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Contents FEATURES

10 Koda a hard act to follow He was the police dog that survived a stabbing and eventually retired but the job of replacing him came with some serious problems.

16 Former detective the ultimate entrepreneur

Plenty of cops give policing away and do well in private enterprise but few end up worth millions of dollars.

18 Protect Our Cops campaign wins multiple awards

The Police Association clearly made the right choice of advertising agencies when it came to the fight for workers compensation justice.

19 Seven international awards for Police Journal

The tally of overseas awards has gone up by one after another win in the United States for Best Feature Article.

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Editor REGULARS 06 POLICE ASSOCIATION 08 PRESIDENT 20 LETTERS 21 Q&A 22 OPINION 23 INDUSTRIAL 25 HEALTH 26 MOTORING 29 BANKING 31 LEGAL 32 BOOKS 35 CINEMA 37 WINE 40 THE LAST SHIFT 46 ON SCENE 50 FAMILY

COVER: Senior Constable First Class Simon Rosenhahn and police dog Ben Photography by Steve McCawley

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The only detractors police dogs have are criminals. Just about everyone else loves them. They track down wrongdoers, find lost or missing persons, look after their human partners, and they’re just great to look at and be around. And, to them, work is a joy rather than a burden.

So the outpouring of sympathy and concern for police dog Koda after he got stabbed by an offender back in 2013 was no surprise. We caught up with his handler, Simon Rosenhahn, to find out how the retired Koda is these days.

What we found out was that replacement dogs don’t just simply appear after their predecessors retire.

Getting set up with a new dog can be intensely frustrating, as it certainly was for Simon.

We were saddened to hear of the death earlier this year of former detective Richard Jones. He left the cops back in the 1980s and became an extraordinary success in the hotel industry. We did a bit of digging to find out how he did it.

And, in this issue, we run our last instalment of Family, which will make way for a new concept in 2017. Probationary Constable Jessica Hore and her parents get the last word.

Enjoy this last issue for 2016 and have a great festive season.

Brett Williams

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FINANCE

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES

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Sarah Stephens

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DELEGATES METRO NORTH BRANCH Port Adelaide..................Kim Williams (chair) Elizabeth...........................Glenn Pink Henley Beach...................Matthew Kluzek Holden Hill........................Nigel Savage Gawler..............................David Savage Golden Grove..................Stuart Smith Parks.................................Kylie Slater Salisbury...........................Mardi Ludgate Northern Prosecution.....Tim Pfeiffer

COUNTRY NORTH BRANCH Port Lincoln.....................Lloyd Parker (chair) Ceduna.............................David Bourne Coober Pedy...................Jeff Page

Kadina...............................Ric Schild Nuriootpa.........................Michael Casey Peterborough...................Nathan Paskett Port Augusta....................Peter Hore Port Pirie...........................Gavin Mildrum Whyalla.............................Les Johnston

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Major Crime.....................Jodie O’Brien Port Adelaide...................Rebecca Burns South Coast ....................Jason Tank Sturt..................................Brad Scott

METRO SOUTH BRANCH Sturt .................................Michael Quinton (chair) Adelaide...........................Melissa Eason Netley...............................Toby Shaw Norwood..........................Ralph Rogerson South Coast ....................Peter Clifton South Coast ....................Andrew Bradley Southern Traffic...............Peter Tellam Southern Prosecution.....Andrew Heffernan

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OPERATIONS SUPPORT BRANCH Dog Ops..........................Bryan Whitehorn (chair) Police Academy...............Francis Toner Police Band......................Neil Conaghty ACB...................................Jo Mareolas Comcen ...........................Brenton Kirk

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PRESIDENT Mark Carroll

Front-line cops crucial in the reform process SOUTH Australians simply won’t accept the SAPOL organizational

reforms unless they can rely on adequate numbers of first-response, front-line police.

The Police Association insisted throughout this year that the SA government uphold its promise of extra police officers, and that gave these controversial reforms a much-needed boost.

The government initially promised the extra 313 officers by 2014. It reneged on this promise three times, eventually pushing the delivery date all the way to 2020.

That was simply unacceptable.

After high-level negotiations with the government, the association convinced it to honour its commitment.

The result is that SAPOL now has the required funding to deliver these extra police numbers by June 2018.

No other result would have been satisfactory to the association.

And, without our intervention, the SAPOL reforms would have been severely compromised.

In fact, Recruit 313 denotes a significant starting point in the SAPOL 2020 Roadmap released earlier this month.

The roadmap details the reforms to be rolled out over a four-year period up to, and including, 2020.

Departments simply cannot afford to become complacent about frontline police numbers.

It is a much more methodical and manageable process made easier with the flying start Recruit 313 brings to the reforms.

And it gives it a much better chance of ultimate success.

We’ve also kept a close eye on the results of police reforms in Western Australia. Disturbingly, crime rates have increased under its Frontline 2020 policing model.

Its police department has already had to tweak aspects of the model which were failing not only police officers but also the community.

The WA commissioner even conceded that parts of the model simply did not work.

Western Australia Police has since promised to deliver an increase in response teams.

And Victoria will recruit almost 3,000 extra police over the next four years as its state government tries to cope with rising crime rates.

It is the biggest recruiting drive in that state’s history.

Victoria is also building more stations and expanding some police units.

Victorians have demanded this change – they realized their police services were in dire need of expansion.

We must learn from the experiences of these states.

Despite technological gains, or any plans of centralization or civilianization, the very fundamentals of policing will always remain the same.

Police work is labour-intensive.

It requires significant numbers of men and women on the ground. It is the only way to keep the community safe and ensure crime is constantly under attack.

Departments simply cannot afford to become complacent about front-line police numbers.

YEAR 2016 IN REVIEW From an industrial perspective, I can scarcely remember a more successful year for the Police Association.

It began with our highly publicized Protect Our Cops campaign in progress.

That campaign, which began in November 2015, sought to restore workers compensation entitlements to police officers.

The government had originally sought to strip police of their entitlements in its new Return to Work Act. February 2016 marked the ultimate success of the Protect Our Cops campaign, with the government agreeing to restore entitlements to police officers.

The completion of the enterprise agreement was another huge association milestone of 2016. The Industrial Relations Commission ratified the agreement in May. The association carefully navigated its way through many months of negotiations with the SA government to deliver the agreement.

Members overwhelmingly endorsed the enterprise agreement offer via a SAPOL ballot.

In July, the association expressed its frustration at the SA government’s decision to delay the recruiting of an extra 313 police officers until 2020.

This had not been the first delay, after the government originally promised to deliver the officers by 2014 and, then, 2018.

The association set about informing the media and the public of its grave disappointment with this string of broken promises.

The government, after extensive discussions with the association, decided in September to deliver on the promise of extra police by 2018.

We also won considerable alterations to the Police Complaints Bill, which will come into operation in 2017.

Many of our concerns about the original bill have now been addressed to ensure fairness.

And then there were the crucial outcomes for police mental health owing to our contribution at the state parliament Inquiry into Work Related Mental Disorders and Suicide Prevention.

The committee has subsequently delivered 24 key recommendations to government in respect of the prevention of workplace psychological injuries.

More about those recommendations is detailed in Industrial (page 23).

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They will sacrifice this precious time to protect members of the community …

FESTIVE-SEASON SUPPORT Many people outside the police family will use the upcoming festive season as an opportunity to recharge and spend time with family and friends.

But hundreds of police officers won’t get that luxury.

They will sacrifice this precious time to protect members of the community – people they don’t even know.

This is what the community expects – and it’s what our members will deliver.

But I think most of our members enjoy the huge community support they get in return. And I urge the public to continue that support in abundance.

I wish all association members and their families, and all Police Journal readers, a safe and enjoyable Christmas and festive season.

Messages of sympathy came from as far as overseas after police dog Koda suffered a knifing in 2013. Later, when the time came to replace him, bad luck beset his successor and frustrated his handler.

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deep stab wounds had left police dog Koda at risk of bleeding out in the arms of his handler, Senior Constable 1C Simon Rosenhahn. A callous, fleeing offender had twice thrust a knife deep into the chest of the hotly pursuing German shepherd.

And, now, Koda and Rosenhahn – strongly bonded partners for the previous four years – were in the back of a Traffic officer’s patrol car rushing to a 24-hour veterinary surgery.

“I saw blood going everywhere,” Rosenhahn remembers. “He was bleeding heavily from the chest, but he never lost consciousness or started blacking out.”

A worried Rosenhahn knew this could be the end for six-year-old Koda. He and the loyal but now close-to-death canine had been together since Koda was just nine months old, before they had even become work partners.

The fateful job Rosenhahn and Koda responded to in late August, 2013, began with calls to police about seemingly related incidents in the Elizabeth LSA.

“I saw blood going everywhere.

He was bleeding heavily from the chest …”

T here were repor ts of disturbances, strange behaviour in the street, and a fail to pay taxi.

And the offender descriptions from members of the public seemed a close match.

A local patrol eventually came across a suspect and began checking him out but he assaulted one officer and fled.

Back-up patrols converged on the scene as did Rosenhahn and Koda and drug-dog handler Paul Henderson. Koda picked up a track and Rosenhahn spotted some blood leading to the back door of a house. The pair checked it out but found nothing and gave it the all-clear.

Then, after handler and dog worked their way into the next street, Koda got some indications of the offender in multiple yards.

“I got into a backyard about six houses down,” Rosenhahn says. “Then, next minute, there was a commotion and yelling in the street and he (the offender) came busting out of this house through a window and just started running.

“He ran into a reserve just next to the Holden plant

and all the (back-up) coppers were starting to run after him.

“I wasn’t going to let the dog go then because all the coppers were between me and the dog and the offender.

“But, then, they all stopped, and Hendo (Henderson) stopped, which was good. At that stage, I released Koda. I didn’t realize the guy was armed with a knife.”

Koda charged after the sprinting offender from around 100 metres back and caught up to him in only seconds. Then came the attack which would imperil the dutiful dog.

The offender turned and, “as casual as you like”, raised the knife. In an overhead stabbing action he thrust it straight into Koda’s chest.

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Top: Koda in for surgery after the stabbing; left: Koda and Hunter at home; above: Rosenhahn and Koda at Mount Gambier Sports Park taking part in an annual training camp in 2012.

“And the whole time the dog was still on the crook’s leg.

Koda had blood all over him but still didn’t want to let go.”

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“The dog sort of reeled back and came off,” Rosenhahn recalls. “And, then, he’s gone in again, but the offender stabbed him a second time.”

But not even the two wounds, and the blood pouring out of them, were enough to deter Koda.

He had latched on to his attacker’s leg and had no intention of letting it go – not without the word from Rosenhahn.

Henderson was first to catch up to Koda and, with his pistol trained on the offender, yelled: “Drop the knife!”

“I caught up as well and basically disarmed him (the offender),” Rosenhahn says. “And the whole time the dog was still on the crook’s leg. Koda had blood all over him but still didn’t want to let go.

“So I removed him and all the coppers ran in and grabbed (the offender). And it turned out the knife (was one he) just picked up in this house as he busted out of it and ran.”

All the cops on the scene realized the seriousness of the wounds to Koda and so grabbed bandages out of their patrol car first-aid kits.

Rosenhahn and his concerned colleagues wrapped the dog up as thoroughly as they could to stop the gushing blood. Then came the desperate dash in the Traffic car to the vet surgery.

There, a special veterinary surgeon treated and saved Koda and described him as “very lucky”.

It emerged that the knife had missed a main artery by only millimetres.

Koda was still groggy the next morning but had got through his surgery well enough for Rosenhahn to take him home. After six weeks of rehab he returned to work and, undeterred by his near-death experience, continued to catch offenders.

But Koda lasted only another six months on the road before Dog Ops retired him in March 2014.

He had some other health problems, including allergies, and had started to “slow down”.

“He’d been through a fair bit,” Rosenhahn says.

“I was really happy that he did his rehab, came back on the road and caught more crooks.

“He was a brilliant dog. I loved going to work with him. Every day you always got 100 per cent effort.

In the four years he was on the road he caught about 120 offenders. And the one thing you could always rely on was that he’d always look after you.”

Of course, working dogs hate retirement but Koda got to remain – and still is – a cherished member of the Rosenhahn family.

Far left: Rosenhahn with newly graduated Hunter; left: Ben at 14 months old in the back of the police car; above: Ben at 12 months old.

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a week before the stabbing incident, Rosenhahn had taken young German shepherd Hunter under his wing to see if he had any potential. He thought the dog looked promising and so took him on the Dog Ops course.

Hunter graduated in May 2014, became a new partner to Rosenhahn, and performed well – until one day the following October.

“I saw that he wasn’t running properly,” Rosenhahn recalls. “He looked a bit funny in the rear end. Then one day he yelped getting in the car and held his leg up.

And it was only a small jump into the back of the ute.”

T h e p a i n c o nti nu e d to s tr i ke Hunter intermittently and Rosenhahn knew instinctively that “something just wasn’t right”.

A visit to the vet and subsequent scans revealed that two-year-old Hunter was suffering a spinal disorder known cauda equina syndrome.

With that condition, he could no longer function as a working dog. He had to go into retirement.

So, after the early departure of Koda and the loss of Hunter to illness after just five months, Rosenhahn needed yet another dog. And the demand for dogs suitable for police work far outstripped supply, and still does.

Through some research, Rosenhahn discovered a breeder in Victoria and went to check out his dogs. He spotted eight-month-old German shepherd Ben and considered him a “cracker”.

But Ben was way too young for the Dog Ops course so Rosenhahn returned with another German shepherd. Axel got some way through the course before it became clear that he was unsuitable and wound up back with the breeder.

Ben, still with the breeder, was now a 10-monthold, and Rosenhahn continued to believe he had “the X factor”.

Dog Ops took him and, despite his young age, he was soon taking part in the course, which rarely includes dogs younger than 18 months.

“We (at Dog Ops) talk about drive, wanting to chase stuff: he’s got that in bucket-loads!

He’s born to be a police dog.”

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“He just blitzed it from the get-go,” Rosenhahn says. “He graduated in August last year, so he’s been on the road for about 15 months now and he’s going really well.”

Now aged just over two and weighing 44kg, long-haired Ben cuts an imposing figure. And, during his 15 months’ service, he has tracked more than 50 offenders.

“We (at Dog Ops) talk about drive, wanting to chase stuff: he’s got that in bucket-loads!”

Rosenhahn exclaims. “He’s born to be a police dog.”

And Ben proved that on a rainy night in Dublin last August when he and Rosenhahn went to search for two break-and-enter suspects. Even though an hour had passed by the time the pair got out there, Ben almost immediately picked up a track – on concrete.

Soon drenched and tracking in freezing cold, he stuck at it for three hours. And, in that time, he found a suspect hiding under a bush, other break-ins, and bags full of stolen property around the township.

“I thought: ‘Beautiful! Absolutely awesome!’ ” Rosenhahn says. “For a young dog, an hour-old track, on concrete… I was just that happy.”

Ben had delivered another extraordinary result in the inner western suburbs last June, when a wanted suspect had fled after a patrol spotted him on Torrens Road.

That suspect, in his attempt to escape, ended up jumping fences and running across the roofs of local residents’ homes.

Left: Ben at home; above: Koda at home in the backyard with his successor, Ben

Some residents saw and heard him and emerged from indoors to report their observations to back-up patrols now swarming the area.

According to the last sighting of the suspect, he was on the roof of a townhouse in a small street in Brompton. Rosenhahn made his way into the street with Ben. “And the dog’s just gone mental at this T-junction,” he recalls. “There was nothing there to hide in but he’s just indicating, going nuts.”

The next minute, Ben started barking furiously at the opening to a stormwater drain. He had found the suspect, who had somehow crawled into the drain unnoticed!

To Rosenhahn, it was another “awesome” performance by his partner. He just hopes Ben makes it to retirement age so that he gets to work with him for around six more years. That should happen as long as Ben manages to avoid a career-ending injury or illness.

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Ko d a continues to live out his retirement with the Rosenhahns – and Ben, of course. At home he is “as good as gold”, according to Rosenhahn, in whose memory there remains a highlights reel of Koda’s career.

He remembers one job that involved a search for a stick-up merchant and known guncarrier back in 2010. This offender had taken off on foot from police, who had subsequently set up a cordon and called for a dog.

Working with STAR Group officers, Rosenhahn and Koda wound up in a backyard in which Koda indicated a lounge.

“It was just a lounge,” Rosenhahn says, “and I was going: ‘Well, where is he?’ He (the offender) had actually crawled up underneath and into the frame of the lounge.

That was a really good job (Koda did).”

“There’d be nothing worse than having to drive him down to the vet knowing what’s going to happen.

I think that’d be absolutely heart-wrenching.”

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Cut off from that kind of fun, Koda “just hated staying at home” in the first few months of his retirement.

“It takes a bit of adjustment for them,” Rosenhahn explains, “and they get their nose out of joint with the new dog coming along. Koda’s probably now at the age where he’s accepted that.

He’s nine now.

“He’s definitely slowed down, he’s pretty grey, and the hips are getting a bit tight. He’s happy just to go for a walk around the suburbs. But, for a big dog who’s been through a fair bit, he’s going all right.”

But life without Koda is the brutally sad reality that lies ahead for Rosenhahn and his family. With his history of injuries and illness, and a life expectancy for German shepherds of nine to 13 years, his end could be near.

The circumstances might even be ones in which Rosenhahn has to find the courage to decide to euthanize Koda. He has taken on that task before but never with a police dog, and he concedes that he is “absolutely dreading it”.

“It’ll be horrible,” he insists. “There’d be nothing worse than having to drive him down to the vet knowing what’s going to happen. I think that’d be absolutely heart-wrenching.

“I think my kids, Beth and Mia, will take it really hard, my youngest especially. She’ll be devastated.

I’ll definitely have to give them the opportunity to say goodbye – if there is an opportunity.

“I probably prefer that it (his death) happens on the fly where you can’t prepare yourself. But, either way, we’ll miss him to pieces.” PJ

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Former detective the ultimate entrepreneur

By Brett Williams

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experience quit policing, venture into private enterprise, and end up with an empire worth millions of dollars. But that was exactly the level of success former Holden Hill detective Richard Jones (pictured) achieved in the hotel industry, after 14 years in law enforcement.

With talent lost to policing, he proved himself to be an outstanding businessman and innovator.

Today, the RD Jones Group, which he and his wife, Denise, founded in 1982, owns 18 hotels across South Australia and Queensland. It is one of the largest hotel groups in South Australia.

Among its well-known pubs are The Holdy, The Moseley, The Gully, the Woodcroft and Bridgeway hotels, and the Settlers, Bartley, Cove, Colonnades and Roxby taverns.

The empire Jones built is now his legacy. He died on a cycling holiday in France last July when, at the age of 65, he suffered a heart attack.

Along with Denise, his son and daughter, Ryan and Danielle, and son-in-law, Luke Donaldson, continue to run the RD Jones Group.

Australian Hotels Association SA general manager Ian Horne thought of Jones as “the ultimate entrepreneur”. “(He) instinctively adapted to change and embraced and responded to new concepts, trends and customer expectations over more than three decades,” he said.

“Richard was enthusiastic in every endeavour he undertook. While at times many ventures appeared to others to be high risk, he always had a high level of realism and common sense to balance his natural instinct to have a go.”

Live entertainment was one of those ventures Jones undertook in the 1980s – and it was a big contributor to his success.

To some of his hotels, he brought performers such as Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, The Angels, Hunters and Collectors, Hoodoo Gurus, Men at Work and Midnight Oil. “Music was basically the lifeblood of large suburban and regional hotels,” he told Hotel SA magazine in 2012.

“They were a major part of your turnover. If you had a good weekend with the bands, you had a good turnover for the week.

“We would do bands every week. I had John Farnham at the Colonnades twice. First with Little River Band…”

Alert to the need for innovation, Jones poured millions of dollars into the redevelopment of his hotels. He started the process at the time of the introduction of pokies.

And, as he explained it in an interview, the key was to buy and renovate a somewhat run-down pub with a big car park.

“They would almost double your turnover,” he said in the Hotel SA interview. “That doesn’t happen anymore. You can go in now and spend $1-2 million on a hotel but don’t expect the turnover to change dramatically like it did in the past. It’s not going to happen.”

But Jones, whose peers have described him as hands-on and focussed, never stopped innovating.

In 1995, he conceived and established the highly successful Jackpot Club loyalty system and J-Card, which wound up in use in hotels around Australia.

And, attuned to the opportunities in IT, Jones developed technology for the hospitality and retail sectors. This brought about his creation of WorldSmart Technology.

“He was able to engage people in all spheres, whether they were crims telling us a big lie or a member of parliament.

He had the ability to talk to everybody.”

The c o m p a ny, based in SA and part of the RD Jones Group, today employs 120 staff out of offices in every mainland state.

Another field Jones ve nture d into was communications. He was the chairman and m a j o r s h ar e h o l d e r of O r io n S ate l l ite Systems, which was the largest provider of satellite equipment to Papua New Guinea.

Jones applied his business acumen to social issues, too. He developed the ALPA (Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation) FOODcard, which helps outback families provide food throughout pay cycles.

A nother of his initiatives was a harm minimization smartcard to help people manage gambling addiction.

Says Ian Horne: “Whether live music and entertainment promotion during the ’80s, gaming innovation in the ’90, or the high tech IT strategies of the 2000s, each decade brought new innovations to his businesses.

“Of course, in the last five years, he delivered a range of award-winning pubs and hotels as well as state-of-the-art loyalty IT solutions for hospitality and retail. They all stand out.”

Jones came from humble beginnings. The son of a wharfie, he grew up in a Mansfield Park Housing Trust home with his parents, Ernie and Eva, and his sister, Karen. Another sister, Dianne, had died in infancy.

Jones joined SAPOL in 1968 and graduated from Fort Largs in 1970, the era of the anti-Vietnam War protests. After some time as a city patrol officer, he transferred to Whyalla but later returned to Adelaide to pursue a CIB career.

At Holden Hill, he worked with fellow detective and former course mate Ian Baysey, who relished the partnership. Baysey remembers his old colleague as “a good knock-about copper with a disarming sense of humour”.

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spheres, whether they were crims telling us a big lie or a member of parliament.

He had the ability to talk to everybody.

“Ever yone wanted to work with Dick, everyone wanted to be around him. He was a character and everyone enjoyed his company.”

But Baysey also remembers Jones as a competent detective with whom he investigated all manner of offending, including murder and rape.

Jones loved police work but, as an ambitious type, was not prepared to wait for a lengthy period to advance up the ranks. It was, at the time, likely to take years before he could secure a promotion to sergeant.

“Having been in the CIB for five years, I wasn’t comfortable doing another five years doing the same thing,” he told Hotel SA magazine in 2012.

So, at the age of 32, Detective Senior Constable First Grade Jones made his move out of policing and into the hotel business. And that foray started with his purchase of the lease on his first pub, the Grosvenor Hotel in Victor Harbor.

Jones and Denise bought the lease with money an uncle had lent them. Without enough cash of their own, they had sold their home and cars and were living in a caravan with Ryan and Danielle, both then under four.

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PROTECT OUR COPS CAMPAIGN WINS MULTIPLE AWARDS

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extraordinary Protect our Cops campaign the Police Association ran in 2015 and 2016 has won a stack of coveted state and national awards.

The successful campaign, which included a public rally in November 2015, culminated in February with the full restoration of workers compensation entitlements for police officers injured in the line of duty.

The state government had originally sought to strip police of the entitlements with its new return-to-work legislation.

“They left no stone unturned to get the results the members needed.”

The association enlisted highly regarded South Australian advertising company KWP! to assist in running the campaign.

Awards the campaign has won so far are: • Australian Marketing Institute Awards state winner and national finalist: Marketing on a shoestring/small budget.

• Media Federation Awards national winner: Best use of a small budget.

• Adelaide Advertising & Design Club Direct Marketing/Direct Response Award & Direct Marketing/Non Commercial Award.

KWP! group business director Tristan Glover, who led the team that worked on the brief, told the Police Journal it was one of the most effective campaigns the organization had produced in its 25-year history.

“It was a great brief – and it demanded real action,” he said.

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“The passion, guile and leadership shown by (Police Association president) Mark Carroll, (Media and Communications officer) Nick Damiani and the whole association was second to none.

“They left no stone unturned to get the results the members needed.”

Mr Glover said KWP! fed off the energy and enthusiasm the association staff showed for correcting the injustices of the legislation, and immediately set about producing a campaign that would have an immediate impact.

“I think we had the campaign written in a few days and produced within a few weeks,” he said.

“An extremely eye-catching and confronting campaign was the result, featuring some very courageous talent.

“And to get the result the members were after was incredibly satisfying.” PJ

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Police Journal has continued its outstanding success in both the national and international awards arenas in 2016.

Its October 2015 cover story, Memories of Meagher, won bronze in the category of Best Feature Article at the Tabbie Awards in the United States in July.

Judges for Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI) gave the story their overwhelming endorsement.

“The feature has the right mix of superb storytelling mixed with an interesting subject,” one judge remarked.

“The writer does an excellent job combining the past with the present.”

Police Journal editor Brett Williams wrote the story, which covered the investigation into the rape and murder of ABC employee Jill Meagher in Brunswick in 2012.

Williams based the feature on his exclusive interview with former Victoria Police Homicide Squad detective senior sergeant Ron Iddles, who led the investigation.

“I’d spoken with Ron in Melbourne early last year when I first raised the subject of an interview with him,” Williams recalled.

“He agreed to do it but we didn’t get together again until September last year.

“And, on the day Ron came over to Adelaide – and gave me half a day of his time for the interview – it was three years to the day since Jill’s murder.

“The award might carry my name but it would never have come about without Ron’s openness and generosity. And I regard it as recognition of him and his colleagues.”

The Tabbie Awards drew more than 400 entries from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand,

Thailand, India, Ireland, United Arab Emirates, Singapore and South Africa.

Other recognition the Police Journal received at the Tabbies were two honourable mentions in the categories of Best Single Issue and Best Focus/ Profile Article.

June 2015 was the issue, which featured the cover story Not guilty: the Hoy case, and the profile piece was Gunned down… and still a police officer.

That story was about the recovery of Senior Constable Brett Gibbons, who had responded to the Hectorville triple murder in 2011 and survived a shotgun blast to the face.

The Police Journal has now won seven international awards for journalism and design since 2014.

On the national scene, Brett Williams won Single Article of the Year at the Publish Awards in Sydney in September. Announced at a gala dinner at Randwick Racecourse, the prize was for the February 2016 cover story Unforgettable.

The feature explored five of the most memorable investigations and street jobs police officers had undertaken since 2008.

Police Association members from Major Crime, Mounted Ops, CIB and patrols took part in interviews for the compelling 12-page story.

Williams had been shortlisted for the award along with four other finalists from The Australian Women’s Weekly, The Guardian Australia, The Roar and Kotaku Australia.

“I was, and still am, really grateful to my interviewees,” Williams said.

“Matt Fitzpatrick, John Schneemilch, Ash Grant, Trevor Hood, Carly Barber and Sid Leavold not only agreed to the interviews but were so open and direct with me.

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“Again, it might be an award for journalism but it’s a tribute to them and the successful outcomes they brought to some extremely tough jobs.”

Police Association president Mark Carroll said that, after winning critical acclaim every year since 2011, the Police Journal had “proved itself beyond expectation”.

“But that doesn’t mean we won’t keep striving to improve and to be even more innovative,” he said. “Brett and the association team will always be doing that.

“And here, at the association, we never forget that it’s member participation which lies at the core of the journal’s success.

“I’m grateful to all who have taken part in not only the big award-winning stories but also our regular features like Q&A.” This year’s success comes after two gold Tabbie awards the journal won in 2015 for Best Single Issue and Best Focus/Profile Article.

And the Publish Awards trophy for Single Article of the Year is the second for Brett Williams, who won the honour in 2011 for Uncovering the Children’s Horror. PJ

LETTERS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CAN BE SENT BY: Regular mail Police Journal, PO Box 6032, Halifax St, Adelaide SA 5000 Email editor@pasa.asn.au Fax (08) 8212 2002 Internal dispatch Police Journal 168

Moving story, terrific journal

With the fallen in their hearts

By Nicholas Damiani

OCTOBER 2016

riders arrive in Canberra; Above and right: Federation of Australia above right: Police the gathering.

Carroll addresses president Mark

aspirations, their their lives, their “They gave up sacrifice which “Theirs was the plans…” he said. transcends all others.” of the he often thought Mr Carroll said died. been which the officers centuries. circumstances in that sure we all see more than two myself – and I’m police officers reinforced “Sometimes I see es, trying to More than 2,000 Canberra they gathered in in those same circumstanc – when ourselves month, fact last equally as much Wall Ride for tall, and muster annual Wall to stand equally as at the end of the he said. courage,” do. Not just their Remembrance. rode what we should of the nation they “And that’s exactly From all corners the loss, but jurisdictions . person and lament their respective remember the of that motorcycles from moments carried last in the rider from each jurisdiction actually put ourselves On the journey, a the insertion of life. hollow centre for fallen colleague’s the offender a baton with a that moment when fallen officers.

“Put ourselves into a car.” the names of any with a knife, or aimed in the ride convened fired a gun, or lunged reinforces Ultimately, all participants where they paid gathering the ride Police Memorial, Mr Carroll told the at the National police culture. colleagues. the greatness of unbreakable tribute to their fallen is never an times before of the pilgrimage many annual this spoken “I’ve special The climax of al support, the and felt just how Most have seen that bonds, the uncondition easy day for cops. , the black humour to lose a colleague. mateship and camaraderie are said. heartrending it is dark times,” he hate and cowardice helps get us through And, when violence, in police culture. grief is made all qualities are inherent of their mates, the “These loss the honouring the behind that has us here It’s police culture the worse. of pain, named on this wall. add so many layers 764 men and women Acts of barbarism that we won’t police culture “It’s because of .” anger and infuriation. to keep families and descendants an important task ever abandon their year were Ultimately, it becomes this and the d ss, remembere in the consciousne Among those Graham every fallen member sergeant Geoffrey the fallen leave behind.

NSW Police Force and NT Police hearts, of the colleagues died in March 2016, of Australia president Richardson, who Police Federation Read, who died the gathering, first class Michael in an address to senior constable Mark Carroll said, would never of fallen officers in December 2014. that the sacrifices

have N policelineofficers RALIAlives AUST of duty for in the sacrificing their

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We were very moved by the article With the fallen in their hearts ( Police Journal, October 2016).

We live in Queanbeyan, 20 minutes from the National Police Memorial in Canberra. It is a beautiful site, so peaceful, a place where you can sit and remember.

My husband, SAPOL senior sergeant Anthony “Tony” Pope (ret), and I attended the memorial service on St Michael’s Day. Tony is not well these days, unfortunately. But he is very proud of having served in SAPOL. We read your journal from cover to cover when it arrives. It really is a terrific journal. Our thanks to all involved in putting it together.

The memorial service ended with a deluge. I felt it was to wipe away the tears of that day and all the years of lost serving police officers.

Yours sincerely Barbara Samuel-Pope Queanbeyan, NSW

Strategies for stress I write concerning the issues of chronic stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD. The media has in recent years covered many stories about the after effects of stressful, traumatic work on people in the defence forces, ambulance service and police – a terrible and often neglected legacy of public service.

Each story prompts a desire in me to help. For the past 20 years I have studied, practised and taught a suite of mind/body disciplines such as deep relaxation, meditation, and autogenic training.

I began this journey when confronting my own personal crisis and found these therapies to be life-changing.

In recent years there is a growing body of scientific evidence supporting the efficacy of these strategies.

Meditation is now used in a wide variety of settings not only to alleviate and cure but also to prevent, by developing emotional regulation and resilience.

Yours sincerely Nick Carroll BA (Hons), Dip Tch, Masters Social Science, Counselling www.nickcarrollmindbody.com

The significance of St Michael I read with interest the excellent article with reference to St Michael as the patron saint of police (Police Journal, October 2016).

It is most appropriate and I congratulate the Police Association committee in celebrating the Remembrance Day on the feast of St Michael, the archangel.

He is indeed the patron saint of police as described in the article and a mentor for police officers.

Two months before becoming a cadet at the Thebarton police barracks, in January 1961, I read an article and a prayer to St Michael in the local St Marks Catholic newspaper.

I copied the prayer and, as a result, said a prayer to St Michael every day in my 40 years as a police officer.

I usually said it on my way to work and it was indeed a great inspiration to me in my role as a police officer in all aspects of my duties.

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The words of the prayer are most significant and I believe describe and highlight the manner in which we, in our various roles, serve the community of all ages and backgrounds.

Thanks for a great informative journal. I wish all servicing and retired officers all the very best for Christmas and the New Year. God bless.

John Wallace

Q&A

Has the rise of the methamphetamine (ice) epidemic increased demands on police officers?

From top: Detective Brevet Sergeant David Carman, Senior Constable 1C Craig Murphy and Senior Constable 1C Leonard Carlier.

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Senior Constable 1C Leonard Carlier

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Methamphetamine has caused a dramatic increase in workload for police. This, in turn, has increased volume crime, particularly relating to offences such as motor vehicle crime and serious criminal trespass.

An individual break on a residence or theft from a motor vehicle might be deemed as insignificant and seen to have little or no impact on the community or policing but it’s the sheer volume of these types of crimes that increase the demands on police workload.

The more addicted a person to this drug, the more money/product (stolen items) the addict must obtain to feed his or her habit.

At Operation Mantle we investigate drug-related offences, particularly methamphetamine (ICE).

But it’s the uniformed patrol officer who’s confronted with the effects of the drug every day when tasked to deal with many offences – domestic violence being at the top of this list.

Methamphetamine use has been around for many years. It’s only recently that media has got on board, declaring it an epidemic.

They have highlighted the dangers of using methamphetamine but not the cycle of drug use that comes with it, such as criminal offending to get money for more drugs.

The use of methamphetamine is quite prevalent in larger country towns.

With fewer resources internal and external of SAPOL, it falls to the general-duties police officer to fill the void. Police officers who locate and find someone with small amounts of methamphetamine do a lot of work for nothing really.

The punishments are non-existent for small amounts and the polic e se izure of the methamphetamine is unlikely to stop a person going back to buy more.

Methamphetamine users on “benders” can be quite dangerous to police officers owing to their erratic behaviour. And, sadly, this is becoming a more common occurrence.

Gone are the days when cannabis was the drug of choice.

I look back as a probationary constable being led along the esplanade of the South Coast LSA, getting CEN after CEN, to almost 15 years later where, nowadays, I issue more drug diversions than CENs. From kids to the “upper-class” of society, ice doesn’t single anyone out.

Offenders are more aggressive on ice and appear unaccountable for their actions with erratic behaviour turning normal interactions with police into fisticuffs in a matter of seconds.

Police have always got to be ready for the unexpected and hold in the back of their minds that the single unarmed suspect weighing 60kgs might not be easily subdued.

From unprovoked attacks on members of the public and police, to an increase in offending just to get another “sweet puff”, the ice epidemic is very much increasing the demands on SAPOL front-line members.

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OPINION

It’s the screams and cries for help that get to you Mark Carroll President, Police Association of South Australia

Regardless of how many crash scenes you’ve attended in the line of duty, it doesn’t get any easier.

You don’t know what you’re going to confront until I attended a graduation at the police academy.

It was a perfect spring day: golden sunshine, a you’re actually on the scene so anxiety can kick in early. cloudless blue sky and warm without being hot.

If you get there before the ambulance, you At the conclusion of the formalities, our new often have to administer emergency aid at the probationary constables did what academy direction of the ambos who are still racing to graduates have done for years – that is, cheer the scene themselves. loudly and toss their caps into the You just focus on the job at hand air. It’s an exuberant traditional and do what you’re trained to do.

I hope they’re smart gesture of achievement, relief and You’re busy and you don’t have enough to know excitement at what the future holds. time to think about yourself.

You can’t help but be moved But it’s the aftermath. You knock when they need help – at the sight of 20 or so young off after your shift, sometimes with and courageous South Australians about to join the pitiful cries of parents, seriously the police family and embark on a injured themselves, screaming at enough to ask for it. career serving their communities. the first responders to help their Those of us who’ve been around for a while know children first. You take all this home with you.

You think about your own kids; you can’t help it. that policing can be exciting, rewarding and personally fulfilling work.

Sometimes you talk to your mates about it. Sometimes We also know that it’s not a career for the you don’t. Sometimes you just bottle it up because you know you have to get into that patrol car or onto faint-hearted. that bike in 12 hours’ time and do it all again.

As I watched the caps rise and fall through the Consider this: to the end of November, 88 South air, I reflected on the coming festive season and the almost inevitable rash of road accidents. I hoped Australians died on our roads in 79 fatal crashes. these young probationary constables wouldn’t have There were 635 really serious injuries sustained as a result of 546 serious crashes. to attend a road accident too soon – at least until they find their feet and build their resilience up a bit.

Down the scale a bit, 5,912 casualties were sustained in 4,733 crashes. But these are just If you’ve never attended a serious traffic accident, you can’t begin to understand the horror. You can numbers, bald statistics, devoid of humanity. Unless cope with the dust, the broken glass, the bent, ripped it happens to us or someone close to us. metal and the spilt fuel.

We’re told time and time and time again what It’s the screams, the moans and desperate cries causes traffic accidents. We know that, on the road, for help that can get to you. And then there are the speed, alcohol, drugs and fatigue are the main injuries, some of which you know are going to be killers. And then there’s the inattention arising from a preoccupation with our mobile phones. life-changing, some life-ending.

A few weeks ago, as Police Association president,

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It’s grimly instructive that most fatal crashes and serious injury crashes involve people between the ages of 20 and 24 and between 40 and 49.

Twice as many men die in car crashes as women. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the majority of crashes happen during the week in daylight hours.

And then there’s the holiday season. We know that inexperience and country roads can be a fatal combination.

Many of us drive in the metropolitan area for 50 weeks of each year. For two weeks, we take to the open country roads, oblivious to the specific risks and dangers posed by what we see as the freedom of long, open stretches of bitumen.

My mind returns to 20 excited, young probationary constables and their caps tumbling through the air. They are in our family now. I hope they’ll be okay. I hope they won’t have to attend a road fatality too soon.

I hope their families and friends will understand and have patience with their inevitable reactions to the stressful, traumatic events that are a necessary part of their service.

I hope they learn to turn to their workmates.

I hope they’re smart enough to understand that psychological injuries incurred in the line of duty are as honourable as physical injuries.

I hope they’re smart enough to know when they need help – and courageous enough to ask for it.

And I hope all South Australians drive very, very carefully these holidays. If they won’t do it for their family, I hope they’ll do it for ours.

Police Association president Mark Carroll supplied this opinion piece for The Advertiser in which it appeared on December 7.

INDUSTRIAL Bernadette Zimmermann Assistant Secretary, Police Association

Key outcomes for police mental health

• Employee assistance.

• Dealing with death taskings.

• The minister for police and emergency services providing details of how workers in rural and regional areas are supported in the event of a traumatic or critical incident given the apparent lack of available services outside urban areas.

• The minister for police and emergency services commissioning a review of tasks and activities undertaken by police and emergency-service personnel and identifying those that are likely to expose officers to reasonably foreseeable cumulative psychological harm, trauma or death.

• The committee recommends that the minister for police commission an evaluation into the Victorian smart app and consider if it may be an effective early intervention tool to assist South Australian police officers and managers to deal with mental-health concerns and reduce the risk of suicide.

This is an extremely positive outcome for the association and its members.

We put a lot of time and effort into last year’s submission – a fact which reflects the seriousness with which we regard the issue of police mental health.

Police work is hazardous and involves exposure to risks far beyond that encountered in just about any other occupation.

These recommendations are a hard-fought outcome – they show parliament shares our concern about the toll police work takes on police officers’ mental health.

These recommendations are a hard-fought outcome – We will continue to work to make sure they show parliament shares our concern about the toll these recommendations are met. police work takes on police officers’ mental health.

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Police Association has won crucial outcomes for police mental health owing to its contribution to the state parliament Inquiry into Work Related Mental Disorders and Suicide Prevention.

The association made both a written submission and a verbal testimony to the parliamentary committee on the matter in October last year.

The committee has subsequently delivered 24 key recommendations to government in respect of the prevention of workplace psychological injuries.

Several of these recommendations will directly benefit police and other emergency services.

Some of the key recommendations include: • The minister for industrial relations investigating the call for presumptive provisions for police and emergency-service personnel who suffer prescribed mental disorders.

• The minister for police commissioning research into suicidal behaviour of police officers and identifying suitable mitigation strategies and reporting findings to the committee within 12 months.

• The minister for police commissioning an evaluation of the following SA Police psychological health programmes and reporting the findings to the committee within 12 months: • Resilience.

• Psychological screening.

• Crisis behaviour.

• Suicide awareness training.

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PETITION TO SAVE PAID PARENTAL LEAVE The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling on cross-bench senators to vote against cuts to paid parental leave.

The Police Federation of Australia has already outlined to the federal government why police should still have access to 18 weeks’ paid parental leave on top of their existing entitlements.

In a submission to the federal government last year, PFA chief executive officer Mark Burgess highlighted that police faced an unpredictability not faced by any other type of worker in Australia.

“The PFA has been a long-time strong supporter of the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010,” he wrote to a Senate standing committee.

“Our members have been able to access the 18 weeks’ parental leave pay under that act, on top of the respective entitlements under the various state, territory and federal police enterprise bargaining agreements or award entitlements.

“In fact, negotiations our members’ branches have had with the various state, territory and federal governments and police forces – in respect (of) enterprise bargaining around PPL – have always been predicated on our members also having access to the PPL Act 18 weeks.

“We urge the parliament to continue to ensure police are supported adequately across all stages of caring for children including continued access to provisions in the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010.”

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can sign the petition at australianunions.org.au/PPL • Members can also read the rest of the recommendations to the Inquiry into Work Related Mental Disorders and Suicide Prevention, and the full report, on PASAweb.

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HEALTH Dr Rod Pearce

Stomachs set to suffer from Christmas overindulgence The temptation to overeat will be there again this year but who wants a ruptured stomach

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stomachs have an amazing ability to expand to accommodate what we eat and drink.

The general view is that the stomach can stretch to four times its normal size.

When your brain receives messages from your stretched stomach that you feel sick, it is a signal to stop eating. The signal becomes overwhelming before the stomach ruptures; and spontaneous stomach rupture from overeating is extremely rare.

Mild symptoms after holiday overeating – if you are healthy and have never suffered stomach problems – are likely owing to your recent binge.

If the symptoms don’t settle in a day, or they occur anytime you eat a large meal or after consuming specific foods, you need to see a doctor to determine the cause of those symptoms.

Chronic symptoms are more likely to be related to an underlying problem. Certain acute (new) symptoms, however, also suggest that a more serious condition is present.

You should always seek urgent medical attention if your symptoms are accompanied by: • Debilitating or unusually severe pain anywhere in the abdomen.

• Knife-like or cramping pain.

• Vomiting that is not settling.

• Raised temperature.

• Severe diarrhoea.

• Blood in stools or vomit.

There are several examples of the remarkable adaptive capacity of the stomach. Competitive eating sports run by the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) and Major League Eating (MLE) are testament to what our bodies can do.

In one of their events, competitors consume as many hot dogs as they can in a short time – 12 minutes, for example.

The famous New York competition winner in 2016 ate 70 hot dogs. When researchers examined the effect on the winner’s stomach, they noted that it “appeared as a massively distended, food-filled sac occupying most of the upper abdomen.”

The phenomenon of feeling full and, then, seemingly having room for desserts is probably the stomach relaxing at the sight and sound of sweets, the food moving on.

Our stomachs can normally hold 1 to 1.5 litres of food and drink. This is the point at which we begin to feel uncomfortably full.

When you eat more, although uncomfortable, it seems the stomach stretches to hold about three litres. Some form of rupture is unlikely to occur unless the stomach fills to about five litres.

That would have to be a deliberate intake and a case of specifically ignoring the signals of discomfort.

Vomiting is the most common reaction to a full stomach if more food or fluid is swallowed. The rupture of the oesophagus, or at the join of the stomach and oesophagus, will often come to notice through blood in the vomit.

Bariatric or lap-band surgery to “reduce the size” of the stomach has increasingly been done to reduce food intake and help people lose weight.

This works on the principle that surgical alteration of the stomach size will limit food intake because the stomach will be stretched early and invoke all the responses like fullness, discomfort, feeling sick and not wanting to eat more.

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The stomach does stretch and can rupture but this is more likely because of the changes to the stomach with the surgery or, in the case of the lap band, the physical pressure on the stomach.

You are particularly unlikely to suffer stomach rupture from overeating, unless you have a preexisting medical condition or have had surgery to your stomach.

When you do overeat, it is the complications of the types of things you eat which are more likely to do harm: vomiting can tear the lining, or you could aspirate the vomit into your lungs.

Alcohol is an obvious influence, increasing the risk with vomiting. Different foods seem to slow down or speed up the stomach emptying because of the ability of the intestine to perceive what you have eaten and adjust the “feelings of fullness” of the stomach in response.

It is possible to feel like you are already full and, then, “find room” with different foods, particularly desserts.

In most cases of post-indulgence stomach upset, no specific treatment is necessar y.

Any symptoms related to overeating should subside with time and the resumption of normal eating habits.

So have a good Christmas and listen to your body.

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MOTORING Jim Barnett

Spiritual successor And finding something not to like about it could be a difficult exercise

DESIGN The new Levorg, with its WRX running gear, is a spiritual successor to the Liberty GT Wagon, according to Subaru.

Although not quite as aggressive-looking as WRX, this new sports wagon has a big bonnet scoop, chunky sill panels, 18-inch alloys, a shark-fin antenna and dual exhausts.

Comfortable seating for four adults features with a 60/40 split-fold rear seat and plenty of cargo space. Seats on entry GT are trimmed in hardwearing woven fabric with contrasting stitching, while GT-S has leather trim.

The small, leather-bound, D-shaped steering wheel comes with buttons for audio, phone, cruise control and SI drive mode. A smart gauge layout features an LCD display with various options including digital speed readout.

A second LCD in the central fascia displays many functions, including trip computer and climate control.

Other features are a sprinkling of metallic garnishing around the cabin and drilled alloy pedals.

VALUE FOR MONEY Levorg is available in two spec levels: GT ($42,990) and GT-S ($48,890). GT-S can be optioned up with a range of STi add-ons (B-pack) for an additional $4,000.

Standard items on GT include: • Touch-screen audio system (6.2-inch) with Bluetooth streaming.

• Aux and USB inputs.

• Dual-zone climate control.

• Keyless entry with push-button start.

• Four USB charging sockets.

• Cargo blind.

SAFETY Levorg scores a five-star ANCAP safety rating.

Its main features include: • Seven airbags (including driver’s knee).

• Symmetrical All-wheel-drive.

• Electric park brake with hill-hold function.

• LED headlights and tail lights.

• Reversing camera with gridlines.

• Subaru’s third-generation Eyesight safety system incorporating: • Enhanced pedestrian avoidance.

• Pre-collision braking and steering assistance.

• Advanced adaptive cruise control.

• Lane departure warning.

• Brake light recognition.

STATS Levorg’s 2.0-litre turbocharged Boxer engine produces 197kW of power (5,600rpm) and 350Nm of torque (2,400-5,200rpm). Drive is to all four wheels through a CVT automatic transmission with eightspeed manual mode operated by paddle shifters.

Subaru claims combined fuel economy of 8.7 litres/100km with a requirement for 95 RON fuel.

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Levorg’s 0 -10 0 km sprint takes 6.6 seconds.

Cargo space varies between 522 litres and an impressive 1,446 litres.

ON THE ROAD The name is odd but there is absolutely nothing to dislike about Levorg. It is comfortable, well laid out, and boasts a great driving position.

Levorg is smooth and quiet around town but, on twisty bitumen, it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Marginally slower than WRX CVT, it is an exhilarating drive, pin-sharp on corners and brakes, and steers better than one would expect of a wagon.

VERDICT What could be called WR X Sports Wagon is a winner. It delivers family-sized cargo space with great performance at a realistic price.

Fifth fuel-saver Cables, connectors and batteries aplenty but capable of effortless cruising

DESIGN Toyota has unveiled its fifth hybrid model in Australia – without the usual fanfare. Corolla Hybrid Hatch comes in a single, well-specified model which sits between the mid-range SX and top-spec ZR petrol hatch models.

The only external telltale sign is small Hybrid badges on the tailgate and front guards. Inside, it’s only slightly more obvious with a stubby shift lever, a button for Park, three drive mode buttons and an energy gauge replacing the tacho.

Open the bonnet and there is an array of orange don’t-touch-me cables and connectors.

Placement of the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries under the rear seat maintains the same size cargo bay as a standard Corolla Hatch. Under the floor is an emergency-style spare wheel.

Like other Toyota hybrids, Corolla features a four-cylinder Atkinson-cycle engine coupled to an AC synchronous electric motor-generator driving the front wheels through a CVT transmission.

Essentially, the petrol engine charges the batteries and supplies additional power as required. The car can run in electric-only (EV) mode for up to two kilometres.

There’s comfortable seating for four adults and

the driver’s seat features a height adjuster.

Big door bins, a sizable glove box and small console bin provide the storage.

VALUE FOR MONEY Given the extra hardware of a hybrid system, and the fact that it comes well-specified, Corolla Hybrid’s manufacturer’s list price of $26,990 seems reasonable. Standard equipment includes: • Keyless entry and push-button start.

• Dual-zone climate control.

• Auto-levelling LED headlights.

• Touch screen audio (6.1-inch) with sat nav and traffic updates.

• Sixteen-inch alloy wheels.

SAFETY Corolla Hybrid has a five-star safety rating with inclusions such as: • Seven airbags.

• Reversing camera.

• LED daytime running lights.

• Emergency brake signal.

• Hill-start assist.

STATS

Put the foot down on the highway and it cruises effortlessly, with plenty in reserve for steep hills and overtaking.

Corolla Hybrid’s 1.8-litre petrol engine and electric motor produce combined power of 100kW and maximum torque of 207Nm. Although there’s a requirement for premium unleaded fuel, Toyota claims combined fuel economy of 4.1 litres/100km. This provides a potential driving range of almost 1,100km from the hybrid’s 45-litre fuel tank. The urban figure is even better at 3.9 litres/100km.

ON THE ROAD Electric motors produce very good torque and, in this case, when coupled with the petrol engine, there’s effortless power in every situation. Around town it’s a pleasant, easy car to drive.

Put the foot down on the highway and it cruises effortlessly, with plenty in reserve for steep hills and overtaking.

It offers good visibility, reasonable comfort levels along with good ride characteristics.

VERDICT This newest Corolla is an appealing car which looks and drives like any other Corolla. The advantage is its fuel-saving ability and extended range.

POLICE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

GOING OVERSEAS? YOUR COVERAGE MAY BE AFFECTED The group life insurance cover provided by the Police Association covers members 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of the cause of death while members remain in Australia.

GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? Got a comment about a story you’ve read? Do you have strong views on a police issue?

Is there someone you want to acknowledge? Know of an upcoming social or sports event? Whatever the subject, put it in a letter to the editor.

Regular mail Police Journal, PO Box 6032, Halifax St, Adelaide SA 5000 Email editor@pasa.asn.au Fax (08) 8212 2002 Internal dispatch Police Journal 168

The insurer may specify certain geographical exclusions and restrictions on the coverage due to increased risk.

If members travel to areas of the world considered to be at increased risk, an increased insurance premium may apply or coverage may cease entirely.

Members who intend to go overseas for six months or longer, or who are travelling to or via a war zone are advised to contact the association beforehand to confirm whether or not coverage will be affected.

WORKING PART-TIME? Are you currently working part-time?

Are you commencing or ceasing part-time work?

If your hours change, it is important that you advise the Police Association. Your subscriptions may be affected.

Please phone (08) 8112 7988 or e-mail membership@pasa.asn.au to advise of a change in hours.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS The Police Association of South Australia needs your change-­of-address details.

If you have moved, in either the recent or distant past, please let the association know your new address. Its office does not receive notification of changed addresses by any other means. The association will need your new address, full name, ID number, telephone numbers (home, work and/or mobile). Members can e-mail these details to the association on pasa@pasa.asn.au or send them by letter through dispatch (168).

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GROUP LIFE INSURANCE BENEFICIARY NOMINATION FORMS Owing to a Supreme Court decision, the Police Association no longer uses the GLI beneficiary forms. Existing forms held at the association have been destroyed.

Now, in the case of the death of a member, the GLI benefit (currently $300,000) will be paid to his or her estate.

Accordingly, the association’s strong advice is that you ensure that your estate is well-administered. This is best achieved by having a valid will.

Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers provides a free legal advice service to Police Association members and their families, and retired members.

To make an appointment to receive free preliminary legal advice covering all areas of law, particularly families and wills, members should contact the Police Association (08 8212 3055).

BANKING

All profits poured back into member benefits Paul Modra Executive Manager – Member Value and Distribution, Police Credit Union And, in part, that likely explains the record-high member satisfaction rating

WHILE police continue to make the world

around us better, at Police Credit Union we focus on making your banking experience better.

As a credit union, we pour all of our profits back into member benefits, so it is important to us that we continue to grow and improve so that we can provide a service that is second to none because, if anyone deserves it, you do.

We are proud to say that we have achieved another year of strong performance across the board.

From our record-high 93.4% member satisfaction rating (for year 2015-16 combined), to our solid financial results that have seen us deliver a 13.4% increase in after-tax group profit of $4.09 million, we stand strong behind you. It’s the strength of our association.

Regardless of the current and challenging economic conditions that we find ourselves in, we remain unwavering in our commitment to helping our members achieve their financial goals.

More than this, we know that we are in a solid financial position to do so – our 10.4% asset growth is further proof of this.

An important part of the credit union culture is to support the community and environment, and our sense of social responsibility has always been a measure of our success.

While we are passionate about delivering Better Banking for all South Australians, we have not forgotten our origins – the police communities at the heart of our business.

We have been a major partner of the Police Association of South Australia since our inception, and this partnership has led to the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise engagement initiative.

Police officers with a young girl at the Police Link Christmas party at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

We also support the South Australia Police Ride Like Crazy Event, SA Police Legacy Inc, SA Police Historical Society, Canoe for Kids in support of Police Link and so many other community events and programmes.

As we continue on our Better Banking journey, we strive to carefully manage all areas without compromising our core values of superior customer service, honesty, integrity and financial prudence.

We are well placed to continue to provide the financial and insurance needs of our more than 40,000 members and customers.

Unlike the major banks, our shareholders are our members and our profits are poured back into member value. In fact, our member value figure for DECEMBER 2016 POLICE JOURNAL

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the 12-month period reached $245.12 per member.

Our future looks brighter as we move into it together. Without you, our members, we would cease to exist.

It is your loyalty, support, confidence and constructive feedback that means we can continue to strive for better.

Our Better Banking promise means an unwillingness to accept mediocrity and we wear that like a badge of honour.

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Free Legal Service for Police Association Members, Their Families & Retired Members.

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

Leading Adelaide law firm, Tindall Gask Bentley is the preferred legal service provider of the Police Association, offering 30 minutes of free initial advice and a 10% fee discount.

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LEGAL

Legal advice essential for cops compelled to answer questions Luke Officer Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers Legal opinion is that SA should have statutory provisions about the use of compelled evidence

but rather what use is made of that evidence.

Following a decision in New South Wales Federation of Australia federal council meeting called Baff, some jurisdictions introduced a were privileged to hear Arthur Moses SC from provision that any evidence obtained through a compelled disciplinary interview cannot be led the New South Wales Bar. Mr Moses provided a summary of the current law regarding the use directly in evidence in a criminal trial. of evidence which is Such a provision does compelled from police not currently exist in … although police retain the officers during the course South Australia, although common law right to silence and of “conduct” interviews. compelled evidence is not In all circumstances led in criminal trials and is the right against self-incrimination in South Australia, and likely to be excluded if it … an officer who wishes to remain were to be sought to be following the High Court case of Morris and our led, given the involuntary employed by the South Australia own Supreme Court’s nature of those interviews.

Police must answer questions case of Justin, it is clear What is less clear, that the ordinary right however, is the derivative when compelled to do so in a against self-incrimination use of such evidence. and the right to silence A number of recent cases disciplinary setting. have been abrogated have proceeded before by the Police Act and Police (Complaints and the High Court of Australia, as a result of which Disciplinary Proceedings) Act. Mr Moses suggests that it would be prudent for In other words, although police retain the this state and others to have clear statutory common law right to silence and the right against provisions regarding how the derivative use of self-incrimination when given the criminal caution compelled evidence should be controlled. and interviewed for alleged criminal offences, an One example is the use of publication officer who wishes to remain employed by the orders, which can result in a ban against the South Australia Police must answer questions publication of evidence compelled during the when compelled to do so in a disciplinary setting. disciplinary process and, if used contrary to the The current problem in Australian jurisdictions, publication order in criminal proceedings, would including South Australia, is not that there is result (as in the High Court case of Lee No. 2) a lack of clarit y about … it would be prudent for this state and others to have whether a sworn officer is compelled to answer clear statutory provisions regarding how the derivative questions in a disciplinary set ting (he or she is), use of compelled evidence should be controlled.

DELEGATES to the recent Police

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… it is essential that all members seek legal advice through the Police Association of South Australia if they are to be compelled to answer questions, arising from a critical incident or in any other circumstances. in the necessary abandonment of the criminal proceedings.

In summary, it is essential that all members seek legal advice through the Police Association of South Australia if they are to be compelled to answer questions, arising from a critical incident or in any other circumstances.

Legal advice will likely be given to you if a criminal caution is to be issued.

In the meantime, the Police Federation of Australia and police throughout South Australia are collectively turning their minds to what can be done to clarify how to control the use of derivative evidence obtained during compelled interviews, such that the command-and-control structure within the South Australia Police can be maintained for the purpose of discipline, yet proper and complete common law protections be afforded to police officers who are the subject of criminal investigations, in the same way that all citizens of Australia enjoy such rights.

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Three of the dead are members of the family and the fourth victim is a seeming nobody.

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Bosch’s aware that, with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking – for himself and the person he’s looking for.

As he begins to uncover Vibiana’s tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.

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How can the murder of a prominent figure be linked to a vulnerable young girl?

Late one night, the daughter of criminal profiler Johanne Vik is found barefoot on the snow-filled streets of Oslo. The girl, Kristiane, is severely autistic. She cannot explain to Vik or her husband, Detective Inspector Adam Stubo, what happened.

When a bishop is murdered days later, Stubo is called in to lead the high-profile investigation.

As the evidence mounts it becomes clear that there are links to other recent deaths, and the police are dealing with something far bigger than they originally thought.

And somehow, unbelievably, Kristiane might be the key to unlocking the mystery.

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Helen Barclay, the first female president of the United States, has been kidnapped on a state visit to Norway.

When she goes missing from a locked, heavily secured bedroom, the FBI and Norwegian police are forced – unwillingly – to work together to find her.

T h e p r e s i d e nt ’s a b d u c t i o n represents the biggest threat to homeland security since 9/11.

However, as Johanne Vik assists on the investigation she learns that President Barclay’s private life is also under attack, as Vik discovers a secret, dating back 20 years, which could destroy all the president has worked for.

There are those who would stop at nothing to destroy the leader of the free world. And by helping on the case, Vik’s own past might come back to haunt her, jeopardizing her work and endangering the lives of those she loves most.

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For John Rebus, 40 years might have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind.

She was murdered in her hotel room on a night when a famous rock star and his entourage were also staying in the hotel. Her killer has never been found.

Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs.

A young pretender, Darryl Christie, might have staked his claim, but a vicious attack leaves him weakened and vulnerable, and an inquiry into a major money laundering scheme threatens his position.

Has old-time crime boss Big Ger Cafferty really given up the ghost, or is he biding his time until Edinburgh is once more ripe for the picking?

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This first venture, as Luke Donaldson explained in a eulogy to Jones, was a significant risk. “Richard didn’t know how to pour a beer, let alone tap a keg,” he said.

“Dad was known as Basil Fawlty at the Grosvenor and there are many classic stories that occurred at his first pub.

“Richard was hard-working and never satisfied, so he decided to purchase another venue, The Colonnades Tavern in Noarlunga.

“One hotel became two, two became three and (on up to) 18 …”

Jones drew high regard from his peers and employees, some of whom remained working for him for more than 20 years.

And his head for figures was extraordinary. He could remember in detail the turnover and profitability of a particular bar from years earlier.

Says Ian Horne: “I must assume that his training and experience as a serving police officer was reflected in his high work ethic and his disciplined approach…”

In recent years, Jones had lost weight and regained some of the fitness he had enjoyed as a police cadet.

Ian Baysey remembers his mate taking “an active part in all sports” back then.

“Dick was the first cadet in the history of the academy to achieve an A grade certificate in all physical disciplines, from athletics to weightlifting,” he said.

Jones became passionate about cycling late in life and had previously taken the trip, on which he died, to trail the Tour de France.

“No doubt Richard was bubbling over with (more) ideas and concepts,” Ian Horne says. “He had a valuable capacity to see over the horizon and only see opportunity, not threats.” PJ

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Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination.

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Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, dodging all sorts of terrors in the process.

Eventually ending up in an orphanage, Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple and finds safety and love as he grows up in Hobart.

Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, he buries his past and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother. But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his secret yearnings.

With just a small store of memories, and the help of satellite-imaging technology, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.

A visually spectacular drama from acclaimed director Juan Antonio Bayona ( The Impossible), A Monster Calls is based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel.

Twelve-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss and faith.

A Monster Calls stars Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson.

The next chapter in the lives of a quartet of Scottish junkies (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner) who swear off heroin in favour of careers in pornography.

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Boston Bay Shiraz 2014 Screw cap 14.5% alc $22 This Shiraz is known locally as Fordie’s Favourite after the winer y ’s owner of 32 years, Graham Ford.

The unique vineyard sits on the shores of the glistening Boston Bay at the tip of the vast Eyre Peninsula.

The cooling sea breeze provided ideal growing and ripening conditions. This, combined with the expertise of winemakers O’Lear y Walker, brought about a wine of distinctive flavour from this pristine corner of the wine world.

This 2014 Shiraz shows great blackberry, pepper and fruit concentration on the palate. It is an elegant, refined wine.

Boston Bay Riesling 2016 Screw cap 11.5% alc $24 Boston Bay’s signature minerals hit and excite. A quality reflective of the soil found in this wild corner of the wine world.

The palate is vibrant and bright showing classic floral undertones with a cool citrus finish.

This year the Boston Bay Riesling harvest benefited by returning the Chardonnay vines back to their original rootstock, Riesling. In 2017 there should be a full crop, pushing the Riesling to around 1,000 cases per year.

A super wine with amazing Eyre Peninsula seafood, especially the incredible oysters and King George whiting.

Boston Bay “Great White” Sauvignon Blanc 2016 Screw cap 12.5% alc $24 This much anticipated release, hand-picked on January 31 by friends and family will again fall well short of demand.

Varietally correct with steely mineral and tropical elegance, this will be a long-lingering delight for the Sauvignon Blanc enthusiast.

Enjoy with Coffin Bay oysters or Hagen’s famous kingfish.

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THE POLICE CLUB Police Association and Novita a great fundraising team Novita Children’s Services and the Police Association have raised more than $234,000 dollars for special-needs children since their partnership began in 2011.

Left: Fenwick Function Centre set up for the luncheon; above: Novita CEO Greg Ward with Brayden Davidson

Melbourne Cup luncheon brings in the charity dollar The Police Club this year staged its fifth Melbourne Cup luncheon in Fenwick Function Centre and raised $7,325 in donations for Novita Children’s Services.

The three-course lunch included a $20-per-head donation to Novita, which was supplemented by money from the charity auction, silent auction, table raffle and sweeps.

The luncheon’s 85 guests included representatives of key Police Association partners Police Credit Union and Police Health.

Other supporters who attended were from Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers, Lieschke & Weatherill Lawyers and many members with their families and friends.

Channel 7 News reporter Jayne Stinson hosted the luncheon and this year’s guest presenters were Novita CEO Greg Ward and inspirational 19-yearold Paralympics champion Brayden Davidson.

Brayden won bronze at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha and gold in the long jump at the Rio Paralympics.

Funds raised from the luncheon complement the proceeds of six police lotteries. That means the Police Association remains on target to have raised close to $300,000 for Novita and the 3,800 children living with disabilities in Adelaide and regional South Australia.

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The organizations – with the support of the Sunday Mail, Channel 7 and Holden – have raised the impressive figure through two annual events – the police lottery (since 2011) and the Melbourne Cup luncheon (since 2012).

The proceeds have helped brighten the lives of children living with disabilities. Novita provides therapy, equipment and family support to more than 2,000 special-needs children.

The lottery and the cup luncheon also promote the police community’s strong history of benevolence.

Association member Brevet Sergeant Ryan Rigano was the 2015 police lottery winner. He took home a Holden Commodore SV6 four-door sedan, valued at $42,834 (including 12 months registration, stamp duty and dealer delivery).

The association and its partners are deeply grateful to all members and, indeed, members of the general public, who supported both these events.

Proceeds of police lottery: 2011 $50,000 2012 $35,000 2013 $45,000 2014 $30,000 2015 $45,000

Proceeds of Melbourne Cup luncheon: 2012 $5,476.55 2013 $6,622.55 2014 $9,016.00 2015 $8,398.90

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From left: Barry Blundell, Marilyn Edwards, Darryl Millikan, Mark Carroll, Peter Jackson and Ron Champness

Police Club opening hours over the ChristmasNew Year season The club will close on Friday night, December 23, and reopen on Tuesday, January 17

Police Association president Mark Carroll accepted the Novita Star Award from Novita chairman Kevin Scarce last month. The prize was awarded for the association's ongoing support of Novita.

Strong response to Club Captains programme Police Club membership and the Club Captains programme continue to gather momentum from many quarters. Response has come from association members, private supporters and corporate partners, as well as the legal fraternity, particularly Tindall Gask Bentley and Lieschke & Weatherill Lawyers.

Ongoing and exceptionally active challengers for the title of Police Club Commissioner in 2016 include Barry Blundell, John Winkworth, Darryl Millikan, Peter Shanahan (Police Health) and Peter Jackson (Winestate magazine).

“It’s a fabulous venue and one that our wine-tasting group likes to use regularly,” John “Winky” Winkworth says. Winky frequents the club regularly for lunch.

Peter Jackson has seen the Police Wine Club tasting events grow to become increasingly popular, with many members staying on after the tasting to enjoy a meal.

“With some of the wines on offer you can’t get better value or quality anywhere else in town,” Peter says.

He refers, of course, to the Police Wine Club special menu deals created by Police Club chef Gary Petrus and club manager Bronwyn Hunter.

“We regularly have a full house on tasting nights; and, with Dave Freeman on acoustic guitar, the atmosphere is just fabulous,” Peter says.

This year’s Police Club commissioner – in recognition of his efforts and ongoing support for the club – was Peter Jackson.

He was followed closely by Barry Blundell as Police Club deputy commissioner and Darryl Millikan as chief superintendent.

John Winkworth and Peter Shanahan came in as Police Club superintendent and chief inspector respectively.

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SENIOR CONSTABLE GRAHAM PHILLIPS Yorke Mid North Highway Patrol Eight years’ service Last Day: 13.05.16 Comments…

“I served in the Metropolitan Police in London for 21 years in various roles leaving at the rank of chief inspector.

“As my next challenge, I am now studying full time to obtain a bachelor of paramedic science at Flinders University.

“I thank the Police Association for its support and work on my behalf and that of my colleagues.

“I wish all those I have worked with every good fortune and, who knows, we may catch up again on the road but in different uniforms.”

SERGEANT BRIAN FORRESTER Communications Centre 40 years’ service Last Day: 30.08.16 Comments…

“I thought it was time to go and enjoy things and I don’t look at it as retiring after 40-odd years, just not actively seeking re-employment.”

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SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C RAYMOND SPARROW Call Centre 44 years’ service Last Day: 28.09.16 Comments…

“I leave having spent my entire working life doing a job I enjoyed immensely. I have been privileged to have had employment with SA Police.

It has provided my family and me with a rewarding, but occasionally challenging, life experience.

“I have been fortunate to have met and worked with so many fine people. “ T h a n k yo u to t h e Po l i c e Association for its assistance over the years. In more recent times, its tireless efforts to provide members with wages and suitable working conditions have been commendable.”

Detective Brevet Sergeant Greg Turner Mount Barker CIB 44 years’ service Last Day: 21.07.16 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association for its tireless work in maintaining work and pay standards over the past 44 years of my service. The Dunstan and Salisbury eras were especially trying.

“Second, I thank my wife for sticking with me through thick and thin especially after losing our house in Whyalla.

“I thank all members of CSI throughout the state for their camaraderie. Keep up the good work.”

Above: Working with Accident Rescue; right: as the basketball coach with Sonia Giacomelli, Narelle Smith and Helen Hanson; far right top: at the first Roxby protest during an arrest: far right: a SAPOL vs AFP basketball match.

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DETECTIVE SERGEANT MICHAEL RICHARDSON Sturt CIB 38 years’ service Last Day: 04.10.16 Comments…

“For the most part, I have enjoyed my 38 years with SAPOL and worked with some truly fantastic people.

“Over the last 25 years, I have worked mostly in Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Investigations where I have had the pleasure of working with a most dedicated and genuine group which has striven to navigate the bureaucracy to deliver the best service it can for victims.

“I thank the association for all its hard work in representing the members, enhancing the welfare of all members, being there when needed and for continuing to secure the fine conditions of employment we have enjoyed.”

Detective Sergeant Peter Foulis Mount Barker CIB 40 years’ service Last Day: 26.09.16 Comments…

“Thank you to the Police Association for its impressive achievements over my time in SAPOL. I required legal representation on one occasion and it was a great comfort to have the support of the association during this stressful time.

“Over the years, I have worked with many wonderful people. I will miss these people and I hope to enjoy retirement

activities with many of these mates in the future.

“SAPOL has been good to me providing a challenging and rewarding work environment.

I especially enjoyed the frequent country trips around SA and Australia on cars, bikes, trucks, boats and planes.

“SAPOL introduced me to a very patient and understanding work colleague who, after delicate nurturing, became my wife.

“I thank my family and friends for understanding our job and putting up with the frequent non-attendance at important events.

“I will always be proud to tell people I was a member of South Australia Police.”

Brevet Sergeant Kerin Sava State Intelligence Branch 36 years’ service Last Day: 03.10.16 Comments…

Above: Last day at work at State Intel Branch; left: at a medal presentation in 2014.

“I can honestly say I have enjoyed all the places I have worked. I have met some truly wonderful people.

“A huge thanks to each and every one of you. I am proud to call you both colleagues and friends. Some of you have changed my life and I can’t imagine not ever knowing you or having you still in my life.

“I leave with a lot of happiness and great memories.

“There were challenging times and times I felt I never received adequate support, but they were few and far between, definitely outnumbered by satisfying times.

“Having been part of many changes since the 1980s, I see an exciting future for members ahead due to the hard work of the Police Association.

“Thanks to all those who have helped me, laughed with me, cried with me and, last, put up with me. I wish only the best for all of you. You truly are special.”

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Top left: With the H5 Whyalla contingent on the 1983 Roxby Downs field operation; top right: with bogged patrol car on a Whyalla clay pan in 1985; left: receiving the Leadership and Efficiency Medal from Grant Stevens in 2015; above: at the police academy open day with grandmother, May Leyland, in 1977; above right: relieving as station sergeant at the old Port Adelaide police station in 1991.

Senior Sergeant 1C David Wardrop Strategy Policy and Programs Branch 41 years’ service Last Day: 31.10.16 Comments…

“It was my health that gave up before I did and I will be leaving SAPOL with a hint of disappointment that leaving ultimately wasn’t on my terms.

“Having served as a delegate, I am aware of the tireless efforts Mark, Tom, the committee and all the staff put in to look after the welfare of serving police officers.

“Many members have little idea of what the association does in the background to protect their rights, working conditions and pay.

“I thank everyone at the association for this often thankless work and for the support and friendship I’ve enjoyed over the years.

“I have experienced the highs and lows of policing and I have worked with many characters and had a good laugh along the way.

“If I had to do it all over again, I would.

“SAPOL’s biggest asset isn’t the latest water vessel or piece of fandangled equipment. It’s the men and women who put on a uniform or carry a badge and work to protect the people of South Australia, and I was proud to be one of them.”

SENIOR CONSTABLE GRAHAM WASLEY State Traffic Enforcement Unit 42 years’ service Last Day: 03.10.16 Comments…

“A chance conversation with a school acquaintance at the Broken Hill pool led to a 42-and-a-half-year career.

“It has been a great ride due to one day seldom being the same as another. I have met and worked with some very skilled and dedicated people during that time.

“My sincere thanks go to all staff in the traffic area, specifically to Silv and Nils, the speedies past and present, and Jules at Intel.

“To the good bosses I have worked for during my time, thank you for your guidance and assistance.

“For the welcome, inclusion, good humour and enlightening experiences to which I was exposed during a two-year stint at Crime Gangs, I thank Kym Hand, Pat, Hanno, Vanders and the other dynamos I worked with.

“During my service I was delegate to the Police Association for an extended period. It was an honour and privilege to have represented my workmates. Many serious issues were raised over that time and resolved for the benefit of members.

“I thank Peter Alexander and previous committee members as well as Mark Carroll, Tom Scheffler and current hard-working committee members of the association. Good luck in the future. I can’t imagine that issues will become less involved or less serious in the future.

“Thanks to the Wall to Wallers, a great concept and fulfilling experience I recommend to all.”

SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C JOHN GRAETZ Sturt Patrols 43 years’ service Last Day: 28.09.16 Comments…

“It is time to sit back, relax and enjoy the benefits which the association has worked hard to achieve over many years.

“Thank you to those who have looked after the rights and entitlements of members.

“To all those in SAPOL whom I have had the pleasure of working with over the years, I thank you for your friendship and support.

“While we encounter many difficult Outside the Clarendon times in the policing environment, it is police station and generally the people we work with who courthouse around 1996. help us to see the light of day and bring us back to some form of normality.”

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SENIOR SERGEANT 1C MARTIN BAZELEY Kadina Police Station 38 years’ service Last Day: 02.10.16 Comments…

“Thanks for the association support over the past nearly 40 years. I would have loved to make it to that milestone but things change which you have no control over.

“I wish all members the best in their futures. Remember your health is the most important thing.”

SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C JOHN BESSELL Traffic Support Admin 39 years’ service Last Day: 14.10.16 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association (past and present committee members and staff) for the support and advice I received when I have needed it.”

Above: Receiving the National Police Service Medal and clasps from Assistant Commissioner Linda Fellows in 2015; right: with wife Gabrielle Irvin-Speck and son Davis Irvin-Speck for the National and SAPOL Service Medal presentation in 2009; far right: at the Royal Adelaide Show in 2013.

Senior Constable Andrew Speck Prosecution Services Admin 27 years’ service Last Day: 23.09.16 Comments…

“I walked through the academy gates on August 2, 1989, joining Course 30. I had no real idea what I wanted to do in the job.

“Twenty-seven years later, I am leaving it a much wiser and self-aware person with an extended family who wears blue.

“I might not have been a good officer of police, like Chris Zanker or Colin Cornish, a dedicated Major Crime detectivelike Chris Chamberlain, a gun STARie like Dave O'Donovan, or a distinguished patrol sergeant like Mick Butler.

“However, I leave this career with my head held high having left a positive legacy in the community that I have served for over a quarter of a century.

“There is no such entity as SAPOL – it is just made up of individuals who are making the best decisions they can with the information at hand.

“I thank Mark Carroll, Tom Scheffler and the rest of the crew at the association for their support through the last few years. I also thank Michael Hogg at SA Police Super and all of the people I have worked with during the last couple of decades.

“It has been a privilege to have served with all those who have worn the uniform with distinction and who continue the endless fight against crime and/or evil.”

Brevet Sergeant Greg Pill Forensic Services Branch 30 years’ service Last Day: 12.10.16 Comments…

Above left: On duty (second from left) at the cricket at Adelaide Oval in 1987; above: a PR shot taken at Photographic Section around 2010; far left: first day at the academy as a cadet in 1985; left: as a probationary constable (second from left) at Thebarton barracks with Graham Smith, Sue Lucas and Kev Taylor.

“Looking back on that first day at the academy, I never considered my new career would provide such great opportunities, memorable experiences and the opportunity to work with so many wonderful people.

“I thank past and present members of Metro Crime Scene, Forensic Response Section, and especially Henry Lawson, for their friendship, assistance and good humour. Without them the journey would not have been so sweet.

“Thanks to all the CIB, Traffic and general patrol members I have worked with over the years. They are the backbone of SAPOL and their workload and responsibilities are always increasing.

“On behalf of all members, I thank the Police Association for supporting us to achieve our great working conditions, wages and providing assistance when we need legal or welfare support.”

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CONSTABLE PETER MIRUS Road Policing Section 34 years’ service Last Day: 29.10.16 Comments…

“I thank the committee and staff of the association for their tireless work, especially in supporting members during times of adversity and for the excellent EB agreements achieved.”

SENIOR SERGEANT MARK WEAVER Traffic Camera Section 42 years’ service Last Day: 19.09.16 Comments…

“My greatest pleasure is to have lived in country and remote South Australia to enable a magnitude of life experiences.

“To be involved in community and operational policing with wonderful characters, great colleagues and the best brand of personal managers has certainly been a highlight.”

Top left: Fingerprinting a car used in an armed hold-up near Elizabeth in 1987; top centre: with some clowns at the start of the 2015 Christmas Pageant; top right: as a cadet with MA Barratt and John Gerlach in 1976; above left: chatting with ambulance officers at Balhannah around 2007; above: as a trainer undertaking IMOST exercises; above right: receiving The Advertiser runner-up award on graduation day in 1976; left: as a Speed Detection member with Sharon Hulst on the South Eastern Freeway near Mt Barker in 1995.

Senior Constable 1C Geoff Capper Emergency and Major Events Section 42 years’ service Last Day: 30.09.16 Comments…

“I thank the association for its efforts in improving my working conditions over the years.

“Joining SAPOL at the age of 17-and-ahalf, with no life experience, I am amazed I was able to survive. But those of my era

did survive because we had good sergeants and seniors who mentored us through those early days.

“If I had limited life experience when I started, the job didn’t take long to give me more than most. Although, growing up as the son of a country policeman, I did have some inside knowledge of the job.

“I wish all with whom I have worked all the best for the future.

“Most important, I thank my wife, Dianne, and the family for putting up with me not being around over the many years of shift work.”

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Adrian Intjagki, Stanley Douglas and Mark Weaver at Officer Creek near Pukatja (Ernabella) in 1987.

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She had occupied some of the most important roles in police unionism when she took on the job of Police Association organizer in 2013. Now, as assistant secretary and a former patrol sergeant, Bernie Zimmermann uses her vast experience to work with and advocate for association members. To them, she gives her full focus, care and determination.

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PROBATIONARY CONSTABLE JESSICA HORE Netley Patrols

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DETECTIVE SENIOR SERGEANT 1C PETER HORE Port Augusta CIB

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Jessica, 23, kicked off at the police academy in 2015 and graduated just last month. Her parents, Peter and Allison, began their careers back in the 1980s. All three have already wound up on a scene at the same time.

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