations on which SA policing now rests.

Our members are part of one of the oldest police forces in the Western world. We have rightly held – and continue to hold – our rule of law as precious, and we perceive the critical need to protect it.

None of us who is right-minded fails to see that the rule of law is the lifeblood of any society. Without it, no society can reasonably expect security for its populace or protection of its institutions.

It takes special people to defend our way of life, people who are selfless enough to go out into the world, confront its multitude of dangers and enforce the law. Our retirees did precisely that.

At different times, they faced the lawless, on the streets, on the front line, where life for police can be brutal, life-threatening and just plain sad.

Only people who are prepared to make law enforcement their life’s work can keep our treasured way of life intact.

To look at the names on the roll of retirees for 2012-13 is to understand that this generation did far more than just build on the foundations of its predecessors. This generation put on a few extra rooms – with views.

One cannot help but wonder how each name, each career, could ever be replaced.

The contributions of each of our retiring members will not wither away on the vine of history. The career each one of them undertook will be an evergreen, in the sense that the memory and, indeed, the value of it will last forever.

Of course, we never lose sight of the unavoidable, that tragedy strikes mercilessly at times, and that police officers and their families have to stand up to it.

Among the heartbreaking human tragedies are Ash Wednesday and the Port Lincoln fires; the family murders; the disappearance of Kirsty Gordon and Joanne Radcliffe; the NCA bombing; Truro and Snowtown.

When these horrors strike, the true nature and purpose of policing comes so strongly into focus. The way in which police connect with those directly affected by criminal atrocities is life-changing.

Sadly, the pain of the loss of our mates, police killed in the line of duty, forever scars the law enforcement landscape.

On the occasion of the retiring members dinner, we think of fallen members such as Linc Williams (1985), David Barr (1990) and Gordon Loft (1991).

Many others, such as Bob Sobczak (2002), Matthew Payne and Warren Matheson (1982) and Kym Godfrey (1981), have died in the line of duty in vehicle accidents.

And the tragedies of those who, in the midst of darkness, have taken their own lives equally shock, and bring great despair to, the police family.

All our retirees should take the greatest pride in, and just simply feel good about, the honourable profession in which they have spent their working lives. We certainly take pride in them.

Their outstanding contribution to South Australia has been a gift to all of us. They have, and deserve, the thanks of a grateful community. PJ

Only people who are prepared to make law enforcement their life’s work can keep our treasured way of life intact.

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But stepping away from decades in law enforcement is, for some cops, tougher than it seems.

By Brett Williams

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“You could end up in all sorts of trouble.”

Former

detective senior sergeant Trevor Jenkins loved policing so much that he was never certain he could bring himself to retire.

He even told a senior police executive at a social function a few years ago that: “I don’t think I can do it. I think I’m going to be a 68-year-old detective.”

“I couldn’t think of what I would do without being in the job,” he says. “I could have worked 365 days straight and it wouldn’t have bothered me. I was the first one at work every day.”

But Jenkins knew his retirement had to come, and that he had no financial need to keep working through to his early sixties. So, three months ago, after 44 years as a copper, he found the strength to walk away from policing and into retired life.

Almost 12 months before that, he had taken six weeks’ leave, which he treated as “practice retirement”.

And five years before that practice run was when Jenkins, then 55, first gave his post-police days some serious thought. A long-time investor in businesses and property, and a man with “champagne tastes”, he demanded a comfortable retirement.

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“If you’re going to retire and you haven’t got your ducks in a row, that’s a very dangerous thing,” he says.

“You could end up in all sorts of trouble. I’ve sold all my business interests. I’ve cashed up. I’ve got one property development left to finish.”

Also important to Jenkins was to have options as to what he might pursue as a retiree. On offer to him now is work as a consultant on armed-robbery risk assessments, and another job working for a mate with a self-storage business.

His leisure options abound, too. “I can go and ride my motorbike when I like,” he says. “I can go and tinker in the shed when I like. I can go to my shack down the coast and watch the waves roll in with a bottle of red.”

And, as he watches those waves, he might well reflect on his police career, which he began as a cadet in 1969. After time as a city and country patrol officer, Jenkins became a detective and served with the CIB, Drug Squad, Major Crime, and Drug and Organised Crime.

His post for the last four of his 44 years was Operation Counteract. From there, and other posts, he misses the people he worked with, and “the chase”.

One of the most satisfying investigations he led was the case the media dubbed the “Holden parts racket”.

It involved the theft of 180 V8 engines worth $2.5 million from Holden’s Elizabeth plant and led Jenkins and his team to charge seven suspects.

“In my mind, I haven’t retired,” he explains. “I am on an extended holiday. I don’t think I’ve ever had six weeks’ holidays where I’ve just gone day after day and done ‘me’ things.

“This is the first time I’ve had this amount of time (three months) just getting up in the morning and doing what I want to do.”

But Jenkins appreciates that, at home, he has “sort of invaded” his wife Pauline’s space for “a few more hours” every week.

“You may adore your wife and love the relationship,” he says, “but you’ve been used to not being there for eight hours or 10 hours a day. You have to be very careful that you manage the relationship properly.

You’ve got to collaborate with your partner.”

Now, the only concern to Jenkins, whose father and mother died at the ages of 73 and 69 respectively, is his health. “I didn’t want to be one of these people who retired and died two years later,” he says.

“I’ve seen too much of that among coppers.”

To others nearing retirement, Jenkins recommends a transition phase, detailed pre-planning, and the creation of those options. And he insists that no one should ever falsely believe that policing cannot go on without him or her.

“The job hasn’t hiccupped since I left,” he says.

“They don’t even know I’ve gone. I walked away and no one has noticed the gap. You’ve got to worry about yourself and your family and how they respond to you being around (in retirement).”

“I said: ‘My time is finished.

move on.’ ”

Now former detective sergeant Terry Harding

knew the end of his time in policing was near back in 2011. He had just battled pancreatitis and was now off work for six months to care for his convalescent wife, Maxine, who had suffered post-op septicaemia and almost died.

Harding, then a Crime Faculty trainer, was close to 60 and had intended to retire at that age anyway.

But the scourge of illness, and some uncertainty about his finances, had left him intensely apprehensive about making the break from worker to retiree.

“The thing that you worry about the most is the money,” he says, “We were fairly well paid, thanks to the Police Association, but you’ve got to drop a fair bit (of money in retirement).

“My wife was always going to retire at the same time (as me) and her money was always going to go into paying off the house. So that was the scariest part: the financial side of it as to how we would cope.”

In fact, it was so worrisome to Harding that, every day at his desk, he spent time studying figures and “trying to work out how the hell I was going to survive”.

Still, he knew the time was right for him to retire last November. He had come to feel that, in the workplace, he was not contributing as well as he had years earlier.

And the capable young detectives he saw moving into specialist fields reinforced that feeling.

But, even if his input had slipped in the last of his working days, Harding had certainly contributed as a front-line detective. He had joined the CIB just a few years after his 1977 graduation from a three-month course he undertook as a 25-year-old.

Harding went on to serve in suburban CIBs, the Viking Task Force, the National Crime Authority (on secondment), the Drug and Organised Branch, and Human Source Management.

And, in those sections, he worked on many highlevel investigations, most of which he remembers well.

One was the shooting murders of Les Knowles and Tim Richards in 1996. Contract killer Gerald Preston, assisted by accomplice Kevin Gillard, shot each man in the head in a Lonsdale workshop.

Another case was that of an armed robbery by interstate criminals on a Marion bank in the mid-1990s.

The robbers had shot a security guard, through whose body the bullet had passed and hit a bank customer in the neck.

A complex joint investigation involving the Victoria Police Armed Robbery Squad ended with the arrest of two offenders at Melbourne Airport and the recovery of $350,000. Harding, who helped bring about the outcome, got to return the cash to the bank.

The robbers wound up extradited to and convicted in South Australia.

Two things Harding has missed in his seven months of retirement are the camaraderie of his old work environment and knowing about high-profile investigations. He has a few times rung old mates, still in the job, to talk to them about cases which have made headline news.

“The last time I put the phone down,” he explains, “I said: ‘I’ve got to stop doing that. My time is finished.

Move on.’

“The actual day-to-day stuff: getting out of bed and going to work every day, worrying about court…

I don’t miss any of that.”

So, after 35 years in policing, Harding has no intention of pursuing any kind of paid work, as other former detectives have in retirement.

He and his wife have undertaken some travel, including a cruise, and now want to see more of Australia. Boating, in the new small craft they have bought, and fishing are also on their retirement agenda.

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Television is one form of recreation with which Harding, a confessed TV addict, knows he will have to practise discipline. “I was thinking about getting rid of Foxtel at one stage because I knew it’d be pretty easy for me to just sit around and do nothing,” he says.

As new grandparents, the Hardings might have some babysitting duties ahead. And outdoor work beckons Harding, too.

“I’ve always wanted to tinker around with timber and so I built a shed,” he says. “We’ve got a 100-year-old house that always needs work, too.”

Part-time

“You can’t play golf day of the week.”

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work in a golf or boat shop was all that now former senior sergeant Brenton Rowney thought he would ever score in retirement. He just did not think that prospective employers would see him as particularly employable.

But his perspective changed after he started looking for jobs and scored one with the Attorney-General’s Department – just four months after retiring last November. Rowney, 56, found that he was, in fact, “highly employable”.

Before leaving the AGD late last month, after dealing with child-abuse matters, he accepted another job, as a senior rail safety investigator with Queensland Rail. He has since left Adelaide for Brisbane to start work out of Central Railway Station.

But why take on full-time postretirement work, especially after seven years of taxing input with Major Crash? There, Rowney had to be on call every second week to co-ordinate responses to fatal accidents that occurred out of Major Crash office hours, perhaps 2:30am.

“I’d be getting my people out of bed and arranging travel for them,” he explains. “In essence, you’d be up all night.

“The money was really good, but what broke the camel’s back was one weekend when I had ‘fatals’ on Saturday morning, Sunday morning and Monday morning and was awake all night.

“Then I had to front day shift on Monday morning, and I was just knackered. In the end, the on-call just got to me. I was just sick of it. You could probably say I was getting a bit too old for the job.”

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So, after 38 years in policing, Rowney retired.

He had served in the city and country as, first, a patrol officer and, later, a CIB detective, before joining Major Crime.

After kicking off his retirement, he bought a caravan and undertook some travel up to Noosa and the Gold Coast. And then came his decision to return to the workforce.

“You can’t play golf every day of the week,” the keen golfer and sailing enthusiast says. “And the car I’ve got doesn’t tow the caravan very well, so I thought: ‘Well, I’ll go back to work and buy myself a new car.'

“We (my Queenslander wife and I) sort of decided we would go (to Qld) for two years, which will put me very close to 60. And I think that’ll be the end.

I’ll stop working then.”

Rowney had considered retiring years earlier, at age 50, to buy a business. He concedes, however, that he “procrastinated” and ended up staying in the job, where his pay increased with a promotion to senior sergeant.

But, 12 months before he retired, he took three months’ leave. This gave him not only a much-needed break from Major Crash, but also a glimpse into life as a retired copper.

Rowney had stuck with policing for so long because he enjoyed the work, liked his colleagues and relished the camaraderie. The now defunct police pension scheme helped keep him in the job, too.

“And, towards the end, thanks to the association, the money was good,” he says.

Much of the work he drew satisfaction from involved murder investigations. With Major Crime, he worked on the killings of John Goodwin and Terry Comans.

In late 2000, one-time baseball player and opera singer Michael Loader bashed them to death with a baseball bat in a Port Adelaide warehouse. Loader had had a dispute with the men over drug money.

Another murder Rowney worked on was that of 15-year-old Samantha O’Reilly in 2003. Family friend Kevin Hender lured her to his Blakeview home, where he tried to rape the girl before strangling her.

Leaving the police environment behind for retirement gave Rowney less concern then than it does now. “You do miss your colleagues,” he says.

“I still maintain an interest in the road toll, and I think that’s just a part of moving on.”

With his work, sailing and golf, Rowney leads an active life, and wonders how he will fare bodily in his seventies and eighties.

“I’ve got to give up smoking,” he says. “I’m not doing a very good job at it; but I think golf is a pretty good sport as you get older. And you’ve got to be mindful of ageing.”

“Why would you leave this job, in which you get paid so well ”

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Former

senior constable first class Jessie Hughes came close to a 40-year police career. And her service might even have extended into a fifth decade had she not come to think about retirement after 37 years in the job.

The thought struck Hughes after her partner, Allan Ziegler, told her that he intended to give up policing and himself retire. He suggested that she do the same.

But Hughes, then 60 and attached to Traffic Training and Promotion, was unsure about how their daily lives would play out as two non-working people under the same roof.

She soon noticed, however, that retiree Ziegler’s interests were keeping him busy on not only weekdays but also weekends.

And Ziegler kept trying to coax Hughes, who loves and shows dogs, into joining him. She agreed to a compromise of switching from full-time to parttime work for 12 months, to get a feel for at least semi-retirement.

“And I really enjoyed working part-time,” she says.

“It made me think: ‘Yes, I can cope with being away from the job.’

“I was doing more and more dog stuff and I didn’t really have time to go to work anyway, so I thought I’d better retire.”

So, after beginning her career with Course 117 at Thebarton police barracks in 1975, Hughes retired last February. Over her 38 years in policing she had worked as a suburban and country patrol officer, a member of the Rape Enquiry Unit, and a traffic cop.

She had confronted all the trauma-filled tasks of front-line police work, such as fatal crashes, pub brawls and armed assaults on her and her colleagues.

And few of her memories of them had faded when she came to retire.

There was the dead motorcyclist who had not one mark on his body, and another crash victim who injured only his thumb but later died in hospital.

Hughes also remembered the motorist who threatened her with a bayonet-type knife after she had pulled him over in a dimly-lit area at night. He was mentally unwell and twice thrust the knife into his stomach before back-up patrols could disarm and detain him.

Of course, policing left Hughes with pleasant memories, too. One remains her trip to Canberra where, in 2011, she received the then new National Police Service Medal from Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Although Hughes enjoyed her last post and considers she performed her job to a high standard, she had “no qualms” about leaving it behind for retirement. And not once in the last four months has she missed police work.

“Because,” she says, “I can still be in touch with the people, which I am. I just don’t have to go to work. It’s fantastic.

“I joined the Retired Police Officers Association and I plan on going to all the meetings. I just want to keep in touch with things because, you spend 38 years in a job, and it’s a big part of your life.”

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Unlike many retirees, her broader plan does not involve any overseas travel. Hughes has never held a passport and does not intend to apply for one.

“To start with, my girlfriend and I have both got new puppies,” she says, “so we’re going away showing them. I just want to do things with my dogs: they’re my pets, my family. And (my girlfriend) is the same, as her husband is dead. So we’ll just trundle off and do what we want.”

Hughes knows but finds it “strange” that some cops retire and take on other full-time work. “Why,” she asks, “would you leave this job, in which you get paid so well and have such backing as the association gives you, to go and work in another job?”

Her advice to cops who are yet to retire is to make plans and be active. “Do something,” she says.

“If you have nothing, no interests outside the job, you might just as well stay at work because there’s no point sitting at home and rotting.”

The life

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of retired assistant commissioner Graeme Barton appears, and likely is, sublime. He took a “massive” trip to the US after he first retired 11 months ago – and now intends to travel abroad at least once per year.

Back home he gets to indulge his passion for footy as a West Adelaide Football Club director and chairman of coterie group the Westonians.

And, since his retirement, he has scored paid work as a “roomy” with the SA Cricket Association.

That job takes him behind the scenes of another sport he loves, to prepare the dressing room for the home side ahead of Test matches, Shield and one-day games and Twenty20 hit-outs.

“What you do then is get the ability to sit and watch cricket with the players in their box,” he says. “You listen to their team meetings and you’re part of the team. I couldn’t believe how lucky I was (to get the job). I just can’t believe they actually pay me to do it.”

Another treat Barton gets to enjoy with his wife, Fay, is a Port Broughton holiday shack his parents left him. He thinks of it as a kind of summer retreat.

“It’s on top of a hill and overlooks the bay,” he says. “It’s a beautiful thing.”

But Barton, who made a 25-item bucket list before he retired, might yet have much more pleasure ahead of him.

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and eventual rise to executive level – were patrols, Major Crash, country CIBs and specialist squads.

His greatest love was chasing crooks and making the big arrests as a detective. One unforgettable incident was an undercover heroin buy in an Arkaba Hotel room in 1977. A suspect died in an exchange of gunfire which almost killed Barton as well.

As a commissioned officer, Barton came to relish other aspects of police work: the implementation of LSAs, the scope for promotion, and the chance to lead and mentor.

He began planning his retirement around five years before he intended to step down. What he examined most closely was how he would support himself, what kind of lifestyle he wanted, and what specifically he would do in retirement.

Barton spoke with recently retired cops, went to retirement seminars, sought financial advice and drew opinions from his fellow ACs. “When you retire, what you want is financial security and peace of mind,” he says.

“And you want to be able to enjoy the time from age 60 to 70. Ten years after retirement, to me, is a crucial time because, once you get to 70, it gets harder physically and health problems start.

“My plan was to do all the travel and a lot of the physical things between 60 and 70. There are others things you can do later at a much slower pace.”

Taking on a full-time job was never a consideration for Barton, but he understands why some others continue to work. “They can take the financial security of retirement and, then, pick up another job and earn more money,” he says.

“Employers realize how much skill these people have and they want to use their talent. They can organize, communicate, write, think, and make decisions – all the types of things that people look for as employers. But, when I retired, I retired.

Forty-three years was enough.”

Today, Barton maintains his fitness with regular gym workouts and, to keep his health in order, fronts up for annual check-ups.

As content as he now appears in retirement, Barton does miss the people he worked with in policing. He follows police incidents and investigations in the news, which reminds him of what he does not miss.

“A lot of things keep recurring, such as budget cuts,” he says. “How we’re going to save X amount of money and put 400 police on the street at the right time and in the right place. I don’t miss any of that.

I don’t miss the pressure.”

His key advice to future retirees is to seek independent advice and plan for 35 years’ financial security. “It’s probably the biggest job you’re going to do,” he says. “You’re completely in charge of your own destiny.”

“I’ve had to change my lifestyle ”

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He was almost 60 and likely to retire but,

then, last December, Howden Jennings found out he had prostate cancer. The now former detective brevet sergeant underwent and survived an operation to remove his prostate just four weeks later.

Any thought that he might convalesce, return to work and retire later this year, was now unrealistic.

“Once I got crook,” he recalls, “I said: ‘Well, that’s it.

How much super have I got?’ I worked through that, and there was my last day.”

This left Jennings with a clearly imperfect start to his transition from worker to retiree. Before the cancer diagnosis, which came as a “big shock”, he had undertaken little planning. He has no serious regrets about that but recognizes that he should have been better prepared.

“You just think: ‘Oh, everything’s going fine; I’m okay; I’ve got a pension here,’ ” he says. “And, then, you realize you don’t own your home and, so, suddenly a big chunk of that pension is just paying your mortgage.”

Of course, the greater concern for Jennings, who retired in April, has to be his health. He fronts up for blood tests every three months and understands the realities: that the cancer might well turn up somewhere else in his body.

Although he is optimistic about ending up cancerfree, he can do no more right now besides wait and watch. But, as he does that, he will also continue to analyse his finances and, ultimately, decide whether he needs to take on some work to survive.

He insists that job opportunities are available to him where he lives, out of town on the coast. But he suspects that, 10 years ago, long before his illness, he would have rejected out of hand the idea of working in retirement.

Still, he performs volunteer work, driving the residents of an aged-care facility to various appointments. For recreation, he goes sailing and helps out with boats on a slipway. He also has travel plans for later this year and next year.

“I’ve suffered a bit since the operation,” he says.

“It takes a bit of coping with. I’ve had to change my lifestyle because of it, and those restrictions wear away at your confidence.

“I do spend more time at home than perhaps I used to. But you’ve got to keep active and you need to keep the grey matter ticking over.”

Despite his health issue, Jennings is enjoying life with Julie, his partner of 18 months. And, even if his finances fall short of what he needs to support himself, he has not only the option to work but also other back-up plans.

“Ultimately,” he says, “I’ve got a very big house on the river that I’ll be selling. So there’s a lot of money in that and, if I have to, I can just move and cash up easily. And I can still live quite a comfortable life.

I won’t have to go without.

“I’ve been fortunate that it’s all sort of falling into place, and I don’t see that that’ll change unless I get another dose of bad (medical) news.”

Jennings, a former sailor who started his police career in 1980, served as a patrol officer, and with the STAR Group, suburban CIBs, Operation Avatar, and Major Crime. The company of the people he worked with is what he misses most.

But not in the slightest does he miss the demands of disclosure, court trials and extreme accountability. His greatest satisfaction came from investigating murders and helping to bring about the convictions of killers.

He particularly remembers the case of threeyear-old Imran Zilic, whose insane father, Aliya, cut his throat and left him to die in a disused Coober Pedy mineshaft.

And Jennings has never forgotten working, as a Port Adelaide detective, on the murder of cross-dressing former wrestler John Lillecrapp in 2002. Interstaters Nicole McGuiness and Donna Casagrande stabbed him to death and dismembered him.

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Now, as Jennings works to stabilize his finances, he offers some advice to future retirees.

“Prepare for it,” he says, “and ever yone is going to do that differently. They will have their own needs. If you haven’t got a plan, at least have a good idea, and get some professional help.” PJ

Secretary Tom Scheffler has taken on one of the two most important roles in the Police Association. And he might just have seemed destined to do it from the time he was a child.

By Brett Williams

He has seen

the ashen faces of highly stressed cops at the scenes of police shootings and fatal pursuit crashes. And, in his Carrington St office, new Police Association secretary Tom Scheffler has many times seen officers break down, agonizing over charges related to their actions.

The long-serving union official knows better than most how deeply these realities of police life plunge cops into extreme mental and emotional anguish. To bear witness to their suffering is, for him, heart-rending.

“There’s that initial impact when a member gets a ‘show cause’ as to why he or she shouldn’t be suspended or fired,” Scheffler says. “That’s when the alarm bells go off, high emotion sets in, and the member thinks his or her whole life is falling apart.

“In a case such as a police shooting or high-speed chase, the employer has to be seen to be absolutely clinical in the way it investigates. But that clinical style has an effect on the members under investigation.

“They feel that, one minute, they’re on the team and, the next minute, they’re off the team. They think: ‘I did everything right. I conducted my duties in a professional manner and now I’ve been told not to speak to my workmates. I’ve been segregated.’ ” Genuinely empathetic, and with a broad police background of his own, Scheffler draws much satisfaction from working with and supporting these stricken cops. Typical of his style is to reassure them, as he did at Burnside after a police shooting in 2005.

Two of three Holden Hill detectives had had to fire on a suspect who had shot at one of them with a sawn-off rifle, with which he also threatened the others. The stress in their faces was obvious to Scheffler from the moment he arrived on the scene.

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“At any critical incident, such as a shooting, you can see that the colour has drained from the members’ faces,” he says. “Our members do a job in which they face confrontation by armed offenders and have to use their firearms to save their own lives or their partners’ lives.

“So, when we (association officials and lawyers) turn up at a scene and get involved, you can see the relief in them. I’m just glad that I’m there for the members and that I can comfort them. I can explain certain things to them and say: ‘You’ll get through this.’ ” And Scheffler has done exactly that for the past 11-and-a-half years as Police Association member liaison officer (2001 – 2003) and assistant secretary (until March 2013). He has also represented police in legal, disciplinary, industrial and administrative matters, and grievances.

After presenting these and other credentials to voters in a robust campaign through February and March, Scheffler won the office of secretary on March 28. He became the 19th man to achieve the victory since 1911.

It was an obvious high among the many “highs and lows” of his years as a unionist. But the best high to Scheffler, still, is getting the result that tears down the pall of despair hanging over any member he represents.

“Disciplinary matters, where a member might be charged with a breach of regulations, I have dealt with a lot,” he says. “You can assist them through that and find that they’ve actually done absolutely nothing wrong and then have them exonerated.

“I think that’s the best part of my job, because they’ve gone through a significant amount of emotional turmoil. And, as you’re picking up the experience and dealing with all these matters, it’s very rewarding.”

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"All these people were a big family, and that put this big strength of security around you.”

If Scheffler had a precursor to his life in unionism it was growing up as the son of German immigrants in the working-class suburb of Blair Athol.

He attended local public schools at which he suffered no hardship, except for the time some kids threw rocks at him and chanted “Nazi” and “Kraut” as he scrambled home.

His father, Gerhard, worked on the production line at Holden’s Woodville and Elizabeth plants. And, as strikes and other industrial conflict played out across Australia through the late 1960s and early ’70s, Holden employees were never spared the turmoil.

Scheffler, then an Enfield High School boy, could see just how much his father valued, and held strongly to, his union membership. He also saw Gerhard give great support to his workmates, and the cause they shared, and survive those tumultuous times.

“I was impressed with that,” Scheffler remembers.

“I could see the strength of workers being united and achieving appropriate outcomes for themselves and their families.”

More exposure to workplace camaraderie came when Scheffler joined SAPOL as a 17-year-old in 1972 and undertook a three-year cadet course.

“Everybody joined the Police Association, the Police Hospital Fund, the Police Credit Union…” he says. “So, automatically, you were part of this

From left: As a new cadet in January 1972; Scheffler (second from right) with detectives Paul Scrace, Michael Polacek, Paul Felon and John Fanning in joint NSW-SAPOL investigation Operation Capital III

Scheffler (right) with fellow Port Adelaide traffic officer Gary Griffin in 1980

support system; everybody was in it together, and I just found that very comforting.

“Around you were senior people like the now late (association committee member) Jack Walsh, instructors, and very senior staff, like academy OC Eric Meldrum. All these people were a big family, and that put this big strength of security around you.”

But Scheffler might never have joined SAPOL had he persisted with the apprenticeship he started in plumbing. He took an instant dislike to the back-breaking job of digging trenches and asked his plumber boss – a mate of Gerhard – to buy a trench-digger.

The plumber explained to his naïve apprentice that he, the just-out-school Scheffler, was the trenchdigger. Scheffler chucked the job in after just a week, but that move earned him the wrath of Gerhard, who gave his youngest son two options.

One was to get another job, straight away.

The other was to go back to school. And the options were not up for debate. The Scheffler parents were people with a strong work ethic and an intense appreciation for opportunity.

They had lived through the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945, the final year of World War II. Among the estimated 25,000 dead were several of their family and friends.

This and other wartime horrors shaped the Schefflers, who came to cherish Australia and all it offered them. They were not about to allow their son a moment’s idleness in a land they perceived as full of prospects.

The now late Ruth Scheffler, who knew Jack Walsh through the German Club, suggested her boy look into a police career. Her suggestion led to a Walsh-organized tour of Fort Largs with some cadets.

From left: Presenting the Walter Wissell award for academic achievement to then graduate Rebecca Stewart (née Molchanoff); addressing the Police Association annual conference in 2006; as he appeared on Channel 9 News about police firearms in 2005

The facilities impressed Scheffler, as did the physical training and classroom lectures he saw the cadets undertaking. So he joined up and kicked off his training with Course 39 but, after 12 months, wanted to quit.

This time, Gerhard offered no options. Says Scheffler: “He was, and is, a very strong character and he basically said: ‘Mate, you will graduate.’

You will prove to me and the family that you can finish something.”

Scheffler fell into line with his father’s demand and did indeed graduate in 1974. Over the next three years, he worked with Para Hills, Holden Hill and Elizabeth patrols and remained living with his parents.

“Life was great,” he says. “I saved lots of money, had a great time and I loved policing.”

But, in 1977, a 23-year-old Scheffler came up against SAPOL bureaucracy, which refused him

With children Kristen and Michael and wife Carol

12 months’ leave without pay to travel overseas.

He was ready to resign over the refusal when a Para Hills sergeant advised him to speak first with the Police Association.

After a phone call and a commitment from the association to pursue the issue, Scheffler wound up with six months’ leave without pay. To that he added three months’ annual leave and travelled Europe for nine months.

After he came back to Australia, he continued his police career as a Port Adelaide motorcycle cop until 1981, when he joined the CIB. In 1992, after stints as a Port Adelaide and Drug Squad detective, Scheffler headed over to Eyre Peninsula to join Port Lincoln CIB. By then he was a husband to Carol – whom he had met in 1983 during her academy training with Course 2 – and father to two young children, Michael and Kristen. Neither child pursued a police career. Both wound up as teachers.

In February 2000, Scheffler became the Police Association delegate for Port Lincoln. But he had served only nine months when he won election to office as a committee member and had to take his seat at the board table.

Then, in 2001, came the opportunity to move into the full-time association role of member liaison officer. Scheffler applied for and won the job; and, to take it on, he had to leave but in no way disconnect from policing.

The job, which he settled into quickly, suited his affable nature and social adeptness and he excelled.

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and, away from work, he won election to office as a councillor with the Charles Sturt Council.

Scheffler never expected his predecessor, Andy Dunn, to step down as secretary at the end of his last term. He had always imagined the two would retire more or less together after the term of 2013-17.

“My jaw dropped,” Scheffler says of his reaction to the announcement Dunn made in January: that he was not standing for re-election. “It took an hour or two for it to really sink in.

“He’d never given any indication that he’d be going anywhere. It came completely out of the blue. And I never had a plan to be the secretary; but, then, I absorbed it, and thought: ‘Well, who should be the next secretary?’ ” That question got Scheffler thinking about his 13 years’ union experience, his extensive police background and, ultimately, his capacity to succeed Dunn. “I was very much of the belief that I could do a good job, so I stood as a candidate in the election,” he says.

“I bring my experience of the day-to-day operations of the position. But I will be a different secretary from Andy Dunn. I expect to have a very hands-on role with legal and disciplinary matters.

“I’ll also work with our president, Mark Carroll, to maintain a strong, solid foundation for the association into the future. I’ve watched closely the way Mark has operated as our leader: his ability has been obvious, and he’s brought about great results for the membership.

“So I’m very pleased now to be operating as his second-in-charge. He’ll have my full support in all that we strive for throughout this new term in office.”

From top left: Scheffler (left) in the Coffin Bay National Park with seized cannabis plants during Operation Safe Parks; with Tony Hehir, Ron Hope, Steve Wuttke and Ron McBride during Operation Lock in 1997; Scheffler (second from right) with Crop-a-Cop participants Arch Kempster, Adrian Turner and Tony Hehir; and Scheffler during a drug operation in Port Lincoln in 1995

But Scheffler understands the realities of holding elected office. He knows well that police voters are prepared to be just as critical of their elected officeholders as civilians are of politicians. So he appreciates the need for a hide like a rhino.

“You’re always going to have that scrutiny and criticism,” he says. “You just need to see that it doesn’t shake you from your direction and focus.

“You have to have some toughness in your personality.

You need that when you join the police and even more so in elected office. But you wouldn’t be in a job like this if you weren’t hardened up to it.”

His constant contact with members keeps Scheffler in touch with their issues, as does his police background.

Many memorable investigations he undertook have stayed with him.

He recalls the day a local man, who had been guarding a NSW cannabis crop, walked into Port Lincoln police station looking for help in the early 1990s.

The man had fled after a dispute he had had with his drug-growing bosses over pay. He now feared they were going to murder him.

It emerged that NSW police had been seeking critical information on the growers of the crop of 6,000 plants, in Monga State Forest, for four years.

Scheffler and his colleagues went on to take part in a joint operation involving SA police, the NSW Police Organised Crime Squad and the National Crime Authority. The op led to the arrest of a dozen suspects from across Australia.

Another cross-border case remains memorable to Scheffler, too. It began when a man in his mid-20s called into Port Lincoln police station to report sex abuse he had suffered from the age of five in NSW.

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“I aim to help ensure that, through enterprise agreements, our members get appropriate entitlements.”

He implicated a teacher, and others, but would not travel back to Sydney to identify them, or the places where the abuse took place, without Scheffler.

So Scheffler travelled to Sydney with him and investigated the offences with NSW police. In the exclusive suburb of Vaucluse, the man identified houses in which the years-long abuse had taken place.

Police arrested and charged the teacher and four others, all of whom were part of a paedophile network. Four of them gassed themselves to death in cars and so never faced court.

Scheffler might no longer perform police work but his focus now, and for at least the next four years, will be those who do. “I aim to help ensure that, through enterprise agreements, our members get appropriate entitlements,” he says.

“And I want to reinforce the message to government and SAPOL that policing is different from any other occupation, and that police should be remunerated accordingly.” PJ

New to the boardroom

By Brett Williams

Three candidates who ran for office in the recent Police Association elections have won positions on the committee of management for the first time.

They were Sgt Sam Strange (DNA Management), Snr Const Julian Snowden (Transit) and Sgt Mitch Manning (Port Adelaide Cells).

All three went to the ballot with considerable union experience. Sgt Manning had served as an association delegate for 17 years, as Sgt Strange had for almost four years and Snr Const Snowden for three years.

SAM STRANGE, 44 Police Association member since 1990 Husband Michael (Forensic Response) and daughter Abbey Comments…

“To represent the sworn members of SAPOL is an absolute privilege. In the early 1990s I worked at Darlington with now retired sergeant and association delegate Graham Edwards. He was a strong advocate for members’ rights and conditions.

“That was during one of the biggest industrial campaigns in association history and my first real exposure to the delegate role and the power of our association.

“The most important police industrial issues to me are staffing levels and negotiating the best possible outcome in EB7, without surrendering any of our current conditions.”

The committee members they replaced were Detective Sgt Rick Day, who retired, Detective Snr Sgt Julie Foley, who did not renominate, and Sgt Jim Tappin.

Police Association president Mark Carroll paid tribute to the trio at a special dinner at the Police Club in April. “I’m particularly grateful for the service, loyalty and support each of them gave the association and its members over many years,” he said.

“They leave very big shoes to fill but I’m sure our newly elected members are up to the task and I look forward to their input around the board table.”

JULIAN SNOWDEN, 48 Police Association member since 1992 (except for 18 months out of the job) Wife Tabetha (SCIB) and children Jay, Ruby and Henry Comments…

“I was very happy about being elected.

On committee, I can champion issues and make a difference.

“I was once a delegate for the Electrical Trades Union and it was a strong union. Being a member and having a united stand improved our pay and working conditions.

“Since joining the Police Association in 1992, I’ve realized that unionism and industrial relations play an even more important role in our job.

“The most important industrial issues to me are staffing levels across SAPOL, particularly on the front line of general patrols and CIB, the fast approaching EA, and rostering.”

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MITCH MANNING, 51 Police Association member since 1982 Wife Anne and children Keeley and Aidan Comments…

“I feel a great sense of achievement (about being elected).

I’m a loud person when I need to be and I fight for the underdog.

“I’ve done 17 years as a delegate for Port Adelaide and I thought it was time to step up and help the association executive, not that they need it but I believe I have something to offer.

“I waited until my kids were old enough not to need me so much at home so I could dedicate my time to the organization.

“The most important industrial issues to me are family-friendly rosters, staffing levels, disclosure and other onerous working conditions.”

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Hard to leave an amazing association

By Brett Williams

Three years

as a Police Association insider has left David Russell amazed. The inaugural media and communications officer has marvelled at the union’s professionalism, democracy, political non-alignment and, ultimately, its 99.3 per cent participation rate.

“That figure speaks volumes for the type of organization it is,” he said. “It proves that it really is an essential organization for its members. They can know that there’s always going to be someone who can advocate for them if anything goes wrong on the job.

“And then there’s the legal representation and, obviously, enterprise bargaining and wage negotiating. There’s the fact, too, that the entire membership elects the entire committee. That’s as democratic as it can be in terms of a union.”

The realities of police work have hit Mr Russell too, particularly as the only association employee – besides administrative staff – without a police background. He had known little about the dangers, or the range of tasks, cops stand up to on the front line every day.

Playing a part in delivering association support to members such as constables Brett Gibbons and Travis Emms came as a major eye-opener to Mr Russell.

Const Gibbons took a shotgun blast to the face and Const Emms injured his knee after the pair responded to a triple murder at Hectorville in 2011.

“When you actually meet people affected by that, it affects you, in the sense that it becomes more real,” Mr Russell said. “It’s not just a story on the news. It’s a real person, in real life, and you can actually see how it’s affected them.

“I think it’s really remarkable that people are willing to sign up to a profession which almost certainly puts them in harm’s way at some stage.

“And seeing that makes you understand why policing is such a close-knit fraternity. Every time you go to work, you know there’s a risk that that type of thing can happen. That must be part of the reason the bond between different police officers is so strong.”

With his great regard for cops, and their union, Mr Russell found it sad to announce his resignation from the MCO role late last month. He and his

partner, Alise, are heading off to England, where Mr Russell’s father is a diplomat.

The couple intends to live in London, undertake work and remain abroad for at least 12 months. A “really excited” Mr Russell described the plan as not only an overseas adventure but also a working holiday.

“We both have British passports,” he said. “And, having my dad living there, it seemed like the opportunity to go and live in London for a year was too good to turn down.”

Police Association president Mark Carroll said he deeply regretted losing Mr Russell as an employee, whose contribution as MCO he considered invaluable.

“We brought David on back in 2010 because we really wanted someone to work hard at developing our website into a contemporary, dynamic communications tool,” he said.

“We also wanted a professional, formalized liaison regime between our office and the media.

“We had to develop these key areas to keep us at the cutting edge of police industrial relations.

David has been integral to all of this.

“He has continuously kept PASAweb up to date, in real time, with all manner of news and information relevant to our members. And, for the association, he’s established excellent working relationships with not only media outlets but also individual journalists.

“From day one, he has given our organization and our members his complete loyalty and total commitment.”

Mr Russell said he was grateful for the opportunity his job had given him to develop his existing skills in web authoring. “Also, getting to work with the media in a very political area that the public has a lot of interest in was great,” he said.

“If there’s a police issue that involves our members’ industrial entitlements or a serious injury on duty, the media come to us, so it’s been very exciting.”

The Police Association has appointed new MCO Nick Damiani, who underwent a two-week induction with Mr Russell. Mr Damiani came to the role with considerable media experience and has undertaken special training since his appointment. PJ June 2013 Police Journal

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The craziest thing I’ve ever done

By Brett Williams

She had suffered

Jo Kruk running the Northburn 100 Ultra Marathon run

stress fractures, inflamed tendons and hypothermia and, in the end, could only hobble over the finish line. But the result was outstanding. The super-fit but pained Jo Kruk had run a gruelling 160km in 30 hours and 47 minutes.

Indeed, the determined 26-year-old had beaten all but two other female runners in New Zealand’s Northburn 100 Ultra Mountain Run in March. Brutal on those who undertake it, the annual event has a fitting catchphrase: “You don’t race it, you survive it.”

Almost 80 competitors never crossed the finish line.

Among the 30 who did, however, Kruk placed 12th, almost five hours ahead of the next woman (in 17th place), and just eight-and-a-half hours behind the winner.

“It was the craziest thing I’ve ever done,” she concedes.

“The wind gusts, of 100km/h, were blowing people off the mountains in the middle of the night. You had steep climbs and you could barely walk because of the strength of the wind. It is indescribable.

“At one stage I had to position my body almost parallel to the ground and hold my hands in to my body just to walk and get through the wind. Had the wind changed for whatever reason, I would have just face-planted it straight away into the ground.”

Only 12 months earlier, Kruk had triumphed in the Namib Desert Challenge, in which competitors had to run five marathons over five consecutive days. She was the first of 10 women over the finish line and fourth overall, in 17 hours and 53 minutes.

Kruk understood that taking on the Northburn 100 would be the same as running four marathons in a row. And she knew that runners, such as 30-yearold British woman Claire Squires, had died running just one marathon.

So why did the self-coached Kruk take on yet another excruciating physical and mental challenge – at her own expense?

It was just one of those spontaneous decisions she makes from time to time. The police prosecutor, elite athlete and general adventurer had scoured the internet for another marathon to compete in and found the daunting Northburn 100.

The extreme mountain run of 100 miles (160km) takes place over a hard, rocky course, structured into three loops, two of 50km and one of 60km. It compels runners to climb and descend vertically from heights totalling 8,000 metres.

And they have to do that in the freezing cold and gale-force winds of Central Otago. The conditions overwhelm some competitors, who end up injured, hypothermic and/or blown clear off the course.

At checkpoints along the way, runners can afford little time for respite. They have just 48 hours to complete the distance after a 6am start in the dark at Northburn Station, five minutes out of Cromwell.

Still, everything the challenge-loving Kruk read about the punishing run excited rather than dissuaded her. And when she saw that it coincided with her annual leave, she decided to pay the $320 entry fee and airfare to New Zealand to take part in it.

Just 23km into the run, Kruk – dressed in shorts and feeling ice-cold – approached a medical checkpoint where she would face the threat of disqualification.

“A doctor took one look at me, threw me into a car and turned on all the heaters,” she says. “He said: ‘If you don’t warm up in the next five minutes I’m going to have to get you out of the race because you’re hypothermic.’

“I moved to get out of the car, and he said: ‘It’s that or you’re disqualified.’ So, I had some thermals in my bag and chucked them on, and he gave me some food.

I ate that and started feeling and looking a lot better.

“I managed to creep out after about 10 minutes of just getting myself warmed up. If I didn’t get warmed up in that short space of time, they (officials) couldn’t have let me continue.”

But Kruk did continue, over the rocky surfaces, through bushes and on four-wheel-drive tracks, as she tackled the climbs and fought the “phenomenal” winds. In a backpack she would wear throughout the run were clothes – to don in case of rain or snow – food and water.

“A lot of the time I was running by myself and being thrown into rocks at the side of the mountain,” she explains. “It was just so strong that it was actually lifting me up and throwing me.

“At one stage I started personifying the wind. It just felt like such an enemy. It was probably 2 o’clock in the morning and it was just not letting me move forward. I started screaming: ‘Piss off! Just give me a break!’

“Then, at one point, I was climbing this hill and all of sudden the wind changes and pushes me forward. I was just so happy: the wind, in that moment, felt like my best friend.”

At another point, toward the end of the run and still in the dark, Kruk could see the reflection of what seemed like “a billion eyes” staring at her. As she drew closer, the eerie image eventually became clear enough to identify.

All the eyes belonged to a flock of sheep which was blocking her path. “You couldn’t see the path beyond them,” she says. “I wanted to set myself goals, like points to get to, but I couldn’t see them because of the sheep.

“They were just moving slowly forward and I felt like I was herding them.”

Desperate to maintain her momentum, Kruk stopped for only five minutes at five or six checkpoints. Some of her competitors took much longer breaks, and even slept. And, stopping at the base tent was, in the circumstances, a luxury.

“It was warm and cosy and you had people supporting you there,” Kruk says. “They gave you food and took care of you. Then you leave and just go back into the dark and the wind again.

“You have to go back up through that mountain again and run an even a longer distance than the previous loop.”

For energy, and to satisfy food cravings as she ran, Kruk “smashed down” nuts, lollies, and nut bars every 30 minutes.

If she were to injure herself or collapse, a long way from other runners, she had only her mobile phone to call for help. Kruk wore no GPS tracker.

When she came to her last 30km, she was feeling the agony of inflammation in her right foot, which had become bruised and extremely swollen. This left her barely able to stand and reduced her movement to a hobble rather than a jog.

And she had come to this point with stress fractures in both her shins. “To have something (my foot) immediately bruise up was the most psychologically damaging part of the run,” she says.

“I just thought: ‘This pain is going to pass,’ but it didn’t. It got worse, and I was really worried about what the repercussions of that would be.”

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SC1C Jo Kruk: “A doctor took one look at me, threw me into a car and turned on all the heaters.”

there was this energy or spirit that would make sure I finished. I just knew it was going to be all right.”

She soon hobbled over the finish line aching and sore but felt great to be one of the top three female place-getters. She had, after all, signed up for the race only a month earlier and had not tailored her regular training to it as preparation.

“It was one of the hardest yet, simultaneously, the most enjoyable and satisfying experiences of my life,” she says. “I attribute that to approaching it from an ‘adventure’ perspective rather than a results-oriented, athletic mindset.

“It was magic, and I think I gained the most I’ve ever gained personally from it (running).”

But Kruk now needed treatment. Her foot had become “one big fat swollen lump with bruising all down the muscle”. A doctor she consulted the next day checked it for compartment syndrome, a condition in which a muscle can die from obstructed blood supply.

He consulted a specialist and found Kruk to be clear of the syndrome. But blood tests she underwent back in Adelaide after the run showed that, without even realizing it, she had been suffering glandular fever.

“That did explain a lot,” she says, “some of the issues I was going through beforehand and the fatigue. I was pretty much training all the time, but I’m always training.”

The weekly Kruk regime was – and still is – one or two 30km runs and 22 hours in the gym on cardio equipment, usually a stepper. And, clearly comfortable with her own company, she undertook her workouts alone.

In the two weeks after the run, her inflammation died down and, now, her stress fractures are “healing quite well”. “And I just want to do another 100-miler,” she says, “maybe overseas. I have leave coming up in September, and America is huge for 100-milers.” PJ

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Opinion

Time to make an impact on alcohol-fuelled violence Amanda Bachmann Correspondent | Producer Sunrise, Seven Network

A couple

of weeks ago I was called a “scum” who “incubated crap”. This from an armchair critic via twitter.

Now it’s not the first time I’ve been called scum and it certainly won’t be the last. It’s a label regularly attached to journalists. Nonetheless, the comment affronted me.

Who was this anonymous critic? And what right did he or she have to judge me – and criticize me?

To be a journalist you need a thick skin. You’re often in the public eye and viewed somewhat as open slather for critical opinion.

I’m not just talking about the content of reporting either. As a TV journalist on the wrong side of 40, I’ve become used to people commenting on my appearance. Hair, weight, clothes and wrinkles are all up for discussion.

But, in all my years as a journalist, I’ve mainly encountered verbal abuse. I’ve been shoved a little and threatened with physical abuse, but have never actually been hurt.

So, there I was the other night watching Cops - Adults Only and I was appalled to see what the officers on the programme were subjected to.

There was a constant barrage of verbal and physical attacks against them.

The confrontation makes for good TV but it does not make for a great day at work. It did not look at all fun for the officers dealing with violent drug addicts, people suffering terrible mental-health issues and a steady stream of irrational drunks.

Now it’s tempting to say “Only in America", but the reality is that it’s not just America. It’s in streets all across our country, and Friday and Saturday nights are particularly busy. As police patrols try to ensure

our safety, they are subject to all manner of abuse.

So how much of this is caused by an over indulgence in alcohol?

Check out Hindley St in the early hours and there’s no doubt alcohol is an enormous problem.

Paramedics, hospital workers and police all report increases in a range of problems stemming from alcohol abuse.

Statistics show a rise in the number of intoxicated people presenting to emergency departments, and late-night assaults and domestic violence cases involving alcohol.

In the most recent National Drug Strategy Survey, 42.1 per cent of respondents listed excessive alcohol use as the issue of most concern to the general community.

This figure is in line with a rise in the number of victims of alcohol-related physical abuse and the number of people being “put in fear”.

The million-dollar question is how to stop alcoholfuelled violence.

The National Drug Strategy Survey shows support for measures such as monitoring late-night venues, restricting late-night trading, and reducing trading hours and the number of outlets.

There’s also support for raising the price of alcohol, increasing the tax on booze, expanding the number of alcohol-free zones and raising the legal drinking age.

It’s all controversial stuff. After all, drinking is considered such a part of Australian culture.

I’m partial to a glass or two of wine but, when there’s excess, there’s often trouble.

Over the years there’s been much debate on whether we should raise our legal drinking age from 18 to 21, and whether this would have any impact on alcohol-fuelled violence.

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The National Drug Strategy Survey shows more than 50 per cent of people believe raising the drinking age would help reduce excessive alcohol consumption. This figure has risen over the last decade.

Support for raising the legal drinking age varies on a state-by-state basis – 53 per cent of those surveyed in South Australia are in favour.

It’s the highest percentage of support across the country. The ACT has the lowest level of support at 38.5 per cent.

In May, a Victorian coalition of community groups and associations led the latest charge to raise the legal drinking age. Top health experts, emergency doctors, sporting greats and some politicians back the coalition.

But this is something that can’t be dealt with on a state-by-state basis. What’s the point of having a drinking age of 21 in Victoria when patrons could simply head across the border for a drink?

The Victorian coalition wants the federal government to adopt the raise-the-drinkingage policy.

The Police Association (Victoria) says raising the drinking age isn’t the answer, and that licensing should be the focus.

But, as the parent of three teenagers, I believe raising the drinking age should be considered as just one of several measures adopted to stop excessive consumption. And the federal government should take the lead on this issue.

If we can reduce the occurrence of alcoholfuelled violence, our police will be able to work in a safer environment and create a safer community for all of us.

Letters

Letters to the editor can be sent by: Regular mail Police Journal, PO Box 6032, Halifax St, Adelaide SA 5000 Email editor@pasa.asn.au Fax (08) 8212 2002 Internal dispatch Police Journal 168

Too many laws preventing law enforcement Policing is, by any measure, a difficult job and yet SA police officers discharge their duties, day in and day out, with diligence, compassion and a professionalism that is world class. SA police are the most trusted in Australia, and that is quite an accolade.

I know that, in recent times, with the police budget under extreme pressure, there has been much uncertainty.

If the Liberal Party is elected to government next March, there won’t be much money to spend but that doesn’t mean there can’t be real and meaningful reform that is effective and efficient and will make policing easier.

We will do away with that ultimate irony of policing where there are simply too many laws preventing you from enforcing the law.

Late last month, when addressing the Police Association industry forum luncheon, I outlined the top five laws I want reviewed, simplified or just thrown in the bin.

Legislation like the Summary Offences Act , the Firearms Act – which has made carrying a paintball gun a major indictable offence – the Criminal Law Consolidation Act, the Serious and Organised Crime Act, and the Forensic Procedures Act, which is so complex and convoluted.

The procedures and processes have bogged police down. Instead of fighting crime, many of them are fighting paperwork. That has got to stop.

In the nine months between now and the election next March, I want to hear from police officers. I want to find out if there are other laws they want a Liberal government to consider.

I want them involved in shaping law reform rather than being passive recipients of it.

No one knows what works more than police do and I want to assure them that I will do everything possible to allow them to get on with what they do best, keeping our community safe.

Steven Marshall State Opposition Leader

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Grateful to calm, efficient cops First, I’m grateful for the opportunity to thank, through this letter, Karyn Jarman and Peter Tellam, two police officers from Sturt Traffic. I’ve been meaning to write for some time and finally – finally – got around to it.

I’ve worked at the Police Association for almost 12 years now and, during that time, have had many dealings with police through my role as an association employee.

Up until early this year, those dealings had pretty much been my only ones with police. In February, however, I had my first ever experience dealing with police in their professional capacity.

I had a car accident – another first. I was driving home one evening, with my dog in the back seat, when someone ran a red light and hit my car.

I think I was pretty lucky I wasn’t any further into the intersection.

But I was, mostly, physically unhurt and, most important to me, so was my dog. The same cannot be said for my poor car.

Karyn Jarman and Peter Tellam attended the scene that night and were incredibly calm, efficient, pleasantly-spoken and, when my terrified dog didn’t want to get out of my wrecked car, so very patient and kind.

It made me proud to be part of an organization whose sole purpose is to represent and benefit police officers like these.

So this letter is to say a massive thank you to those police officers. Their professionalism and good humour made a potentially traumatic event that much more bearable. Thank you.

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Q&A

At what point in their careers should police officers start planning for retirement?

From top: Constable Benjamin Partington, Chief Inspector Denise Gray and Detective Sgt Tania Sheldon.

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Police officers should start planning for their retirement from an early age; and, with the advantage of salary-sacrificing into their own super, securing a financially viable future is very easy.

However, in regard to long-term careers – with the current generation – they are few and far between and no longer the norm. With the current long-serving police officers and those on the old pension scheme, retirement is only a matter of when they feel ready as they are financially secure.

With those now on super, planning for retirement should be started as soon as possible. Police officers should plan or at least think about retirement as early as possible – even though the end of their careers is a long way off – to be able to secure the best future for themselves and their families.

When I joined SAPOL, retirement was the last thing on my mind. Luckily for me the superannuation scheme was exceptional and really protected my interests.

Since then, my husband and I have made a number of sound investments, primarily geared at becoming mortgage-free and to ensure we enjoy our retirement.

It wasn’t easy. We have had to scrimp and save (having five children) and we made lots of sacrifices.

But experience in SAPOL, particularly at Major Crime, and the fact several of my dear relatives, friends and colleagues have suffered serious illness at a young age, I now think differently.

You always have to plan for retirement but somehow balance that with enjoying the moment.

Use some money to build your memories with your family and friends because they will give you the most joy in retirement.

I would think there is not a one-size-fits-all response for police officers planning for retirement.

We have so many officers with varying lengths of careers and career aspirations.

I have not devoted very much time to planning for retirement but, now that my children have grown up and are largely self-sufficient, my mind turns more to retirement planning.

Police planning long careers should be thinking about their financial plans very early in their careers and at least have a retirement plan to work to over the last 15 to 20 years of their career, once children are off their hands.

This should include planning what debt can be paid off before retiring from work so that lifestyle choices in retirement are not too limited by superannuation not living up to expectations.

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Industrial

Association influence brings about extra police income protection Nick Damiani

New regulations for which

the Police Association fought – and which bring about extra income protection for police injured through criminality – might give officers peace of mind and help reduce the burden of financial uncertainty during difficult times.

This is the opinion of association members Brevet Sergeant Wally Clarke and Constable Brett Gibbons, both seriously injured as a result of criminal behaviour in 2011.

In 2008, the association set out to lobby the government for adjustments to the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 .

The association view was that entitlements set out in the act for workers compensation were inadequate for police injured as a result of criminality.

The entitlements issue has come into sharper focus this month with the first round of police officers – including Clarke and Gibbons – receiving their top-up income protection payments as a result of the association lobbying and subsequent regulation changes.

• A direct and immediate result of conduct that The new arrangement came into effect on July 12, 2012, when the Southern State Superannuation constitutes a criminal offence by a person who has (Additional Income Protection for Police Officers) been apprehended or who the officer is attempting Variation Regulations 2012 became official. to apprehend.

Significantly, cabinet has also approved an The adjustment to the regulations means that ex-gratia top-up payment to any person who would affected police officers will now be covered have had an entitlement during the interim period – for the difference between 100 per cent of their from July 1, 2011. This covers Gibbons and Clarke. notional weekly earnings and the amount of workers According to the act, police officers are entitled compensation payments they receive, for a period of up to two years. to this additional payment if they are temporarily or permanently incapacitated for work as a result The benefit effectively bridges the gap, which of a physical or physiological injury sustained during previously existed under the act, between workers law enforcement, or as a result of injuries in the compensation payments and pre-injury earnings. following circumstances: This distinction is only available to police officers.

• Conduct directed at the officer that constitutes Brevet Sgt Clarke, who returned to work just a criminal offence. last month, described the unique isolation that • A direct and immediate result of conduct that police can feel in the aftermath of an injury or traumatic event, constitutes a criminal offence especially when this in the course of the officer’s “It’s never going to occurs as a result of a involvement in police operations completely make up for what police officer undertaking directed at the investigation of criminal conduct. h i s o r h e r d u t y of happened but it helps to • Conduct that appears to protecting the community keep your head above water.” from criminal activity. be criminal.

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He acknowledged that the new regulations go some way toward helping ease the burden.

“It gives members and their families peace of mind that they won’t be left with no support financially at a time when they are most vulnerable,” he said.

“Injury leaves you with a feeling that you’re not worth anything. I never thought that it would be that way for me but the length of time that I was off and the level of interference by outsiders is phenomenal.

“My GP, physio and specialist were great, but rehab co-ordinators were a whole different kettle of fish.

“I have an enormous amount to relearn and catch up on. But I’ve been looking forward to being productive again. I’m looking forward to getting out and talking to my locals, opening up my station and getting back in touch with the community.”

Brevet Sgt Clarke also took the opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a long-term member of the association.

“I’ve been a member for 23 years,” he said. “The association does far more than just this one thing. We’d be in trouble without them representing us on a daily basis. PASA assists in all manner of ways.”

Brevet Sgt Clarke said he was not aware of the previous gap in the legislation, a view shared by Constable Gibbons who, along with Constable Travis Emms, was seriously injured after responding to the Hectorville triple shooting murder in 2011 (Shotgun slaughter – the survivors, Police Journal, August 2012).

“I wasn’t aware that PASA lobbied for this change in regulations until after I was injured,” said Gibbons, who did not return to full-time police duties for 18 months after the heinous shooting.

“It’s never going to completely make up for what happened but it helps to keep your head above water.

You’re always going to lose something out of this but these new regulations were definitely something that helped me.”

Performing, as police do, some of society’s most dangerous work was an association focal point in lobbying and a key factor in distinguishing the dangers police experience from those which other members of the community face. This was never more evident than in the case of Emms and Gibbons in the Hectorville murders.

“Accidents happen in the workplace to any person but, from a police point of view, we are frequently targets of criminality, as opposed to a normal workplace accident,” Gibbons said.

“Unfortunately for police, it’s often not an accident, it’s a deliberate act where we are specifically targeted (by criminals).”

Constable Gibbons’ experience left him off work and wondering what the future held both personally and financially.

“In a limited capacity I went back to work after about five months, but I didn’t return to full-time work for about 18 months,” he explained.

It was in this time that Gibbons was able to reflect fully on the importance of being an association member.

“Though it’s not something you think of when you sign up, this kind of lobbying is an important factor in being a member,” he said. “It’s nice to have it there when you need it.”

Association president Mark Carroll said regulatory change would not have been delivered without decisive association action, and that these examples serve as a stark reminder of police putting themselves in harm’s way for the sake of public safety.

“How Brett and Travis, for example, ever escaped the Hectorville shooting with their lives is almost incomprehensible,” he said.

“The horrific injuries they sustained serve as a particularly dramatic illustration of the extent to which police incidents can change officers’ lives – for the poorer. The previous entitlements under the legislation were inadequate.”

Mr Carroll also said non-members should take note of what the association is able to achieve with its influence.

“Out of 4,600 sworn police officers, 42 maintain the course of non-membership but might one day access this new entitlement,” he explained.

“They should understand that it is accessible to them for one reason: collectivism, through which individuals band together to commit financially to the association. That’s what enables it to function and achieve such outstanding results.”

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HEALTH Dr Rod Pearce

Aussie lives lost to binge drinking And, with alcohol-fuelled violence and other factors, the financial cost to the nation is more than $15 billion

A person who drinks regularly is more likely to do drinking can kill. And a binge is long-term damage to other organs of the body (liver) when someone sets out to get drunk and, then, but not put himself or herself at risk of acute harm. drinks a large amount of alcohol in a short space And, in Australia, beverage preferences have of time. shifted toward spirits and pre-mixed drinks, especially People have consumed alcohol for thousands among younger drinkers. Also significant is a rise in informal drinking styles. One such style is drinking of years, but many of the health risks of that directly from the container. consumption have only been discovered fairly recently.

Alcohol accounts for 13 per cent of all deaths With increasing doses of alcohol, a person will among 14- to 17-year-old Australians. experience euphoria, excitement and, then, confusion.

Figures suggest that one Australian teenager Higher doses will progressively lead to stupor, coma dies and more than 60 are hospitalized each week and death from the suppression of breathing. from alcohol-related causes. And around 90 per In 2010, a study took place into the sudden deaths cent of people have tried alcohol by the age of 14. of people with blood-alcohol content above 0.05.

The cost to Australia – in terms of alcohol-related It led to the belief that the alcohol could bring on crime, treatment, loss of productivity and premature a heart attack and subsequent death, possibly by death – is $15.3 billion. directly poisoning the heart muscle.

Among the effects of binge drinking are: Binge drinking is commonly defined as consuming • Reduced concentration. five or more “standard” drinks in a row for men and • Lack of co-ordination. four or more in a row for women.

A standard drink contains • Slower reflexes.

Helping someone avoid 10 grams of alcohol. If you drink • Loss of inhibitions.

• Slurred speech. one nip of spirits and two average the mistake of binge • Blackouts. restaurant glasses of wine, you have drinking might be the best • Vomiting. consumed four standard drinks – • Poisoning.

1 plus 1.5 plus 1.5. support you can provide.

• Coma.

An average serve of wine is 150ml • Death. but, from one venue to another, glass sizes can range from 120ml to 180ml.

Life support might be necessary if a binge drinker Of course, the volume of alcohol a drinker lapses into unconsciousness. That drinker could also consumes is relevant to his or her health but, vomit and aspirate that vomit into his or her lungs, so, too, is the pattern of drinking, according to increasing the risk of pneumonia and death. emerging evidence.

Binge drinking more quickly leads to higher levels Look for signs of alcohol poisoning of alcohol in the blood. This, in turn, is likely to lead Alcohol poisoning might have occurred if breathing to more serious effects on the body. has become slow (eight breaths per minute or fewer,

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or irregular with 10 seconds or more between breaths), and the person is unresponsive to prodding and firm pinching.

O ther pos sible signs include stupor s (unconsciousness or semi- consciousness), inability to be woken, blue lips and fingertips, cold clammy hands and/or feet, rapid pulse, vomiting while asleep and not waking.

An intoxicated person needs protection from external harm. He or she should not, for example, visit the bathroom alone. It is too easy for a drunken person, who lacks co-ordination, to slip and hit his or her head on hard bathroom surfaces.

Seeking medical attention is the best way to bring about protection for someone who is intoxicated.

The direct effects of the alcohol are potentially life-threatening. Issues such as dehydration are secondary; and giving someone coffee or other fluids to drink might cause vomiting and aspiration and make things worse.

Alcoholic intoxication is seen as a mental-health issue with far-reaching effects on people’s lives.

Helping someone avoid the mistake of binge drinking might be the best support you can provide.

Sporting organizations have continued to see the harm binge drinking causes and are taking steps to decrease the association between sport and excessive alcohol consumption.

In April 2013, Surfing Australia became the 15th sporting group to join Be the Influence – Tackling Binge Drinking (www.tacklingbingedrinking.gov.au).

Drinking alcohol was once seen as a fun part of socializing and sport. Now, however, there are well-documented dangers with the style, as well as the amount, of drinking people undertake.

Motoring Jim Barnett

A real road presence …clearly one of the smoothest, quietest drive trains around for the price.

The new

Chrysler 300 sedan makes an impressive statement, even with softer external lines. It features a low, wide body, chrome horizontal bar grille, projector Bi-Xenon auto-levelling HID headlamps, daytime running lights and a big square rear end with dual exhausts and LED tail lights.

Of the revised four-model line-up, the entry 300 Limited is superb to drive. It has real road presence and is super smooth and delightfully quiet. In fact, it is so quiet that many will choose to drive it with the radio switched off.

Priced from $43,000, it’s a lot of car for the money and offers an alternative to mid-spec Commodore and Falcon. There are plenty of cars in this price bracket but few match the limousine ambience of the 300 Limited.

A 3.6-litre V6 petrol engine delivers 210kW of power and 340Nm of torque. Drive is to the rear wheels through an all-new eight-speed ZF automatic transmission. Tyre noise is rarely evident, even on coarse bitumen.

The 300 Limited is clearly one of the smoothest, quietest drive trains around for the price. But it’s no slouch: the slick V6 will propel this hefty car from 0-100km/h in just seven seconds and delivers combined fuel economy of 9.4 litres per 100km.

Standard kit is extensive and includes a big clear

colour LCD screen with functions for audio, sat nav, climate control and reversing camera.

Electrically adjustable are both front seats (in eight ways) and the leather-bound steering wheel, with its cruise, phone and audio buttons.

The stylish gauge layout is illuminated in soft blue and the centrally located analogue clock adds a touch of elegance. Push-button keyless entry and start add to the ease of operation but the new electronic auto gear-shifter takes a little getting used to.

With the comfortable seats comes plenty of legroom, both front and back. Dual-zone climate control with rear vents and a 276-watt audio system with USB/aux inputs also feature.

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Priced from $43,000, it’s a lot of car for the money and offers an alternative to mid-spec Commodore and Falcon.

Aggressive look gone And all models score a five-star safety rating and feature seven airbags.

Mitsubishi has ditched its aggressive

jet fighter-style grille and endowed its all-new Outlander with a smoother, more rounded body.

The result is a smarter-looking medium SUV with broader appeal.

This new Outlander comes in three spec levels and, depending on the model, buyers can choose a 2WD or 4WD, five or seven seats, and three engines with three different transmissions.

Entry ES 2WD, with five seats, is the only manual in the range and costs $28,990. It comes with a 110kW 2.0-litre petrol engine coupled with a five-speed manual transmission.

The cheapest 4WD ($33,99 0) is also ES spec but features a more powerful 2.4-litre 124kW petrol engine coupled with a CVT auto transmission.

LS 4WD ($38,990) and Aspire 4WD ($43,490) are the only seven-seat models. Each features the 2.4-litre CVT combination. Optional on each is a new 2.2-litre intercooled turbo diesel engine with conventional six-speed automatic transmission ($2,000).

The diesel produces 110kW of power and impressive torque of 360Nm from 1,500-2,750rpm.

Smooth and quiet for a diesel, it works well with the six-speed auto which features paddle shifters for manual control.

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Diesel models have a braked tow capacity of 2,000kg and offer combined fuel economy of 5.8 litres/100km.

Outlander comes with a completely new interior.

In Aspire, the modern, stylish dash features a colour LCD screen which displays audio, climate-control info and reversing camera. Other touches are: • Leather trim.

• Wood-grain garnishes.

• Heated front seats.

• Auto wipers and lights.

• Keyless push-button entry and start.

A worthwhile option ($5,500) on Aspire adds: • Adaptive cruise control.

• Forward Collision Mitigation.

• Power tail gate.

• High-powered nine-speaker audio with subwoofer.

• Seven-inch sat-nav touch screen.

In seven-seat models, all seats accommodate adults but third-row seats, which fold flat into the cargo floor, have limited leg space.

The second row is a 60/40 split-fold design with the ability to slide forward, recline or fold flat with the cargo floor.

Cargo space is generous with the third row folded flat and includes an under-floor compartment.

A full-sized spare hides underneath the car.

All Outlander models score a five-star safety rating and feature seven airbags.

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Banking

Who are you really banking with?

Adrian Ploksts Manager, Private Banking Police Credit Union

In the fallout

of the global financial crisis, many Australian banks and mortgage brokers suffered a similar fate: that of facing mergers and negotiations. Immediately post- GFC, many smaller (and some quite large) financial institutions made deals which brought about not only the acquisition of their mortgage books but also the rights to the use of the smaller companies’ brands.

You may have been one of many Australians who came home one day to discover a letter from a new company informing you that your mortgage now belonged to a different bank, and you were not alone.

Thousands of Australians faced the same proposition.

If you have an innate sense of pride in supporting small business and the “local guy”, have you checked recently who actually owns your bank? Chances are that, if you aren’t with a customer-owned financial institution, like a credit union, building society or mutual bank, you are probably (either consciously or not) a “big four” customer.

A recent survey by Abacus (the industry body for the Australian mutual financial services sector) showed that 50 per cent of Australians are unaware of the big banks’ ownership of smaller “competitors”.

And over 80 per cent of Australians are unaware that the big four own certain home-loan lenders.

When shopping for which financial institution will look after your home loan, do you take the time to research and consider what BankSA, RAMS and St George have to offer?

Or would it shock you to learn that all three banks are owned by Westpac?

This is a common story. Earlier this year, Commonwealth Bank made a deal with Aussie

Home Loans, whereby it is now the majority shareholder at 80 per cent; and, in 2008, the Commonwealth Bank also bought BankWest. So where has all the choice gone?

It is estimated that the four

There are highly strategic reasons the major banks in Australia big four have negotiated takeover and buyout currently own approximately deals in which they 90 per cent of the trillion dollar retain the rights to branding. Sub-brands Australian mortgage market.

Who owns what? give the illusion of choice to customers, You might be surprised to discover how many banks, finance brokers and while still retaining the lion’s share of the market. wealth management companies are actually It is estimated that the four major banks in Australia owned by the big four. Here’s a quick rundown of currently own approximately 90 per cent of the trillion bank ownership: dollar Australian mortgage market.

Commonwealth Bank: There is no doubt that we have one of the most • Aussie Home Loans (80%) highly concentrated banking industries in the • BankWest world, with our four major banks considered too • Colonial Group (including Colonial First State) big to fail.

• Count Financial In reality, this translates into an implicit government National Australia Bank: guarantee that essentially reduces the cost of funds • UBank for the major banks, giving them the advantage over • Choice Home Loans smaller institutions.

• Plan Australia Some experts argue that Australia’s big four are • FAST in their fortunate position because they are well • Advantage managed and well regulated.

• MLC Group Others argue that the level of concentration • Challenge Financial Services (who own Homeloans eliminates choice from the market and with a lack Limited, who own Access Home Loans) of competition consumers pay higher interest rates.

Westpac: Police Credit Union emerged from the GFC • St George in excellent shape, owing to its prudent lending • RAMS home loans standards and conservative attitudes to risk.

• BT Financial PCU’s reliance on deposits rather than wholesale • BankSA markets for funding minimized the impact of the crisis.

• Bank of Melbourne As such, PCU provides its members with a safe and • Asgard secure alternative to a big bank.

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To arrange a preliminary in-person or phone appointment contact PASA on (08) 8212 3055.

Have you or a family member been injured in a car accident?

Tindall Gask Bentley acts in more motor vehicle accident claims that any other law firm in SA. Gary Allison & Richard Yates can provide free preliminary legal advice on your entitlements to compensation. They can also help with Workers Compensation, public liability & medical negligence claims.

Family Law Matrimonial, De Facto & Same Sex Relationships • Children’s Issues • Child Support matters

• Property Settlements • “Pre Nuptial” style Agreements

Appointments with Wendy Barry (Accredited Family Law Specialist) & Dina Paspaliaris.

Commercial Law • General business advice • Real estate & property advice

• Business transactions • Commercial disputes & dispute resolution

Appointments with Giles Kahl & Michael Arras.

Wills & Estates • Wills & Testamentary Trusts • Enduring Powers of Attorney • Enduring Guardians

• Advice to executors of deceased estates • Obtaining Grants of Probate • Estate disputes

Appointments with Michael Arras & Rosemary Caruso.

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LEGAL

Out-of-time property settlement granted – 26 years later Wendy Barry and Melissa Knoll Family and divorce lawyers Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers And it shows that a claim can be made at any time (not limited to 12 months after a divorce…)

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parties have one year to settle property matters after a divorce is finalized, otherwise permission has to be sought from the court for the time to be extended.

Factors to be considered by the court in extending the time are: • Whether hardship would be caused to a party to the relationship, or a child of the relationship, if permission was withheld.

• In the case of an application for spousal maintenance, if the person making the application would have been unable to support himself or herself without an income-tested pension, allowance or benefit.

In the case of Ordway [2012] FMCAfam 624 (13 July 2012), the Federal Magistrates Court (now known as the Federal Circuit Court of Australia) granted leave to hear a property settlement 26 years after a divorce was granted to the parties.

How could this happen?

• The wife did not wish to engage in a dispute with the husband in relation to property matters.

• There was a significant power imbalance relating to the parties’ finances.

• The wife did not seek legal advice as she made the assumption that the informal agreement originally made by the parties was final and binding.

• The wife made all the appropriate steps once she understood the agreement was not binding.

The court also found, in granting leave to hear the matter, that there would not be prejudice to the husband because: • The husband did not advise the wife that he would not transfer the property to her until 2009 when the wife had engaged a solicitor.

• The husband was aware of the circumstances at all relevant occasions.

• The standing arrangement between the parties allowed the husband to secure and progress the financial position of himself and his second wife by using the equity in the property.

• The husband was “aware of the unfinished business at all times”.

T he judgme nt was not appeale d and settlement has now taken place in accordance with the orders.

The court ruled that the wife gave an adequate explanation for the delay in proceedings as the wife provided the court with evidence that: • There was an unregistered agreement between the parties.

• The husband had promised to convey a property title to her and … it highlights the need for separating parties the wife, until 2009, believed this to formalize their property settlement in a would occur.

• The wife was employed by way that is binding to avoid either of them the husband and she did not want making a claim against the other in the future. to jeopardize her employment.

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Why this case is important First, it highlights the need for separating parties to formalize their property settlement in a way that is binding to avoid either of them making a claim against the other in the future.

Informal settlements are simply not adequate to protect against and prevent future claims.

Second, it shows that a claim can be made at any time (not limited to 12 months after a divorce or two years in the case of separated de facto relationships) in circumstances in which the court can be satisfied that hardship would be caused to one of the parties if the time limit was not extended.

If you are separated and need assistance finalizing the division of the property of your relationship in a way that is binding you should seek advice and assistance as early as possible with one of our family lawyers who are experienced in this area.

Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers provides a free legal advice service to Police Association members and their families, and retired members. To make an appointment to receive free preliminary legal advice covering all areas of law, particularly families and wills, members should contact the Police Association (8212 3055).

Books

Me & Rory Macbeath

Dirty Wars

Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes

Author Richard Beasley Publisher Hachette RRP $29.99

Author Jeremy Scahill Publisher Profile Books RRP $29.99

Author Maria Konnikova Publisher A&U Cannongate RRP $29.99

Author Juliet Darling Publisher Allen & Unwin RRP $24.99

Adelaide, 1977. The year 12-yearold Jake Taylor meets Rory Macbeath.

Until then, Jake’s world had revolved around his street, his school and the courthouse where his mum, Harry, was a barrister. His best friend lives only a few houses away.

For them, daylight is for spinning a cricket ball, riding bikes around the neighbourhood and swimming at the pool until their skin wrinkles.

But, then, Rory Macbeath moves into the red-brick house at the end of Rose Ave and everything changes.

At first, Jake has his doubts about Rory. But, after long days and nights of swimming, fishing and daring each other into trouble, Jake discovers Rory has talents and courage he’s never known. Then, early one evening, Rory disappears. And everyone on Rose Ave is about to discover why.

In this story, from the front lines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.

From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of the many wars America is fighting.

He goes deep into al Qaedaheld territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIAbacked warlords.

We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikes, including families of US citizens who, targeted for assassination by their own government, reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the US struggles to keep hidden.

What makes Holmes such a superior detective? And can we ever harness a bit of his extraordinary powers of mind, simply to improve our lives at work and home?

In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova shows us how. Using plots and passages from the wonderfully entertaining Holmes stories, she shows how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective embodies an ever-present mindfulness, and how this active mental disposition proves foundational to his success.

Beginning with Holmes’ concept of the “brain attic” – a metaphor for the information we choose to store in the mind and how we organize our knowledge – Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights.

Moving through principles of logic and deduction, creativity and imagination, Mastermind puts 21st centur y neuroscience and psychology in service of understanding Holmes' methods.

“Nick died in the southern hemisphere in spring. Now I am in Paris in spring.

We were to have been here together. I am experiencing a double spring. Double the bitterness, double the beauty.”

Juliet Darling’s memoir of the daily events surrounding the murder of her late partner, art curator Nick Waterlow, by his son Antony is a moving story of a deeply personal formative experience.

It is about what it was like to live in the shadow of an impending death, a death that seemed to be foretold. It is about a grief that began long before death. All involved seemed powerless to do anything to change the sinister course of events.

The story unfolds with utmost simplicity and focuses on the everyday occurrences, which form the greatest part of this tale of almost unbearable suffering.

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A Double Spring

BANKING

Continued from page 39 And unlike a big bank, all our profits are poured back into the business to benefit members, not to line the pockets of shareholders.

So, what does this mean for you?

Alex Author Pierre Lemaître (translated from the French by Frank Wynne) Publisher Macmillan Australia RRP $29.99

A little way in front of her, a white van pulls onto the pavement to park.

To get past, Alex has to squeeze between the van and the building. She senses a presence, a man…

In kidnapping cases, the first hours are vital. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to none.

Alex Prévost is running out of time.

And her abductor wants only one thing: to watch her die.

Police commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, no hope. But, as he learns more about her, he realizes that Alex is no ordinary victim.

Beautiful, tough, resourceful, always two steps ahead – the enigma that is Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing until the bitter end. Before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

A lack of competitive pressures will lead to higher prices for services, limited choice, and ultimately lower levels of borrowing and deposits for consumers.

Without competition, there will also be weaker incentives for innovation and improvements in products and services. While the government is attempting to restore competition in Australia’s banking and financial system, questions remain about how to achieve it.

Police Credit Union first started in 1970 because the big banks refused to approve loans for police officers, as they were deemed too great a risk.

We are proud of our heritage and bond with South Australian police, and believe we can offer you, our bond members, a competitive financial alternative to the big four.

Deadly Business Author Quintin Jardine Publisher Hachette Australia RRP $32.99

We want to know what you think From time to time we talk to our members and non-members to find out what they think and how they feel about their credit union or bank. These informal chats are fun and generally run for under an hour.

If you’d like to take part, send an e-mail to platinum@policecu.com.au with your name, contact number and age.

It’s the Fiesta de San Juan in Spain, the national celebration of the Summer Solstice, and there’s much excitement about a huge firework display in the village of St Marti.

But Primavera Blackstone is more inflamed by the appearance of a mysterious writer, Duncan Culshaw, who is determined to rake through the ashes of her past. And when extortion and blackmail are mentioned, Primavera realizes the heat is on.

Duncan has his fingers burned, playing fast and loose with the fiercely protective Prim, but when he marries a dying woman for her money, threatening the inheritance of Prim’s son, Tom, things are going to get explosive.

Win a BOOK! For your chance to win one of these books, send your name, location, phone number and despatch code, along with the book of your choice to competitions@pj.asn.au

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DVDs

Dancing on the Edge

Stolen

The Last Stand

Good Cop

SRP $39.95 2 Discs Running time 364 mins

RRP $35.95 1 Disc Running time 96 mins

RRP $39.95 1 Disc Running time 107 mins

RRP $29.95 2 Discs Running time 234 mins

Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage) is a thief but also a father who, with his partners, Vincent (Josh Lucas), Riley Jeffers (Malin Akerman) and Hoyt (MC Gainey), steals $10 million.

FBI agent Tim Harlend (Danny Huston) organizes a manhunt, which ends in Montgomery’s capture.

A prison term follows and, after he gets out, Montgomery goes to see his teenaged daughter, Alison (Sami Gayle), who has some issues with him.

She leaves him in a coffee shop, gets in a cab and goes to see her therapist.

Just minutes later comes a phone call. It’s the psychopathic Vincent, who says he has kidnapped Alison and will kill her unless Montgomery gets him the $10 million they stole. But the money has gone. Montgomery burned it so there would be no evidence against him.

Sheriff Owens (Schwarzenegger) fights what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. He has left his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled.

After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere is hurtling toward the border in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members.

He is headed, it turns out, straight for Sommerton Junction, where US law enforcement will have its last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever.

Owens, counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small-town force, ultimately accepts responsibility for the face-off.

When hard-working cop John Paul Rocksavage witnesses the brutal murder of his partner, he decides enough is enough. He can no longer stand by and let injustice reign.

Some people deserve to die.

Rocksavage is a beat cop in Liverpool city centre. When someone calls the police, it’s Rocksavage who responds, coming face to face with human life in all its extremes.

But, when his partner, Andy, is murdered in a frenzied, vicious attack while on duty, Rocksavage suddenly finds himself bound to respond, in a way he never thought himself capable of.

Events have suddenly become very personal, and once he’s crossed the line from law enforcer to lawbreaker there’s no going back. Meting out a unique brand of justice, while reconciling his own demons, his killings are not random, but organic and necessary.

Set in a time of immense change, Dancing on the Edge tells the story of a black jazz group, The Louis Lester Band, as it rises to fame, entertaining guests at exclusive high society gatherings in 1930s London.

While many recoil at the presence of black musicians in polite society, the capital’s most progressive socialites, including younger members of the royal family, take the band under their wing and into their glamorous world.

Soon, they begin to feel immune to the racial prejudice of London society, until a violent attack on one of their members.

Their privileged position is quickly torn away from them as they begin to discover who their friends are.

Inspired by actual events, this powerful narrative of love, music and ambition unfolds at an extraordinary moment in history.

Win a DVD!

For your chance to win one of these DVDs, send your name, location, phone number and despatch code, along with your choice of DVD, to competitions@pj.asn.au

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Cinema

The Paperboy RRP $35.95 1 Disc Running time 107 mins

The Paperboy takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as Miami Times investigative reporter Ward Jansen ( M at thew Mc Conaughey) and hi s par tne r Yardl ey Ac he man (David Oyelowo) chase a sensational, career-making story.

With the help of Jansen’s younger brother Jack (Zac Efron) and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

Bless has fallen in love with Wetter, who now awaits execution on death row.

For the Jansen brothers, investigating the case means a visit to the swamp for exculpatory evidence.

And some closely-guarded secrets of the personal lives of Ward and Acheman end up exposed.

The Lone Ranger

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

World War Z

Season commences July 4

Season commences July 4

Season commences June 20

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ The Lone Ranger.

Infused with action and humour, this is a thrilling adventure in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes.

Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice – taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

Director Alex Gibney details the creation of Julian Assange’s controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in US history.

Hailed by some as a free-speech hero and others as a traitor and terrorist, the enigmatic Assange’s rise and fall are paralleled with that of PFC Bradley Manning, the brilliant, troubled young soldier who downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from classified US militar y and diplomatic servers.

Seeking to expose abuse in the corridors of power, Assange and Manning were undermined by forces within and without, as well as by their own human failings.

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks is a tale about transparency in the information age and our everelusive search for the truth.

Brad Pitt stars in World War Z based on the Emmy Award-winning Max Brooks (Saturday Night Live, The Zombie Survival Guide) novel of the same name.

United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt) traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself.

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Win a movie pass!

For your chance to win an in-season pass to one of these films, courtesy of Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas, send your name, location, phone number and despatch code, along with your choice of film, to competitions@pj.asn.au

MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES

* Invitations to two Winestate magazine tastings each year (valued at $100)

* 12-month subscription to Winestate magazine (valued at $60)

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Minimum of three tasting events at the Police Club each year

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Free glass of house wine with every meal purchased at the Police Club

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Entry to annual wine raffle

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Discounts on quality wine

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WINE

Wombat Crossing Vineyard Hermit’s Block Individual Vineyard Hunter Valley Shiraz Hunter Valley, NSW RRP $45 www.wombatcrossing.net The 2009 Hermit’s Block Shiraz was presented at the 2013 Vinitaly Wine Fair through Winestate’s participation in a Master Class, in which it was ranked among the top-scoring Australian wines.

This vintage won a trophy and top gold at the 2011 Hunter Valley Wine Show for the best 100% Hunter Valley Dry Red Wine, and a trophy and top gold at the 2012 Hunter Valley Boutique Winemakers Show.

Wombat Crossing Vineyard is the smallest winegrower in the Hunter Valley, specializing in Shiraz and Chardonnay wines. The Shiraz vineyard (1.7Ha) was established in 1995, with the grapes originally allocated to other Hunter Valley winemakers’ premium wine produced under their own labels.

The Napier family acquired the vineyard in 2003 and began producing wines under its own label at Tower Estate. In recent years the owners have upgraded the vineyard and Jeff Byrne has undertaken the winemaking.

Wombat Crossing Vineyard Malloch’s Block Individual Vineyard Hunter Valley Chardonnay Hunter Valley, NSW RRP $28 www.wombatcrossing.net The vineyards at Wombat Crossing were originally planted to the Hunter traditional varieties of Semillon and Shiraz. After Ian Napier acquired the property in 2003 he was determined to make a Chardonnay.

In keeping with the philosophy of only making wine from grapes grown at the vineyard, he removed some 2.5Ha of Semillon and planted 1Ha of Chardonnay on the east-facing slope.

Vintage 2009 was an excellent year in the vineyard where the fruit reached full ripeness before harvesting.

Pale straw with green hues, this wine has stone fruit aromas with a hint of nutmeg and spice from its short stay in a combination of new and older French 220L oak.

The palate shows a generously flavoured wine with rock melon and stone fruit flavours, rich mid-palate and lingering finish. The wine suits foods such as goat cheese tart, poached chicken, and veal.

Koonara Angel’s Peak 2008 Coonawarra Shiraz Coonawarra, SA RRP $17.95 www.koonara.com Henry Albert and Alice Jane Reschke came to Coonawarra in 1906. More than 100 years later, the family is still there with not only the cattle business but also the vineyards.

Wine became a focus in 1988, with public sales commencing in the late 1990s. The winery has gone on to be featured in several international wine events – truly a rising star of the Coonawarra.

The Angel’s Peak Coonawarra Shiraz has retained an excellent crimson-purple hue and deserves its two gold (one at Limestone Coast Wine Show 2011) and silver medals.

The oak contribution is obvious but by no means excessive.

It adds to the mouth-feel without impinging on the blackberry and plum fruit and finishes with soft tannins. It is rated excellent by Winestate magazine with 4.5 stars.

Wine offers Wombat Crossing Vineyard: 10% discount on 12-bottle case price for Police Association members.

Free delivery to Adelaide metro area, slightly extra to country SA. Minimum dispatch 12-bottle case lots (mixed cases okay).

Order via website (www.wombatcrossing.net), phone (02 6574 7357), e-mail (wines@wombatcrossing.net) or 530 Hermitage Road, Pokolbin, NSW, 2320.

Koonara Wines: 10% discount on Angel’s Peak Shiraz and free freight for Police Wine Club members.

To receive the discount, buyers need only indicate that they are members. Order via website (www.koonara.com).

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The Last Shift Kimberley Rohrlach Paul Marston (1) Howden Jennings (2) John McCaffrey (3) Sarah Gleeson Graham Wakefield (4)

BREVET SERGEANT HOWDEN J JENNINGS Major Crime Investigation Section 33 years’ service Last day: 15.04.13 Comments…

“I take with me some great memories of my ser vice and I thank all the members I have had the pleasure of working with over the past 33 years for their camaraderie, humour and eternal friendship.”

“I thank the association for its efforts in securing substantial employment conditions for the members. I wish you all the very best in your continuing endeavours in support of the membership.”

“I consider myself very fortunate to have been part of this professional organization.”

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PROBATIONARY CONSTABLE KIMBERLEY ROHRLACH Elizabeth LSA Two years’ service Last day: 31.01.13 Comments…

“Due to family commitments and health issues I am moving on from SAPOL.” “I thank all those I had the pleasure to work with at Elizabeth. I also thank the Police Association for providing sound advice when needed.”

“Although my time in the job was relatively short, I feel like I experienced a new world of skills, encounters and people I will never forget. I will look back on my time fondly.”

“Thank you, best wishes and safe times to all in SAPOL.”

SENIOR CONSTABLE PAUL “MARS” MARSTON Mounted Operations Unit 23 years’ service Last day: 10.04.13 Comments…

“It has been quite an experience working in SAPOL, and I thank those members I have worked with and who have brought me a lot of wonderful memories and experiences. I hope I can continue my friendship with those members.”

“I have purchased a business and I am pursuing other business interests and following a desire to work for myself.”

“I thank the Police Association for its help and contributions to me and to members of SAPOL, and wish you all the best in your careers and pursuits.”

CHIEF INSPECTOR JOHN McCAFFREY State Intel 40 years’ service Last day: 02.05.13 Comments…

“I have been fortunate to have had an interesting and enjoyable career, made so by the people I have worked with.”

“I thank the Police Association for its support and assistance in reaching an agreed settlement over an industrial issue.”

“The Police Association can be justly proud of its efforts over the years to support members and for their continued contribution to our pay and working conditions.”

“I thank all those I have worked with over the years for their friendship, loyalty and support.”

SARAH GLEESON Communications Six years’ service Last day: 01.06.13 Comments…

“I wish all Police Association members the best with their future endeavours.”

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GRAHAM WAKEFIELD Holden Hill LSA 43 years’ service Last day: 11.07.13 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association staff from over the years for their hard work on behalf of all members.”

“To all who still remain in the job, I wish you all the best for the future.”

For the full version of The Last Shift, go to PASAweb at www.pasa.asn.au

Police Scene

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Course 10/2012 Graduates' Dinner Fenwick Function Centre Saturday, May 11, 2013

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Heroes

Andy Minnis Sergeant Transit Services

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