Police Journal October 2018

OCTOBER 2018

“I lay there holding the gun, holding my head, and waiting for help. That’s basically what it came to. It was just survival.”

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It’s bad enough when any copper suffers a physical injury or injuries on duty, whether by accident or a criminal act. But, when he or she has to deal with an intense personal trauma at the same time, life can get close to unbearable.

Senior Constable Paul Jelfs found himself in exactly that overwhelming situation back in 2015. He got savagely assaulted on a routine job at a private residence in suburban Adelaide. The attack left him physically injured and emotionally rattled.

As Paul tried to absorb and process what had happened to him, he was at the same time trying to care for his beloved wife. She had only months earlier been diagnosed with a terminal illness and didn’t have long to live.

There’s something about cops who knowingly throw themselves into situations which could cost them their lives. It might just be an indefinable part of their characters.

For one Western Australian police officer, the instinct to risk her life kicked in off duty. And the horror she saw, as she undertook a daring rescue, has never left her.

Nicholas Damiani reports on the Police Association annual conference, where delegates carried a motion on assaults on police.

And, for front-line cops unlucky enough to suffer a dog or other bite, Dr Rod Pearce explains just how much damage it can cause.

Brett Williams brettwilliams@pj.asn.au

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Under fierce attack, Senior Constable Paul Jelfs knew that, no matter how many blows he took, he had to retain his firearm.

19 Police bravery acknowledged nationally And it came at not only a formal Canberra dinner last month but also in the Parliament of Australia.

20 When police bravery saves child lives Of all the acts of police courage across the nation, this one took out the prize at the inaugural Australian Police Bravery Awards.

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26 Recruits together‌ no issue for father and son It was a circumstance some others might have sought to avoid but there were reasons it worked so well for this duo.

28 No rest until right enterprise agreement struck That was the message Police Association president Mark Carroll gave conference delegates as he prepares to take the lead in enterprise bargaining.

COVER: Driver Drug Testing Unit senior constable Paul Jelfs. Photography by Steve McCawley October 2018

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ome observers and commentators show just how little they understand about police disciplinary processes. And that failing translates into a sad disregard for the men and women who risk their lives to protect them.

A recent newspaper headline screamed Cone of Silence (The Advertiser, 19.10.18) in respect of investigations into alleged police wrongdoing.

The clear implication was that accused police were getting away with something, because the discipline system was structured to favour them.

But I wonder how many of those armchair critics would like to swap places with a police officer facing up to an internal investigation.

I wonder if a single one of them has ever even spoken with a police officer who has been the subject of such an investigation.

Do the critics know, for example, that the system denies police officers under investigation the right to silence? Police are compelled, which civilians are not, to answer questions, irrespective of selfincrimination.

Would the critics be prepared to be stripped of one of their legal rights?

Let’s understand that police operate in the real world, a place the cone-of-silence critics have likely never visited. It is where police get abused, threatened, spat on, assaulted and, in the worst cases, killed.

Their real-world dealings are with the violent, the unhinged, the drug-addled, the organized criminal, the paedophile, the thief, the fraudster‌ and countless other miscreants.

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What will their response be if an innocent officer and his or her children suffer targeted social media, or even physical, attacks?

No surprise, then, that out of that environment come thousands of spurious complaints from angry, revenge-seeking wrongdoers caught out by committed police.

But so that justice is not only done but also seen to be done, those complaints are – at a heavy cost to the community – taken on and investigated.

The pressure and stress that innocent police officers suffer, until an investigation or a Police Disciplinary Tribunal (PDT) hearing clears them, is savage. And it can take months or even years to get to the point of exoneration.

In addition to that insufferable hardship, the critics want to condemn police officers to public exposure, to make them targets for social media and other haters.

It was for this very reason that the Police Association gave Commissioner Grant Stevens its total support when he recently fought to keep the identities of STAR Group officers from public exposure.

Were the officers to be identified in the Coroners Court, they would have faced a greatly increased risk to their personal safety.

But those who wrongly speak of a cone of silence and cloaks of secrecy care nothing about police officer welfare.

They seem to give no thought to the fact that police are among the most scrutinized employees in the Australian workforce.

And the strict SA Police code of conduct imposes the highest standards of behaviour on police officers – in both their private and professional lives. This is a demand unknown in most other fields of employment.

The critics seem never to have thought about how this ill-considered push to dismantle a well-functioning complaints and discipline system will, if it succeeds, deter potential recruits.

Of course, in some cases, police officers are found to have erred. And, in the PDT – an employment tribunal – that brings about significant penalties, including hefty fines.

In cases in which police officers face criminal proceedings, the media freely

report on the process and the outcome.

Nothing of those matters is hidden or kept under wraps.

So it behoves the critics to ask themselves a few questions rather than descend into sarcasm from the safety of their armchairs. If they bring about the changes they seek to the police complaints system, will they also take responsibility for the fallout?

What will their response be if an innocent officer and his or her children suffer targeted social media, or even physical, attacks?

Attorney-General Vickie Chapman backe d p olice against the implementation of the draconian Return to Work Act in 2015. This latest attack, on the police complaints system and by extension the police themselves, calls for the same resistance from her and other legislators.

Police hold nothing in reserve – not even their personal security and safety – when it comes to protecting us. We, in return, owe them whatever formalized protections we can institute.

Time for action on assault-police offenders Far too often we see thugs getting a slap on the wrist for assaults on police officers.

Well, its’s about time they faced the music.

Police Association delegates moved a motion at our annual conference this month, which effectively seeks legislative change leading to harsher penalties for assaults on police.

And I intend to make sure I have the state government’s full attention on the issue.

In my time as president, we’ve had officers coward-punched, kicked, spat on, bashed with iron bars, and hit with flying objects. In some cases, we’ve even had officers shot and stabbed.

Let’s call these attackers what they are: criminals. And many of them deserve to be in jail.

Think of the mindset of people so brazen they’ll attack an armed police officer and, then, equate it to what they’d

Think of the mindset of people so brazen they’ll attack an armed police officer and, then, equate it to what they’d do to an unarmed, innocent member of the public.

do to an unarmed, innocent member of the public.

It’s a scary thought, and it highlights the significance of the issue. If you’ll attack a police officer, you’ll attack anyone.

Drug addict Anthony Scott Johns avoided jail this month for threatening and chasing one of our members with a pair of scissors.

Police – and two mental-health workers – arrived at his Port Adelaide home last November, after a complaint that he was abusing drugs and threatening to harm others.

The court heard that, instead of letting police inside, Johns hurled abuse and threatened to kill one of them, before bursting through the front screen door armed with the scissors.

He pleaded guilty to one count each of aggravated assault and aggravated threaten to kill.

District Court judge Liesl Chapman sentenced Johns and said he raised his scissors at our member and ran at him.

“You ran towards (the officer) yelling ‘I am going to kill you,’ ” she said.

Judge Chapman suspended his jail term (18 months) on condition that Johns enter a three-year good-behaviour bond and complete 40 hours’ community service.

Is this an acceptable penalty for threatening to kill a police officer?

This is not the first time this issue has been on our agenda.

Last year, we expressed strong opposition to Commissioner Grant Stevens about the general order which stipulated the option of “adult cautioning” for assault-police offenders.

Because of these talks, the commissioner acted immediately to revoke that section of the general order in May last year.

But, now, it’s time for further action.

We enjoy great public support on this issue, and it’s time the state government took notice of that.

We intend to lobby Attorney-General Vickie Chapman to amend the current legislation and increase penalty provisions for assaults on police.

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Death the expectation It was one thing to think he was going to die as he tried to survive a vicious assault.

It was quite another to fear the impact his death would have had on a special loved one.

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confrontation had gone way beyond a mild show of resistance from an offender with an outstanding warrant. It had turned into an all-out assault on a cop – and a threat to kill him with his own police handgun. And the victim, Senior Constable Paul Jelfs, then 56, was already close to defenceless.

On the ground, stunned by punches he had taken to the head, he realized his attacker, Steven Tipping, was yanking at his holstered semi-automatic pistol. And police work is never as dangerous as when an enraged offender not only reaches for, but indeed grabs hold of, a cop’s firearm.

By either calculation or simple instinct, Jelfs thrust his hand down onto his magazine quickrelease button. Disengaging the magazine from the pistol would buy him some time if Tipping was to end up with the weapon in his hands.

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The punches kept coming as Jelfs tried to shield his head from them with just one hand. With the other, he kept the tightest grip he could on his pistol, at which Tipping was still grabbing.

Jelfs was, of course, desperate to keep him from ripping it out of its holster and making good on his kill threat.

“When he said he was going to kill me, I had a mental image of looking down the barrel of the gun and him pulling the trigger,” Jelfs says.

“So the gun was the priority. I was figuring: ‘He can break my nose, my eye socket, my jaw, or cause lumps and bumps on my head. I’ll survive that, unless he absolutely crushes my skull. But, if he gets the gun, I won’t (survive).’ ” Of course, the situation never had to

descend into a case of anyone’s survival.

Jelfs, then a Holden Hill Traffic cop, had only called on Tipping with a routine enquiry about a reportedly abandoned car.

It was a Friday afternoon in July 2015 when police communications alerted Jelfs to the Toyota 4Runner on Christopher St, Dernancourt. He got to the scene around 3pm, inspected the SUV, and noted some accident damage to its passenger side.

Jelfs carried out all the usual checks and came up with Tipping as the registered owner of the 4Runner. The registration showed an address for Tipping of Donald St, Highbury, fewer than two kilometres from Christopher St. Jelfs headed over there to find Tipping, or anyone else, who could shed light on the seeming abandonment of the 4Runner.

On the way, he carried out another check which showed the existence of an active warrant for Tipping. The document was endorsed “no bail”.

It was around 3:15pm when Jelfs pulled up in his marked police car across the road from 14 Donald St. He left the car, walked up the driveway and could not miss the disarray across the front of the house.

There was debris under the carport, broken glass on a concrete path and on steps leading up to the front porch, and six shattered front windows.

More broken glass was evident on the porch, and a glass centre section of the front door had been smashed.

To Jelfs, the house looked abandoned.

Nonetheless, he knocked on the door and waited for someone to respond. Tipping appeared a few moments later – without a hint of aggression.

He explained that the 4Runner did indeed belong to him and had broken down and needed towing.

Jelfs asked him for some identification. Tipping claimed not to have any on his person and so stepped back into the house to fetch some.

Just as he was stepping away, Jelfs asked if he could enter the house, but Tipping declined to allow him inside.

“That struck me as a bit odd,” Jelfs recalls. “I just thought that he might have been embarrassed by the condition of the house, but his (unaggressive) demeanour didn’t change at all.”

“I was figuring: ‘He can break my nose, my eye socket, my jaw …

I’ll survive that, unless he absolutely crushes my skull. But, if he gets the gun, I won’t (survive).’ ” Facing page: the front of the Donald St house; top: inside the front room; above: the smashed front door

Within a few moments, Tipping returned to the front door with his driver’s licence which he handed to Jelfs on the porch.

Once Jelfs had satisfied himself that Tipping’s identification checked out, he got on his police radio and confirmed the status of the warrant. It was indeed outstanding and endorsed “no bail”.

Jelfs then turned squarely toward Tipping and undertook a brief exchange with him: Jelfs: “Sir, you have an outstanding warrant.”

Tipping: “No, man, I only forgot to sign in yesterday.”

Jelfs: “I don’t know what the warrant’s for, but you do have one.”

Tipping: “I don’t want to go to jail.”

Jelfs: “You are under arrest for the warrant. Anything you do to resist with being arrested will be an offence.

Do you understand?”

Tipping: “I don’t want to go to jail.”

Jelfs was duty-bound to arrest Tipping and so drew his handcuffs from their pouch. As he went to apply them, Tipping suddenly turned and grabbed the shoulder strap of the load-bearing vest Jelfs was wearing.

And, after that move – which knocked the radio mic clean off the vest – Tipping shoved Jelfs in a seeming attempt to send him tumbling down the porch steps. Jelfs, now forced to grapple with Tipping on the small tiled porch, pushed back.

He also realized he needed urgent back-up and so hit the emergency button on his radio. “Knowing I had a ‘hot’ mic for about 10 seconds, I continually repeated the address,” he recalls.

Even then, despite the assault and resist arrest, he gave Tipping a break. It was an offer of no charges in addition to the warrant if he ended his resistance now.

“It’s too late now,” came the illconsidered response from Tipping, who mindlessly followed up with a savage left.

The punch hit Jelfs in the head with such force that it knocked his glasses clean off his face.

“It was when he punched me that I realized he was now taking it (the violence) to the next level,” Jelfs says.

Although stunned by the blow, Jelfs again pushed back at Tipping, who responded with a second wallop to the officer’s head.

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Jelfs then grabbed at Tipping and tried to unbalance him, but the pair ended up falling over on the porch.

Tipping, however, got himself upright and began raining those blows down on Jelfs, who had wisely chosen to defend himself with only one hand. As he held his pistol in place with his other hand, he heard Tipping shout: “I’m going to grab your gun and kill you!”

“I don’t know if a moment like that can be explained,” Jelfs says. “(Explained, in terms of) the depth of feeling and emotion, and the psychological impact when you actually believe your life is in peril.

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“So, when he said he was going to kill me, my thought was: ‘How’s my wife going to survive (her last days), because I’m going to be dead?’ ” Top left and right: the front porch and steps leading up to it; above: the house cordoned off after the incident

“I lay there holding the gun, holding my head, and waiting for help. That’s basically what it came to. It was just survival. You do what you do to survive and hope the people you believe will help you in times like this get there.”

But, even in his desperation to survive, one thing worried Jelfs more than the threat to his life.

“My wife (Suzanne) had recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,” he says, “and it was terminal. So, when he said he was going to kill me, my thought was: ‘How’s my wife going to survive (her last days), because I’m going to be dead?’ ” The Jelfs expectation of death would have seemed justified, as the punches and simultaneous tugging at his pistol continued. But, then, with inexplicable suddenness, Tipping simply stopped his attack.

His motivator might have been the sound of distant police car sirens as backup patrols raced to the scene. In any case, he remarked to Jelfs: “I could kick the shit out of you, but I won’t. Look what you made me do.”

Tipping then stepped over Jelfs and sat down on one of the porch steps, where he stayed until the back-up patrols arrived.

They came from Eastern Adelaide Uniform Tac and Holden Hill Traffic and patrols.

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officers from those crews went about arresting Tipping, he tensed his body and turned from calm back to aggressive. They had to take him to ground and cuff him as he yelled and kicked out at them.

In the process, one officer copped several kicks to his chest.

Road Policing Section senior constables James Robertson and Steven Blundell were among the officers who dashed straight over to Jelfs.

Robertson, in a later statement, described seeing him lying on his back on the porch.

“He was reaching out with his left hand attempting to grab the railing to stand up,” he explained.

As Robertson helped Jelfs to his feet, he noticed that he was dazed, confused and physically unsteady.

“I made him sit down on the steps (and) noted he was bleeding freely from an open wound on his forehead and left ear,” he said. “There was a large swelling on his forehead.

“I had Senior Constable Blundell … administer basic first aid ... (Paul) was breathing extremely heavily and complaining of a severe pain in his ribs on his right side.”

An ambulance crew responded and treated Jelfs at the scene before taking him to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. During the hours he spent there, he rang his daughter, Maddy, then 22, and asked her to call in and see him.

When she got to the hospital, her father was behind a privacy curtain. She drew it back, saw him, and immediately thrust it closed. The sight of him in a neck brace and with swelling and bruising to his head and face had shocked her.

But Jelfs wanted her to go to her mother to tell her in person what had happened, and that he would be late home. Despite struggling to stand and even breathe, he did not intend to stay in hospital overnight as had been proposed.

Meanwhile, news of the bashing had been broadcast on television. So Suzanne already knew what had happened by the time Maddy turned up to tell her.

“She saw me on the news, so she was quite upset,” Jelfs says. “Then, when I got home, and she saw me, it took her breath away.

“I didn’t want to talk about it too much because I didn’t want her to worry about how I was. It was for us to worry about how she was.”

Nothing was as precious to Jelfs as his wife and daughters, Maddy and Jess, then 32. His sergeant at the time, Jason Gilchrist, saw them as “the centre of his (Jelfs’) universe”.

“Suzanne was his world,” Gilchrist says. “They were inseparable, but Suzanne’s life expectancy was not long.”

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job of investigating the assault on Jelfs fell to Detective Brevet Sergeant Luke Townsend. Around 7pm, he undertook a video-recorded conversation with Tipping at Port Adelaide police station.

“He (Tipping) couldn’t believe that we were there to interview him as a suspect,” Townsend says. “He thought he was a victim. He thought he was assaulted by Paul and unfairly or unjustly arrested.

“I couldn’t believe that he actually thought we were there to save him rather than interview for assaulting a police officer.”

In any case, Tipping took legal advice and refused to answer any questions. Townsend charged him with resist arrest, aggravated assault cause harm, and threaten to kill.

Jelfs was off work for nine days as he undertook the start of his recovery at home. Townsend kept in touch with him by phone until the pair caught up in person when Jelfs returned to work on light duties.

“The physical injuries were evident,” Townsend says, “but, just speaking to him, you could tell the emotional strain he was under.

“I could see in his face that he actually thought he was going to die that day and wasn’t going to see his wife again.

“So, what he was facing, not only from the incident but also on the home front, hit home to me at that point. I felt for him and the things he was going through.”

It would be three years before Jelfs would see any measure of justice play out in the District Court. Until then, his priority was always the care of his wife, whose diagnosis had come eight months before Tipping attacked him.

“It was very hard,” Jelfs recalls, “because I knew a court date was imminent.”

Or Jelfs thought a court date was imminent. A trial date was set for November 2016, which marked a year and four months since the attack. And, by then, Suzanne had gone into a hospice.

Her time was near.

“She had under a month to live,” Jelfs says. “I said to Luke: ‘I can’t do court because I’m not losing a day or a week or any time with Suzanne to give to Tipping.’

“If I’d gone to the trial, and Suzanne had passed during that trial or just after, I’d have given him (Tipping) the most valuable time of my life.”

Gilchrist had also approached Townsend about the bad timing of the trial.

“I explained to Luke that Suzanne was now in Calvary Hospital with her death near,” he says. “Paul was living in her hospital room on a sofa bed for about two weeks.

“I was firmly of the view that he should be left alone with his wife and so submitted a report to Luke outlining my concerns.

This was subsequently approved, and the trial was delayed.”

With some rescheduling, the trial got put back 11 months, to October 2017. By that time, it would be two years and three months since the attack.

“When they told me, I thought: ‘Oh, my God! Another year!’ ” Jelfs recalls.

While such a long delay seemed unreasonable, it at least left Jelfs to devote himself to Suzanne – and he did. But she was never to see Tipping convicted of the assault on her husband: her heartbreaking death came in December 2016. She was 55.

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Jelfs grieved, the burden of a trial still 10 months away hung endlessly over his head. He had little or no experience as a court performer and was therefore apprehensive. Still, he just wanted to get on the witness stand, give his evidence, be believed, and see Tipping convicted.

But, when October 2017 came around, the scheduled trial never got started. First, it was the unavailability of a courtroom and, then, a judge – and it all left Jelfs extremely frustrated.

In fact, he would have to wait 10 more months before the trial would start, in August this year. By then, the attack on him would be more than three years in the past.

When Deputy DPP Sandi McDonald SC came to prosecute the case in the District Court, she knew well the impact of such a long delay. “… all of the witnesses involved were professional and tried their utmost,” she says. “(But) it is inevitable that such an extended period … will impact on the ability of a witness to give accurate evidence.”

Still, when Jelfs finally got on the witness stand, he impressed McDonald.

“He was understandably nervous,” she says.

“I observed him give evidence and be rigorously cross-examined over many hours.

Throughout all of this, Paul Jelfs was the consummate professional and gentleman.

“He could not do enough to assist the prosecution. He was engaged, understanding and committed. I could not have asked for any more from (him).”

Tipping, it seemed, still viewed himself as victim rather than offender and pleaded not guilty. The jury, however, found him guilty of aggravated assault causing harm, but could not reach a verdict on aggravated threatening life.

So the outcome brought Jelfs, Townsend and others in the courtroom both relief and disappointment.

“It (the no verdict) was disappointing but not totally unexpected,” Townsend says.

“All Paul wanted was some closure. All he wanted was to hear the word guilty, so he could move on, and we finally got that.

“When the jury stood up and was giving the guilty verdict, I just looked at Paul and his daughter. And it will always stay with me.

In Paul’s face, after you heard the word guilty, you just saw the relief.”

Jelfs himself speaks of feeling “ecstatic” at the mention of the word guilty.

“There’s just a weight that you carry, and you don’t know you’ve got it,” he says. “It’s invisible but I felt it when I gave evidence.

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“And when the judge said: ‘You’re excused,’ and I walked out, there was a “And when the judge said: ‘You’re excused,’ huge weight and I walked out, there was a huge weight lifted, and it was kind of closure.” lifted, and it After each of the two days Jelfs had spent on the witness stand, he went straight to Enfield was kind Memorial Park cemetery. He wanted to tell Suzanne how the trial was progressing. And, of closure.” when the case concluded, he again went to her gravesite to tell her of the outcome.

Jelfs is not, and does not expect ever to be, free of the memory of the attack – or his attacker.

He lives few, if any, days without analysing and reanalysing what he went through, and how he might have handled the situation differently.

Says Gilchrist, in whom Jelfs has confided: “Paul was traumatized by the assault. He still firmly believes that he could have died on the afternoon of July 8, 2015.”

And, ever the realist, Jelfs recognizes that, “in reality, it can happen again”.

“To be brutally honest,” he says, “I just wish the incident had never happened.” PJ

Tipping is to be sentenced before Judge Stephen McEwen at the end of this month

POLICE BRAVERY ACKNOWLEDGED NATIONALLY

“Without a thought for herself, she … rescued those little girls from almost certain death.”

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estern Australia Police Force senior constable Stephanie Bochorsky received one of the nation’s newest and most prestigious awards last month.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton presented her with the inaugural National Police Bravery Award at a gala dinner at the National Museum of Australia.

Senior Const Bochorsky had, while off duty in 2015, rescued two young girls from their father, who had set the youngest child on fire.

Minister Dutton described the heroism of Senior Const Bochorsky as “truly exceptional”.

“Without a thought for herself, she confronted a dangerous man in a dangerous situation and rescued those little girls from almost certain death,” he said.

Police Federation of Australia president Mark Carroll, who addressed the dinner, said he was delighted that

the PFA had instituted the bravery award.

“And for a woman of the calibre of Stephanie to be the first to receive it was a perfect beginning,” he said.

“As a father of two girls myself, I have a deep, personal appreciation for her fearlessness and great admiration for her quick thinking under such high pressure.”

Senior Const Bochorsky described her award as a completely unexpected honour.

“These awards make you feel valued,” she said. “It is nice to know that your actions are acknowledged and what you went through is validated.”

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Bill Shorten both acknowledged Senior Const Bochorsky in the House of Representatives the day after the dinner.

From across all police jurisdictions, including South Australia, Senior Const Bochorsky was one of 61 nominees for the award.

Top: Stephanie Bochorsky makes an acceptance speech as Police Federation of Australia president Mark Carroll and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton look on; above: Guests at the awards dinner

The PFA staged the presentation of the award as part of Police Week, which ran from September 15 to 29.

That period included the Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance, the Remembering Mates Century Ride and National Police Remembrance Day. PJ

See the full story of Senior Const Bochorsky’s award-winning actions on page 20.

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When police bravery saves child lives

By Jessica Porter

Just the vision of a child on fire would have been too much for many to bear.

But WA police officer Stephanie Bochorsky confronted that horror, and much more, to save two children from their crazed father.

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early two years after attempting to murder his two young daughters, Edward John Herbert sat in the dock of the WA Supreme Court and listened as Justice Lindy Jenkins sentenced him to spend the next 17 years of his life in prison.

Three hours before revealing the sentence, Justice Jenkins read out the horrifying details of the five offences Herbert committed on the night of August 28, 2015.

But the benign courtroom could not do any justice to the intensity of that evening, when off-duty first class constable Stephanie Bochorsky (left) risked her own life in order to save the lives of two innocent children.

Her actions were specifically commended by the judge and also Detective Senior Constable Brian Legge, who was assigned as the investigating officer.

Legge says there was no doubt that the quick and selfless actions of Bochorsky saved the lives of Tennille and Sarah (not their real names), who were four and seven at the time.

“There’s no doubt in mind, no doubt in the judge’s mind, that those kids – especially Tennille and Sarah – would have been killed if it wasn’t for Steph,” he says. “She deserves every credit.”

Bochorsky remembers the night vividly but hasn’t shared the details of her story publicly before now.

She remembers it was a quiet Friday night in front of the TV. A documentary she was watching on a UFC fighter was interrupted by neighbours yelling across the road from her Doubleview home.

She got up and investigated the noises.

Opening the wooden front door, Bochorsky could see her neighbour, Herbert, and his partner at the time, Rebecca (not her real name) outside their house.

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“I could see that her whole head was black and burnt, and all I could smell was flesh.”

She recalls Herbert, who was wearing only blue jocks, pacing and shouting.

“He was just yelling things to the effect that: ‘The Maoris are going to get me’ and Rebecca was saying things like: ‘No, don’t be silly, I love you, no they’re not,’ ” Bochorsky told the WA Police News.

Satisfied that she didn’t need to call police for attendance just yet, Bochorsky sat back down and resumed her documentary, but kept the front door open just in case.

It was just a minute later when Bochorsky jumped up and ran towards her front door.

“Rebecca let out this blood-curdling scream,” Bochorsky says.

“I just ran out onto my front porch and yelled: ‘Are you okay? Do you need help?’ Then she said: ‘He’s setting my kids on fire!’.”

It was those six words that sprung Bochorsky into action.

In her pyjamas and socks, she ran down her front lawn, over the road and towards the house.

As she passed Rebecca, Bochorsky yelled for her to call the police.

“I’ve opened up the flyscreen and ran into the house,” Bochorsky says.

“The first thing I’ve seen was the living room and kitchen, but I could immediately smell petrol.”

Bochorsky says her attention was drawn to a room to her right. A bright light appeared to be shining.

Bochorsky ran towards the room, but what confronted her next was something that would forever be etched into her mind.

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fathom what that would look like,” he says. “I mean you can think about it and you can imagine it.”

Bochorsky ran into the room and saw little Tennille standing up in her cot with her whole head engorged in flames. The bars on her cot trapped her in a flaming hell.

“The fire was half a metre above her head,” Bochorsky says. “I couldn’t believe it. My first instinct was to just yell out: ‘Oh, my God!’ ” Bochorsky quickly reacted and grabbed a blanket from Tennille’s cot and used it to dampen the flames that tore through her strawberry blonde hair and ripped at her porcelain skin.

The little girl’s first instinct was to grab on to Bochorsky’s neck as tight as she could.

“I could see that her whole head was black and burnt, and all I could smell was flesh,” Bochorsky says.

Bochorsky pulled the four-year-old out of her cot and forcefully yelled at Herbert to “get the fuck away from her” as he looked at Sarah.

She then turned to see Herbert naked, with a red jerry can in his hands. He was dousing his other little girl, Sarah, in petrol.

Sarah, who has non-verbal autism, just witnessed her baby sister being set alight by their father and was now at risk of experiencing the same fate.

She was struggling to breathe as Herbert continued to pour the contents of the jerry can over her.

“He was just looking at me and Tennille the whole time,” Bochorsky says.

“It was like he was possessed or just not there, in another world.

“He just turned to me and said: ‘Why don’t you take your clothes off?’

“I said: ‘What the fuck are you talking about?

Get away from her.’ But he just kept on pouring the petrol. I knew at any moment he was going to set her on fire.”

Bochorsky started to creep towards Sarah while keeping her eyes on Herbert.

“I kept saying: ‘It’s all right, sweetie, come on, jump up,’ and at that time I didn’t know why she

wasn’t listening,” Bochorsky says.

“But I’ve got the back of her pyjama collar and dragged her out of bed towards the door with me as quick as I could.”

Bochorsky ran out of the house with Sarah and Tennille.

She made sure Sarah was safe with her mum before carrying Tennille back to her house.

“As I’ve gone past, I’ve said: ‘I’m really concerned about your little girl here. I’m taking her to my house. No one goes in that house at all until the police get here,’ ” Bochorsky recalls.

However, a neighbour heroically ran into the house to confront Herbert.

Daniel, who lived across the road from Herbert and Rebecca, entered the house with a fire extinguisher.

Justice Jenkins said Daniel found Herbert naked in the kitchen drinking beer and pacing. Daniel confronted Herbert about burning his children, to which he replied: “They are my kids to do whatever the fuck I want.”

Justice Jenkins also found that Herbert told Daniel that he burnt Tennille because she was “too f--king beautiful”.

Daniel then told Herbert he would be going to prison for what he did. Herbert grabbed a knife and threatened to cut his own penis off.

After attempting to hit Daniel with a stubby of beer, Herbert lunged toward Daniel with a blue-handled knife, trying to stab him in the stomach.

However, Daniel quickly grabbed Herbert’s right arm and twisted it sufficiently so the knife fell to the floor.

Daniel then grabbed the fire extinguisher and hit Herbert with it. After some struggling, Herbert remained on the floor. Another neighbour also ran into the house to remove Herbert’s son, Taylor (not his real name).

It was as Taylor was leaving the house, that the neighbour heard Herbert say: “Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have lit me boy up.”

Over the road, Bochorsky placed Tennille on the bathroom sink to evaluate the burns to her body.

Her little face was raw.

“She was just sitting there whimpering, not crying at all,” Bochorsky says. “She was so quiet.

“She was so brave. So, so brave,” Bochorsky adds, as tears fall down her cheek.

“I started to unbutton the top buttons and that’s when I saw how black her chest was. I thought that it’s going to need more than patting down with a wet towel, so my instinct was to put her in the bath.”

Bochorsky remembers turning on the water and encouraging Tennille to get into the bath. But she wouldn’t release her arms from Bochorsky’s neck.

“I started to take my socks off to get in the shower with her fully clothed but, as I got in, she let go,” she says.

“I put her down in the tub and quickly ran to get my phone to make sure the ambulance was coming to my house not the house across the road. I was kneeling at the tub and kept drizzling

Below: Tennille's cot; bottom: The jerry can full of petrol that Herbert used to douse his children.

water over her with the cup of my hand.”

Next, Bochorsky saw just how much the fire had devastated little Tennille’s body.

“I was talking to her but I was wondering why she wasn’t looking up at me,” Bochorsky says.

“But I realized it looked as if her face had melted into her neck and she couldn’t look up at me. One of her ears looked like it had melted off.”

Paramedics then entered the house and took over the care of Tennille.

Ambulance officers told Bochorsky it was likely that they would need to place Tennille in an induced coma because of the severity of the burns when she reached Princess Margaret Hospital.

“She was just sitting there whimpering, not crying at all.

She was so quiet.”

After Tennille was taken to hospital, Bochorsky walked out to the police officers who were now attending the job across the road.

“I was still in shock,” she says. “I didn’t know what to do.”

Bochorsky saw Herbert being walked into the back of the police van and, strangely, as if he had known her movements on that night, remarked to her that she was a “UFC fighter”.

Legge was working at Joondalup Detectives Office when he got the call to attend that night. He was working with another detective as crime car for the evening.

“We got a call to attend Doubleview and the text of the job was that there was a fire and children had been set on fire,” he says.

“I was expecting carnage.”

As a father of two children, Legge knew this scene would be confronting.

“It doesn’t matter what age you are in the job, we’re all mums and dads,” he says.

“Some of us are grandparents, some have brothers and sisters… So when you start mentioning children in relation to any offence, it hits home.”

The scene was eerily quiet when the detectives got on the scene. All Legge could hear was Herbert yelling from the pod.

“There was a lot of wailing, a lot of growling,” he says. “He was having conversations with people who weren’t there. That was the loudest part of the whole scene. Otherwise, it was very calm.”

Herbert was taken away that night to Perth Watch House and charged. However, because of his state, he was never interviewed.

Investigating the events of that night, Legge learnt of the incredible bravery of Daniel and Bochorsky.

“There’s a lot of officers that I know who wouldn’t have gone in there and did what she did and confront this potentially armed individual,” he says.

“Essentially, she went in there with no consideration for her own personal safety and her sole purpose was to get those kids out. It was incredible.”

Legge said he could only describe the scene that confronted Bochorsky as “absolute horror”.

He also praised Daniel for his quick actions to disarm Herbert and prevent any further injury or potential loss of life, without any regard for his own.

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Bochorsky also applauded Daniel.

“I thought that was really brave and courageous of him,” she says.

“If he didn’t do that, who knows what would have happened. He might have lit up the house, he might have run out of the house and stabbed the women at the front door. We just don’t know. So it was very brave of him to do that.”

During the trial, 16 months later, Justice Jenkins also remarked on the bravery of Bochorsky and Daniel.

Western Australian Police Union president George Tilbury said both Bochorsky and Daniel deserved recognition for their extreme courage and has called for them to be given bravery awards.

At sentencing, Justice Jenkins said Bochorsky in particular acted with extreme bravery. She also said Bochorsky’s actions, in all likelihood, saved the lives of the two young girls.

Herbert admitted all five offences: making a threat to kill, being armed with a weapon, two counts of attempted murder and doing an act as a result of which the life, health and safety of a person was endangered.

Director of Public Prosecutions Amanda Forrester SC, who prosecuted the case, was able to prove that Herbert was psychotic and suffering from bipolar affective disorder.

It was found that these conditions were exacerbated or induced by voluntary consumption of alcohol and cannabis.

Thus, failing to satisfy the insanity defence.

Evidence was also heard that Herbert had previously told Daniel that, if he were ever to be caught by police again, he would “pull the tard card”.

Justice Jenkins found that Herbert told Daniel that he had done it once before and spent a few weeks in Graylands mental health facility.

However, he did not get away with the insanity defence this time.

During the trial and sentencing, the full details of the injuries sustained

by Tennille, her brother, sister and mother were made known.

“Tennille was taken by ambulance to Princess Margaret Hospital,” Justice Jenkins told the court. “On examination, she had mixed deep partial and full thickness burns to her body, including her head, neck, face, right upper arm, right and left hands, right shoulder and chest.

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“He definitely looked like a different person to what I saw that day. But he was just feeling sorry for himself… and I don’t have sympathy for that.”

“Thirteen per cent of her body surface area was burned with an inhalation component.

(She) required immediate resuscitation, intubation and ventilation, pain management, oedema control and specialist wound care and she has required multiple surgical interventions for debridement and skin grafts.

“She has also required multiple general anaesthetics for dressing changes and for investigations of the burn damage to her vocal chords and right ear.”

Justice Jenkins also went further and said little Tennille’s injuries were “severe and lifethreatening”.

“Without medical intervention, the injuries would have endangered life,” she said. “She is permanently scarred as a result of her injuries.

Her physical movement has been restricted as a result of her injuries.

“She is not permitted to spend long periods outside. She cannot play like other children and she has to wear compression garments.

Understandably, Tennille has ongoing emotional psychological problems, such as fear, anxiety, hypervigilance and low self-esteem.”

Sarah also was taken to hospital as the petrol was poured on her eyes, mouth and ears. Like Tennille, Sarah also displays symptoms of trauma.

However, because of her disability, it is hard for Sarah to communicate. This makes it difficult for her carers to treat.

Their brother, Taylor, also displays the effects of trauma and attends counselling.

Rebecca, their mother, struggles with PTSD, anxiety and depression. She said the actions of Herbert have broken her heart into many pieces.

During sentencing, Herbert sat in the dock wearing a lilac business shirt. His face tattoo visible to the court.

When the details of his children’s injuries were

being read out, he started to cry.

Justice Jenkins said she did acknowledge that Herbert had shown some level of remorse.

“I have received a letter from you which expresses how sorry you are for your offences, particularly that against Tennille,” she said.

“You say that you are in a living hell because of what you did to her. You say you will always love your family. You blame your offences on becoming mentally ill because you smoked too much hydroponic cannabis, used too many antidepressants and alcohol.

“You say that you did not know that cannabis could put you into a druginduced psychosis. For the reasons I have given, I doubt this is the case. Even if it is the truth, it is only because you did not learn the lessons which any sensible person would have learned from your own past behaviour.”

Justice Jenkins sentenced Herbert to a total of 17 years in prison. He was sentenced to two years for threatening to kill Rebecca, two years for being armed with a knife, 12 years for attempting to kill Tennille, five years for attempting to kill Sarah and three-and-a-half years for the attempt to endanger Daniel’s life.

Herbert’s sentence was backdated to August 29, 2015. He was made eligible for parole after 15 years.

Another order made by the court was a lifetime ban on Herbert being able to contact Sarah, Tennille or Rebecca.

Taylor can decide if he wants to communicate with Herbert two years after he is released from prison.

During the trial, it was difficult for Bochorsky to relive the events of August 28, 2015.

Upon seeing Herbert, Bochorsky said she felt shivers up her spine.

“He definitely looked like a different person to what I saw that day,” she says.

“But he was just feeling sorry for himself… and I don’t have sympathy for that.”

The memories have continually haunted Bochorsky. She has had trouble sleeping and experiences nightmares. She needed to take a month off work after the incident to get back to her normal self.

“It’s definitely emotional,” she says. “It’s something that I get choked up about now.

“If it weren’t for their loyalty, love and ongoing support, I would have let my inner demons consume me.”

I’ve only discussed it with my partner, Scott, and best friend, Leah, so it’s not something that I go into great detail with because of the memories of what I saw that night.

“Scott and Leah were my rocks. If it weren’t for their loyalty, love and ongoing support, I would have let my inner demons consume me.”

Bochorsky still has nightmares about little Tennille in her cot with her head on fire and nowhere to run.

But asked if she would do it all again, she replies: “Absolutely. I have a police teddy bear that I am going to give Tennille.

I am always thinking about her and hoping that she is okay.”

Legge says every single officer involved in the investigation deserves credit for the successful outcome in the Supreme Court.

“From the attending officers right through to the DPP, everybody who was involved in this process should be commended,” he says.

“I look at the guys in the team and everybody contributed. Uniformed officers and detectives worked together, and we got it done.

“And, as far as I’m concerned, we had one of the best prosecutors in the state, Amanda Forrester, prosecuting the matter and we got the result we sought.

“Steph was crucial, but every copper in the job deserves credit – 100 per cent.”

Speaking to WA Police News a day before little Tennille’s sixth birthday, he said the family was now trying to get over this horrendous crime.

“I actually got a card from the family and one for Steph too,” he says.

“Rebecca takes it day by day. She’s getting stronger, the kids are getting stronger.

“Tennille still sleeps with mum at the moment, which is probably normal. She’s very shy about her body because she sees the scarring now. But they’re dealing with counsellors and helping her through it.

“The kids have an awesome mum, they have a good family unit around them.

She’s doing okay, considering.” PJ

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Recruits together… no issue for father and son

By Brett Williams

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OTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT A SON FOLLOWING IN THE PROFESSIONAL FOOTSTEPS OF HIS FATHER. Except, that is, when both make their foray into the same occupation only four months apart.

It played out that way for New Zealanders Dennis and Jordan Allely of courses 29 and 31 respectively. And they might just be the only father-and-son duo ever to have undertaken most of their police recruit training at the same time.

Course 29 supervisor Sergeant Allan Cannon knows of no such cases in SA police academy history. Nor, it seems, does anyone he has quizzed on the subject.

“I spoke to other staff with longer work histories than mine here at the academy,” he says, “and they’re also unaware of any father-son (scenarios).”

So it all began last January, when Jordan, 28, turned up to start his recruit course. Dennis, 51, had done the same in September last year.

Jordan discovered that taking on academy life with a parent on campus was not a popular concept among his coursemates. Most told him they would never have done it themselves. But training together to be cops was no issue for either of the Allelys.

They had come from a particularly close family, made up of five with wife and mother, Gladys, and two other adult children.

Says Dennis, who graduated last month: “People talk about their children being alienated from their parents. Our children were never like that. They were still going on holidays with us in their teens and early 20s.

“We do things as a family and we always have.

That’s just how our family has been, so it (recruit training together) wasn’t strange to us at all.

We just did it.”

In fact, doing things together was so routine for Dennis and Jordan that, for their time in the academy, they shared a nearby apartment.

They studied together too; and, even before SAPOL accepted them, they underwent their interviews for the job on the same day.

And up came the question of father and son joining the same recruit course. That was no issue for Dennis. Nor was it for Jordan, but he did explain that his preference was to be in a separate course.

“I wanted to be myself as much as possible (rather) than being Dad’s son,” he says. “That

“I didn’t know he (Dad) was applying before I moved over. So, when he said to me that he was applying and suggested that I do it as well, there wasn’t any hesitancy (on my part).” was a big thing to me, but I know if we’d been in the same course it would have been just as normal.”

In a competitive but good-natured fashion, each Allely worked at outdoing the other in the classroom and on the training track. The obstacle course became one of those points of competition.

And Jordan came in for some ribbing when, at one point, Dennis held the faster of their times by just a few seconds. But the younger Allely eventually reclaimed the lead, which led Sgt Cannon to hold up a sign outside the classroom in which Dennis was in a lesson.

Written on the sign was the time Jordan had scored on the obstacle course.

“Dennis looked across, struggled to read it initially and, then, it seemed to dawn on him what I was holding up,”

Facing page: Jordan and Dennis Allely; above: Dennis on graduation day with coursemates Hannah Hill and Maddy Schofield.

Sgt Cannon recalls. “Once he understood it, he smiled.”

On the academic front, the Allelys competed but also studied together.

“We debriefed every night,” Dennis says, “even before Jordan started because he was so interested and hyped up. So we did confer a lot.

We always tested each other.”

In fact, Jordan felt as if he and his father were always studying. “Because,” he says, “we would be talking about it constantly.

“But we figured out stuff that we didn’t quite understand. It was quite a good system actually. I think it helped.”

Jordan remains working toward his January 2019 graduation but, in different circumstances, both he and Dennis might have been New Zealand police officers.

Dennis seriously considered joining New Zealand Police more than 20 years ago but found the low recruit salary a disincentive. Although always interested in policing, he had a young family to support and so pursued software engineering.

“I decided that policing was never going to happen for me,” he says.

But in 2009, Dennis and Gladys left New Zealand for Australia and wound up on the APY Lands, where Gladys had scored work as a nurse. Among the people Dennis got to know and

help out over the next eight years were police officers.

He spoke with them about his interest in policing and how he had not pursued it as a career in New Zealand. They set him straight when he told them he was now simply too old to start a police career.

“They said: ‘Rubbish! Of course you can,’ ” he remembers. “And there were guys up there who had applied at my age, so I thought: ‘Well, what the heck.

Why not?’ ” Jordan had applied to join New Zealand Police as a 19-year-old and got to the interview stage, at which “they said I was going to get through”.

“But,” he says, “they suggested I do a bit of travelling and maybe just do some things that I wanted to do before settling into a career.”

Jordan took the advice and headed off to the US. When he returned to New Zealand, he worked for a hotel – in its valet-concierge department – and, later, a health insurance company.

Unhappy, as he was in New Zealand, and determined not to end up in an office job, Jordan took the advice of his parents to come to Australia.

“I didn’t know he (Dad) was applying before I moved over,” he says. “So, when he said to me that he was applying and suggested that I do it as well, there wasn’t any hesitancy (on my part).

It was a pretty easy decision.

“It’s probably been one of the biggest bonding things that we’ve done.”

If Dennis had a regret on his graduation day it was that he did not start his police career 20 years ago.

But, now, based at Berri, he hopes to contribute around 15 years to the job.

Neither he nor Jordan has decided what field of policing he might pursue, but each concedes he will be mindful of the other’s safety on the street.

“That’s just natural,” Dennis says.

“My father used to say: ‘You worry about your children till the day you die.’ Just because they’re adults doesn’t make any difference.”

Says Jordan: “I’m not concerned about his (Dad’s) capability of doing anything. I’m more concerned that bad things happen in this job, so I’ll probably call him pretty regularly to see how things are going.” PJ

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NO REST UNTIL RIGHT ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT STRUCK

By Nicholas Damiani

President declares EB top priority

“This government will have different priorities, different objectives.”

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Police Association president Mark Carroll has told delegates the union will push hard to negotiate another pacesetting enterprise agreement in the upcoming months.

Speaking at the association’s annual conference this month, Mr Carroll said the current EA (finalized in 2016) expires in May next year.

He said he is looking forward to the challenge of negotiating an outcome with the new state government.

“It’s always a challenge with a new government,” he said.

“This government will have different priorities, different objectives.

“Some people believe you start where the previous EB ended, but that’s not the case. You have to negotiate to maintain previous entitlements as well as add new ones.

“But the association has a history of getting this right and we won’t rest until it is right – and that will rest on a member endorsement.”

Members can access a summary of the EB issues on PASAweb (www.pasa.asn.au).

Right: Sasha Lisle receives her award from Police Association president Mark Carroll; right centre top to bottom: award recipients Andy McClean, John Gardner, Kevin Hunt; far right top to bottom: recipients Sam Strange, Julian Snowden

Delegates move motion on police assaults Police Association delegates moved a motion seeking legislative amendments to bring about harsher penalties for assaulting a police officer.

The motion authorized the committee of management to “seek amendment to section 6 of the Summary Offences Act to remove ‘assault police’ from that section so that any assault on a police officer is charged under the Criminal Law Consolidation Act”.

The association previously expressed strong opposition to Commissioner Grant Stevens about the general order which stipulated the option of “adult cautioning” for assault-police offenders.

Because of these talks, the commissioner acted immediately to revoke that section of the general order in May last year.

The association intends to lobby Attorney-General Vickie Chapman to amend the legislation and increase penalty provisions for assaults on police.

Sasha Lisle wins Step-Up award Insufficient staffing and excessive workloads in the South Coast Family Violence Investigation Section were on the mind of delegate Sasha Lisle, whose subsequent action won her the 2018 Police Association Step-Up award.

The issue in the section – owing chiefly to members’ leave, transfers and court commitments – prompted Lisle to submit a HIRS, and subsequently contact the Police Association earlier this year.

Statistical data supported her premise and, as a result, SAPOL utilized further resources in the section and applied risk management on some of the other duties.

Lisle first contacted the association in June 2018, as the South Coast CIB had implemented a standard operating procedure for detectives to interchange between areas every two years. (The procedure favoured multi-skilling ahead of specialization.)

Lisle further detailed the proposed staffing structure of the Southern CIB in comparison to its district population and area, the proposed response function of the Southern Child and Family Violence Section (CFIS) and the concerns raised with the organizational review group.

Her concerns were about service delivery

Service award winners and the ability to conduct investigations in a timely manner – which directly impact on the core strategies of SAPOL 2020.

Lisle encouraged members in her workgroup to voice their concerns.

As a result, the association received further evidence from individual members in respect of these issues.

Lisle assisted the association in the formulation of a letter to Commissioner Grant Stevens on September 19, 2018 (members can access on PASAweb).

The association has further consulted the senior executive and the commissioner’s response is pending.

Association secretary Bernadette Zimmermann said Lisle had been dealing with complex staffing issues for most of her time as a delegate.

“She has only been a delegate for fewer than 12 months,” she said.

“In such a short space of time, Sasha has shown herself to be a truly credible, tough, committed leader in a large workplace when it comes to speaking up for members’ safety.”

Police Association service awards were due for several delegates and committee members. Those who were present at the conference received their honours from association president Mark Carroll.

Delegates Andy “Macca” McClean 25-year service award and badge John Gardner 10-year service award and badge Kevin Hunt Five-year service award Adam Gates Five-year service award Committee members Michael Kent Five-year service award Michael (Mitch) Manning Five-year service award Samantha Strange Five-year service award Julian Snowden Five-year service award PJ October 2018

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Steven Whetton Member Liaison Officer, Police Association

Industrial

Change sought to country transfer instructions R

emovalists should never provide their services to Police Association members through employees with criminal histories. But it has happened, as detailed in No to removalists with criminal histories (Police Journal, April 2018).

In that case, a country member wound up with three contractor removalists who had substantial criminal histories. One even made threats to the member and his family.

All removalists must have police clearance certificates.

Winter Games fun… and charity

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The Police Association requested a response from Commissioner Grant Stevens. SAPOL has since contacted all removalist companies and reinforced its expectations of safety, security and the use of sub-contractors.

All removalists must have police clearance certificates. Non-compliance would bring about the removal of the company concerned from the SAPOL supplier register.

Other issues raised by country

members include the shortness of time, just three consecutive shifts, to facilitate the country transfer – packing day, travelling day, unpacking day and, then, meeting the removalist at the destination a day after loading.

One member explained her transfer experience from Adelaide to Ceduna.

The removalist loaded the belongings at 7am and the member had to be at Ceduna the next day for the unload at 6am.

The member then travelled alone with pets and slept in the vacant property while awaiting the removalist’s arrival.

Another member travelled 800kms overnight with young children. Owing to association intervention, she was granted an extra “discretionary” day in addition to the three consecutive days.

In this situation, the removalists would load on Monday and depart Ceduna, then unload on Wednesday in Adelaide with a “discretionary day” given for Thursday.

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The 2018 (36th) Australian Police Winter Games were again held at Falls Creek, Victoria from July 29 through to August 3.

The APWG has been an annual event since 1983, involving social events, skiing and snowboarding races. It is arguably the longest continual police winter sports competition in the world today. The underpinning theme is It’s Snow Fun. The games cater for all levels of skiers, from first-timers to experts alike. Participants include police, nonsworn members, family and friends and range in age from four to 64.

State teams competed in giant slalom, slalom and ski/board cross.

New South Wales was back in force to defend its title against police from the rest of the nation and a couple of international competitors.

It again dominated the competition and won easily.

South Australia placed second, Victoria third, and the combined team of Northern Territory, AFP and the USA fourth.

Aside from snow fun, the APWG holds an annual charity auction.

Held this year at the Falls Creek Hotel, with the support of generous sponsors,

The association represents the membership on the Commissioner’s Office Health, Safety and Welfare Advisory Committee, which meets bi-monthly. We consult with SAPOL on these issues, with a focus on prevention.

Fatigue risk management for country transfers has been raised as an agenda item and we have requested a change to the country transfer instructions to reflect the need for a “discretionary day” and extend the removalist day.

Brevet sergeants’ custody management SAPOL’s organizational reform documents highlight that, at “major custodial facilities”, sergeants will perform the role of officer-in-charge of the police station, including the custodial facility and police station function. These facilities will be open 24 hours.

The Holden Hill and Sturt stations have been classified in these documents as “minor’” custodial facilities for “turnaround prisoners”. These detainees will not be kept in custody and these facilities will used from 7am to 1am.

it raised $4,482 for police legacies across Australia.

Among the sponsors were the police associations of South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.

There is no reference to “minor custodial” facilities in the Correctional Services Act or the Custody Management general order.

Both Holden Hill and Sturt are declared as “prisons” owing to section 18 of the Correctional Services Act. There is no reference to the term “turnaround”, only the term “detainee”.

Scope for members to influence change (Police Journal, August 2018) detailed the association intervention in the proposed change of roster for sergeants, brevet sergeants and constables working at the Holden Hill police station custodial facility.

The proposed roster did not have clear weekends off, so the association served a notice of dispute which resulted in clear weekends off for members (as per the 2016 enterprise agreement).

This was achieved through the members voicing their concerns through their workplace consultative committee.

The dispute in respect of brevet sergeants doing the work of a sergeant in the custodial facility – without adequate payment or recognition – has not yet been resolved and the status quo on staffing remains.

The position and duties in respect of detainee risk assessments, care plan, high-risk detainees and risk analysis process that exist in these declared “prisons” should not be compromised by the organizational reform.

Anyone interested in attending the 2019 Australian Police Winter Games should seek information at apwg.com.au or email me at vicepresident@apwg.com.au.

Regards Mike Quinton Sergeant (ret)

Under the roster proposal for brevet sergeants at the Holden Hill police station, the members relieve the sergeant position for four continuous hours, and for 24 overall hours on a repeated three-week roster.

This equates to 20 per cent of the brevet sergeants’ rostered hours – and a significant devaluing of the supervisory sergeant role toward custody management.

Of particular relevance is recommendation 87 (iii) of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

It highlights that the role of supervisors should be examined and, where necessary, strengthened in respect of the appropriateness of arrest practices. The SAPOL Custody Management general order clearly highlights a “professional and consistent approach to detainee management”.

The position and duties in respect of detainee risk assessments, care plan, high-risk detainees and risk analysis process that exist in these declared “prisons” should not be compromised by the organizational reform.

Above left: Participants in the 2018 Australian Police Winter Games Above right: Mike Quinton presents Police Federation of Australia president Mark Carroll with a cheque for more than $4,000 for distribution to police legacies.

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The animal-bite risk to cops A

nything can happen on the front line in policing, and that includes animal bites – by dogs, cats and even bats.

And they all create the risk of infection.

Dog bites are more common, but cat bites and scratches are more dangerous. First aid immediately avoids short-term complications for wounds that will likely be punctures, lacerations, abrasions or scrapes, or perhaps just bruising and swelling.

Once the immediate urgency has past, the best approach is to assume a risk of infection is real.

Bites from dogs typically cause puncture wounds in the skin, as well as lacerations (jagged cuts) and abrasions (scrapes or grazes). A wound or cut is considered deep if tendons or other internal parts can be seen.

A gaping wound is one in which the edges of the cut cannot be pulled back together. If a wound continues to bleed, cover it with a clean cloth, apply pressure with the palm of your hand, and keep the pressure on the wound enough to stop bleeding but not cut off circulation.

Severe injuries can result in tendon and nerve damage and it will be fairly obvious medical attention is needed.

Cat bites and scratches Cat bites generally occur on the arms and hands and usually cause what look to be only minor injuries but tend to increase the risk of an infection developing. Because cats have smaller and sharper teeth they can cause very deep puncture wounds, which can sometimes go right down to the bone.

As soon as possible, get someone to review the wound – preferably someone who can prescribe antibiotics.

If for some reason you can’t get to see a doctor you should pay close attention for signs of an infection developing.

The signs of an infection include swelling, redness and increasing tenderness around the bite, and the wound gets more painful.

Arms and legs are the most common sites for bites. Facial and genital injuries are more likely to injure vital structures and so need to be specifically reviewed.

Because teeth and claws are sharp they put the bacteria under the skin like planting a seed. If bacteria are looking for ideal circumstances to grow, they need to be able to get through the skin.

The second issue is that teeth and claws come into contact with some of the dirtiest conditions around, and food that might be eaten is possibly harbouring deadly bacteria.

Because of their different living environments and habits, the bacteria associated with cats, dogs and bats are different.

Cats seem to live with deadlier bacteria than dogs do, and their sharper claws – which, along with their legs, are weapons of defence – produce more serious infections through an attack.

Tetanus The antibiotics needed for these different bacteria are not always the common antibiotics used for chest or sinus infections.

The signs of an infection include swelling, redness and increasing tenderness around the bite, and the wound gets more painful.

Tetanus remains a high risk for anyone not vaccinated. Tetanus spores live for many years in the ground.

Animals will be walking across that ground and might be carrying the spores on their feet.

Tetanus needs to get through the skin away from fresh open air to grow, so penetrating injuries – like a rusty nail, cat scratch or dog bite – are perfect for tetanus.

If you have had full tetanus vaccinations and a tetanus booster in the last 10 years, there remains very little risk.

However, animal bites are so highrisk for tetanus that it is usual to treat them as high-risk wounds and probably give another tetanus booster, and perhaps even specific treatment before a tetanus infection can establish itself.

Bat bites Less common but of interest in Australia and particularly Queensland has been the bat bite. Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) belongs to a group of viruses known as lyssaviruses. It is transmitted from bats to humans but is very rare.

Only three cases of ABLV have been recorded since the virus was first identified in 1996. All three were in Queensland and were fatal.

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M Motoring

Jim Barnett

Model Kia Stinger 330S. Price $48,990 plus on road costs.

Engine 3.3-litre (272kW/510Nm) twin-turbo V6.

Transmission Eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters.

Brakes Brembo (350mm quad piston front/ 340mm dual piston rear).

Performance 0-100km/h 4.9 seconds, top speed 270km/h.

Fuel 60-litre tank, regular unleaded, 10.2 litres/100km.

Safety Seven airbags, reverse camera and sensors.

Driver-assistance and crash-avoidance technology on upper models.

Warranty Seven year/unlimited kilometre.

Model Mercedes X-Class Power X 250 d.

Price $61,600 (six-speed manual), add $2,900 for auto, (manufacturer’s list price) plus on-road costs.

Engine 2.3-litre twin-turbo four-cylinder diesel (140kW/450Nm). V6 diesel due end of 2018.

Transmission Six-speed manual, seven-speed auto, part-time 4WD with high/low range and diff lock.

Safety Seven airbags, Autonomous braking, lane-keeping assistance, 360-degree camera, five-star ANCAP. Economy 7.9 litres/100km (official combined test).

Weights Kerb 2,234kg, payload up to 1,016kg, braked towing up to 3,500kg, GCM 6,130kg max.

Measurements Length 5,340mm, width 1,920mm, tub around 1,500 x 1,500mm and will fit a pallet between the wheel arches.

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Mercedes X-Class Power X 250 d DESIGN AND FUNCTION The new X-Class Merc is based on the Nissan Navara ute. It’s a model-sharing arrangement similar to Ranger and BT50. But there’s plenty of Mercedes about X-Class.

The top-spec Power X 250 d 4x4, with optional seven-speed automatic, has a manufacturer’s list price of $64,500. It is one of the most expensive dual-cab 4x4s (of this size) on the market.

Much of its chassis and drivetrain are the same as Navara but that’s where the similarities end. Up front it wears a bold grille and three-pointed star reminiscent of Mercedes SUVs. Power has a stylish and elegant interior with plenty of Mercedes traits.

Soft man-made leather covers the dash, seats and door trims.

Round air vents and a stand-alone multi-media colour touchscreen (operated from a touchpad in the centre

Stinger, the most powerful Kia yet, was born of a passion to develop a true gran turismo, a car for spirited long-distance driving.

It’s available in three spec-levels with 2.0-litre (four-cylinder) or 3.3-litre (V6) turbocharged petrol engines. Drive is to the rear wheels through Kia’s own eight-speed paddle shifter-equipped automatic transmission.

The line-up kicks off at $45,990 for the 200S and rises to $59,990 for the well-equipped GT (330).

The entry V6 variant, 330S, looks great. Its long, low profile with long bonnet and coupe rear styling make for a slick-looking four-door fastback.

Its wide stance, bulging rear guards, 18-inch alloys and liftback lip spoiler add to its appeal.

console) feature. It displays 360-degree camera, satellite navigation, DAB+ radio, climate control information and more.

Electrically adjustable front seats deliver good comfort while rear seat comfort is, as with all dual-cabs, a bit of a compromise. There’s no centre armrest but rear passengers do get rear air conditioning vents and a 12-volt socket.

The only failure of the interior is its lack of storage. The glovebox is sizable enough but the console bin is small and there are no additional trays in the dashboard.

DRIVING Keyless entry and push-button start make life easy but, like the others, there’s no reach adjustment on the steering wheel.

Immediately noticeable at start-up is just how quiet the diesel engine is.

Special insulation, including insulated glass, makes Power one of the quietest utes on the market.

Its 2.3-litre twin-turbo four-cylinder diesel develops 140kW of power and 450Nm of torque. Not bad for its size but,

The power of Stinger

DESIGN AND FUNCTION

Stinger will seat up to five and swallow a respectable 406 litres of luggage. Its seats (on 330S) are trimmed in artificial leather while its manually adjustable front seats offer good support and comfort.

The 60/40 rear seat delivers good comfort and can be dropped, increasing luggage space to 1,114 litres.

The dash layout is uncomplicated thanks to a vertically mounted standalone seven-inch colour touchscreen which features satellite navigation, reversing camera and DAB+ audio.

Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and Bluetooth connectivity also feature.

Three round air vents, which feature on Mustang and some Mercedes models, occupy the area under the touchscreen. The gauge layout includes a comprehensive trip computer.

Under the bonnet sits Kia’s 3.3-litre Lambda II twin-turbo petrol V6 engine.

It produces 272kW (6,000rpm) of power and a whopping 510Nm of torque (1,300-4,500rpm). Surprisingly, there’s no requirement for premium unleaded fuel.

Plenty of Merc traits

Kia Stinger 330S

even though its smoother and quieter than Ranger’s 3.2-litre five cylinder, it seems a little less responsive.

Perhaps those who want more grunt should wait until the end of the year when a 190kW/550Nm Mercedes V6 diesel is due.

The seven-speed auto delivers smooth up and down shifts. A rotary switch operates the part-time four-wheel-drive system with high- and low-range

DRIVING Stinger is quick (0-100 in 4.9 seconds) – so quick it can dust off the last Series II SS V8 Commodore, a car with an engine almost twice the capacity.

The engine is smooth and quiet and never sounds stressed. The slick eightspeed auto provides quick, smooth changes which offer the best possible performance.

Five different drive modes affect transmission shift, throttle and steering assistance with a Custom mode allowing drivers to manually set up the car.

While reasonably firm, the car is never uncomfortable and delivers a good balance between performance handling and ride comfort. Brembo brakes provide good stopping performance.

Most surprising, in a mix of hills and suburban driving, the car bettered the combined fuel-test figures, returning 10 litres/100km (according to the trip computer.)

available. There’s also a rear diff lock.

X-Class features coil springs all around, providing good ride characteristics on most surfaces. It corners confidently, and four-wheel disc brakes deliver excellent stopping performance.

All things considered, X-Class is probably the smoothest, quietest and best-riding dual cab out there.

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Glenn Lewis, Platinum Relationship Manager, Police Credit Union

Cops’ most common finance questions A

s Police Credit Union’s platinum relationship manager, I visit police stations helping officers with their financial needs and enquiries.

I might be known around the stations as the guy who brings the biscuits but I’m also useful at answering a variety of questions about your finances. These are the top five I get asked over a cup of tea and a Tim Tam.

How much do I need for a deposit to buy a house?

Everyone wants to know how much they will need to secure their dream home. Well, assuming you have a house in mind, you should always start by looking at the initial costs involved in the process.

I can help you work out the fees like stamp duty, transfer registration and valuation fees but, in most cases, the fees for a pre-established property sit at around 5.5 per cent of the purchase price.

So, what does that mean in terms of your deposit? Well, in most metropolitan areas, we can lend up to 95 per cent of the purchase price. The minimum amount required for a deposit is the purchase price plus the fees, minus 95 per cent of the purchase price.

So, based on the average Adelaide house value in June 2018 of $470,000, the deposit would be $23,500.

You should also think about lender’s mortgage insurance. You can avoid paying this if the loan is less than 80 per cent of the purchase price.

What is the lending process when buying a car?

Ideally, before car shopping, you will already be pre-approved and have your finance ready. This will ensure that, when you find your car, you can act straight away and avoid losing out on the car.

It can also mean that you can negotiate on the best price knowing you have your finance all sorted. So, it’s best to talk to us first.

However, if you happen to stumble across the perfect car and don’t have pre-approval, I can still help.

At Police Credit Union, we can fund a car loan within the same day* and get your money fast. That means you won’t miss out on your car.

To make the lending process easier and faster, there are some documents we need (including pay slips, bank statements, statements of any loans or credit cards, etc).

Once you are approved, the vehicle will be used as security against your loan. Keep in mind the vehicle must cover at least 50 per cent of the loan according to Redbook valuation data.

From there, we need: • Registration certificate.

• Insurance “Certificate of Currency”.

• Dealer invoice or letter of sale (if a private sale).

Then we prepare the contract, you sign it, we process payment and before you know it, you are behind the wheel of your new car.

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You’re our core bond and the reason we exist, so we look after police officers.

As a Platinum member you get a range of benefits and advantages, exclusively for you …

Do cops get any special extras/deals?

You’re our core bond and the reason we exist, so we look after police officers.

As a Platinum member you get a range of benefits and advantages, exclusively for you, from your own personal banker (that’s me), to discounts on selected loans and an extra 0.15 per cent on our standard term deposit rates+.

You are also eligible for a $20 transaction fee rebate each month, covering things like payWave, ATM withdrawals etc, and we also won’t charge you for direct debits.

If you have a home loan of any value or a deposit of ≥$250,000, you will then have a $30 rebate. If you’re looking to reduce your transacting fees, our extralite Credit Card or MyLimit Prepaid Visa Card come with fee-free purchases.

What’s better for me? A car loan or car lease?

Lots of people lease a car owing to reduced income tax. This seems appealing, but many don’t know the hidden traps of car leases.

Vehicle expenses (tyres and servicing) are usually included in lease payments, your choice of repairer and ability to make early or extra repayments may be restricted, repayments often far exceed those of our car loans, and you won’t own your car post-lease without paying a hefty balloon payment.

I often ask the question: “Would you be better off with one of our great car loans and budgeting in those expenses yourself, rather than paying for them in the car lease payments?”

In fact, our car loan repayments can be almost half of the lease payments some have been making.

Above: Glenn Lewis on an academy visit with members of Course 18

In most cases, the answer is yes and when I have switched people over to one of our great rates, they have significantly reduced their repayments.

In fact, our car loan repayments can be almost half of the lease payments some have been making.

Can you help me switch my home loan?

Provided your existing loan is <80 per cent of your property’s value, it is likely you will be able to switch your mortgage provider without incurring lender’s mortgage insurance costs.

As your personal banker, I can talk you through our current variable and fixed rates and calculate your potential savings from switching to Police Credit Union.

Breaking up with your bank is easy with Police Credit Union. In most cases, we can provide the necessary paperwork, then submit to your current bank, sparing you the hassle of contacting it.

Some of the benefits you can experience with our loans^ include: • Free online redraw.

• 100% Mortgage Offset.

• Unlimited extra repayments without penalty.

• No monthly or annual fees.

If you want to chat more about how we can help, you can speak to me when I drop into your station with some Tim Tams or Mint Slices or, alternatively, e-mail me (glewis@policecu.com.au) or call me on 0421 243 741.

Australian Credit Licence 238991. Terms, conditions, fees, charges and lending criteria apply. Full details upon request. ^This offer may be varied or amended by Police Credit Union at any time. *Conditional approval and funding valid business hours only Monday to Friday if applications are submitted prior to 10am with required identification and documentation. +Does not apply to special offers.

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ICAC akin to Star Chamber?

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or three centuries the High Court of Star Chamber sat in a room at the Palace of Westminster beneath a ceiling decked with golden stars from which it took its name.

It exercised an unintelligible jurisdiction akin to “criminal equity”.

It was formed partly as an antidote to the oppressive rigidity of the common law, whose strict rules of form and procedure and attachment to local juries, hesitant to convict the powerful, had become incapable of achieving what we might today call justice.

Star Chamber could impose punishment for conduct it deemed morally reprehensible but was not strictly a violation of the common law.

It had a recognized corruption jurisdiction, which comprised a power to intervene in all provinces of the administration of justice in the kingdom except (perhaps curiously) in capital cases.

Its supervisory jurisdiction was not limited to other courts and extended to public institutions.

Proceedings were open, but witness examinations were largely heard in private. It was inquisitorial and experimental. It associated itself almost exclusively with making the powerful accountable.

Until its last days, it was a popular institution such that our modern view of it as synonymous with oppression would probably surprise its contemporaries.

ICAC is not a court, but he and his office have equal power to take steps which have serious consequences for individuals.

The similarities start, but do not end, with the unusual powers available to such bodies.

Its weapon of choice was the ex officio oath. That oath bound the deponent, uninformed of the subject matter on which he was to be examined, to answer to all questions posed on any subject whatever.

A guilty defendant faced what Professor Rubenfeld calls a “cruel trilemma” of three highly unattractive options: if he answered truthfully, he would condemn himself; if he stood silent he would be imprisoned for refusing to answer; if he denied the charges he would perjure himself, which was both a crime and a mortal sin.

Is this sounding eerily familiar? The Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) and his office are concerned with similar subject matter and employ similar procedural devices.

ICAC is not a court, but he and his office have equal power to take steps which have serious consequences for individuals. The similarities start, but do not end, with the unusual powers available to such bodies.

ICAC is, as Star Chamber was, our “curious eye of the state and king’s council prying into the inconveniencies and mischiefs which abound in the Commonwealth”.

This comparison is not to denigrate the ICAC. On the contrary, for much of its existence Star Chamber was an effective and popular tribunal. But it is well for us to remember that there is a useful, if imperfect, comparison to be made.

The current ICAC is a person who commands a unique respect and trust in our state. This trinity of trust, respect and position residing in one person is unusual. It has enhanced his institution’s power in a manner not seen in other jurisdictions.

But this fact ignores the reality that the personal qualities of a particular commissioner are not a precondition to the use of the office’s extraordinary powers.

Despite its benign beginnings, Star Chamber became an infamous tribunal of despotic might and exists now only as a catchphrase for abuse of power.

We seem to be ignoring this history lesson, largely because we trust the present commissioner. It is time we had a serious discussion.

There appears, at least on the surface, to be an unhealthy reluctance on the part of lawyers to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction of our Supreme Court review to the ICAC’s exercise of power.

Recently, an important jurisdictional point was raised about the interpretation of the ICAC Act during the Oakden Inquiry.

What occurred is detailed in the commissioner’s report. Only three of the many witnesses to that inquiry raised this jurisdictional issue. The commissioner himself said it was an important point that went to the heart of whether he could, in practice, actually conduct such inquiries.

None of the three chose to test their argument in the Supreme Court, despite the commissioner giving them the opportunity.

The commissioner might have had some doubts about whether his legal approach to that issue was correct, given present proposed amendments to the relevant section of the ICAC Act seek to put the position beyond doubt and this issue has so far been referenced in the various second reading speeches as the catalyst for amendment.

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When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, he is plunged into a salacious exposé that threatens to ruin his life.

While fielding the explosive scandal, the businessman’s wife suddenly begins a passionate, secret affair with the wife of his lawyer and best friend.

When the editor is found murdered, the two couples descend into the murkiest depths of Peruvian society, while the magazine’s staff embark on their greatest revelation yet.

Widows

Lynda La Plante Allen & Unwin, $29.99

When a security van heist goes disastrously wrong, three armed robbers are burnt to death – and three women are left widows.

Dolly, the wife of gang boss Harry Rawlins, discovers his bank deposit box. It contains a gun and money – and detailed plans for the failed hijack.

Dolly has three options: she could hand over Harry’s ledgers to Detective Inspector Resnick; she could pass them to the thugs who want to take over Harry’s turf; or she and the other widows could finish the job their husbands started.

As they rehearse the raid until it is pitch perfect, the women realize Harry Rawlins’ plan required four people, not three. But only three bodies were discovered in the carnage of the original hijack. So who was the fourth man, and where is he now?

The Punishment She Deserves Elizabeth George Hachette Australia, $29.99

When a member of parliament shows up in the office of the assistant commissioner at New Scotland Yard, trouble quickly follows.

He is there to request an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents who, in the medieval town of Ludlow, happens to be a wealthy brewer with a team of solicitors ready to file a major lawsuit over the death.

The assistant commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time.

So he assigns Havers to the case and partners her not with her regular partner but with the one person who shares his enthusiasm for ridding the Metropolitan Police of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery.

But Ardery has her own difficulties, the most heartbreaking of which is the loss of her twin sons to a move to New Zealand.

She is not happy to be sent away from London and, as a result, is in a rush to return. This rush causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.

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Babylon Berlin

Volker Kutscher Allen & Unwin, $19.99

Berlin, 1929: When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside, Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case.

Soon his enquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimer Berlin’s “Roaring Twenties” underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning and shady politics.

A fascinating and impeccably detailed crime series set in the Weimer Republic between the world wars with a backdrop of the rise of Nazism.

No Turning Back

Roger Rees Hybrid Publishers, $29.95

Young Australian anthropologist, Louise Davitt, embarking on an Ethiopian field trip, is soon living with the world’s poorest people and sampling their culture in her typically adventurous way.

No Turning Back is the story of a girl who grows up loving country Australia and later tries to implement change in the lives of African women.

Set against actual political events and cultural realities, the book reveals much about Ethiopia’s vulnerability in the face of natural disasters and political turmoil.

Davitt’s determined pursuit of independence leads her to life-changing situations, often thrilling, sometimes dangerous. A love triangle portends bitter experiences of trauma, illness and loss.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Season commences November 15

The second of five all new adventures in JK Rowling’s Wizarding World.

At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) with the help of magizoologist Newt Scamander.

But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald stars Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston.

The Girl In The Spider’s Web

Season commences November 8

Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is the cult figure and title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson.

She and journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Sverrir Gudnason) find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

The Girl In The Spider’s Web, directed by Fede Alvarez, also stars Lakeith Stanfield as Alona Casales.

Robin Hood

Season commences November 22

Upon his return to Nottingham, Robin discovers his estate destroyed and his neighbours impoverished, all by the command of the ruthless Sheriff of Nottingham.

Learning that his death has been falsely reported, Robin and John launch a covert personal crusade against the Sheriff and Church.

Robin Hood stars Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx.

Bohemian Rhapsody Season commences November 1

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, its music and its extraordinary lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who shattered conventions to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world.

The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through its iconic songs and revolutionary sound, its near implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spun out of control, and its triumphant reunion on the eve of the Live Aid concert in 1985.

Bohemian Rhapsody stars Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury, Joseph Mazzello as John Deacon, Lucy Boynton as Mary Austin, Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor and Gwilym Lee as Brian May.

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The early symptoms are flu-like, including headache, fever and fatigue.

The best way not to be exposed to ABLV is to avoid handling any bat in Australia.

Only people who have been vaccinated against ABLV and who have been trained in the care of bats should ever handle bats or flying foxes.

If you are bitten or scratched by a bat in Australia you should immediately wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water for at least five minutes, apply an antiseptic solution or alcohol gel after washing and see your doctor.

If a bite occurs in South Australia it is unlikely to carry the ABLV, but a puncture wound could put you at risk of tetanus and you might need a tetanus injection.

The Supreme Court has undoubted jurisdiction to review the ICAC’s use of power. The law reports of other states are replete with examples of lawyers testing the boundaries of the jurisdiction of their comparable bodies.

That is healthy. We should be doing it more here.

But it is also a matter of concern that SA’s political class appears inclined to give ICAC anything he wants, and arguments against his proposals are glibly dismissed as threats to openness and accountability.

The defining feature of bodies such as the ICAC is the deployment of legislative devices that are, in their effect, indistinguishable from the ex officio oath.

In corruption investigations, the privilege against self-incrimination is abrogated and the guilty examinee meets the “cruel trilemma” though the material obtained is not admissible in a court.

We know from reported decisions of courts in other jurisdictions, and anecdotally, that too frequently transcripts of evidence are disseminated, sometimes quite deliberately, to officers such as prosecutors who should not have them.

In many instances, because of secrecy provisions, it might not be possible to know whether dissemination has occurred. Whether dissemination, and the use made of it thereafter, is lawful in the particular circumstances is a seriously difficult legal question, even for senior legal practitioners.

Treatment Generally animal bites can be managed in a very straightforward way if appropriate treatment is started early.

Infections that can be lifethreatening are easily stopped with appropriate antibiotics or surgical cleaning of wounds.

If not treated, an infection can be fatal or cause destruction of tissues, gangrene and risk of septicaemia.

Tetanus remains a risk because of the environment the animals live in, and tetanus injections must always be up to date to avoid risking your life unnecessarily.

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SA appears to have paid scant attention to these issues. Our ICAC Act does attempt to control dissemination of such material, but those controls largely reside in the discretion of the commissioner himself and not, as in other jurisdictions, in clearly defined statutory prohibitions.

By the reign of Charles I, Star Chamber had become the weapon of choice to prosecute dissenters. It was the refusal of puritan John Lilburne to take the ex officio oath – denouncing it for abrogating his privilege against self-incrimination – that brought about its demise.

The ICAC is not now the infamous Star Chamber. However, the circumstances of Star Chamber’s descent into tyranny serves as a warning to cease what seems to be becoming an unhealthy deference to the present commissioner, and to start seriously thinking about the long-term consequences of the laws we are making with healthy scepticism based on the lessons of the past.

This is an edited version of an article which first appeared on InDaily.com.au

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2015 Aglianico 11.5% vol alcohol

With its love for and knowledge of this great, ancient variety, Aglianico, God’s Hill grafted four rows of its vineyard in 2012.

The wine is brilliant ruby red and medium body with an aroma of pomegranate, fruit of the forest, nutmeg and spice.

The palate: fresh berry fruit, pomegranate, dried white figs and amareno flavours, which linger on.

Winemaker: Charlie Scalzi

Vigneron: Felice Scalzi

III Rows Unwooded Chardonnay 2016 12.5 % vol alcohol

No oak treatment was given to this wine, allowing the dominant fruit flavours of the variety to shine through.

This year, Unwooded Chardonnay is an elegant wine that displays complex fruit flavour, such as passionfruit, melon, lychee and white peach. It is full flavoured with a lingering citrus blossom finish.

God’s Hill Wines Barossa Valley, South Australia www.godshillwines.com

The colour is brilliant straw with a green hue. Lifted aromatics display fine citrus fruit, melon, passionfruit and white peaches.

The palate: fresh flavoursome fruit character of melon, passionfruit and white peach, well balanced, fresh and fruity with a lingering citrus blossom finish.

To be enjoyed with seafood, pasta, cheese and on its own.

Winemaker: Charlie Scalzi

Vigneron: Felice Scalzi

2015 Barossa Valley Shiraz 14.5% vol alcohol

The grapes for this Shiraz are sourced throughout the Barossa – ideal for growing expressive Shiraz.

In the glass the wine has deep red and garnet hues. This follows through to a generous nose of spice, mulberry preserve, dark chocolate, mocha and vanilla tones. Complexity builds as the wine opens further with hints of earthy beetroot and tea rose.

The savoury palate shows blood plums with sweet spice leading onto soft tannins.

This wine will benefit from short- to medium-term cellaring.

Food matches include traditional homemade hamburger with caramelized onion and beetroot relish. A vegan option would be a Cep Mushroom Risotto.

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

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Police Club Christmas functions BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS FUNCTION AT THE POLICE CLUB Packages or à la carte available Free private room hire for members (conditions apply)

To find out more, contact the club at PoliceClub@pasa.asn.au or on 8212 2924

Friday, November 16, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Taste from 100s of Australian and New Zealand new releases Cheese & nibbles provided • Complimentary bottle of your choice with dinner on the night • Live entertainment with Dave Freeman on acoustic guitar • Wine raffle & door prizes Wine Club members: Free Wine Club members’ guests: $15 General cover charge (non-Wine Club members): $25

Become a member of the Police Wine Club and receive exclusive annual Winestate benefits and tasting invitations

Phone 8212 3055 for more information or visit www.pasa.asn.au

The Police Club earned the title of finalist in four separate categories in the 2018 Clubs SA Awards for Excellence this month.

It was an outstanding achievement given the 1,270-plus licensed clubs operating throughout South Australia.

The categories were Best Café/Bistro, Best Club Operations, Best Function Venue and Best Members Event.

Congratulations to all the hardworking Police Club staff behind the success of the club and café.

POLICE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

RECEIVE A FREE PERSONAL STYLING SESSION PLUS 15% DISCOUNT IN STORE OR ONLINE AT AQUA BOUTIQUE, NORWOOD

SEE THE MEMBERS BUYING GUIDE (www.pasa.asn.au) FOR DETAILS

Police Association members get 10% off party and event furnishings See the Members Buying Guide (www.pasa.asn.au) for more information

Critical Incident Response Industrial staff on call 24/7 and ready to support you

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M O B I L E T R AV E L A G E N T A A R O N S A R D - Y O U R P A S A M E M B E R S T R AV E L S P E C I A L I S T With 18 years’ experience as a top-flight travel designer including five years as a Platinum Member of national MTA – Mobile Travel Agents Pty Ltd, Aaron Sard is ‘beyond experienced’ when it comes to managing his clients’ corporate, business and luxury leisure travel. No matter how complex the travel requirements Aaron’s all-encompassing travel knowledge, fuelled by his personal and very extensive travel experience, provides the best in designed travel experiences to the discerning traveller. He has a proven capacity to design any travel itinerary as if he was planning his very own.

“During my travels around the globe I’ve been extremely lucky to have seen many wonderful and amazing places and I really enjoy using my knowledge to create personal, custom travel experiences for my clients so that they too can enjoy and experience the wonderful places

I have been lucky enough to visit,” he says. “I love to hear my clients’ travel stories and sharing in their excitement upon their return. It’s one of the key things that makes the effort so worthwhile.”

Police Association Members using Aaron’s travel services have complete peace of mind using Aaron’s travel services has complete peace of mind via his access to MTA’s extensive range of luxury product and ‘invite only’ affiliations with some of the world’s foremost travel providers such as Virtuoso, and with the peace of mind of MTAs’ unique ‘Zero Flight Risk™ guarantee, an assurance his client’s money is safe in the event of any approved MTA supplier becoming insolvent and being unable to deliver the product or service purchased.

No ifs or buts, it’s all part of Aaron’s capability and just one more reason to book your travel with MTA Mobile Travel Agents.

Log onto your PASA website to find more special member benefits.

To redeem your $100 travel voucher from MTA-Mobile Travel Agent Aaron Sard.

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

Roger Bean Ricky Burley Thomas Carter Russell Doddridge Mick Gresch Chris Herring Donald Hodge Colin Kirkwood Shane Lapidge Mick Michael Allison Mitchell Grant Napier Aston Schenscher Peter Sims Richard Tamits Steve Thalborne Stephen Thomson Paul Waye Wayne Weidenhofer Peter Williams

Senior Constable Wayne Weidenhofer

Hills Fleurieu Highway Patrol 42 years’ service Last day: 08.07.18 Comments…

“As a past delegate and part of the street marches to now seeing the Police Association dealing with enterprise bargaining agreements, it has been relentless. We have seen improved working, welfare and pay conditions for which we are very grateful.

“I thank all those members who have passed through the Hills Fleurieu, particularly Victor Harbor. I had the privilege and honour to work with them over 28 years while serving the community.

“To the operational members on the front line, you are certainly facing challenging times ahead.”

Senior Constable Stephen Thomson

Barossa Highway Patrols 44 years’ service Last day: 23.08.18 Comments…

“I can remember walking through the gates of Fort Largs some 44 years ago in awe. Since then, I have fantastic memories of so many wonderful and loyal coppers.

“I leave only because my body said enough.

“I thank so many people for putting up with me. Elvio Demechalis, Wayne Bristol, Robbie St Vincent and Paul Henderson and Winsor, Jonte and Sharon from BAHP. “I also leave with sad memories of too many coppers who were taken from us by other people’s evils and, unfortunately, their own inner demons and illness.

“All in uniform need to be praised for their never-ending efforts and graces.”

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Senior Sergeant Russell Doddridge

Ethical and Professional Standards Branch 42 years’ service Last day: 25.07.18 Comments…

“I thank the association for the work done to secure the conditions we enjoy today.

“I have been around long enough to recall the heady days of meetings at the Dom Polski Centre and Morphettville Racecourse driving the call for better pay and conditions.

“I recall what was once said to me when I was still a cadet: ‘If the bad times become more frequent than the good times, it’s time to leave.’

“I have never really felt that needto-leave sentiment and remember the colleagues, the laughs and the memories fondly.

“For those who assisted my family and me so wonderfully following a heart attack in 2012, I offer my special thanks. It was not until that time that I understood the true value of the police family.

“All the best to the association and those left, especially those now entering the front line facing the evils of drugs, mental ill health and violence. What a challenge.”

Sergeant Mick Gresch

Communications Centre 43 years’ service Last day: 01.08.18 Comments…

“I appreciate all the hard work and positive results the Police Association has achieved for me personally and the organization as a whole.”

Senior Constable Allison Mitchell (née Clifford)

Adelaide Police Station 31 years’ service Last day: 19.07.18 Comments…

“Thanks to Police Association staff and delegates for all your hard work to improve conditions and pay during this time.

“Thank you also to all I have worked with, at Hindmarsh patrols (with manual typewriters, carbon paper and liquid paper), Comms (at 1 Angas St, with conveyer belts for handwritten job cards), ORG at Thebarton barracks, Norwood patrols, Adelaide police station and, my last posting, Hindley St police station.

“How times and the job have changed.”

Brevet Sergeant Richard Tamits

Forensic Services Branch 20 years’ service Last day: 30.08.18 Comments…

“I retire a year earlier than I planned to care for my 23-year-old son who has been fighting cancer for the last 12 months.

“I thank the Police Association and delegates for their untiring efforts throughout the years for members’ pay, conditions and legal representation.

“The association was there for me and provided counsel during a coronial matter when SAPOL was dragging its feet in providing a civil litigation solicitor to represent me.

“The last 12 months caring for my young son were the most challenging times I’ve ever faced.

“Seven of those months were in Canada, as he was working there, where CSI sergeant Andrew Bowe facilitated support from the

International Police Association Canada section. It helped me when I was faced with many dark days.

“I thank CSI sergeant Bowe for his tireless efforts in the last 12 months in supporting me while I was in Canada and when I was staying in hospital to be at my son’s side.

“A special thank you goes to Greg Flitton for visiting me in Canada when I was in a very dark place.

“Sergeant Jason Wynne and SAPOL nurse Joanne Sanderson for the continuous e-mail chats that brought a little of Australia to me when in Canada and CSI brevet sergeant Steven Gresch for providing me with some great precooked meals when I was staying in hospital with my son here in Adelaide.

“The SAPOL family does what it does best and that is look after those in need.”

“I thank the Police Association for its tireless efforts in giving members continued improvements in what is becoming a more complex and challenging job.

“With SAPOL changing at a rapid rate, I wish all members the very best for the future and to continue to look after each other.”

Senior Sergeant 1C Mick Michael

Adelaide Police Station 34 years’ service Last day: 27.07.18 Comments…

“I thank the association for the support it has provided over the past 34 years and wish it all the best in the future as it battles on for members’ pay and conditions.

“I also thank those with whom I shared my epic journey as I toiled to fight the good fight. I loved every minute of it.

“I will raise a glass and remember with fondness those I have left behind and those who have gone before me.”

Senior Constable Ricky Burley

Brevet Sergeant Aston Schenscher

Eastern District Intelligence 42 years’ service Last day: 15.08.18 Comments…

“It’s been a great ride and I’ve been lucky to experience some truly great times within the department.

“I thank the many people I have worked with over the years, particularly my Holden Hill Intel family that I spent so much time with. Some truly great moments were had, along with plenty of laughs and great friendship.

State Community Engagement Section 11 years’ service Last day: 23.08.18 Comments…

“Thanks to the Police Association for the back-up when required and support through the WorkCover process.

“As I leave the job following injury, I find it important to tell members to look after themselves and each other.

“I enjoyed my short career and miss being part of it, but I will make the most of what I have.”

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Senior Constable 1C Chris Herring

Sturt Crime Management 30 years’ service Last day: 01.08.18 Comments…

“I thank Police Association president Mark Carroll and all association staff for their assistance, service and support over the years.

“I was fortunate to be a participant in the Anna Stewart Memorial Project which involved working at the association. It gave me a real insight into the relentless commitment the association has for its membership.

“Keep up the excellent work and continue to care for each other when the going gets tough.

“Thanks to all SAPOL family and friends I have worked with during the last 30 years.”

Senior Constable Paul Waye

Traffic Support Branch 46 years’ service Last day: 02.08.18 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association for its dedication to improving conditions and wages over the many years I have been with SAPOL. “I also acknowledge the support received personally and to other members during challenging times.

“My regards to all the SAPOL members I have worked with over the past 46 years, memories of good times that will be retained forever.

“I joined SAPOL with pride as a 16-year-old and I leave with that same pride many years later.”

Senior Constable Colin Kirkwood

Intelligence Analysis 33 years’ service Last day: 21.08.18 Comments…

“I have had a fantastic 33 years with SAPOL and wish to thank everyone I have worked with over that time for contributing to my story with the police.

“Good luck to everyone. Stay safe and, most important, have fun out there.”

Senior Constable 1C Shane Lapidge

Gawler Police Station 42 years’ service Last day: 19.09.18 Comments…

“I thank the association, president, and committee and delegates past and present for the wonderful job they have done looking after the members.

“I also thank everyone I have worked with over the last 42 years for the great friendship and support I received. I think only other coppers could understand how important this is.

“My final thank-you is to my wife, son and daughter. During the 18 years in my own stations, their support for me, our communities and SAPOL was never a requirement but it was always there.

“I wish all the staff at SAPOL a safe and fruitful future.”

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Brevet Sergeant Peter Williams

Elizabeth Prosecution Unit 43 years’ service Last day: 06.08.18 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association for its success in improving working, welfare and pay conditions for its members.

“Over the years, I have enjoyed the camaraderie of some fantastic people and had a lot of laughs along the way.

“I spent the last 15 years at Elizabeth Prosecution Unit. I will always admire these Prosecution members for their hard work and dedication in what, at times, seems a thankless job. It was a privilege to work with you.

“I also thank my family for their love and support.”

Senior Constable 1C Roger Bean

Golden Grove Operations 43 years’ service Last day: 14.09.18 Comments…

“I thank the association for all it has provided over my past 43 years of service and know that it will continue to provide a great service for all its members.

“I especially thank Mark Carroll and Bernie Zimmermann for their assistance and guidance in relation to unfortunate issues that evolved between SAPOL and myself.

“Further thanks go to Michael Kent who has been a long-term north-eastern delegate, committee member and friend.”

Senior Sergeant 1C Thomas Carter

Naracoorte 43 years’ service Last day: 22.08.18 Comments…

“I thank the association for its assistance over the years and acknowledge the dedication and ongoing commitment to improving pay and conditions of its membership.

“I have been privileged to work with many sworn and unsworn members over the last 43 years and I hold fond memories of the experiences and challenges met.

“I wish everyone the best for the future.”

Sergeant Steve Thalborne

ED Response Teams 46 years’ service Last day: 24.08.18 Comments…

“It has been a privilege and a pleasure, and I leave with many great memories and lifelong friendships.

“Special thanks and recognition to all I have served with at Port Adelaide, STAR Division, Hindley St and the City Watch House.

“Special thanks to Glenn Steele, Andy Grant, Kerry Walker-Roberts and the CWH nurses and staff who made those years at the CWH especially enjoyable.

“My thanks to the Police Association for its advocacy over the years. It has delivered good pay rises and workplace conditions. Kindest regards and best of luck to you all.”

Brevet Sergeant Grant Napier

Prosecution Services Branch 34 years’ service Last day: 31.08.18 Comments…

“I sincerely thank the executive committee and the past and present members of the Police Association for their support and assistance during my service with SAPOL. “I remember and thank everyone I have enjoyed working with during my time at Hindmarsh patrol base, Comms (in both the old and new buildings), Prosecution, and Plympton, Glenelg, Netley and the Coroner’s Office.

“My last long-term posting at PSB allowed me to travel the state and meet so many excellent and dedicated members.

“All Course 15 members: I am especially proud to have been associated with such a fine bunch.

“My close friends cannot be thanked enough and have my extreme gratitude for the friendship and support.”

Senior Sergeant 1C Peter Sims

Yorke Mid North LSA 42 years’ service Last day: 16.09.18 Comments…

“I thank Mark Carroll and his enthusiastic team, all of whom have worked tirelessly for the incredible pay and conditions we receive today.

Nothing, it would seem, has been traded off over the many years of negotiation, which is an outstanding effort.

“It has been comforting to know that when we have needed the association it has been there to provide exceptional service/support to its members. Well done to you all.

“Having worked in many locations across South Australia, be they metro, country or remote, it has been a wonderful and very satisfying experience.

“I have been fortunate enough to work alongside some incredible people both within and external to SAPOL, forging lifelong friendships along the way, which has been an added bonus.

“Again, I thank the Police Association for what it has done over the many years, continues to do today, and what it will achieve in the future for its members.”

Senior Sergeant 1C Donald Hodge

Christies Beach Police Station 43 years’ service Last day: 25.08.18 Comments…

“I thank all the people I have worked with over my term. I value your friendship and your commitment to the job.

“Uniformed operational people do not get the recognition they deserve for the duties performed and they are the backbone of SAPOL and make policing work.

“I leave with no regrets and would do it over again.

“A big thanks to those who work at Christies Beach as they are a special band of people who made coming to work enjoyable every day.

“Their commitment to getting the job done is outstanding.”

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My previous life CONSTABLE JAMIE ANDERSON (Norwood Patrols)

He served in two countries ranked among the five most dangerous in the world before some interstate cops recommended he try policing.

Before joining SAPOL I was in the Australian Army. I thought that the job looked exciting and decided to sign up after completing Year 12.

In June 1999, I passed the assessments and was given a position within the Royal Infantry Corps. I spent the next six years in the infantry and deployed a number of times on operations overseas.

“My fondest memories are of working within the American medivac helicopter crews in Afghanistan.”

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In 2005, I transferred to the Army Medical Corps, completed the two-year medical course and was posted back to an infantry unit.

In 2007, I got the opportunity to transfer into the Special Operations command (SOCOMD) as a medic.

Over the next eight years with SOCOMD, I completed courses such as land-ocean parachuting, roping and weapons training.

In my time with SOCOMD, I deployed on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as a team medic.

I greatly enjoyed my experiences on these deployments and worked with other organizations including police agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). I’ve always had an interest in drug enforcement so taking part in any actions involving the DEA was always satisfying.

My fondest memories are of working within the American medivac helicopter crews in Afghanistan. The American soldiers in these crews were extremely capable, welcoming and experienced. The work was very rewarding as I got to help recover and medically treat soldiers who were wounded on the battlefield.

I truly felt blessed to help provide that assistance.

In 2015, I started to think about a career in policing. Some serving Victorian police officers had recommended the job to me. I had conducted courses for part of their drug operations unit, training them in the casualty removal of chemically exposed police from contaminated areas. From conversations, I realized that the job of policing really appealed to me.

So far, I’ve enjoyed my time with SAPOL immensely. I’m very fortunate to work with a great group of people at Norwood patrols and I’ve made close friendships. I find that I’ve learnt something new every day and I’m very grateful to the people who have taken the time to help mentor me to become a better police officer.

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