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FEATURES

Breaking the code The Comms operator somehow knew that the woman on the phone, asking for a pizza, was not a hoaxer but actually in danger.

When the police family rallies Suddenly stricken with a rare, incurable disease, Senior Constable 1C Robin Firth saw just how far his colleagues were prepared to go to support him.

Done enough, seen enough He spent decades investigating horrific murders and could have kept going, but Detective Sgt Brian Swan (left) finally realized why it was time to step down.

Making the boundary-line calls Constable Chris Bull turns up to an AFL game in Adelaide or interstate every week, but not on police duty and not as a spectator.

Editor REGULARS

COVER: Senior Constable Gavin Hood Photography by Steve McCawley

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No one could seriously suggest that cops are people who need to broaden their horizons. In policing, they see and experience far more of life than does the average civilian. And two of our feature stories in this issue show that cops’ experiences outside of police work are just as broad. One story tells of an officer who has a connection to Australian Rules footy at the highest level and relishes his role. At the opposite end of the scale, another officer has faced up to, and continues to deal courageously with, a serious illness. Hope emerges from his story, while great pleasure is evident in the other. And both illustrate just how in touch cops are with all of life’s broad range of realities. In one of our other features, veteran Major Crime detective sergeant Brian Swan speaks frankly about his work on some of Australia’s highest-profile murders. And our cover story is a must-read for anyone who doesn’t quite appreciate the value of a switched-on copper in an emergency. Police Association assistant secretary Bernadette Zimmermann reports on the critical issue of police-station security, while association members have their say in Q&A. And just how vulnerable are police officers to acts of terrorism? Police Association president Mark Carroll puts that issue into its proper perspective.

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PRESIDENT Mark Carroll

Confronting the threat of terrorism POLICE have always faced violence, and the

threat of violence, as they have gone about protecting their communities. It is part of the job, and always has been. And police accept it when they sign on to be cops. But, today, the threat to our members is more evil in its nature, more unpredictable in its timing, and more devastating when carried out. It is terrorism. And while we recognize it as a scourge across the globe, our country has become a favoured target of the terrorist. Recent media reports indicate that, according to US Homeland Security, Australia “sits equal with the UK and behind France and the US as a target for IS terror attacks”. And, while Australia faces up to that regrettable ranking of equal third, police – along with soldiers – have to live with their status as the No. 1 human targets. Last year, the Australian Federal Police raised the terrorism threat to police from medium to high. That came with warnings that a terrorist attack on Australian police was now “likely”. An AFP spokesperson said: “Following recent events in Australia and overseas, which have seen police being specifically targeted by extremists, there is a heightened level of alert in respect of police…” Senior police in other jurisdictions urged caution among their officers. An e-mail sent to all NSW officers said that “the level of animosity towards police within broader extremist circles has increased…” Victoria Police management urged its members to "be vigilant and pay extra attention to their own safety and security…” But evidence of the high risk to police lives was, and is, abundant anyway.

In India back in 2008, during the Mumbai terror attack, 10 Pakistani men ambushed and killed six police officers. A seventh officer died in a subsequent gunfight. In 2014, four young British men faced charges under the Terrorism Act of plotting to kill police officers or soldiers on the streets of London. The Telegraph newspaper reported that they had “allegedly sworn an allegiance to Islamic State and had Instagram images of two Metropolitan Police officers…” The suspects’ ages ranged from 20 to 24. They were not much older than Abdul Numan Haider, who stabbed two officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism team outside a Melbourne police station in 2014. Three French police officers, Ahmed Merabet, Franck Brinsolaro and Clarissa Jean-Philippe, died in and after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris. In Libya, a truck bomb, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility, killed 47 recruits near a police station in January this year. In June this year, Larossi Abballa stabbed to death French police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider in their home, 50km west of Paris. Earlier this month, a machete-wielding man attacked two police officers in Belgium, leaving

one of them seriously injured with slashes to her face. Just as that attack occurred outside a main police station, so too did another attack in Turkey last year. In the province of Tunceli, terrorists killed police officer Murat Savas Kale. And earlier this month, the detonation of a car bomb in Turkey killed six riot police officers and injured four others who were travelling on a bus. Of course, terrorists do not restrict themselves to police for targets. Today, we all face the threat of terrorism, whether we reside in the Middle East or anywhere in the Western world. The 2015 Global Terrorism Index indicated that the total number of deaths from terrorism in 2014 reached 32,685. This was the highest level ever recorded and represented an increase of 80 per cent on the previous year. Another statistic from the GTI was that, in 2014, terrorist attacks had occurred in 93 countries, up from 88 in 2013. Even when police are not the specific targets of an attack, they risk their lives as first responders. Of all the officers who rushed into the crumbling Twin Towers to save lives in 2001, 60 died. They belonged to the NYPD and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department. A Port Authority Police lieutenant who survived the response effort gave the Police Association annual conference a heartrending address in 2009. In Australia, we have seen and know well the horror of mass killings committed by psychopaths. Few have likely forgotten the crimes of Martin Bryant (Port Arthur massacre), Ivan Milat (Belangalo State Forest killings) and John Bunting and Robert Wagner (bodies in the barrels murders).

Even when police are not the specific targets of an attack, they risk their lives as first responders.

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Increased numbers of well-trained and -equipped police … are the best means of defence against terrorism. But today’s brand of terrorism comes with the potential to cost the lives of many more innocent Australian police and civilians. Increased numbers of well-trained and -equipped police, with the support of appropriate government funding, are the best means of defence against terrorism. Also critical in the battle are improved intelligence systems and a unified approach by all police jurisdictions. The Police Federation of Australia publicly outlined a three-point plan last year highlighting these points. Regardless of where police lose their lives to terrorism, police around the world feel those losses deeply. As president of both the Police Association and the PFA, I have several times written condolence letters to my overseas counterparts on behalf of every Australian police officer. One thing I knew for certain was that the letters I wrote were not the type I ever wanted to receive.

By Brett Williams

BREAK

THE 000 caller got Senior Constable Gavin

Hood on the line and said: “Hello, I’d like to order a pizza now.” She could well have been one of those thoughtless wasters of police time and resources. Communications Centre operators take calls from them all the time. But from the moment this woman first spoke, she just did not strike Hood as a prankster. To him, everything about her suggested the opposite. She spoke in a “calm but strained” voice; she sounded middle-aged; and her manner was too “matter-of-fact” for someone making a prank call. So, within a split second, Hood had assessed her as a genuine caller desperate for police help – and speaking in code to get it. “Something was obviously up,” he remembers. “You pick up on it instantly. A prank call would normally be a younger person, someone playing with the phones.” Hood’s police instincts were dead right. The woman was under immediate threat from an armed, alcohol-fuelled offender in her own home on that July evening last year.

He was close enough to her to hear every word she uttered over the phone. So speaking to the police in code was a smart tactic – as smart as Hood was to pick up on it. “You walk into a room as a patrol officer and you can suss out within 20 seconds who the offender is,” Hood explains. “It’s exactly the same police work involved with answering a call. So I picked up on her voice straight away. “I could see the woman’s name and an address. It was a landline she was calling from.” The rest of the exchange, as Hood remembers it, went: Hood: “Where would like the pizza delivered? Hillbank?” Caller: “Yes.” Hood: “If it’s urgent, can you just say: ‘Supreme.’ ” Caller: “Yes, supreme.” Hood: “Sure, I’ll have it whizzed out to you very shortly.” This, of course, was not how Hood or his colleagues would normally have handled a 000 call. AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

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“You’re trained to ask a lot of questions and the answers are all recorded,” Hood says. “It has to be succinct information for patrols. “But this was urgent, and she couldn’t talk. I wasn’t going to press her for further details. The situation was high-risk.” So Hood categorized the job as a high-risk domestic violence incident and moved quickly to alert the relevant dispatcher, who called for patrols to respond. Two close-by patrols took the job and charged toward the house in which the caller remained in peril. Says Hood: “Those two patrols attended within about four minutes and arrested the guy on first instance warrants, so it was a successful outcome. “What had happened was that a young bloke was upset with a break-up with the caller’s daughter, who wasn’t at the house. He had come to the house, let himself in, and was armed with a weapon. “I could hear a grumble and a grunt from him and, as she was hanging up the phone, I could hear her say: ‘I’ve just ordered a pizza. Why don’t you sit down and tell me about it?’ She was really quite calm with him.

“… this was urgent, and she couldn’t talk. I wasn’t going to press her for further details. The situation was high-risk.”

“He sat down, put the weapon down, burst into tears, and started pouring his heart out.” But, as front-line cops know, an offender who switches from aggression to tears can easily switch back again. So his emotional breakdown was no guarantee that the woman was then safe. Her safety came about through the high-level perceptiveness of Hood and the quick response of the patrols. A recording of the phone call between Hood and the woman now forms part of the training of new operators. “Everyone was switched on,” Hood says, “the despatcher who gave the job out, the patrol that attended… Everyone was just really slick. “I picked up on this call, but then so does everyone else pick up on calls. All the officers over there at Communications are ex-patrol officers, so you get that experience.” While some emergencies make operators’ hearts thump, Hood handled and emerged from the drama of this one quite calmly. But another 000 call a few weeks earlier had indeed made his heart race.

A screaming female caller, whose baby had suffered burns in a house fire, was in such distress that she simply could not speak. That left Hood, who could hear the baby shrieking, without any details as to the woman’s address. “So I was trying to assess where and what the emergency was,” he says. “Whether it was a house fire, an assault, DV, an accident…” As Hood ran checks on the woman’s name, he heard other 0 0 0 calls coming into the Communications Centre about plumes of smoke over Salisbury Highway. That was close to an Elizabeth address where, according to the checks, the caller had once lived. “So we sent a patrol car there and got other services, like ambulance, going there because someone was obviously injured,” Hood explains. The patrol found the panicked woman and her baby, whose face had indeed suffered burns. “I find those jobs stressful but quite stimulating at the same time,” Hood says. “You have to really use your police skills to ascertain what’s happening and bring it into focus.” AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

BEFORE Hood, 38, ventured into

the field of communications, he had spent almost all of his police career as a country copper. He had graduated with Course 17 in 2000 and, in late 2001, transferred to Berri. Hood remained there until early 2014 when he and his wife went about moving back to Adelaide with their two young children. They wanted to be closer to family. And, on the work front, Hood chose to switch from street cop to radio operator because communications was, as he describes it, “something I wanted to try”. “I wouldn’t leave now,” he says. “I really love it. It’s really mentally stimulating and it’s just so busy. “The hours just disappear and, the next thing you know, someone taps you on the shoulder and says: ‘You’re done.’ “You then walk out into the cold night and think: ‘Oh that was good fun.’ ” PJ

Senior Constable First Class Robin Firth and Detective Sergeant Mark Atkinson

When the police family rallies IT started as a simple pain in his side just a few days

By Brett Williams

before last Christmas. Senior Constable First Class Robin Firth put it down to some strenuous painting he had done with a roller earlier that day. But he was wrong – and was soon to find out just how wrong. As he tried to sleep that night, the pain intensified and he sweated profusely. He got up the next morning with shoulder pain so excruciating that he had to turn back from a drive he had set out on to Tarlee. Then came a second night of agony Firth could simply not endure, so he went to hospital looking for a diagnosis. After an examination shed no light on the cause of his suffering, he left the hospital with advice to get a blood test. Firth wisely followed that advice, which led to a phone call he received at work, in the Elizabeth police cells, just 12 days into the New Year. It was his doctor, who wanted to see the ailing copper in his surgery – “now”. From the consultation that followed, around 5pm, Firth most remembers the words lymphoma and chemotherapy. “I was thinking: ‘That means there’s cancer,’ and I just went: ‘What the hell?’ ” he says. A week later, Firth consulted a specialist who explained that what had struck the 46-year-old husband and father was mantle cell lymphoma. The incurable disease, a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, most commonly strikes men in their 60s. Firth figured he was going to die, and his wife, Dawn, who had gone along to support him during the consultation, broke down in tears. AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

And the specialist could scarcely have made his message any clearer when he said: “Go home and get your affairs in order.” Says Firth: “He obviously didn’t think I was coming back from this one.” The diagnosis shattered Firth and Dawn and their 22-year-old daughter, Beth. He “couldn’t talk to people about it” and never went back to work. The former UK copper used Facebook to let his workmates and others know about his situation. “I did speak to my patrol supervisor,” he says, “but that was it. We sent the same (Facebook) message to everybody we knew. My family (back in England) was different. Obviously, I spoke to them. “Initially it was a text but, then, a phone call. There’s nothing worse than listening to your mum get teary. She’s quite strong and she won’t show emotions, but she did then.” A week later, Firth underwent a biopsy which showed an aggressive infiltration of lymphoma cells in his bone marrow. So, on Australia Day, he fronted up to begin round one of chemotherapy. And, after that initial treatment, the extent of the lymphoma cells had reduced by around 60 per cent. The chemotherapy continued and brought even more improvement, enough to get Firth into “morphological remission”. “(But) the prognosis, really, is that it will come back at some point,” he says. “You just don’t know when, obviously. It could be five years; it could be one year. “The doctor did say: ‘If you go to five years, we’ll class it as being in remission.’ But five years is a long time.” Among those shocked to learn of Firth’s illness via Facebook was close mate and colleague Detective Sergeant Mark Atkinson. He responded with a message of support but chose initially not to rush to Firth, whom he knew to be a private person. Indeed, Atkinson stayed completely out of contact with his mate over the following few days. But, in that time, the devastating news “just (kept) going around in my head”.

Above: Dawn, Beth and Robin Firth on the River Torrens on the day of the head shave; above right: Mark Atkinson undergoes the head shave.

“I was blown away,” he recalls. “I was really upset about it, but what do you say? How do you respond? The prognosis was bad, and there really was no silver lining.” As Atkinson struggled to think of something he could do for his mate, he noticed the Leukaemia Foundation TV ads for the World’s Greatest Shave. It was not his type of event but, ultimately, he came to see it as a way to show Firth some kind of support. So he decided to participate and met up with Firth and Dawn over coffee in late January, when they gave him their blessing for his head-shave plan. “It was something that was very personal to me,” he says. “I knew there was nothing I could do personally to help Robin: I couldn’t cure his (Illness). “But I could show some support by saying: ‘Look, I’m going to shave my head and raise a thousand bucks to go to the Leukaemia Foundation.’ “And perhaps that (would go) some way towards research and was some way of getting him better. That was my rationale.” So Atkinson set about drumming up support through a Facebook campaign called the Turfer’s Knee. The initial response, from the extended Firth and Atkinson families, as well as the police family, was almost instant. Says Atkinson: “Out of the blue, one of the young coppers from Elizabeth shared the link and, within the next 24 hours, the Facebook page went crazy. “So we made the $1,000 within about the first 24 hours of being live and, then, I said: ‘Okay, let’s go for $2,000.’ “And it just went mad. We had people donating goods for raffles and for auctions and we got support from both the community and among police. Businesses, too, donated very generously.” Further into the campaign, Atkinson posted an image

“We talk about the police family being there to support each other. Well, that relationship is as strong as ever …”

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of Firth on the Facebook page. By then, signs of Firth’s chemotherapy were evident, particularly hair loss. But, as Atkinson explains it, the responses “sky-rocketed” after he posted the image, in which he too appeared. The day of the head-shave, March 12, finally came and took place on the River Torrens where it proved a “big event”. It drew around 250 people and featured raffles, auctions, a cookout, and face-painting for kids. “Elizabeth police station social club donated food and the drinks,” Atkinson says. “I was proud to be part of the police community. I’d heard many stories before, but I’ve now experienced it (police support) first-hand. “We talk about the police family being there to support each other. Well, that relationship is as strong as ever, and this is proof. “As we currently sit, we’ve raised $9,700. We’re still hoping to get to $10,000.” Firth, who had never set foot in Australia before he joined SAPOL in 2007, was deeply grateful for the response to the Atkinson initiative. “For a Pommy cop to come out here and get so much support from people I’ve known for a maximum of eight years has been overwhelming,” he says. But Firth still has to live with the reality of his condition, to which he accepts he might one day lose his life. He often asks the “why-me” question but his practice is to remain without extensive knowledge of the disease that so threatens him. “I’ve not even looked at the figures for life expectancy,” he says. “I’m not interested because everyone’s different. “It (the condition) tempers the way I think and everything I do. I think: ‘Oh, next year we’ll go on holiday, or do this or that – if I’m still around.’ “I mean, my future’s changed. You sort of think you’ve got a police job for life and you just do the job but, really, that’s irrelevant to me now. “One thing I’ve realized is: ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff.’ It’s just not worth it.” PJ

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By Brett Williams

Done enough, seen enough Murdered police officers and dead bodies in barrels became some of his grimmest memories. But certain elements of homicide investigation kept Detective Sergeant Brian Swan in the game.

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A RESPECTED young front-line copper was dead.

Murdered! The crime, back in 1985, shocked the public, left the police community reeling, and overwhelmed the dead officer’s family with grief. Major Crime Squad detectives Brian Swan and Bob Thompson wound up with responsibility for investigating the brutal murder and arresting the killer. And, in that, they succeeded. For Swan, a designated detective since 1980, it was his first arrest since joining the squad in 1984. It was also the start of what, for him, would be a long, distinguished career in Major Crime. Over the next three decades, he would investigate 140-odd other cases and bring many more barbaric murderers to account. One of them was Francesco Pangallo, who shot dead his wife and two sons-in-law in the Riverland in 1987. Others included serial killers John Bunting and Robert Wagner, who left several of their victims’ remains rotting in barrels in the vault of a disused Snowtown bank in the 1990s. AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

Of course, Swan had his professional disappointments, too. One was the conviction that never came from the investigation into the 1994 NCA bombing, in which WA Police detective sergeant Geoff Bowen died. Swan devoted two years to the case as administration sergeant, travelled to England in pursuit of a witness, and saw charges withdrawn against prime suspect Domenic Perre. Another unsolved case was that of the three missing Beaumont children, who disappeared from Glenelg beach on Australia Day 1966. Swan managed the investigation file from 1990 to 2013, kept in contact with parents Jim and Nancy Beaumont, and followed up on many leads. He felt – and continues to feel – extreme sympathy for the now elderly Beaumonts, whom he still sees and describes as “broken” people. But, regardless of how exasperating he found unsolved cases, Swan never lost his passion for or dedication to the art of homicide investigation. “He still had that enthusiasm of a first-year detective,” Major Crime detective senior sergeant David Sheridan says. “His enthusiasm was just unbelievable. “I think that’s him by nature. He just had so much energy and just kept going. He just never slowed up (as he aged).

“… we were on call, in the initial 12 months, for 24 hours a day. It was 12 murders … and it was quite intense. You lived it. You breathed it.”

Far left: Swan (centre) at the SAVictorian border to take custody of an offender in the murder of Luciano Caruso at Monash in 2013; left: newspaper coverage of the bodies-in-the-barrels murders with Swan pictured crouching in the background.

“He loved the job. He absolutely loved it.” Just weeks ago, before he retired at the age of 67, Swan showed that he was no less up to the task of bringing murderers to book. The white-haired, lightly built master detective was still active, helping colleagues investigate the Hillier murders of Adeline Rigney-Wilson and her two young children. “He went there as a Major Crime consultant,” Major Crime detective senior sergeant Mark McEachern explains. “And he’s a family man who absolutely loves his grandkids and loves his kids (daughters Shari and Chelsea). "I felt sorry that, in his last weeks before his retirement, he had to deal with that (triple murder). “It just speaks volumes for how strong he is, really, (because) it would have been horrendous. “I’m glad I didn’t have to go. Any job with kids is the worst you can get.” But, for Swan, there was always more to relish than lament in the life he lived as a hunter of murderers. “I still enjoyed the thrill of the chase,” he says. “I still had the drive, as my team knew, and I didn’t take a backward step. When there was work to do, it was (a case of) go and do it. “I didn’t care if we worked 10, 12, or 14 hours straight, as long as we did everything that we could.

“I’d like to think that I did a community service, that I was part of a team that put some very depraved people away for a long time. But I’ve done enough. I’ve seen enough. “And I just didn’t want to go on (working) until I was 70, and then think: ‘How long have I got?’ You have this money (pension) and you think: ‘Am I going to be around to spend it?’ ” Peer respect for “Swanny” was always obvious, particularly, of course, throughout the Major Crime office. Sheridan continued to regard him as his mentor, even after he came to outrank his older colleague in 2011. So, when it came to one hurdle or another in a murder enquiry of his own, he sought out Swan, the “go-to person”, for advice. McEachern speaks of high regard for Swan in homicide squads around the country. “He’s been the face of (SA) Major Crime for so long,” he says. “Everyone knows him and respects him and his knowledge.” AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

THE pity is that few, if any, will get to benefit

from that knowledge now that Swan has retired. It will live in his head, along with his memories of the multitude of stabbing, shooting, bombing and bashing murders he investigated. “I could be driving down the street,” he says, “and I’ve only got to see a barrel on the back of a truck and I think of the (bodies in the) bloody barrels. There are things that trigger (the memories).” In those six plastic barrels were the remains of eight of 11 tortured murder victims who died in a killing spree led by John Bunting with Robert Wagner. The pair was from the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide, and Bunting had professed a hatred of paedophiles and homosexuals. Among the implements the killers used to inflict torture was an electric shock device, lit cigarettes, garrottes, knives, pliers and hammers. They murdered their victims – 10 men and one woman, whose ages ranged from 18 to 42 – over seven years from 1992. Swan, partnered with now former Major Crime detective Craig Patterson, dealt with Wagner; and he remembers the six-year investigation as physically and mentally draining. “Because,” he says, “we were on call, in the initial 12 months, for 24 hours a day. It was 12 murders (that we investigated) and it was quite intense. You lived it. You breathed it. “Wagner was the physically strong one and he carried out Bunting’s wishes. Bunting was the psychopath. He was the one who was directing the other three (Wagner and accomplices James Vlassakis and Mark Haydon) and Wagner just fell into line.”

Ultimately, Vlassakis indicated through his lawyer that he wanted to come clean with police about the murders. To get his account on the record, Swan and two colleagues headed straight to Port Augusta Prison where Vlassakis was in custody. He opened up to the detectives in an interview which took six weeks to complete and stretched over 1,900 pages. And Vlassakis would later give evidence against Bunting and Wagner in court, and plead guilty to four murders himself. At the end of a trial which lasted almost 12 months – the longest in SA history – a jury found Bunting and Wagner guilty of 11 and 10 murders respectively. Justice Brian Martin sentenced them to consecutive life sentences. “Eleven life sentences,” Swan says. “I was very pleased. We got four off the street who, if we didn’t stop them, would have continued (killing).” Swan, despite his major role in putting the killers away, gets a Christmas card from Vlassakis every year. He describes the gesture as “just odd”. But contact from some criminals Swan has locked up actually delights him. There was the one-time armed robber who approached him at the

“He walked up with hands on his head but he started to put his hands down and I called out: ‘Keep your hands up, Gordon.’ ”

Royal Adelaide Show a few years ago. Swan had helped put the bloke away for seven years. But it was no expletiveladen tirade he directed at the off-duty detective. It was gratitude for Swan once telling him to “grow up”. He had seen the sense in, and done exactly what, his arresting officer had told him to do, and now had a job and a family. “That’s the pay-off,” Swan says, “to get feedback like that. You think: ‘There’s one I’ve helped out.’ ” And many likely saw Swan as an avenging angel after he arrested cop-killer Gordon Marshall back in 1985. Feelings ran that deep among police and the public over the shooting death of 30-year-old Holden Hill patrol officer Lyncon Williams. Swan and his partner, Bob Thompson, had to set aside the emotion associated with a dead colleague and apply their skills to proving the case against Marshall.

And the case was that, on that August night, Williams and his junior partner had responded to reports of gunfire at Ross Avenue, Blair Athol. As they arrived on the scene, 17-year-old Marshall shot Williams in the armpit. The officer had not even stepped out of his patrol car. Swan arrested Marshall after a patrol found him not far from the murder scene. In an interview back at Holden Hill police station, the killer repeatedly denied any involvement in Williams’ death. At one point, after a visit to the men’s room, Marshall appeared to the observant Swan to be walking strangely. That immediately prompted Swan to order a strip search of his then suspect, who just as promptly “jacked up”. But the search went ahead. “And out fell a .22 snub-nose bullet,” Swan says, “and a receipt for a firearm purchased that night at Prospect Firearms. That was strong evidence, so we charged him with the murder of Lync.” Marshall wound up convicted and sentenced to imprisonment at the Governor’s pleasure. He later scored a non-parole period of 13-and-a-half years but, in 1986, escaped from prison.

After some time on the run he was ready to give himself up but feared, according to his lawyer, that police would shoot him. He would only surrender to Swan. That led to a tense 6am encounter at the far eastern end of Carrington in the city. It was there that Swan had agreed to accept the escapee into his custody. “We got a STAR Force strike team, two snipers,” Swan recalls. “I had a radio and earpiece and walked in the middle of the road slowly towards him. “He walked up with hands on his head but he started to put his hands down and I called out: ‘Keep your hands up, Gordon.’ “He put his hands up, I took hold of him, put him on the ground in the middle of the road, and STARies moved in and got him.” Throughout his investigation of the Williams murder, Swan had close contact with the dead officer’s grieving mother and brother, and found it heartbreaking. The investigation also “brought home” to him just how dangerous police work was, particularly for front-line cops. “And the uniformed people these days are young people,” he says. “They can be straight out of the academy. “And you’re asking these young people, 20 years of age (some of them), to make snap decisions. I take my hat off to them every time.”

Above left: On graduation day at Fort Largs in 1969; below left: on a 650 BSA motorcycle at Thebarton police barracks during an out-phase in 1969; above: at Fort Largs in 1966.

SWAN might salute the 20-year-old cops

of today but, when he joined Course 14 at Fort Largs in 1965, he was just a teenager. Born in Oxfordshire, England, he had come to Australia as an immigrant with his parents and two siblings when he was eight. The family settled in Leigh Creek and Swan senior, who had met and loved Australians during his WWII service, worked in the coalfields. Says Swan: “He (my father) fell in love with the laconic, laid-back, anti-authority Australians, and he thought: ‘What a lifestyle they come from! When the war’s over, and if I survive, I’m going to Australia.’ And he did.” In 1963, the family moved to Adelaide where Swan finished his schooling at Strathmont Boys Tech. He was then set to go on to university, in line with his father’s wishes, to study drafting but instead chose a police career. “I wanted something with a bit more excitement,” he says, “and I did some research into what they (SAPOL) were offering. There was horse-riding, Water Operations, the Armed Offenders Group…

Far left: newspaper coverage of the bodiesin-the-barrels murders with Swan pictured in the foreground; left: Lyncon Williams; right: learning to type at Fort Largs in 1966. AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

“I loved the thrill of the chase. I loved starting something from the beginning and going through to the trial, and dealing with all the people in between.”

Top: Swan with now former Governor Kevin Scarce and granddaughter Kiara at Government House for the presentation of his APM in 2012; above left: Swan and wife Bronwyn engaged in 1971; above right: on their wedding day in 1972; below: with Bronwyn at Government House for the APM presentation.

“It was an adventure, and you could apply to work anywhere in the state. I thought: ‘My God, I could go back up to the bush, Ceduna, Oodnadatta, and that’d be a great lifestyle!’ It just sounded like an exciting life, so I gave it a go.” Before he graduated from Fort Largs, Swan met his then future wife, Bronwyn, at a church youth group he ran with some friends. His girlfriend at the time introduced him to her. So, it “caused a lot of issues” when the stillattached Swan set out to pursue Bronwyn. “She was only 17 at the time and I was 19, and we’re still together, still happily married,” he says. “We’ve been married now 44 years. “And, to this day, (my former girlfriend) and her husband are our closest friends.” Life after graduation, which followed three years’ training, thrust Swan straight into action on the front line. One place he scored duty was the corner of North Terrace and King William St in the centre of anti-Vietnam War protests. He would also serve as a front-line uniformed officer out of patrol bases at Holden Hill, Elizabeth, Para Hills, and Darlington. Then, in 1976, Swan undertook his detective training course and joined Darlington CIB. There, he and well-known but now retired detective sergeant John Keane worked as a crew before both of them made the move to Major Crime.

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In 2005, after Swan had spent six years investigating the bodies-in-thebarrels killings, talk emerged of him leaving Major Crime to work in an LSA. But there was too much he loved about homicide investigation to make even a temporary switch. “I loved the thrill of the chase,” he says. “I loved starting something from the beginning and going through to the trial, and dealing with all the people in between. “It’s the knowledge you gain along the way from people, from the lower socioeconomic areas right through to surgeons. You’re dealing with them all the time. “That held the interest. It kept the adrenaline pumping. The job satisfaction was tremendous.” Swan, a teetotaller and long-time sailor, expects the first stage of his retirement to prove equally satisfying. He intends to take a Pacific cruise with his wife, who recently retired after 28 years as a nurse. “We’ll do this small cruise first and, if Bronwyn enjoys it, we’ll book next year for the Mediterranean,” he says. “I’ve been a shift-worker for 50 years. I just want to travel and enjoy life. I have to because no one knows how long you’ve got in this world.” PJ

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MAKING THE BOUNDARYLINE CALLS By Brett Williams

HE gets to watch champions like Ablett,

Dangerfield and Betts ply their craft on the footy field every week of the AFL season. And he loves it. But when those footy greats kick the ball out on the full Chris Bull (pictured) has to make the call against them. That might prompt a brief protest from one player or another but it rarely draws abuse. “Because,” Bull says, “they know there’s always a camera on them. So you might get the quick sort of comment, but it’s pretty much over once you’ve made the call. “Generally, AFL players are the best in terms of respecting the umpires. And a lot of the guys are happy to have a chat with you before or after the game.” Bull, a Golden Grove patrol officer, joined the ranks of elite umpires in late 2010 at the age of 25. The AFL had offered him a contract as a boundary umpire, a role he had fulfilled in the SANFL since he was a teenager. Now, almost at the end of his sixth season, Bull can recall all the exceptional footy moments he has witnessed from right on the boundary line. One of them he rates as “the best game I’ve probably ever seen”. “It was here at Footy Park (in 2011) and it was the first Gold Coast win,” he says. “They beat Port Adelaide and, that day, Gary Ablett Jr was unbelievable.

“It was the first time I’d ever noticed a player so much. He seemed to be everywhere and he just stood out. He was just amazing that day.” The Geelong-North Melbourne clash at the Docklands in round 12 this year was another one Bull felt privileged to umpire. Geelong won by 31 points. “(Patrick) Dangerfield got 48 (disposals) and, again, it was just a game where his dominance was unbelievable,” Bull remembers. “And then Eddie Betts at the moment… He can do anything, so whenever he’s near, or just on the ground, you’re always alert to the fact that he can do some freaky stuff.” Bull was working the boundar y the day Betts kicked the 2015 goal of the year against Fremantle at Adelaide Oval in round nine. And, from the eastern boundary in round 10 this year, he saw the goal-of-the-year contender Betts kicked in a Saturday night game against GWS.

Each special footy moment comes as a bonus for Bull but, for him, the greatest appeal in umpiring lies elsewhere. “For me,” he says, “it’s the guys you umpire with and get to know. In a small way, it’s like a footy side, both at training and, then, on game day. It’s the camaraderie with some of the guys, and they’re some of my closest friends now.” Not even the constant agro Bull and his colleagues cop from rabid fans is enough to dent his enthusiasm for the job. His shaved head is sometimes the subject of inoffensive cracks, like “Get your hair out of your eyes.” B u t s o m e o v e r- t h e - f e n c e j i b e s a r e sex-based or aimed at family. Says Bull: “Some of it probably goes a bit far, but some of it’s good banter. “If you took it to heart, you wouldn’t keep doing it (umpiring). And if you get on social media after a game and read every comment about umpires, you probably wouldn’t last very long.” While Bull understands the crowd frustration with wrong calls by umpires, he emphasizes the scrutiny he

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and his colleagues face from their coaches. “Which, in turn, affects our overall score, where we finish throughout the year, and if we do finals or not,” he says. “But I think the standard and the professionalism (of umpiring) is probably at the highest it’s ever been.” One invaluable supporter Bull often has in the crowd is his fiancé and fellow copper, Hannah Stirling. She gets to as many games as she can in her off-duty time. Sometimes, however, her work takes her to the ground when she scores a game-day shift there. This year, she has scored duty on the grassed Northern Mound but has still caught sight of Bull in action. When Stirling first met Bull, she had no idea of how much training and interstate travel AFL umpires had to undertake. “That first year we were together he travelled a lot, so it was hard to get used to,” she remembers. “We’d have a weekend off together but he was in Melbourne or Brisbane or wherever. “But it’s good. I really enjoy watching the games. It’s really good to be there.” Stirling made sure not to miss the Port AdelaideSt Kilda clash in round one at Adelaide Oval this year.

It was game 100 for Bull. He had clocked up 98 and 99 umpiring two major-round games in 2015. Had he scored another final, his hundredth might have been a prelim. When he first ventured into umpiring, Bull was just 13 and had suffered leg injuries playing school footy. He started out as a boundary umpire presiding over primary-school games. Although he had sought to be a field umpire his then squad became short of boundary umpires and he agreed to a request to fill in – temporarily. But Bull came to move “fairly quickly” up the ranks in boundary umpiring and so decided to stay with it. Ultimately, he advanced to a level at which he umpired four consecutive SANFL grand finals. After that came his 2010 contract offer from the AFL. But Bull had always wanted to be a copper. And thinking, as he did earlier in 2010, that his chance to umpire at AFL level had passed him by, he joined SAPOL. “It was just funny that I sort of let go of the AFL dream and joined the police,” he says. “Then it all sort of happened at the same time. So, ever since then, I’ve been juggling both of them (police work and umpiring).” AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

Bull and his fellow SA-based umpires undertake extensive pre- and in-season training to keep themselves supremely fit and ready for game days. A boundary umpire can, after all, run up to 18km during a game. Running sessions are the focus of the pre-season period, along with some cross-training and gym workouts. During the season, the emphasis switches to recovery-based exercises. One test Bull finds reasonably easy to pass is the skinfold, which he has to front up to around six times per year. “I’m not crazy over the top with my diet,” he says, “but I do watch it. Luckily for me, I don’t tend to put weight on easily, but I still try to eat as healthy as I can.” Clearly fit and injury-free, Bull is set to call the shots on the boundary line for several more seasons. Another five, or more, would delight the now 30-year-old. “If there ever comes a time when I’m not willing to put in the hard work, that’s when I’ll let it go,” he says. “But, at the moment, I’ll keep riding the wave and see where it gets me – hopefully to a grand final.” PJ

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Grateful for Police Association support

Up-front input from cops My research into “Resilience and Policing” toward a PhD at Flinders is progressing very well and I am on schedule to present a draft to my examiners early next year. I write to thank the 50 individuals, operational and retired, who took part in the interviews that are central to the research. I am grateful for their frank and energetic input that has resulted in clear themes around what keeps officers healthy (or otherwise) in an always challenging policing environment. The group was a balance of male and female officers ranging through senior constables, sergeants and commissioned officers who

I thank the Police Association for its recent donation to the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN) for the specific purpose of supporting families who require financial assistance due to an accident or health crisis of a child who requires emergency treatment at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. On behalf of the families who will benefit from the donation, our Social Work Service staff, and those families who have benefited in the past, we extend our immense appreciation and gratitude. We extend our thanks to the committee which has supported this donation for another year, as it is generosity like this that enables us to continue providing support to the women and children of South Australia. Yours sincerely Naomi Dwyer Chief Executive Officer

Fifty years since graduation Course 4 (1963-66) recently held its 50-yearssince-graduation luncheon, which wives and partners also attended. The course members have held regular reunions over the years, and all but

those who tendered apologies, some from interstate and overseas, attended this one. Former course captain Steve Lewis recognized three members who had died since graduation – Rod Fitzsimons, Dave Jellie and Bob Eichner. From the three-year cadet course all at the reunion remembered incidents such as the time they “accidentally” tipped one of the two-man huts we lived in off its foundation blocks during the night. It took some effort to right it again before the on-duty instructor turned up to find out what the fracas was all about. Quite a few of the course left SAPOL for other vocations early after graduation but many remained in the job until retirement. Barry Lewis Superintendent Commissioner’s Support Branch

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de s c r ib e d the ir c are e r s and expressed their views very clearly. I thank them all for their confidence in the project. I am presently at the “literature review” stage of the research where I am drawing together work around the topic that has been written over the last 10 years. Once that is done, I will move on to drawing out the themes that have come out of the interviews that will then lead to my conclusions and recommendations. My thanks again to all involved and to Police Association president Mark Carroll who has been extremely supportive since day one. Andrew Paterson PhD candidate Flinders University

RMD an excellent function

Having attended the Retiring Members Dinner for recently retired police officers I congratulate the Police Association on a fantastic evening. Having retired on December 31, 2015, with mixed emotions, I was very proud to be a part of this celebration. Thank you for a wonderful evening. My wife and I enjoyed the atmosphere and effort that was put into making it a very special evening. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet with past colleagues in a very positive environment. The retirement dinner was an excellent function to celebrate the achievements of those in attendance and, in reality, all who serve as police officers. Kind regards Angelo Pippos

Q&A

Is police station security adequate? From top: Senior Constable 1C Mitch Hellams, Constable Gabriella Capponi and Senior Constable Scott Prime.

Senior Constable 1C Mitch Hellams Mount Barker Police Station Station security at Mt Barker police station isn’t adequate. Members at a desk in the front station can’t see the front entrance. The BA room is right next to the equipment-issue counter which can be a problem with PCA and OFA procedures being conducted at shift change. Entry and exit pedestrian gates don’t auto-close as they should and need to be manually checked to ensure they are secure. A significant issue is there are no stocks of streamer OC spray to issue to station members. There are no barriers of any sort to the front counter and we’ve had a recent incident of someone jumping the counter here. In the current security climate, it’s important to address these sorts of issues. I don’t think we can afford to be complacent with security.

Constable Gabriella Capponi

Senior Constable Scott Prime

Grenfell St Patrols

Eastern Adelaide LSA

Although there are many measures in place regarding security at police stations, I think complacency among members could place them at risk. Further, having one member only in most major police stations between roughly 3pm and 7am does not provide adequate security to either the member and potential victims or other people who might attend to report various matters. If having one member working in stations in most afternoon shifts is going to be common practice, it’s imperative to have some form of safety screen in between station staff and members of the public, especially with the risk to police in the current climate.

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Not even close! All stations should be secure, including their car parks with room for members’ private vehicles. Grenfell and Hindley St, Salisbury, Holden Hill and Port Adelaide all have completely insecure open-access fleet parking. Fleets have had tyres slashed and members’ private vehicles have been damaged. CCTV needs to be upgraded as a deterrent and to assist with investigations into incidents on police premises. Front service areas need to be secure enough – using Perspex security screens or wire rope – to prevent a person entering without a pass. This can be done with minimal disruption to customer contact. Until all stations are made secure, a minimum of two operational members should be present at all times. Instead of reactive we need to be preventative and, with both training and station security, get ahead of the current threat.

INDUSTRIAL Bernadette Zimmermann Assistant Secretary, Police Association

Attacks on police stations should be near impossible

RECENT

incidents at South Australian police stations have highlighted the crucial need for a review of station security. In light of deeply concerning attacks on stations and police in just the last 12 months, the Police Association took up the issue of security with SAPOL earlier this year. The attacks occurred in: • November 2015: An intruder entered the Victor Harbor police station after hours, using nothing more than his body weight to smash through the glass entrance. • March 2016: An aggressive man jumped the front counter of the Mount Barker police station, entering the work area in which an officer was working at a computer station. • May 2016: A man drove his car through the front doors of the Sturt police station, eventually coming to rest inside the public waiting area adjacent to the front counter of the station. Officers were working inside the complex at the time. • May 2016: Two intruders were found on the first floor of the Grenfell St station. • May 2016: A woman jumped the counter of the Berri police station. She was armed with a knife and reportedly drug-affected. • June 2016: A man was arrested for allegedly hurling rocks through the front windows of police headquarters in Angas St. He also allegedly smashed the window of a nearby parked vehicle. • June 2016: An intruder was able to drive a hire vehicle into the car park of the Grenfell St station via an unsecured roller door. • July 2016: An intruder entered the “air lock” of the Mount Gambier police station and then maliciously activated the manual call point for

the police station fire alarm. He picked up a chair “In 2016, no person – whether they are suffering and smashed a window before climbing over the a mental illness or whether they have criminal front counter to enter the interior of the station. intent – should be able to drive a car through the He went on to damage a computer and entered front doors of a police station.” the communications area before police officers Mr Carroll said that although it wasn’t a terrorarrested him. related event, the Sturt incident showed SAPOL • August 2016: A man drove a car through the had a gap in station security. automated glass doors of the Wakefield St Police Association member Constable Andrew police station before getting out and threatening Smith, attached to Mount Barker police station, officers with a knife. Two officers in a passing said security there was inadequate. “I was on station duties (the night of the incident unmarked car blocked his exit. last March),” he told the Police Journal. An additional concern is that officers have highlighted gaps in security at the Port Lincoln “The station front was quiet; there was only one police station. other officer in the building Police Association on duty. “The association remains president Mark Carroll “While I was typing I heard concerned given that it wrote to Commissioner several heavy footsteps and Grant Stevens in June looked up to see a man rolling has been (several) months to establish whether any across the front counter. since the breach of security upgrade of existing security “There’s nothing to prevent at th e s e s t atio n s h ad people crossing the counter. occurred … and I am advised The location of the desk I was taken place. seated at doesn’t have a view “The association remains there has been no upgrade of the front door. concerned given that it to existing security…” has been (several) months “The CCTV monitors are since the breach of security located in another adjacent occurred in the Victor Harbor station and I am room. There are no door-locking devices in advised there has been no upgrade to existing arms reach.” security…” he wrote. Constable Smith said the man had also “Regarding the Mount Barker and Sturt police purchased a 250mm hunting knife the day before stations, I am similarly advised that identical the incident. “(Lucky for us) the offender didn’t bring the knife security arrangements have replaced those that on this occasion,” he said. were in place at the time both breaches occurred in March and May respectively…” In the wake of the Sturt police station incident, Mr Carroll told Channel 7 and Channel 9 news services: Continued page 51 AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

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The critical response to hypothermia Some methods of warming up a sufferer can burn skin and inflict serious injury

bag, or wrap him or her in a thermal/space The adage that “a patient is not dead until has just had its wettest blanket. Cover the person’s head to maintain they are warm and dead” is of some use. body heat. July day in 75 years and snow fell at Mount Lofty after temperatures plummeted to around freezing. To stabilize core temperature, provide warmth rather than rapid rewarming. Hot water The homeless, and people who are lost, might be But the effectiveness of warm-water baths for at risk of dying of hypothermia. bottles, heat packs may be applied to the person’s hypothermic patients is controversial as there are neck, armpits and groin. The early warning signs might include just some late “after effects” to look out for. feeling cold, shivering, clumsiness, slurred speech Give the patient warm drinks if conscious but Vasodilation (reactive blood vessel opening) and irrational behaviour. avoid alcohol and caffeine. increases the vascular space. Consequently, those Do not use radiant heat such as fire or an electric Our normal body temperature is 37 degrees. who have been hypothermic for more than 45 to heater, and do not rub affected areas. Burning the In reality, any person outside in the cold weather 60 minutes often require fluid administration. Low skin is a risk – it increases the risk of infection and will be at risk of getting colder “all the way through” blood pressure can be fixed with large amounts of gangrene in limbs. and dropping his or her core temperature. intravenous fluid. The life-and-death issue is the core temperature. Controversy surrounds the issue of pronouncing Cold becomes life-threatening when the heart decompensates. The heart will develop cardiac The remarkable thing about hypothermia is death in a hypothermic patient. A reasonable dysrhythmias (abnormal rate) with a core temperature that, if people survive the heart problems, their approach is to initiate resuscitation on all hypothermic of 30 degrees or less. brains are usually undamaged. patients, unless they literally have a “frozen chest” or other obvious non-survivable injuries. Susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation (certain Conscious patients can develop ventricular death without shock treatment) is greatest below fibrillation suddenly so, in remote search-and-rescue Make every attempt to warm aggressively and the core temperature of 22 degrees. operations, you should avoid jerky movements of resuscitate until the core temperature rises above As body temperature drops, shivering usually the severely hypothermic. 32 degrees. ceases and the pulse might be hard to find. The Ventricular fibrillation in a cold patient is a Clearly, profound hypothermia can mimic clinical desperate event. Generally, heart rate slows and the level death. However, people with profound hypothermia of consciousness continues to even if it is available, defibrillation can be resuscitated successfully with good To stabilize core decline. If someone shows the is ineffective at hypothermic neurologic outcomes. The adage that “a patient is not temperature, provide core. In such circumstances, effects of cold, the normal first dead until they are warm and dead” is of some use. aid rules apply. extended CPR remains essential Frostbite and other localized cold injuries result in warmth rather than Move the person to a warm, u nt i l r e s c u e r s c a n b e g i n deep tissue damage. For those who survive, surgery rapid rewarming. Hot active rewarming and perform dry place shielded from wind, might be necessary. Affected body parts might rain, sleet and cold. Lie the successful defibrillation. have to be amputated if gangrene develops. water bottles, heat person down and handle him or No “non-invasive” technique One of the rewarding features of hypothermia packs may be applied … rewarms as rapidly as full- has been confirmed with recent studies of a series her as gently as possible and avoid excess activity or movement. body immersion in warm water. of 32 Swiss patients who presented with hypothermia Warming will take time so start measures Known as the Hubbard tank technique, immersion and cardiac arrest. as soon as possible. Remove wet clothing and has successfully rewarmed humans with severe Fifteen patients were resuscitated with aggressive place the person between blankets or in a sleeping hypothermia. techniques, and all 15 showed full neurologic recovery.

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MOTORING Jim Barnett

Muscle-car head-turner The Ford pony car is back and initial demand for it far exceeds supply

DESIGN The iconic Ford Mustang bound for Australia rolls off the Flat Rock (Michigan USA) production line with the steering wheel on the right-hand side. Two versions, Fastback (coupe) and Convertible, are each available in EcoBoost (turbocharged four-cylinder) or GT (V8). Fastback models score manual or automatic transmissions while the Convertible is an auto-only affair. Fastback GT V8 manual, a stunning car, features a long bulging bonnet, shark-mouth grille, swept-back roof line and chrome ponies front and rear. Black 19-inch alloys are shod with low-profile Pirelli tyres (255/40 front and 275/40 rear). Impressive stopping comes courtesy of 380mm front rotors with six-piston Brembo callipers and 330mm rotors with single-piston callipers at the rear. Drive is to the rear wheels via a limited-slip differential held in place by independent rear suspension.

The engine provides strong acceleration and there’s enough throaty exhaust note to remind you that you’re in an American V8.

Front seats are comfortable but the two rear seats are tight. The dash is well laid out with a central colour touchscreen and decent gauge layout. Fastback scores 383 litres of bootspace at the expense of a spare wheel, replaced by an inflation kit.

VALUE FOR MONEY The six Mustang variants are well priced, from $45,990 (EcoBoost Fastback manual) to $66,490 (Convertible GT). Fastback GT manual retails for $57,490. Standard items across the range include: • Auto headlights and wipers. • Clear LED tail lights. • Dual-zone climate control. • Leather trim with power-operated and heated and cooled front seats. • Nine-speaker audio. • E ight- inch colour touchscre e n with sat-nav, Sync2 voice control, AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

Bluetooth and iPod connectivity. • Track apps that display the car’s performance.

SAFETY Although not safety-tested in Australia, Mustang comes well equipped with: • Eight airbags including driver and front passenger knee airbags. • Daytime running lights. • Reversing camera. • Tyre-pressure monitor. • Emergency assistance. • Traction and stability systems. • Perimeter alarm.

STATS The GT’s 5.0-litre V8 puts out 306kw (6,500rpm) and 530Nm (4,250 rpm). Ford claims combined fuel economy of 12.6 litres/100km (auto) and 13.1 litres/100km (manual). Conversely, the 2.3-litre turbo four produces 233kW and 432Nm and uses between 8.5 and 9.4 litres/100km.

Punching above its weight And in the declining micro-car segment, Kia’s doing it with a one-model-fits-all approach

ON THE ROAD One drive of the V8 Fastback and you’ll be hooked. It turns heads everywhere. The engine provides strong acceleration and there’s enough throaty exhaust note to remind you that you’re in an American V8. The manual gearbox offers slick, easy changes with ratios arranged to squeeze the best performance from the engine. The clutch is lighter than you’d expect. Mustang corners like a muscle car should and its ride is firm but never harsh.

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New Picanto, the smallest Kia to be released in Australia, is available in one four-cylinder five-door variant with automatic transmission. At just under 3.6 metres long it’s surprisingly roomy inside thanks to the outer-corner positioning of its wheels. Picanto’s well-proportioned tall body sports a cheeky front end with a smaller version of Kia’s family grille and daytime halogen running lights. With comfortable front seats, which offer plenty of head and leg room, Picanto is far roomier than expected. The dash layout is simple but neat and tidy with everything at the driver’s fingertips. A trendy flat-bottom steering wheel has height-only adjustment and buttons for trip computer, audio and phone functions. The 60/40 rear seat, although comfortable, is tight on leg room unless front seats are well forward. With rear seats in use there’s 200 litres of cargo space expanding to a usable 605 litres with both seats folded. Under the cargo floor is an emergency-style spare wheel.

While Australian (ANCAP) test results remain pending, Picanto scores five stars in Europe. Standard safety items include: • Six airbags. • Stability, traction and hill-start control systems. • Antilock brakes. • Rear parking sensors. • Auto door-locking. • Isofix child restraint anchorages.

VALUE FOR MONEY VERDICT This prancing pony is a perfect blend of retro styling with a modern, powerful drivetrain. It looks sounds and performs exactly as it should. The only oversight is the absence of gas struts to support the bonnet.

With its drive-away price of $14,990, Picanto’s standard items include: • Manual air conditioning. • Bluetooth phone and audio. • Aux and USB inputs. • Driver’s seat height adjuster. • Trip computer. • Power windows (all four). It misses out on items such as alloy wheels and audio apps. AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

STATS The small 1.25-litre petrol engine produces peak power of 63kW (6,000rpm) driving the front wheels through a four-speed automatic transmission. Picanto weighs just 885kg and has combined fuel consumption of 5.3 litres/100km. In addition to its seven-year warranty, Kia includes roadside assistance and capped-price servicing at 15,000km intervals.

ON THE ROAD Picanto is a light, easy car to drive and offers a tight turning circle and effortless parking. Front seats are comfortable, visibility is good and it rides well. Although not exhilarating the small engine seems to punch above its weight. It is smooth and generally quiet in the cabin.

VERDICT Picanto is a good all-rounder with low-cost ownership and a long warranty. Some in this segment offer more equipment but also cost more.

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How to fight the fraudster Paul Modra Executive Manager – Member Value and Distribution, Police Credit Union In this battle, much of the action is now online so tactics are critically important

AS police, you think about the security of others

every day, but do you ever think about your own? As we see the norm of so many daily tasks continuing to swing towards an online capacity, both the threat of and the way that fraud is carried out have changed. But there are many ways that you can ensure you do your best to protect yourself from fraud as we stand alongside you doing everything we can, too. Considering that fraud costs Australians hundreds of millions of dollars each year – and with that number continually escalating – the fraudsters are getting savvier. But so are we. At Police Credit Union, our approach to fraud is, first and foremost, to protect you. We focus on an approach that sees us prioritize prevention of fraudulent transactions using a multi-layered system of monitoring software, as well as staff detection and review. As you know, the way that fraud is carried out is forever changing and evolving. So, then, are the ways in which we protect you and the ways that you can protect yourself. We have seen a shift in the way that fraudsters use the information they are getting. Where expensive jewellery or electronics were once a fraudster’s choice when spending, transactions are now much more likely to be online. Think online gaming, gambling, dating and social media. So what are we doing to protect you in this ever-changing environment?

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SMS ALERTS If your card is, or appears to be, compromised, we will send an automated SMS to your mobile alerting you that your card has been restricted. This 24-7 service is a proactive response to any suspicious activity.

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UPDATE SOFTWARE Keeping your operating system and software up to date might seem like an obvious measure, but it is really important. Don’t ignore those “update” messages.

Common or simple passwords can leave you vulnerable to data breach. Look at using a third-party password manager such as KeyPass or LastPass to generate more secure passwords, and avoid using the same password for multiple sites.

AVOID THE “REMEMBER PASSWORD” FEATURE If you don’t want to leave yourself vulnerable to the potential of fraudulent activity, you should never select the “remember password” feature when using a device you don’t own. After online transactions, travel presents the greatest risk in terms of card fraud. Payment systems overseas are currently in varying states of security-readiness but you can take some basic precautions to reduce your risk.

NOTIFY US Unexpected overseas transactions might prompt us to restrict your card until we can contact you. This could cause you inconvenience so make sure you let us know of your travel plans.

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as equal a footing as possible. This The aim is to ensure that both parents means that the lower income earner, the continue to have a meaningful parenting role. primary child carer or the party who has health issues that reduce his or Negotiation of parenting arrangements is her capacity for work is likely to be individualized. Get creative. entitled to a greater percentage of the net asset pool to adjust for his or her “disadvantage”. Reasons the combined value of the parties’ superannuation might not be divided equally 5. Is the outcome of these four steps just and equitable? In this final step the court reserves include: • A short relationship, which means there is no the right to review the outcome reached after the first four steps and modify the percentages adjustment of the parties’ superannuation each party is to receive from the property interests. • One par t y accrued significantly more settlement further if the result previously reached is not considered appropriate in the circumstances superannuation before the commencement of of the matter. the relationship, which means that either: • the value of the pre-relationship superannuation When dealing with a property settlement the value of the property is as at the current date not can be excluded from the combined value of the parties’ superannuation, or separation (unless the parties agree) so the best bet • there is no adjustment of the parties’ is always to try to get the property division sorted out as soon after separation occurs as is practical superannuation interests, or and possible. • the party who had more superannuation at the start ends up with more than 50 per WILL MY SUPERANNUATION BE TAKEN INTO cent of the combined value of the parties’ ACCOUNT IN A PROPERTY SETTLEMENT? superannuation. Yes superannuation interests are a relevant consideration in property settlements as it is an HOW DOES WORKING TO A ROSTER AFFECT asset the parties have accrued for their mutual PARENTING ARRANGEMENTS? benefit upon retirement. Usually this means that the There seems to be an impression that working combined value of the parties’ superannuation is to a roster can disadvantage you in negotiating divided equally. parenting arrangements. But, in fact, this need not This division is effected either by the person who be the case. has more superannuation providing a “superannuation split” payment to the other person’s superannuation fund or an additional cash payment to recognize the adjustment in the parties’ superannuation. Continued page 51 AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

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Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regrets and, above all, shame. Then one of them is killed – and it’s clear one of the circle was responsible. Dete cti ve Ins pe ctor N ic ola Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these people and their therapist together. So what could be shameful enough to cost a life? And how to find the truth when denial and deception are second nature to all of your suspects?

Nobody knew where the virus came from. FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated it might’ve been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation. CNN reported both sides. While every TV station debated the cause, the world burnt. Pregnant school nurse, Harper Grayson, had seen lots of people burn on TV, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. This is one woman’s story of survival at the end of the world.

The Fighting Season introduces an extraordinary new voice in Australian fiction. Few authors understand the intricacies of war like Bram Connolly, who takes you deep into an authentic world of high-intensity combat that few have experienced. Having been one of Australia’s most elite soldiers, he knows first-hand about war, mateship, violence and survival. Introducing Australian commando Matt Rix. Outside the wire, Uruzgan province, 2010, in the badlands of central Afghanistan, an Australian Special Forces platoon is fatally hit by a roadside bomb. A shadowy Taliban commander, codenamed “Rapier”, is identified as responsible for the deadly attack. Matt Rix, the ultra-tough commando who led the ambushed platoon, swears vengeance. Rix is one of Special Forces’ most lethal operators. He’ll neutralize Rapier – whatever it takes.

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The Game of Their Lives is the incredible untold story of Australian Rules stars-turned-Diggers who introduced our national game to the world. As the Great War raged in 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers played an Australian Rules football match in London. It was the first time the world had seen our national game. But this was more than an exhibition match. It symbolized sport’s role in driving young athletes to enlist and fight. The players – some of them stars in the VFL and other state leagues – came from every corner of the country. Only two things connected the men: their khaki uniform and a love of football. For all of them, it was a chance to forget blood and battle and simply play before heading to the Western Front.

Who really killed the Hadler family? Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life-and-death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well… When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him 20 years earlier. But, when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And, as Falk probes deeper into the killing, old wounds are reopened. For Falk and his childhood friend, Luke, shared a secret – a secret Falk thought long-buried, but Luke’s death starts to bring it to the surface.

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Hardcore Henry is an unflinchingly wild ride: you remember nothing, and that’s mainly because you’ve just been brought back from the dead by your wife (Haley Bennett). She tells you that your name is Henry. Five minutes later, you are being shot at, your wife has been kidnapped, and you should probably go get her back. Who’s got her? His name’s Akan (Danila Kozlovsky). He’s a powerful warlord with an army of mercenaries, and a plan for world domination. You’re also in an unfamiliar city of Moscow, and everyone wants you dead. Everyone except for a mysterious British fellow called Jimmy (Sharlto Copley). He might be on your side, but you aren’t sure. If you can survive the insanity, and solve the myster y, you might just discover your purpose and the truth behind your identity.

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy was killed, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, 11.22.63 is an epic thriller from JJ Abrams. James Franco stars as Jake Epping, a high school English teacher who, encouraged by his ailing friend (Chris Cooper) travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Delving into the darkness of the American dream, viewers are transported to the world of 1960s Texas as Epping explores the mystery surrounding the supposed gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, his family and associates. But Epping’s mission faces threats from not only Oswald, but from Sadie Dunhill, a beautiful librarian he falls in love with, and from the past itself – which doesn’t want to be changed.

He’s not like us! A father (Michael Shannon) goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers. What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the federal government. U ltimate l y, hi s fathe r r i s ks everything to protect Alton and help fulfil a destiny that could change the world forever, in this genredefying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.

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Batman: The Killing Joke takes a journey into the dark psyche of the Clown Prince of Crime, from his humble beginnings as a struggling comedian to his fateful encounter with Batman. Years later, and now escaped from Arkham Asylum, The Joker devises a plan to prove that one bad day can make anyone as insane as he is – setting his sights on Commissioner Gordon. It’s up to the Dark Knight to put a stop to The Joker’s latest scheme and save one of Gotham City’s finest. Batman: The Killing Joke stays true to the authentic tale, spotlighting the birth of a super-villain and the fortitude of a super hero. The celebrity-laden cast is led by Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series , Justice League) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise).

Tom Hiddleston heads a fabulous cast as Laing, a surgeon who moves into a tower on the outskirts of London. The brutalist brainchild of architect Royal, it offers residents everything they need – except contact with the outside world. When the concrete monolith’s electrical circuits malfunction, so does the moral compass of everyone inside. Decadence and depravity become the new norm. Fighting and fornication are rampant and warfare between lower and upper floors erupts, while murder barely raises an eyebrow. Amidst the chaos, Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump hammer home Ballard’s stinging socio-political satire about the thin line between human advancement and de-evolution of the species. High Rise co-stars Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.

Opening film for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Café Society, directed by renowned Woody Allen ( Annie Hall, Midnight in Paris, Manhattan), features Jesse Eisenberg ( The Social Network , Now You See Me) and Kristen Stewart ( Twilight, Snow White and the Huntsman). Set in the 1930s, this bittersweet romance follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high-society nightclub life. Centring on events in the lives of Bobby’s colourful Bronx family, the film is a glittering valentine to the movie stars, socialites, playboys, debutantes, politicians, and gangsters who epitomized the excitement and glamour of the age.

Every day, Rachel Watson takes the train to work in New York and, every day, the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. Rachel starts watching a couple who live a few houses down – Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head. And, then, one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. Then come TV reports that Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.

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Haselgrove Wines McLaren Vale, South Australia www.haselgrove.com.au

2014 First Cut Shiraz 14.9% alc $19

2013 Protector Cabernet Sauvignon

2013 First Cut Cabernet Sauvignon

14% alc $40

14.9% alc $13

The aroma: a lifted generous nose displaying blackcurrant, mulberry, blueberry with hints of dried herbs, and underlying spice with a delicate hint of sour cherry. The palate: full-bodied with a velvety silk-lined balance. Dark fruits dominate the palate with subtle nuances of blueberry and raspberry reduction. Integrated oak spice and tannin give rise to a round finish with hints of chocolate, mint and tobacco. The vineyards: selected from three meso-climatic regions and four vineyards of McLaren Vale. The first is from Seaview producing rich structural wines with darker fruit and violet lift. The second two from McLaren Flat produce elegant lifted wines with fine tannins, and are from the vineyard surrounding the winery and toward Blewitt Springs. The fourth from Blewitt Springs produces wines with elegant red fruits and hints of mint.

The aroma: lifted, bright and fresh aromatics of cassis and cranberry with developing tones of bramble and dried tobacco leaf and hints of menthol and subtle cedar oak. The palate: demonstrates all the hallmarks of great Cabernet. Mid-weight yet structured, bright fruit with balancing acidity and a fine line of tannin creating a long dry finish â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ideal for food. T he v ineyards: se le cte d from multiple sites through the McLaren Vale region, each displaying a unique site character which integrate well to form the final blend. Willunga area offers fruit with dark berries and hints of fennel w ith c h ew y t an n i n s w h i l e McLaren Flat offers lifted floral notes and finer tannins. Blewitt Springs offers blueberry fruits and delicate structure.

The last month of the 2014 harvest in McLaren Vale was cool, producing lighter, brighter and more structured Shiraz. The aroma: bright and intensively aromatic, the nose sings of the vintage and variety. Fresh cute herbs and red berry fruits with subtle spice and complementary charry oak. The palate: fresh-fruited with excellently balanced acidity and finely structured. This is a wine that will grow in stature as it ages. The vineyards: selected from multiple sites through the McLaren Vale region, each displaying a unique site character which integrate well to form the final blend. Willunga area offers fruit with dark berries and hints of fennel with chewy tannins while McLaren Flat offers lifter floral notes and finer tannins.

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THE POLICE CLUB Police Remembrance Day POST-SERVICE LUNCHEON Thursday, September 29 Police Club from 1pm Since days of old, the Feast of Saint Michael, Patron Saint of Policing, commemorates and celebrates the rich culture, history and tradition that define policing across the ages. In Australia on this September day each year, the police family comes together to pay personal and professional tribute to its honoured fallen – some of whom served beside us. Join Police Association secretary Tom Scheffler and riders from the 2016 Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance, to be part of the tributes that take place, not only at the sacred National Police Memorial in Canberra but around the rest of the nation as well.

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Police Club Quiz Night FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER, 6pm for a 6:30pm start – 10pm $22.00 per person Ten rounds of all your favourites, plus • Silent Auction • Lucky Squares

• Wine Lucky Dip

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Entry includes a complimentary snack plate (choice of Asian basket, seafood platter, party favourites or mini beef & chicken satay skewers) and drink on arrival (choice of beer, wine or soft drink). Additional refreshments available on the night. Please purchase your tickets in advance www.trybooking.com/137381 or speak to Police Club staff for further information (No BYO food or drink)

Free WiFi | Private function rooms available | Free entry into weekly meat tray OPENING HOURS Mon – Wed 10am till 3.30pm | Thurs 10am till 5pm | Friday 10am till late HAPPY HOUR 4.30pm till 6.30pm every Friday

The Last Shift STEVE CLARK (1) STEVE DAVIESS (2) BOB GODDARD (3) DANIEL HAIG REX HEINS (4) ASH LANGE (5) BARRY LEWIS (6) STEPHEN McCOY (7) ANDY MINNIS (8) ALAN ORCHARD (9) JIM PAINTER (10) ROMAN POMAZAK (11) ROB WILLIAMS (12)

SERGEANT STEVE CLARK Port Pirie Police Station 43 years’ service Last Day: 20.07.16 Comments… “I have met many characters over the years and made many lifelong friends. The most important asset to SAPOL is its members and staff. “It is getting tougher by the week to perform every-day duties, with the increase in workloads and the critics from outside. Most of them have no idea of the stress and pressure on members on a daily basis just to do their duties. “I thank the past and present Police Association committee members, delegates and staff for their excellent support for members over the years. “Having attained the ripe old age of 60, I am ready to slide quietly into the night and start to enjoy life without having to worry about shifts, weekends and other miscellaneous duties.”

Sergeant Alan Orchard Commissioner’s Support Branch 42 years’ service Last Day: 20.07.16

Comments… “I am the last remaining member of adult course 116 which commenced training in September 1974 at Thebarton barracks. “I thank all past and present members I have had the pleasure to work with since 1974. “I also thank the Police Association for its tireless efforts to maintain the working conditions of all employees. It has always been there for its members.”

Alan Orchard (centre row, third from left) on his graduation day

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SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C JIM PAINTER Communications Centre 43 years’ service Last Day: 28.07.16 Comments… “Yesterday, at 7:05am, I was working the radio again, calling for crews to deal with the victim of a reported serious assault with a woman dragged from her car and bashed by two male offenders. “Graphic, shocking and urgent. My suspicions were of a drug- or DV-related event. “Comcen has provided me an opportunity to work with skilled, dedicated people right across the department and the state, everywhere from the metro area to Murputja or Port McDonnell. “The unstinting willingness to get out there and help people, even when woken by a phone call in the middle of a dark, stormy night, has been consistent across the whole organization. I will miss being part of it. “I want to thank the office bearers and the staff of the Police Association – several generations of them. “Their decisions and hard work has changed policing, from mass protests organized in the 1970s about both pay and conditions to street marches and political lobbying more recently. The result has been a much better-paid, -trained and -equipped service.”

CONSTABLE ROMAN POMAZAK Christies Beach Police Station 15 years’ service Last Day: 27.06.16 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for its support as I navigated the return-to-work programme following injuries sustained while on duty. “I also thank the members of the South Coast local service area, particularly the members of South Coast Crime Scene who had to endure working a member short as I attempted to recover from my injuries. “The friendship and support given to me has been boundless and a credit to the members of SAPOL it has been my pleasure and privilege to serve with.” SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C STEVE DAVIESS TIS 46 years’ service Last Day: 20.07.16 Comments… “It has been a great 46 years, all of which I have enjoyed. To the friends and workmates I have had the privilege of meeting and working with over that time I can only say thank you. You have been part of my journey and I am better for it. “To Tom Scheffler, Mark Carroll, past and present committee members and office staff, I thank you all for the advice and assistance you have provided me when I have needed it.”

DETECTIVE SERGEANT STEPHEN McCOY Western Adelaide CIB 35 years’ service Last Day: 20.07.16 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for all its help in the past. “I have had a great career and great time in the job working on some of the state’s largest investigations. The memories I have will stay with me for the rest of my life. “Most of my working life (31 years) has been spent in the CIB. I thank all the partners I worked with in that time. “Since becoming a detective sergeant I have worked with some of the most enthusiastic members, especially the members of the Tac teams and Mantle at Elizabeth and Port Adelaide.” SUPERINTENDENT ASH LANGE Awards and Marketing Events Branch 43 years’ service Last Day: 22.07.16 Comments… “I sincerely thank the association for its commitment to the wider membership over the years, particularly during my 43-and-a-half years of service with SAPOL. “It has been reassuring to know that the association was always there. And on occasions when I had to engage with the association on an ‘official’ basis, those exchanges were always professional and achievable. “I have had a great time and enjoyed the many challenges the job has presented me. “My advice to those remaining: don’t ever forget your heritage and where you have come from because that is what will make you a person. No room out there for show-offs or selfish, egotistical people who are only interested in selfpromotion and advancement.” AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

Top: Andy Minnis on graduation day in 1975; above: at Christies Beach in 1981 with Snr Const Bernard Anderson; above right: Christmas 1984 with son Nathan; right: on night shift attending a break-in on a Cowandilla fish shop in 1977

Sergeant Andy Minnis Transit Services Branch 43 years’ service Last Day: 03.08.16 Comments… “I thank and congratulate the Police Association for ensuring that all SAPOL members receive some of the best pay and conditions in this state. “The latest pay rises and the preservation of all our allowances – achieved in the current enterprise agreement in the current tough economic environment in which Australians find themselves – is testimony to the dedication and hard work the association has put in to achieve this. “I joined the job as a fresh-faced 17-year-old on January 4, 1973. What a great ride it has been. “It takes a unique and special type of person to belong to this great brotherhood/sisterhood. I will miss the camaraderie that comes with the job. “I have witnessed massive changes in policing since the 1970s and have enjoyed and survived all the challenges that came my way. I would do it all again.”

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The Last Shift CONSTABLE DANIEL HAIG Parks Patrols Five years’ service Last Day: 31.07.16 Comments… “I leave SAPOL with some reluctance but it is the right decision for my family. We don’t have any family support in SA and it is best long-term if we settle down closer to our family near Lismore (NSW). “I have really enjoyed my brief time in SAPOL and have had the privilege of working with some really great people. “Unfortunately, it is the end of the road for my police career as NSW Police is not currently recruiting interstate police so I am commencing a new role as a sheriff’s officer. “I thank you and the Police Association, particularly Matt Karger, for the assistance I was given in 2014 when I had an unexpected change of family circumstances while posted to Leigh Creek. “I could not have managed through that difficult period without the support and guidance provided by Matt and you. “In the end, the association obtained an excellent outcome for me and my family and I am very grateful for everything.” SUPERINTENDENT BARRY LEWIS Commissioner’s Support Branch 53 years’ service Last Day: 29.07.16 Comments… “Having served as a member for 53-plus years I have appreciated the work the association has undertaken over that time for improvement to members’ conditions and remuneration. “One typical example has been the ‘old’ superannuation scheme that will benefit my family in retirement. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time throughout my career and worked with some wonderful, dedicated people and certainly would do it all over again as to be ‘in the job’ is unique only to policing.”

SERGEANT REX HEINS Limestone Coast Highway Patrol 44 years’ service Last Day: 31.08.16 Comments… “It was a lifetime ago that, as a fresh-faced 16 -year- old I walked through the front gates at Fort Largs, not knowing what to expect and not knowing what the future might hold. “Well, I can honestly say it was all worth it. I would do it all again. “To all those members of Course 41 and to all the characters I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over the last 40-plus years, I thank you for your assistance, friendship, camaraderie and humour. “I thank the Police Association and its executive for all the effort they have put into getting us the conditions and pay we now receive. “To all those members who still maintain the thin blue line: good luck and best wishes for a safe and rewarding experience. And one last piece of advice: never lose your sense of humour.”

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SUPERINTENDENT ROB WILLIAMS Hills Fleurieu LSA 40 years’ service Last Day: 04.08.16 Comments… “I consider myself one of the luckiest fellows going around. I have been able to incorporate most of my favourite pastimes and get paid to do them. “Riding police motorcycles for a living was both challenging and exciting. Working at STAR Operations Section for many years and undertaking tasks as varied as underwater recovery, helicopter operations and high-risk operations through to protests at Baxter have all been rewarding. “I leave the job with no regrets. I hope I have been able to help others along the way and not been too difficult for some. “Thank you to the Police Association for its diligent work and the rewards gained for all of us. “Lastly, I thank everyone who I have worked with and wish all current members the best for the future.” SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C BOB GODDARD Driver & Traffic Training Unit 43 years’ service Last Day: 10.08.16 Comments… “I have been to some wonderful places – not normally accessible to the public – thanks to work commitments including sacred Aboriginal sites, military installations and aircraft at Woomera. “I have experienced many changes in my career, from walking the beat at Torrens Lake with no phones to technological tools such as the ANPR and drug-driver testing. “Thanks to the Police Association for tirelessly protecting the interests of members and for the wonderful work of preserving safe and secure work conditions, especially relating to pay. “To all those I have worked with through my career, both on and off the road, I thank you for the camaraderie and memories.”

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

INDUSTRIAL

From page 27

Constable Smith said uniform minimum standards of security should apply, especially since ASOs and volunteers also work at the front counters of some stations. “There should be a panel of sorts to stop people crossing the counter,” he explained. “Large CCTV screens need to be visible from all points in the front station. The screens should

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show the street, the entry and front station. “And the front counter should have some ballistic screening for cover.” SAPOL responded to the Police Association in writing, highlighting several recommendations emerging from a review of station security. “In part, the review recommended promotion of an increased security culture amongst police

employees,” the letter highlighted. The letter also highlighted that a “protective securit y committee is currently assessing standards for police station public access areas to ensure front office staff have adequate security whilst not detracting from the accessibility of police services”.

may be arranged at times when he or she will not be working and the child is not at school so that the time spent together is most beneficial. If you are considering separation or have separated and are having difficulties with establishing future care arrangements for the children, seek advice from one of our family-law team as early as possible. Leaving it too long before you seek advice might be disadvantageous to you as the court seeks to protect the children’s best interests which can include protecting established routines.

in respect of child support or you can have the child support amount assessed and collected by the Child Support Agency. Even if you have a shared care arrangement, in which the child spends equal time with each parent, if there is a difference in the parents’ taxable incomes some child support may be assessed as payable. If you are unsure of what your child support obligations might be you might wish to refer to the Child Support Estimator which allows you to enter information about both parents’ incomes, details of the child/children and care arrangements to calculate the child support payable in your circumstances.

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Every parenting situation is unique to the parents and children involved. Part of the court’s consideration of what is in the child’s best interests is to put in place care arrangements based on a practical, workable routine that is sustainable. If you have a roster in which your pattern of shifts is the same on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis, arrangements can be agreed on the basis of a weekly/ fortnightly/monthly rotation in line with your roster. The aim is to ensure that both parents continue to have a meaningful parenting role. Negotiation of parenting arrangements is individualized. Get creative. Consideration of each parent’s working hours is relevant to determining how the routine can be structured so that both parents have quality time with the child. If the parent working a roster has traditionally been the primary carer, the other parent’s time with the child could coincide with times that the primary parent needs to work. Or, if the parent, who is not the primary carer, works to a roster, that parent’s time with the child

WHAT ARE MY OBLIGATIONS TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT? Child support is calculated by the Child Support Agency based on your taxable income for the previous financial year and the care arrangements for the children. If you are the parent who has the children for more time, the other parent may be obligated to make child support payments to you. You can choose to reach a private agreement AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers provides free initial advice through a legal advisory service to Police Association members and their families, and retired members. To make an appointment, members should contact the association (8212 3055).

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Course 7/2015 Graduates' Dinner Fenwick Function Centre Friday, June 17, 2016

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5. Ann and Samuel Williams and Vic and Jessie Williams 6. Nicole Donnelly and Andrew Cooper 7. Fran, Sian and Steve Milner 8. Arron Bergmann, Claire Bray and Ian and Bev Bergmann 9. Gareth Moore and Melissa Hall 10. Emma Ewins and Breeanna Folley 11. Chris Basso entertains guests with a speech

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Graduation: Course 7/2015 Wednesday, June 22, 2016

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Police Association Retiring Members Dinner William Magarey Room, Adelaide Oval Friday, June 24, 2016

The 2016 retirees with Police Association president Mark Carroll (front, second from right) and Commissioner Grant Stevens (front, left of centre retiree)

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1. Kingsley Smith, Alistair Fraser and Greg Daly 2. Peter Schar and Dennis Mulroney 3. Paul Sheldon, Gill Sheldon, Michael Heath, Bev Fisher and Ian Fisher 4. David Venner, Tony Jones, Brian Smith and Andrew Edwards 5. Tim Dodds, Peter Alderson, Glen Mickan, Ian Gibbons and Colin Elson 6. Anthony, Greg and Matthew Daly, Carly Redman and Paula Daly 7. Leonard Miller, Glenn Angus, Mike Tajnikar, Wayne Palmer, Phillip Wilson and David Modra

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8. Briony, John, Joanna, Marg and Jackson Schrader and Simone Kuhar 9. Matilda and Michael Bristow and Violet Patty 10. Angelo Pippos, Peter Schulze and Martyn Bond 11. Kerrie, Peter and Sarah Biermann 12. Mark and Julie Wilson

11 AUGUST 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

CONSTABLE KATE BLUNDELL

DETECTIVE SENIOR SERGEANT 1C BARRY BLUNDELL Electronic Crime Section

Whyalla Police Station

Family

To Kate Blundell, who joined SAPOL and the Police Association in February, 2014, it seems every second copper knows, or knows of, her father. To Barry, it was just a joy to see his daughter join “the family business”.

er. . on al ad vi ce a police of fic d ’s pr of essi anted to be w da I y e m tle lic k lit ek po as d jobs to nce I was t joining the de fin ite ly se Crime-relate KB: “Ever si I grew up bu K B: “A nd I for different Eway. H is es other areas as y er tim th has helped an w ei m ce fe e er vi a m id I did cons tr y to sway ould be. His ad I’ve called him w ’t n e dn tio us di ac ho new e ad of D th out. e officer in best course lped me learn definite ly won him what the up with a polic ns and has he g io in at .” ig ow es st gr liv y ve ’s m in le y e from ber of m other peop influence cam me with a num got to make in ns.” difference he e ching situatio th oa ng pr ei ap se and ways of g the ded to join. ci de d ha e se and durin e told me sh ationary cour in, sh n ob ed pr he st r w swer re he te an ed in g to rpris as doin tioned being t of the hat BB: “I was su BB: “Kate w ally ever men as pulled ou and re y w d e pa was: m ha er od e na r sw sh go g in ule he me? ’ H er an good job with It wasn’t a th e- crime mod OC of E- Cri se to happier. It’s a ha e oo th ug en ch la is be I u . ve yo te ho if ra ha portunities, question: ‘W t just as accu but I couldn’t op e bu th er se re e on ca m sp g.” es so re d it provid standard to go on to me. Poor thin daddy.’ Not a conditions. An one choose e’s related to y ld sh ‘M if ou r sh he s k ill as ketable sk that people stay, and mar in bit when I hear e going to jo .” rs ou av Blundells ar de e or m e y m other en ly an so al m ci periences ment ‘How . That’s espe when Kate ex KB: “The com uple of times en co s, pp a he e ha up s as re e at th cr m l rief’ ch actually co , so there’s ch as fata BB: “The ‘deb policing, su the job?’ has police of ficer a ith d w ar so al he up es t is d m pu w an co u a that sister-in-la how do yo t she’s seen of the traum because my t: ‘Oh, God, iscussing wha e gh.’ ” now. I also ge portant. Ther rt of thing. D g im in so is lic at ll! One’s enou po th es , de in nc es un bodi Blundells t another Bl similar experie no and , d o no ha ag h, s ve ‘O ar ha d ye ho me?’ an over 30 from others w with him at ho remote. that happened er are fairly gs I reflect on in th e m so ” e king togeth it. ar t or w ou ab us to, until rs t of he an s ance talk with ot ould she w BB: “The ch it still helps to to E- Crime, sh es up re ak m he I retire at re ng th tti fo rt ge at the Port be n’t see Kate It’s a major pa ca k. up I d or , w en to s to en us . I’m tr ying to se, we disc . If I happen b that I’ve be KB: “Of cour place as Kate en a tough jo ter I’m retired e af m be s sa re e’ e er he th th w me in If es now. use he’s been should she co sting to work both of our liv about it beca etro to work it’d be intere d m . da in gs e in to ac th lk r pl ta ila able to it’s the only same or sim it’s good to be convince her perienced the on things.” er and has ex e re iv ca ct y de.” pe m ai rs in el w pe I am no back to Ad can give me experience he s hi of e us Beca

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