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Contents features
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Inside job Operation Counteract detectives knew, but still had to prove, that the woman claiming to be a robbery victim had indeed masterminded the crime.
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REGULARS
20 Women’s verdict: police meeting expectations
It was a welcome judgement out of a robust panel discussion with four high-profile SA women, two of whom disagreed on a contentious issue.
23 Copper conquers the Alps While the Alps cut a breathtaking sight, Police Association member Jo Kruk went there not for visual pleasure but rather to survive a gruelling challenge.
06 Police Association 08 PRESIDENT 24 Letters 25 Q&A 26 INDUSTRIAL 31 Health 32 Motoring 35 Banking 37 Legal 38 Books 40 DVDs 41 Cinema 43 Wine 46 The Last Shift 50 Police Scene 54 Playback
COVER: Detective brevet sergeants Mike Newbury and Peter Graves Photography by Steve McCawley
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Police Association of South Australia Mark Carroll President 0417 876 732
Julian Snowden
David Reynolds
Daryl Mundy
Michael Kent
Trevor Milne Deputy President
Tom Scheffler Secretary 0417 817 075
Mitch Manning
Samantha Strange
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DELEGATES Metro North Branch Elizabeth...........................Glenn Pink Henley Beach...................Matthew Kluzek Holden Hill........................Nigel Savage Gawler..............................David Savage Golden Grove..................Simon Nappa Parks.................................Sonia Giacomelli Port Adelaide...................Rebecca Burns Salisbury...........................Taryn Trevelion Northern Prosecution.....Tim Pfeiffer
Country North Branch Port Lincoln.....................Lloyd Parker (chair) Ceduna.............................Anthony Taylor Coober Pedy...................Jeff Page
Kadina...............................Ric Schild Nuriootpa.........................Michael Casey Peterborough...................Nathan Paskett Port Augusta....................Peter Hore Port Pirie...........................Gavin Mildrum Whyalla.............................Michael Ball
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Intelligence Support........Kevin Hunt Port Adelaide...................Robert Beattie South Coast.....................Jason Tank Sturt..................................Brad Scott
Metro South Branch Sturt..................................Michael Quinton (chair) Adelaide...........................Melissa Eason Netley...............................Mark Williams Norwood..........................Ralph Rogerson South Coast.....................Peter Clifton South Coast.....................Russell Stone Southern Traffic...............Peter Tellam Southern Prosecution.....Andrew Heffernan
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COHSWAC.......................... Bernadette Zimmermann Housing................................ Bernadette Zimmermann Leave Bank........................... Bernadette Zimmermann Legacy.................................. Allan Cannon Police Dependants Fund.... Tom Scheffler Superannuation................... Bernadette Zimmermann .............................................. David Reynolds
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PRESIDENt Mark Carroll
Wrong decision on boards after zero consultation Axing
the Police Disciplinary Tribunal in favour of an all-encompassing civil administrative board would be a grossly inappropriate act. But that’s exactly what the state government plans to do under its new Simpler Regulation Unit, which Premier Jay Weatherill announced earlier this year. It is not only unacceptable but also defies logic. The PDT is a specialist tribunal essential to the functioning of the Police Act 1998 and Police (Complaints and Disciplinary Proceedings) Act 1985. PDT presiding officers usually serve for lengthy periods and become familiar with all aspects of the police profession and general orders. It would be counter-productive to abolish or consolidate the PDT into a general administrative tribunal. It acts promptly and efficiently and resolves many matters after the issuance of proceedings. It sets trial dates expeditiously and its existing processes afford both the prosecution and defence fairness and equity. Unlike other public employees, police are compelled to answer questions their employer asks in the disciplinary process. The PDT adequately deters the employer from engaging in prosecutions for prosecutions’ sake. Regrettably, the government plans to tear down the Police Superannuation Board and the Police Review Tribunal as well. The specific function of the Police Superannuation Board is to manage the administration of the Police Superannuation Scheme, in accordance with the Police Superannuation Act 1990. The majority of the board is made up of both serving and retired police officers who have significant experience in and knowledge and understanding of the police occupation and culture. The value of the scheme as of June 30, 2013
The association intends to write to all relevant MPs requesting that … they block any legislation to abolish the PDT.
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was $1.09 billion. Total contributions received in 2012-13 totalled $103.2 million and benefit payments equated to $68.4 million. No valid argument exists to support the abolition of the Police Superannuation Board. Likewise, the Police Review Tribunal, owing to The Police Act 1998, provides sworn police with a mechanism for the review of certain termination, transfer and promotion decisions. In respect of termination, a right of review exists and entitles a serving or former police officer to the review of a decision to terminate his or her appointment during a period of probation, or on grounds of physical or mental disability or illness or unsatisfactory performance. One major reason to keep selection processes transparent, objective and credible, and subject to impartial review, is to protect the reputation and integrity of SAPOL. It is essential that unsuccessful applicants for promotional positions have the right to a review by an independent arbiter. In essence, the current police-board arrangements have worked particularly well for many years. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect in respect of the axing of these boards is that the police minister did not properly consult with the association – or indeed SAPOL – about the decisions. It appears the minister was either unwilling or simply failed to understand the complex issues surrounding the abolition of these boards and, therefore, refused to engage in formal discussions with the Police Association about their retention. The association intends to write to all relevant MPs requesting that, at the very least, they block any legislation to abolish the PDT.
Return to Work Bill The government’s new Return to Work Bill 2014 will adversely affect some members injured in the line of duty. Under the bill, introduced last August, weekly payments to an individual seriously injured at work cease at 104 weeks from the date of injury. Not only will this disadvantage injured police, it could also lead to hesitant responses to critical situations. This would come about from the fear of suffering an injury without adequate compensation for placing oneself in harm’s way. Many Police Association members who suffer an injury at work are classified as non-operational. That is, they are not fit for operational duties owing to significant risk of re-injury should offender contact occur. The stark reality for members is that there are limited non-operational positions within SAPOL. While SAPOL attempts to find return-to-work positions to accommodate the injured officers’ restrictions, the proposed new laws will make it more likely that their employment is terminated on the basis of invalidity. An officer’s income is based on rank, which includes various allowances and penalties. When injured at work, it is often the case that an injured officer receives income maintenance for considerable periods. This is because he or she cannot return to an operational position that attracts the same allowances and penalties he or she was earning before the injury. The association is seriously concerned that this bill also fails to recognize the enormous toll that mental illness takes on injured police officers and the debilitating permanent impairment it can cause. And, in respect of compensation for economic loss, we hold equal concern about restricting workers to a single claim. Other concerning aspects of the bill include: • The definition of an injury that arises from employment. • Medical costs related to work injuries. • Amendment to the definition of expense. • 30 per cent whole-of-body permanent impairment threshold. The association has sought clarification from AttorneyGeneral John Rau on the issues surrounding the bill.
Inside job solved with aplomb The work of former Operation Counteract detectives Mike Newbury and Peter Graves and their colleagues is an excellent example of commitment to a major investigation. This team of able detectives took on the task of unravelling the much-publicized armed robbery on the Gepps Cross Hotel in 2011. It was an inside job with plenty of complications and took three years to come to its courtroom finale. But, as the months and years rolled by, these investigating coppers refused to lose focus or give up on solving a crime that might well have succeeded. And their determination paid off when they were rightly able to claim victory on the basis of convictions in the District Court for each of the two offenders. T h e Po l ic e A s s o c iatio n congratulates all the detectives involved in the investigation and is delighted to tell their story (Inside job, page 10) which reflects their complete professionalism.
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Two desperate, drug-addicted robbers came close to getting away with a violent hotel stick-up. That was until a team of switched-on investigators and its clever decisionmaking brought the pair down.
By Brett Williams
Top: the compound at the side of the hotel; above: inside the compound
Top: the entrance to the hotel strongroom; above: a CCTV camera at the northern end of the strongroom.
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become a “big show” by the time Operation Counteract detectives Mike Newbury and Peter Graves turned up at the crime scene. Already there and active, at the Gepps Cross Hotel, were Holden Hill patrols and CIB investigators, ambulance crews, the media, and hotel management. One of two people at the centre of their attention was 52-year-old hotel manager and mother Suzette Riede. Seemingly traumatized, she looked to be trying to detail for police what had happened – and her account seemed convincing enough at the outset. Riede claimed that a disguised armed robber had stolen cash from a safe and left her and cleaner Charles Bargewell tied up before fleeing. The crime appeared to have shocked her so much as to warrant an ambulance ride to the Royal Adelaide Hospital for an examination. But everything she presented of herself to police early on that July morning in 2011 was an act. She was not in any sense a victim. The truth, which lay behind her facade, was that she had herself masterminded the crime. October 2014 Police Journal
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To pull it off, she had engaged the reluctant, drugaddicted robber, Billson (not his real name), as her accomplice and even supplied him with tools to do the job. That included a meat cleaver, latex gloves, cable ties and a sports bag to fill with the stolen cash. Riede had also thought to sketch maps of the hotel’s interior and use them to brief her collaborator. So, despite her own drug addiction, and the worry of unmet mortgage payments and money she owed drug-dealers, she had applied some serious thought to the daring robbery. And Riede and her fellow desperado, two drug addicts who became hotel robbers, might have got away with it. It was, after all, an inside job about which they knew all the critical details: the CCTV camera positions, the presence of Bargewell, the location of the safe... But, in reality, they were tired, strung out and, as the cameras showed, not great performers. They also came up against a team of seasoned investigators who were just never willing to let an armed stick-up go unsolved. This case, however, presented some serious challenges and would take three years to finalize. Mike Newbury, now attached to Major Crime, remembers one particularly tough point in the investigation. “The snap decision to treat a victim (in this case Riede) like an offender is hard,” he stresses. “There’s so much risk attached to that. You don’t do it lightly.” But, at the crime scene, Newbury and Graves had studied the CCTV footage of Riede and Billson in
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Left: the gaming room in which Billson cable-tied the cleaner; above: the newspapers Riede collected from inside the compound.
action. And that left them almost 100 per cent certain that they were dealing with an inside job. “The problem is that knowing something and proving something are always very different things,” Newbury says. “We could see quite clearly that her story was a fraud because she’d essentially not followed the script she was meant to follow. It had fallen apart. But we also had to disprove the traumatized-victim story. That was always going to be the key.” Newbury and Graves first got word of the robbery from police communications around 7:50am on July 21, 2011. They and colleague Damon Roberts headed out to the hotel from their Operation Counteract offices in Wakefield St. Amid the throng of responders and media, they established from police already on the scene an initial version of how the robbery had taken place.
It was that Riede had stepped outside through a back door around sunrise to collect morning papers from inside a walled compound at the side of the pub. A disguised armed offender had then supposedly emerged from hiding in that compound and confronted her. Wielding the meat cleaver, he forced Riede back inside, cable-tied her to an internal fence-cum-wall, and then found, threatened and cable-tied Bargewell in the gaming area. With the cleaner immobilized, Billson went back to where he had left Riede, whom he untied and forced to open a safe in the hotel strongroom. There, he stole cash from the safe and tied up Riede again before fleeing. S o m e m i nute s l ate r, B argewe ll manage d to snap the cable ties off of his wrists, run outside, flag down a passing truck and raise the alarm. The first police to respond found Riede still tied up in the locked strongroom. She helped the officers gain entry by taking keys from her pocket and pushing them out under the door.
“… either she didn’t know the crook was even in the hotel, or she knew he was in there and didn’t care.”
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these details came from Riede and never quite seemed, to Newbury and his colleagues, to add up to a truthful account of the crime. The first point they doubted was that, in the predawn darkness, the robber had positioned himself inside the locked compound. “There was no reason an offender would go to the trouble and/or risk of climbing in there,” Newbury insists. “He could have just accosted Riede as she opened the hotel door – unless he already knew a staff member would come out to collect newspapers from (inside the compound). “It was evident that the offender knew the staff routine was to enter that compound. However, it wasn’t clear whether he was a staff member, knew a staff member or knew Riede, or had simply kept the premises under surveillance.” Even greater doubt filled the rightly suspicious minds of the detectives as they viewed the CCTV footage of the robbery. Around 20 cameras covered all but the compound and back area of the pub, so no visual evidence of the alleged outdoor ambush existed. But two other cameras, facing each other from opposite ends of the rectangular hotel strongroom, proved critical. They showed an almost carefree Riede entering the strongroom, disarming one of two safes, drinking coffee and casually thumbing through paperwork. Seemingly at the same time, cameras in the gaming area recorded Billson threatening Bargewell with the meat cleaver and ultimately tying him up. “We had to work out where he was moving when he was tying up the cleaner, compared to where she was moving when she was allegedly tied to that fence,” Newbury says. “It was when we kind of compared what was happening out in the gaming room to what was happening in the strongroom that stuff just didn’t add up.” It seemed that Billson might never have tied Riede to the internal fence before he went to assault Bargewell and then returned. “So,” Newbury says, “either she didn’t know the crook was even in the hotel, or she knew he was in there and didn’t care.” More incriminating coverage showed Billson seemingly pushing Riede into the strongroom at the point of the meat cleaver.
Far left: the strongroom with CCTV camera fixed to the ceiling; left: the internal fence to which Riede claimed she was cable-tied.
Then, as the pair waited for the safe to disarm, Billson climbed on top of it, reached up to one of the cameras and pointed it away from the action. “We lost our footage at that point,” Newbury explains, “but there was still the camera on the opposite wall. And while he was up turning the first camera around, you see from the other camera her (Riede) dart out of the room, apparently making a run for it.” But her apparent escape failed to spark a response from Billson. “Your natural instinct as a crook is to chase because you wouldn’t want her getting out and calling the police,” Newbury explains. “But, instead of that, he actually ran across the room, climbed up onto a table and turned the other CCTV camera around. “We didn’t know what happened, CCTV-wise, after that point because we didn’t have any more footage. But it was just his lack of instinct to chase her which suggested to us that he wasn’t concerned about where she went or what she did. “No robber would allow a victim to escape simply because he’s trying to turn CCTV cameras around. This event signalled to me that Riede and the robber were possibly engaged in an elaborate ‘staging’ of the robbery.” Newbury went about circulating a description of Billson, whose only exposed body parts were his eyes. Covering his head was a red Eminem hoodie and across his face he had tied a blue t-shirt. On his hands were woollen gloves over the top
“We still tried to work out if it was possible that she was just confused about it, but her story at that point was in a world of trouble.”
of his latex ones, while black tracksuit pants and black Globe sneakers covered the rest of his body. One thing Newbury could tell was that Billson was Caucasian, but other things, such as height and build, he had to calculate. He figured Billson to be around 165cm tall. “We worked that out,” he says, “and then kind of worked out that he was of a thin build. So we had something to go on as far as a description, but that was it.” Other damning evidence came to light when Newbury inspected the crime scene. The “natural thing”, as he describes it, was to find the cable tie Billson would have had to cut to release Riede from the internal fence. “There was no cable tie on the ground,” he remembers, “and she didn’t say she’d picked it up. In fact, the fence clearly had a thick layer of dust on it, but there was just no evidence that anything had ever been tied to it. “So, clearly, she wasn’t tied to that fence. That did not happen. We still tried to work out if it was possible that she was just confused about it, but her story at that point was in a world of trouble.” The detectives kept on with their inspection for several hours and had Crime Scene Investigation photograph the scene. Newbury studied all the different camera footage so that he could link the timing of Riede and Billson’s separate actions. October 2014 Police Journal
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And, as these investigators all worked at gathering evidence, Riede came back from the hospital, where she had gone feigning shock and stress. Graves saw that her demeanour had not changed, that she was still “playing the poor, hard-done-by victim”. And he knew how tough it was going to be to prove her involvement in the robbery. “These elaborate set-up robberies don’t happen very often,” he explains. “You generally deal with people who just run into the gaming rooms, steal money and run out again. That’s 90 per cent of your Counteract work. “To actually get a fully-fledged robbery that’s planned is very rare in my experience.” Newbury, too, understood the rareness of the crime and the challenge of proving Riede’s guilt. “Because,” he says, “you’ve got this sobbing victim about whom you’re thinking: ‘You’re a liar, and you’ve actually endangered your colleagues.’ “But you’ve got to somehow manage that and work out how to crack the case without her co-operation.”
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work it out they did. The quick-thinking detectives gathered out the front of the hotel, considered their options, and came up with a plan to get Riede under surveillance. “We thought: ‘If we don’t get phone calls or meetings between her and the other offender, they’re going to get away with it,’ ” Newbury recalls. “We didn’t know who the other offender was and we had no starting point at all. “It (the surveillance) was such a hard decision because she was still a victim. And, as suspicious as you are, you’re thinking: ‘If we stuff this up, and we’ve got a genuine victim under surveillance, it’s a nightmare for police.’ “But we made a decision that, if we didn’t do this, we had no second chance of catching these people.” So Newbury had police drive Riede home from the hotel. But he wanted someone to be in position and ready to watch and follow her from the moment she stepped out of the police car. So he arranged for colleague John “Barney” Braithwaite to do exactly that. “We didn’t have a chance to get any kind of proper surveillance,” Graves says. “That was out the question. But I was absolutely confident that she would at some point leave the house and, literally within minutes, she did.” From her Enfield home, Riede drove erratically through backstreets and out onto Regency Road where she stopped at a Clearview phone box. There, she made a number of calls before driving off in the same erratic manner. Braithwaite followed and kept her in sight but eventually lost her. What worried the detectives then was that they might miss out on the chance to catch her meeting up with Billson – if that was what she had just arranged. Meanwhile, Graves and colleague Damon Roberts got the phone box number, which Newbury relayed back to the Counteract office. He explained to colleague Talei Bentley that he needed an urgent check on the calls Riede had made.
Riede on her way to court.
Clearly, finding out who she contacted – or tried to contact – would dramatically advantage police in the then only hours-old investigation. And to be certain Riede could not later claim she had used a phone box because her mobile was not working, Newbury called her. She answered, and he made out he had called to check on her welfare and arrange a time to take a statement from her. “It’s really hard,” he says, “because you’re listening to a liar. She was telling me how traumatized she was, and you could hear this kind of sobbing. “She was saying: ‘I’m really upset,’ and I just didn’t believe a word of it. But I played along and tried not to let her know that we were on to her. We had such a small window of opportunity to solve the crime.” Newbury had hoped that his call might help pinpoint the location Riede was speaking from and therefore reveal where she had gone from the phone box. “Luckily,” he says, “she’d just gone straight back home.” Just as their investigation was heating up, another robbery went down – on an Ingle Farm jewellery store. The detectives had to respond and ended up committed to the job for the entire afternoon. It involved two masked robbers who thieved jewellery out of a display case. By the time Newbury and Graves got back to the Counteract office it was late in the day. But on Newbury’s desk was the call-charge record check on the calls Riede had made from the phone box. October 2014 Police Journal
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She had dialled two numbers, twice each, and both belonged to Billson. But he answered none of her four calls. The detectives looked Billson up on the police database and found his description similar to that of the robber on the CCTV footage. Bentley, too, had undertaken some checks and found that, just a week earlier, a probationary constable had pinched Billson for shoplifting. She called the probationer and explained that Billson – whom he described for her – was now a suspect in the hotel robbery. Then, around 10 o’clock that evening, after the observant probationer had started his shift, he s pot te d B illson! In an ex traordinar y circumstance, which would become clear later, the detectives’ suspect was standing right outside Hindley St police station. Officers detained him and searched the bag he was carrying. In it they found $9,000 and a cable tie and so contacted Operation Counteract. Newbury, who had worked into the early evening, was at home reading in bed when he got a call from his office around 10:30pm. The news of Billson’s detention delighted him. “We’d put so much time and effort into it during the day,” he says. “To have it pay off was just incredibly rewarding. Suddenly, a range of avenues of enquiry opens up to you. It’s very exciting to have that.” Leaving his wife and four sleeping children behind, Newbury got dressed and headed back
to the Operation Counteract offices. Bentley and Roberts returned to duty, too, and all equipped themselves with firearms and radios and drove over to Hindley St police station. From his first sight of Billson, Newbury could see that he was gaunt, strung out on meth and agitated, but “extremely friendly and happy to talk”. Although, when it came to the subject of the robbery, he was not willing to answer any questions. Newbury arrested him for the stick-up and, after Billson made several unsuccessful at tempts to contact law yers, he consented to a search of his home. By the time the detectives arrived there with him, it was around 1 o’clock the next morning. “We did manage to get a lawyer while we were on the way, and he met us there,” Newbury says. “(Billson) lived in a shed at the back of some rental place. It was freezing cold inside and full of junk, and the search was quite difficult. We had a search team but he could have stashed his clothes or shoes anywhere. “In the end, we didn’t come up with anything from the house that was of any use in the (subsequent) trial. The search itself was quite irrelevant down the track.” So, with no evidence uncovered from the search, Newbury and Bentley took Billson to the City Watch House to charge him. They arrived there around 4am and got him into custody but still had to type up an arrest file. Newbury had by now gone without sleep for almost 24 hours but was functioning on adrenaline and “doing all right”. “But,” he says, “you crash really badly at the end of it.” He got home around 6am, had four hours’ sleep and headed back to work to see Billson go to court and end up remanded in custody.
Top left and left: hand-sketched maps which detectives found in a bin in Riede’s house; above: the note Riede wrote her daughter about Billson.
But, before that, around 7:30am, Graves
returned to duty and teamed up with colleague Mark Shaw. The pair intended to arrest Riede at her home and, before heading out there, met up with Holden Hill detectives for a briefing. The plan was that, as Graves and Shaw undertook the arrest, the other detectives would search Riede’s house, which she shared with her 20-something daughter, Leah. They arrived around 9:20am. “We arrested her within minutes, on her doorstep,” Graves says. “She continued to play the victim, and asked: ‘Why are you arresting me? I’m the victim here!’ “I think that played into our hands because she had to just go along with this ruse that she’d started. She said: ‘I don’t need a lawyer, because I’ve not done anything wrong. I’m the victim.’ ” Graves and Shaw took Riede back to Holden Hill police station and kicked off what would be an hour-long interview with her. Armed with information she never knew they had, the two adept detectives got what a judge would later call her “tissue of lies” on the record. Her response to a question about going out after police had taken her home from the hotel was: “No, I didn’t go anywhere.” Graves then indicated that police had seen her leave. “Oh, yes, that’s right,” she responded. “I did go out. I remember now.” She said she had gone to see a friend, so Graves asked her if she had stopped anywhere along the way. “No, I didn’t stop anywhere,” she insisted. October 2014 Police Journal
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“I went straight there and straight home again.” Again, Graves indicated what police knew, that she had stopped at a phone box. “Oh yes,” she said. “I stopped at the phone box.” When asked who she called, Riede said she was not sure. Graves told her it was Billson and asked her if she knew him. “Oh, yeah,” she said. “I was ringing him because he was a friend of mine and I wanted someone to talk to.” Part way through this textbook interview, the Holden Hill detectives got back to the police station and sought a moment with Graves. They had to tell him that, during their search, they had found, in a bin, the maps Riede had sketched of the hotel. They showed the layout of CCTV cameras, the location of the strongroom and estimates of the amount of cash in the safe. Says Newbury: “It was really good work to even spot them (the maps) and work out their relevance. On their own, they did look like just four bits of paper.” Back in the interview room, Riede claimed she had sketched the maps the night after the robbery as a way to show some visiting friends what had happened. It seemed she had an answer for everything but, along with the maps, she had also discarded a note to her daughter. That note read: “Morning Leah. This is (Billson) on our lounge, he is cool so don’t be to (sic) worried.” This message would work against Riede if she were to change her story and claim that Billson
Above: cable ties – which the cleaner snapped off of his wrists – on the floor of the gaming room; right: Riede on her way to another court appearance.
had forced her to commit the robbery with him. And that strategy was one she would indeed dare to employ. In the meantime, however, she went before a magistrate and scored bail, of which one condition was to stay out of licensed premises. But only a week later, Newbury arrested Riede for a breach of bail. “That somehow morphed into her wanting to tell us all about the robbery again,” he says. “So we ended up with a second interview, where she’s given us another version (of what happened). “She told us that (Billson) was the robber. She insisted that she was the victim and that he’d placed her under duress, threatening her family if she didn’t go along with it (the robbery).” But the warmth in the note she had written her daughter scarcely made the unimposing Billson sound as if he was using standover tactics on Riede. Graves had expected that, in her second interview, she might come clean. “She’d had a week to consider what she’d done and the lies that she’d perpetuated,” he says. “We kind of anticipated that she was just going to tell us everything and, then, give the defence of her drug habit, but she didn’t. She just continued to lie.”
Finally, after 12 months, the District
Court set a trial date for Riede and Billson, who both went with not-guilty pleas. The Billson defence was that he had not himself committed the crime but rather received the robbery proceeds from the “real offender”. Riede persisted with her duress defence, the claim that Billson had threatened her family to force her to participate in the stick-up. “Both defences had a chance of muddying the waters with the jury,” Newbury says, “even though they were mutually exclusive. “Bizarrely, they both could have been acquitted – even though they were implicating each other – and that was the frustrating part. It was that lack of remorse, and the fact that they were pushing, legally, but pushing as far as they could.”
The trial got underway but only lasted a day before it stalled. Other attempts to get it going failed as well – for the next three years. “It just kept falling over,” Newbury says. “On one occasion it was because we couldn’t get a judge, and it was just very frustrating.” But the detectives, who continued to hunt for evidence, sought the help of a Telstra technician. He identified that a call came from one of Billson’s phones at 7:03 on the morning of the robbery in the vicinity of the hotel. That discovery was one turning point which came two years after the robbery. Another was new DNA technology which forensic science experts used to retest all the relevant exhibits. One of the cable ties, from which sufficient evidence had never emerged under original testing, now showed a clear DNA match to Billson. And, under the weight of such compelling evidence, he changed his plea to guilty. “He then wanted to gi ve p o l ic e a st ate me nt ,” Newbur y explains, “testif ying against Riede, and that was just such a massive relief to us to get to that point. “To have him now in our corner saying: ‘This is exactly how the robbery occurred,’ was a great way of showing her duress (story) as a complete fabrication.”
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“I said: ‘You get one chance to tell the truth, so this has got to be it.’ ”
Some months after Billson agreed to co-operate with police, Newbury drove out to Murray Bridge to take a statement from him. Before he began the laborious, day-long exercise, he gave the now-confessed robber a blunt warning not to lie. “I said: ‘You get one chance to tell the truth, so this has got to be it,’ ” Newbury recalls. “And he told us stuff that we didn’t know about, that he didn’t have to tell us. “Everything he told us we were able to corroborate and match out, so we were happy that, at the end of the day, he was spot-on honest.” According to Billson, he had met Riede through his drug-dealer just a few months before the robbery. He had visited her home, as she had his, and he had regularly sold her meth. She had told him that she was in debt and, two weeks before the robbery, asked him to commit the crime with her. He refused and she let the matter rest. But, the night before the robbery, she asked him again – indeed she pleaded with him. Billson, who was at the time binging on meth and not thinking straight, now agreed to take part. Riede told him he could have most of the money they stole, and that she just wanted around $3,000 to clear her debts. She also told him that she wanted him to assault her so that she could claim some form of compensation. Billson was never in the compound when Riede came outside to “collect the papers” and simply walked into the hotel with her. And, once inside, he never tied her to the internal fence as she had claimed. October 2014 Police Journal
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Rather, Riede pointed him in the direction of the front bar and gaming room, where Billson went to cable-tie cleaner Charles Bargewell. He then joined Riede in the strongroom, turned the cameras around, filled the sports bag with cash from one of the safes and cable-tied his accomplice. Before he fled, she turned her head, shut her eyes and told him to hit her in the face with the meat cleaver. He refused. Out on Main North Road, Billson made that 7:03am phone call – for a taxi, which drove him into the city. There, he dumped into a bin his shoes, the meat cleaver and anything else he had used in the robbery. Of course, he still had the cash-filled bag, with which he got into another taxi and headed home. After changing into new shoes and placing the robbery bag and money into a bag of his own, he walked to a local shopping centre. There, he dumped the robbery bag into an industrial bin; and, after stops at various places throughout the rest of the day, Billson ended up at a dealer’s place. And, later that evening, after he had bought and used some meth, Riede turned up unexpectedly. Billson gave her some meth and around $3,000 and urged her to leave the dealer’s place, which she did. Later, he caught a bus back into the city, met a girl he knew on North Tce and, with her, walked through to Hindley St. It was as he passed the police station that the alert probationer spotted him before he wound up detained. Owing to his guilty plea, Billson never had to face a trial but gave testimony against Riede at her trial last August. By then, she had admitted that she was never tied to that internal fence but continued with her duress defence. “Her version,” Newbury says, “was that she walked into the strongroom knowing that, if she didn’t comply, he (Billson) would hurt the cleaner. “I don’t think the jury believed that for a minute because, at that stage, she could have locked herself in the strongroom, called police, or pressed duress alarms. “The other thing prosecution raised was that she didn’t look scared. She was just going about her normal morning business, drinking a cup of coffee, fiddling with paperwork… “That’s not what you do if you’re under duress, worried that the cleaner is about to be killed. So that’s where her story really started unravelling in court.”
Ultimately, the jury found
Riede guilty of the robbery by majority and Judge Paul Muscat sentenced her to eight years’ jail with a three-year nonparole period. Billson wound up with a head sentence of three years, 11 months and a non-parole period of two years. Muscat described R iede as a “shameless and accomplished liar”. “You went about lying to the police from the very first moment you were spoken to,” he said. “Obviously that was part of your plan. “Your initial story had a hole or two in it which later opened up into a pit of lies. The police could smell a rat and so they decided to watch your movements… “Your evidence to the jury about being an innocent victim of this frightening hold-up was nothing more than a tissue of lies.” Both Newbury and Graves, who had committed hundreds of hours to their investigation and prepared for three trials, took particular pleasure in the outcome. “The beauty of this job was that we made a couple of snap decisions that all came to fruition,” Newbury says. “They worked out perfectly. “You had guys like Barney ( John Braithwaite), Damo (Damon Roberts) and Gravesy who looked at it and went: ‘Hold on. There’s something a bit odd here.’ “They were prepared to just work with that gut feeling and unravel it (the robbery). Things like that I wouldn’t take for granted.” Another great pleasure for Newbury was calling hotel cleaner Charles Bargewell to tell him of the courtroom victory. “He was delighted,” Newbury says. “I think, in the end, he didn’t take any pleasure in Riede’s suffering. But still, to this day, she says she didn’t do it.” PJ
“The beauty of this job was that we made a couple of snap decisions that all came to fruition. They worked out perfectly.”
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“The fear factor (for women) is something that is pushed by the media, maybe sometimes for political gain.”
Women’s
expectations of police services are different from those of men. That was the consensus that emerged from a panel discussion with four prominent SA women at the third Police Association industry forum luncheon for 2014 last month. The women also agreed, however, that police were widely meeting those expectations. The panellists were renowned movie producer Helen Leake, Advertiser columnist and former breakfast radio host Ali Clarke, SAPOL assistant commissioner Linda Williams, and Liberal MP Vickie Chapman. They fronted up to an 80-strong audience in Fenwick Function Centre to tackle the question: Are Australian police services meeting women’s expectations? Introduced by Police Association president Mark Carroll and moderated by Police Journal editor Brett Williams, the forum took a style similar to that of the popular ABC programme Q&A. Among the audience members were Commissioner Gary Burns, Deputy Commissioner Grant Stevens, Shadow Police Minister John Gardner and Burnside Council CEO Paul Deb. Panellist Linda Williams set the scene by outlining exactly what she believed women’s expectations of police entailed.
Top: Linda Williams; above: Helen Leake; above right: Ali Clarke; right: Vickie Chapman.
“I think after my years of experience in the police, I can say there are some different expectations that women have,” she said. “Those are particularly in regard to their personal safety and the things that affect them uniquely, like sexual crimes, domestic violence and crimes that affect them and their families’ safety. “So, I think in terms of reassuring women and making them safe in their community, there is a particular focus and a particular style that has to be adopted.” Ali Clarke agreed with Williams’ assessment and added that her experience in the media had shaped some of her expectations of police services. “The fear factor (for women) is something that is pushed by the media, maybe sometimes for political gain,” she said. “It is something that does permeate once you have children. You want to be able to keep them safe. “So absolutely without a doubt that is the number one priority for me and to ensure that my children know that they can feel safe.” Vickie Chapman cited the reporting of domestic violence as an example of how the media might contribute to the fear factor among women. “You have to be very cautious about responding to individual cases,” she warned. “There’s got to be a considered assessment about how we manage these things. October 2014 Police Journal
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“You have to be careful not to read a coroner’s report or read an article in the paper which is identifying a particular circumstance and think that it’s universal.” Chapman also contended that the word “domestic” should be removed from the phrase “domestic violence”. “I think it minimizes the act and puts it into a category, almost justifying it,” she said. Helen Leake, a producer of critically acclaimed movies such as Wolf Creek 2 and Swerve, told the audience that media and TV portrayals of police came about because of the enormous public interest surrounding the profession. “They’re in demand,” Leake explained. “They feature a lot on screen.” Leake reflected on Wolf Creek 2 (2013), reminding the audience of its prelude which featured character Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) interacting with two police officers. “People like these sorts of stories and they compare it with real life,” Leake added. She conceded, however, that there was a chance some movie and TV portrayals of police could lead to unrealistic public expectations. “Stories that involve police are (portrayed) as kind of sexy,” she said. “People love to know what’s going on; they like the idea of the problem being solved; they like the idea of all this sophisticated technology.”
And, if Williams is right, SA women’s confidence in police is high. “The national surveys do show a really high level of confidence in the police force in South Australia, especially compared with other jurisdictions,” she said. “We are always listening to the voices of the community, women’s voices. “One of the things that we’re doing at the moment, in terms of domestic abuse, is a multi-agency approach. We need buy-in from other government agencies and the community. “There is a whole range of issues, including lack of education and lack of health services, that actually make a person a victim.” Another issue that emerged was that of officers with tattoos, and whether police policy-makers had failed to listen to women’s views on the subject. Clarke held to the same view about body art as she did in a Police Journal interview ( Thoroughly impressed with police) in February 2013. Back then, she said of officers with tattoos: “I just don’t see how a bit of ink on your forearm is going to stop you from protecting me. Who’s going to have a problem with that? “Who’s going to say: ‘Can you please help me, my life is under attack,’ but then say: ‘Oh no, you’ve got a tattoo, can you send someone else?’ That’s just ridiculous.” Clarke was first to comment on the issue at the forum. “Until I’m going to be brave enough to put my hand up to be a police officer, I’m not going to sit there and dictate on what you can look like and how you can express yourself,” she said.
“In the case of a sexual assault, some women may feel safer having a big, burly, strong man being there.”
Part of the 80-strong audience listens to the discussion.
Clarke also hinted that community views surrounding tattoos were rapidly changing. “A lot of women I talk to who are around my age are tattooed,” she explained. But Williams maintained that SAPOL’s current tattoo policy was fair. “We’re not saying you can’t have tattoos,” she said. “We’re saying there is a limit and that they affect how the public perceive us and how we deliver our service. “(Police) are not radical. We are a conservative group of people by nature and I think that’s what the community expect us to be, (to) actually follow rules and be disciplined and consistent, and I think that’s what we are.” Chapman spoke of the issue of police demonstrating consistency and discipline, suggesting that some immigrants to Australia had vastly different experiences of police. “One of the difficulties I think police have is that a number of people come from (overseas) environments in which there is no trust in the police,” she asserted. “(In those countries) there is a different standard of how law enforcement operates and that, in itself, is a major issue. So (it’s about) giving understanding to women. “There are certain laws in Australia which do protect you against sexual (assaults) and there is a capacity for them to call on the police for assistance.” All of the panel members agreed that a womenonly police response to certain offences would be a step in the wrong direction. Leake maintained that it was an issue of officer training. “If the training is up to the (highest) level … I think it belongs to the philosophy of the organization that (tasks) aren’t divided in that way,” she said. Clarke agreed, and noted that it can cut both ways. “In the case of a sexual assault, some women may feel safer having a big, burly, strong man being there,” she reasoned. “I can’t speak on behalf of somebody who has gone through a traumatic incident that might call for a female police officer, (but) I don’t see how making a blanket policy that only women go to support that person can necessarily be a good thing. “I’m always a little bit reticent to (endorse) such policies.” Williams said that, as with all aspects of policing, common sense and sound judgement applied. “I don’t think that you can have such a mandated strict policy,” she said. “We are talking about a professional body of police officers who are highly trained in responding fairly and effectively, whatever the circumstances. “If there was a particular need, we would try and address that, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a gender need. It could be a language need. “But to have such a hard and fast rule, I think, goes against our model of professionalism.” PJ
Left and centre: Jo Kruk running the ultra-marathon through the Alps; below: crossing the finish line with her mother.
Copper conquers the Alps She
had probably racked up more kilometres in marathon races than she ever had in a patrol car over months of hectic shifts. But Elizabeth prosecutor Senior Constable First Class Jo Kruk decided to take on yet another punishing ultra-marathon in August – this time in Europe. Hankering for another challenge, she signed on to run the annual Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, a 168km foot race through the Alps in France, Italy and Switzerland. Regarded as one of the toughest marathons in Europe, it involves an elevation gain of around 9,600 metres. As expected, Snr Const Kruk put in another Herculean effort to become female No. 31 across the finish line and No. 16 in her category in just over 38 hours. The time limit to finish the race, in which 2,300 runners competed, was 46 hours. A super-fit adventurer who weighs just 55kg, Snr Const Kruk, 27, was too well prepared to become one of the 1,000-plus competitors who pulled out of the gruelling event. “It was a tumultuous yet epically rewarding experience,” she said. “The mix of emotions, sensations and psychological battles I experienced are beyond description. “Thirty-eight hours of sleep deprivation tends to lead to some interesting hallucinations.” On this trip, Snr Const Kruk had her mother, Bozena, by her side as not only a supporter but also a travelling companion.
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“It was all made that bit more wholesome by the fact that Mum came with me,” she said. “We made a ‘Europe trip’ out of it, travelling through Italy, Paris and, ultimately, my country of birth, Poland, where I got to see all my family. “The most memorable moment was crossing the finish line of the run with my mum. She actually ran the last 100 metres with me. We blazed it towards the finish line and I really had to dig deep to keep up. It was the best experience of my life.” And that Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc experience came after Snr Const Kruk completed New Zealand’s Northburn 100 Ultra Mountain Run in March last year. She ran the 160km course in 30 hours, 47 minutes, crossing the finish line in 12th place. Among the injuries she ran with were stress fractures and inflamed tendons, while battling hypothermia. In 2012, Snr Const Kruk competed in the brutal Namib Desert Challenge, one of the world’s toughest ultra-marathons. It involves five marathons over five consecutive days in the Namibian dessert. Snr Const Kruk completed the entire marathon in 17 hours, 53 minutes, just two hours behind the winner. She lost several toenails and suffered bruised feet and general soreness. In the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, she ran with painful tendonitis in her left ankle, plantar fasciitis in her left foot and a swollen tendon in her right foot. Snr Const Kruk is now looking to compete in other ultra-marathons in the USA. PJ
Letters
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Worthy follow-up story Have just read the (August) Police Journal . Another very good article (After the tragedy) written by the editor. I remember how shocked we all were when Michael Nasalik died at such a young age. It is good that the Police Journal has followed up with the story of what has happened to his wife, Sam, since becoming a widow at such a young age with two small children. Also congratulations to Brett Williams, Sam Kleidon and Steve McCawley (Police Journal scores on the international stage, August 2014). You should all be proud of your achievements overseas – no easy feat to be up there with the best. Keep it up. Regards Rex Adams
Cannot see direct entry as effective I write to comment on High-ranking police with no experience – a potential disaster (Police Journal, August 2014). I graduated in 1988 and transferred to Prosecution in 1990. I remained primarily in Prosecution until I left SAPOL in 2001, then returned in 2005. In 2005, I was on probation for six months before returning to Prosecution. Those six months were very difficult for me and I felt very ineffective as a patrol officer owing to lack of operational experience. I participated in the Sgt/Snr Sgt course in 2009 and, owing to the emphasis on the operational side of policing, I felt disadvantaged and, again, lacking in role plays and assessments centred around operations.
Notwithstanding non-police applying for direct entry might be far more educated than I, and possibly experienced in upper management generally, based on my own experiences, I cannot see how they could possibly be as effective as the operationally experienced and specifically trained/educated members we already have. I appreciate that some functions within the organization might quite properly be undertaken by personnel from non-sworn backgrounds. However, the article’s reference to sieges well demonstrated the danger in undervaluing the experience of long-serving operational members. Name supplied
Seeking photo ID A photograph (left) which recently appeared in The Advertiser showed a police line holding back fans of the Bay City Rollers at radio station 5AD in 1975. My family’s first reaction was that the photo featured our late husband and father, Graham Coad (the officer with a moustache, third from the left). Sadly, he died in 1989. He had spent most of his police career in the CIB and, unfortunately, we don’t have photographs of him in uniform. It would be great for my family’s memories and history to have confirmation that it is, indeed, Graham in the photo. We would appreciate it if any Police Association members could identify any of the officers in the photo. Kind regards Sally Coad October 2014 Police Journal
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Q&A
Is the closure of Holden Hill and Port Adelaide magistrates’ courts a retrograde step? From top: Senior Const 1C Aaron Galwey, Senior Const Paul Shephard and Sergeant Jacqueline Young.
Senior Const 1C Aaron Galwey
Senior Const Paul Shephard
Sergeant Jacqueline Young
Eastern Adelaide Criminal Justice
Aldinga Police Station
Eastern Adelaide Criminal Justice
Yes. Having a court structure next to a charging station makes sense for each LSA (apart from Sturt which is tied in with Adelaide). This enables quicker and easier access for overnight custodies to be brought before the court to have their bail matters heard. Closing these courts would tie up more patrols that will have to convey people in custody from, for example, Holden Hill cells to Elizabeth to have their bail matters heard. Also, some people aren’t able to move around as easily. For example, it would make going to court a lot harder for people with severe physical disabilities, be they victims, witnesses or defendants. I can understand that the court system is under a tighter financial budget, as is every other government department, but I think they should be looking at other avenues to cut costs, such as the removal of their personal vehicles.
Yes. It is going to be a massive inconvenience to the general public. People will have to travel much further if they need to access the services the courts provide. This will also be the case for police. There will be further for police to travel with offenders, which means police will be off the road for longer periods. They’ll have less time for their core functions, which will have a flow-on effect to the general public. They’ll more than likely get frustrated due to poor police response times or, worse, no attendance at all. I’m sure this would also create problems for criminal justice sections not being close to a courthouse, as is the case at present.
My fear is that it will be the very people the courts are set up to protect who will lose out. In R v Woolley 1850, Erle, J stated: “The law is for the protection of the weak more than the strong.” The very people who we see through the courts on a day-to-day basis will have further to travel, will have to pay more in travel and will have to be more organized. I remain to be convinced that this will not lead to more warrants and more failed trials as the witnesses fail to attend. On the upside, legal access will be easier where more practitioners are in the one place. Larger prosecution units will have to be managed carefully to ensure that double-handling of files does not lead to increased workload. The magistrate representation will be more resilient with numbers in one or two places.
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Industrial Nick Damiani
Taser where it belongs – on police accoutrement belts
• Are performing uniformed duties. The general order on electronic control devices have finally wound up on the accoutrement belts of uniformed police officers, still stipulates that officers are only to deploy thanks to constant Police Association lobbying. Tasers in incidents which satisfy the criteria of a The change in policy took effect on October 1. high-risk situation – and only after the officers have After intense campaigning from the association, considered other tactical options. However, the general order has been extended SAPOL originally introduced its Taser policy in 2009 but, owing to a delay, the formal rollout didn’t to include situations in which a person is armed happen until July, 2010. with a weapon or unarmed but exhibiting behaviour which cannot be safely resolved by the use of any Even then, SAPOL did not permit officers to carry other tactical option. the devices on their accoutrement belts. Carried in a secure case, usually in the boots of Association president Mark Carroll welcomed patrol cars, the devices were not to be deployed the new Taser policy and said the addition of the until officers responded to a job to which the strict devices on officers’ accoutrement belts would criteria for Taser deployment applied. protect police and ultimately save lives. “That’s why we’ve been campaigning for this for Police Association president Mark Carroll so long,” he said. expressed frustration at the delay. “This is clearly not a serious commitment by “We believe in the technology and we believe that SAPOL to make this life-saving tool of the police the device has the potential to save lives.” Mr Carroll said the association’s trade available to front-line lobbying didn’t stop with the initial officers,” he said back in 2010. “… there exists 2010 rollout. SAPOL, under its new policy, will issue one Taser per patrol shift. “While that was a big step forward, virtually no argument That device is to be carried on the Taser was still not in the hands against the personal the accoutrement belt of one of of our front-line police when they the officers (on the support side needed them most,” he explained. carriage of the device opposite the firearm). “It is impossible for police to by front-line police.” Still under consideration anticipate when a critical incident by SAPOL is whether to allow is going to occur, which is why the carriage of the Taser on the load-bearing vest. provision of Tasers on accoutrement belts is so vital. According to SAPOL’s carriage amendments, “The device has been shown around the world Tasers will now be carried by members who: to deliver public, police officer and offender safety. • Have successfully completed the electronic “And with more and more cases in which offenders control device training programme and are present with mental-health or drug issues, there currently certified. exists virtually no argument against the personal • Are currently IMOST qualified. carriage of the device by front-line police.”
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Blood legislation a great outcome Mandatory blood-testing of violent offenders is an essential for front-line cops’ peace of mind. It would be a welcome addition to police-related legislation, too. This is the way Police Association member Sergeant Leigh Winton sees it, after suffering an anxious wait several years ago to see if he had contracted a communicable disease from a violent offender. Sgt Winton’s story and others just like it are the reason the association has lobbied the government so intensely for this legislation. As a solo patrol officer back in 2000, Sgt Winton responded as backup for a colleague who had just arrested a woman for traffic offences. The action that was about to follow would alter his life for several months. “As I arrived at the scene, the other officer had hold of the woman but she was not complying,” Sgt Winton recalls. “Both the officer and the woman were standing near the back of the cage car. “The woman was on the phone, apparently informing someone of what was going on.” Sgt Winton began to prepare the door of the cage car while the woman continued her conversation. But he soon realized that she had little desire to cooperate with the police. “Minutes went on, and she kept talking into the phone, ignoring our directions to end the conversation,” he said. “Then I noticed the phone wasn’t even on a call. The screen was blank. “After she ignored further advice to give me the phone, I reached in with my left hand to grab it.
To the great relief of not only Sgt Winton but also his family, the test results question that kept circulating in my head was: eventually showed him to be in the clear. “But it was six months of constant ‘What if I have (contracted) something?’ ” worry,” he explained. “And six months of being ultra-careful not to transmit bodily fluids to others.” “Before I knew it, she had leaned forward and But neither Sgt Winton nor his colleagues need latched onto my left hand, biting the back of it. “It bled straight away.” suffer this dilemma any longer. The Police Association Though Sgt Winton succeeded in arresting the has successfully lobbied the government to implement mandatory blood-testing of violent woman without further incident, he now faced an ominous trip to the hospital to undergo an array of offenders in such situations. tests for communicable diseases. The laws – which delegates proposed at their “I was concerned when doctors told me that a bite 2012 annual conference and for which the association from a human is actually many times worse than one has continued to push – will apply to offenders who from, say, a dog,” Sgt Winton said. bite or spit or bleed on working police officers. The SA government has introduced a bill for an “We couldn’t rule out that her gums were bleeding at the time, or that her mouth was injured act to amend the Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) in any way. Act 2007. “If that was the case, it would mean the risk of In fact, parliament is now considering applying blood transference and, therefore, disease, would the laws to victims other than police officers, such be much higher. as some emergency workers, nurses, ambulance “Hepatitis C and HIV were the diseases I was personnel and correctional services officers. The new laws will not only provide police peace most concerned about, as most police would be in of mind, but also enable affected officers to begin, those circumstances.” if necessary, appropriate treatment – and promptly. Of course, the delays which almost always apply to test results meant Sgt Winton’s life was Sgt Winton insisted that the legislation was “a about to be turned upside down. He had become must” for police officers, and that the impact of his experience would have proved far less had the laws a victim compelled to live with the anxiety of not been in place at the time. knowing whether he had contracted a disease. “It’s a welcome piece of law for us,” he said. “Plus, I had to be extra vigilant with my bodily fluids “The test results from the offender will show very from then on,” he said. early on if there is a need for the officer to worry and, “Unprotected sex was out. I needed to be careful indeed, for his or her family to worry. with any sports injuries I sustained. I even had to look out for trivial things like accidentally sharing “Currently, we can only ask the offender if they a toothbrush. want to undergo the tests and, more often than not, they are in no mood to co-operate with police. “It was a constant weight on my mind. The question that kept circulating in my head was: ‘What if I have “It essentially means police are ‘sentenced’ to (contracted) something?’ around six months of unnecessary stress and anxiety.” “It was stressful and it changed my life, even if it Sgt Winton also agreed that the government was only temporarily – all because an offender had should “protect the protectors” and extend the assaulted me.” legislation to include workers other than police.
“It was a constant weight on my mind. The
Sergeant Leigh Winton
“Emergency-service workers are there to help the public, to protect them in times of need,” he stressed. “Legislation that can be enacted to protect them is hugely beneficial, if not vital.” Police Association president Mark Carroll said Sgt Winton’s story reflected the experience of a number of officers assaulted in the line of duty. “A significant portion of the 700 or so yearly assaults on police officers involve a transmission of bodily fluids,” Mr Carroll said. “Sgt Winton’s experience is similar to that of a number of police officers whose lives are turned upside down for months while they wait for test results. “Why should the officer have to endure months of unnecessary stress and worry? “A simple test of the offender will either rule out a communicable disease, or enable the officer to begin appropriate treatment as soon as possible.”
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Emotional survival for law enforcement Renowned US behavioural and management consultant Dr Kevin Gilmartin returns to Adelaide… After the overwhelming success of his March presentation to 700 SA police officers and their families. Dr Gilmartin will again share his professional expertise to help other police avoid burnout and survive the personal impact of their job. But he’ll also discuss strategies to prevent affected officers from isolating themselves emotionally from family, friends and colleagues. Ultimately, Dr Gilmartin will address all the short- and long-term effects police work has on officers’ personal and professional lives. The Gilmartin credentials: • A former Arizona police officer of 20 years’ service. • A consultant to US and Canadian law-enforcement agencies. • The holder of adjunct faculty positions with the University of Massachusetts Police Leadership Institute and the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas at Sam Houston State University. • Guest instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. • Faculty member of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Institute. • Former vice-president of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. • Holder of a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona. • Author of the book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement. • A veteran of the US Marine Corps. Brought to you by
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HEALTH Dr Rod Pearce
If Ebola turns up in Australia… How well equipped and prepared are our medical authorities to deal with it?
The initial case was an Ikanamongo Village woman who became ill with symptoms of Ebola after everyone. But we learned about the virus, developed she had butchered a bush animal that her husband had killed. a test to detect it, and worked out how treatment could work. Then it became a manageable problem. She was treated in a private clinic in Isaka The Ebola virus spreads more like the HIV/AIDS Village, but died on August 11 of a then-unidentified virus than influenza. It is transmitted to people from “haemorrhagic illness”. wild animals and then spreads through human-toThe following week, relatives of the woman, human transmission. several health-care workers who had treated her, We do not have reliable treatment options and, and individuals who had had contact with her, came until we do, caution about the spread is appropriate. down with similar symptoms. Five health-care workers The biggest risk of spread lies in countries in which subsequently died. a large number people live in close proximity with The species of virus affecting people in the each other and animals, and the population does not current outbreak is a member of the Zaire lineage. consult doctors and distrusts “western” medicine. It is one of five distinct Ebola species, or strains: In places affected by the current outbreak, care • Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV). • Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV). is usually provided in clinics with • Reston ebolavirus (RESTV). limited resources – no running water, We do not have • Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV). no climate control or floors, and reliable treatment • Taï Forest ebolavirus (TAFV). inadequate medical supplies. Several infectious diseases, such In August, Sierra Leone passed options and, until we as malaria and typhoid, are endemic to a law that will impose a two-year West Africa and mimic the symptoms do, caution about the jail term on anyone found to be of Ebola disease. So doctors and hiding a person believed to be spread is appropriate. infected with Ebola disease. nurses might not initially see any need to take protective measures. T h e n e w m e a s u r e wa s In August, the World Health Organization made announced as a top parliamentarian lashed out its first overall case fatality rate estimate of 52 per at neighbouring countries for failing to do more to cent. It ranges from 42 per cent in Sierra Leone to curtail the outbreak. But the fear now is that this 66 per cent in Guinea. might lead to spread rather than containment Ebola haemorrhagic fever, as it used to be known, because of fear of notifying authorities. Such a situation is unlikely in Australia, where no was previously reported to have a fatality rate above 90 per cent. “wild” form of the virus exists. Ebola is introduced Not all the outbreaks are related. On August 26, into the human population through close contact the Équateur Province Ministry of Health in the DR with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily Congo confirmed an outbreak of Ebola to the WHO. fluids of infected animals.
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In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead in the rainforest. Animals in Australia are unlikely to be carriers of the virus. Ebola spreads in the community through humanto-human transmission. Infection results from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to seven weeks. Diseases such as malaria, typhoid and yellow fever are the ones most likely to be confused with Ebola. But they are uncommon in Australia, so our authorities will have a high index of suspicion in the case of an infected person. And our burial customs are such that we are unlikely to spread the virus from dead bodies. Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the bodies of the dead play a role in the transmission of Ebola. We have a good water supply and are able to wash easily. Our medical system is accepted, as is our medical advice, and we can reduce transmission risk while investigating suspect cases. We have access to protective equipment that works and our laboratories can follow up cases to exclude alternative diseases. It is appropriate to take care, but Ebola is unlikely in Australia and would, in any case, be easily spotted. We would be able to control the spread of infection easily. Treatment options are still being refined but Australians in Australia are low risk.
Motoring Jim Barnett
Tempting the mainstream buyer In light of the Mercedes pedigree and equipment, the pricing represents excellent value
features include an electric park brake and stalkoperated gear-selection lever. Among storage areas around the cabin are a compact glovebox, centre console bin, trays under the front seats, and door and map pockets. An electrically operated tailgate provides access to the cargo bay with space varying between 421 and 1,235 litres (seats folded). A well beneath the floor houses part of the audio system and a safety triangle but there’s no spare wheel.
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of more affordable cars is evident again in the threemodel GLA-Class.
DESIGN This compact SUV, Mercedes’ first, is one of the sportiest-looking around. It features an aggressive grille, alloy roof rails, 18-inch alloy wheels, tailgate lip spoiler, dual exhausts and convex rear glass.
In its classy, sports-themed interior are comfy seats, good visibility and flexible cargo arrangements. The dash has big gauges, large round air vents and a central colour LCD screen with audio, DVD, reversing camera and satellite navigation. Although comfortable, its 60/40 split-fold rear seat is a little tight on legroom. With the sporty, leather-bound steering wheel comes reach and rake adjustments and buttons for audio, phone and trip computer. Space-saving
Entry GLA 200 CDI (the only front-wheel-drive model in the range) has a manufacturer’s list price of $47,990. This is excellent value considering its pedigree, equipment level and standard turbo-diesel, seven-speed automatic drivetrain. Standard items include: • Artico (man-made) leather interior. • Dual-zone climate control. • Trip computer. • Active Park Assist. • Bi-xenon headlights and rain-sensing wipers.
The engine has ample power and is never stressed. It is super quiet for a diesel.
• Bluetooth. • iPod/iPhone connectivity. • MP3 and voice control. Metallic paint comes at a high price: $1,190. GLA 250 ($57,900) and GLA 45 AMG ($79,430) each have more powerful petrol engines, a fully automatic AWD system and higher equipment levels.
Easy-to-drive all-rounder And it seems to meet consumer expectation on price, choice, safety and servicing
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Safety equipment includes: Nine airbags. Driver drowsiness detection. Blind-spot warning. Radar-based collision prevention assistance. Run-flat tyres with pressure warning. Reversing camera. Front and rear parking sensors. LED daytime running lights. Hill-Start assist.
STATS GLA 200 features a spirited 2.2-litre turbo-diesel engine mated to a sevenspeed automatic transmission. Power output is 100kW and there’s 300Nm of torque available. Combined fuel economy, helped by the engine stop-at-idle function, is claimed to be an impressive 4.6 litres/100km.
ON THE ROAD GLA diesel is a very good car to drive. The engine has ample power and is never stressed. It is super quiet for a diesel. The seven-speed twin-clutch auto works superbly and, when using the paddle shifters, squeezes every inch of power from the engine. The ride is firm but compliant, and cornering is biased toward agility.
VERDICT Yet another winner from Mercedes, and it will tempt mainstream SUV buyers.
The Hyundai Series II ix35 comes with promises of exterior, interior and mechanical improvements.
DESIGN A popular compact SUV, Hyundai ix35 is available in three spec levels with a choice of 2WD or AWD and three engines, including a diesel. A wide body and wide wheel track add to its athletic appearance, as does its curved roof with shark-fin antenna and convex tailgate with a lip spoiler. The mid-spec Elite features comfy seats covered in a combination of leatherette and woven materials. Drivers score a power-adjustable seat and the leatherbound steering wheel has reach and rake adjustments. A smart, user-friendly dash layout includes a central colour screen with audio, sat-nav, DVD and reversing camera functions. A gated gear-selection lever with manual mode controls the six-speed auto. The traditional lever-operated park brake remains. Rear seats feature a 60/40 split-fold design with reclining seat backs. These will comfortably handle three kids or two adults. Cargo space is generous and dropping one or both of the rear seats is a simple task. A full-size spare hides under the flat floor with additional storage space around the tyre.
the 2.4 petrol ($38,090) or the diesel ($40,490). Standard on all models are: • Air conditioning. • Cruise control. • Steering wheel-mounted controls. • Trip computer. • Alarm. • Heated side mirrors. • Touch-screen audio. • Bluetooth for audio and phone. • USB/aux inputs. • iPod connectivity.
SAFETY The ix35 scores a five-star ANCAP safety rating and has all the usual features, including six airbags, antilock brakes and stability control. Also standard are hill-start assist, downhill brake control and rear parking sensors. Newer safety systems, such as blind-spot and lane-departure monitoring, are not yet available.
STATS All three engines offer plenty of power. The 2.0-litre musters 122kW and 205Nm, the 2.4-litre 136kW and 240Nm, and the diesel an impressive 135kW with 392Nm. Claimed fuel economy varies between 7.2 litres/100km (diesel AWD) and 9.8 litres/100km (2.4 AWD).
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Entry Active (2WD only) has a 2.0-litre petrol engine and costs $26,990 (automatic $29,190). Elite 2WD features the same 2.0-litre engine with standard six-speed auto for $33,090. Elite AWD has the advantage of a lockable AWD system and more powerful 2.4-litre petrol engine for just $2,400 more ($35,490) or a 2.0-litre CRDi diesel for $38,090. Highlander is only available in AWD with either
The ix35 is light and easy to drive. The 2.4-litre auto provides quick acceleration, smooth shift changes and quiet operation at all but high revs. Ride is firm but comfortable and cornering confident.
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VERDICT A well-priced all-rounder, ix35 offers lots of choice. Three years capped-price servicing and a five-year warranty add to its appeal.
Banking
Meeting member demand for business loans Paul Modra Executive Manager – Member Value and Distribution, Police Credit Union In-principle approval can come from the Police Credit Union within 24 hours of an enquiry
segment, according to its executive manager – Lending & Credit Management, James O’Loughlin. business and a sharp eye for profitable commercial “We’re able to provide an in-principle approval ventures. Proof of that lies in not only the number within 24 hours from an enquiry and offer a but also the success of enterprises that cops head simplified process,” he says. up outside their role as law enforcers. “We also assess each enquiry on a case-by-case Sergeant Steve Allen, a silent partner in two basis, taking into account its individual circumstances. metropolitan Subway outlets, is a classic example It definitely is not a one-size-fits-all process: we of a veteran copper (31-and-a-half years) with offer a personalized service with an ongoing direct point of contact for account management.” good judgement in business. His involvement in the Mitchell Park and Castle Plaza Subways began With branches in South Australia and the Northern in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Territory, Police Credit Union is able to provide a Sgt Allen’s daughter and son-in-law – both of business loan in both locations. “We have recently funded a commercial loan for whom had worked in one of the Subways – and the wife of a police officer in the Northern Territory,” wife take active roles in the businesses. A mark of their success came in 2012, when their Mitchell Park Mr O’Loughlin says. “We provided finance for a store won Store of the Year (South Australia). café (Oh My Gosh Café).” With his five-year partnership in these Subway People often find the process overwhelming. Café owner Patricia Eggleston initially found stores, Sgt Allen well understands the realities of business. Some of the issues he cautions prospective it “somewhat complicated” but easy to navigate business owners to consider are the long hours when Police Credit Union branch manager June and high costs associated with plant and equipment. Ryan stepped her through the requirements. “The process was more extensive as a business But what lies at the heart of any venture into plan needed to be submitted along with cash-flow business, as Sgt Allen knows, is finance. That means forecasts,” Ms Eggleston says. a business loan; and, while some people might be “With so much information required to complete unaware that Police Credit Union has expertise in this field of banking, it is certainly equipped to help. a business plan and, only having access to the business’s previous financial records, it can In fact, at the Police Credit Union, business banking is a significant and growing business be challenging. “The dedicated team at Police Credit Union, especially June Ryan, went above “And the key point of difference is that and beyond to assist us with the hurdles Police Credit Union delivers small business that we encountered. “We worked closely with the team at a personalized service, which the Police Credit Union to ensure we had big four banks simply do not offer.” covered all aspects of the business plan.
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“We had credit cards, cheque books and accounts all open on the day of settlement, as June ensured that we were ready to operate the same day.” As James O’Loughlin explains it, Police Credit Union is embracing business loans simply to meet the demands of its members and other banks’ dissatisfied customers. “These loans give our members an alternative to the big four banks,” he says. “And the key point of difference is that Police Credit Union delivers small business a personalized service, which the big four banks simply do not offer.” Among the products Police Credit Union offers are: • A business overdraft (rates depend on the security available). • Commercial vehicle loan (ute, van, trailer or vehicle used for business purposes, best-rate-inthe-state car loan). • Business term loan (variable or fixed-rate loan to purchase, expand and grow the business). • Business credit card (a low-rate credit card with no annual fee and up to 44 days’ interest free). • Business insurance (with more than 30 years’ experience and catering for a diverse group of clients and industries). “In summary, the Police Credit Union business banking department specializes in small business, which is the S in SME (small and medium enterprises),” Mr O’Loughlin says. “No business is too small. “Police Credit Union offers competitive rates across all of its business products.”
To move your business banking, or to find out why Police Credit Union is better than your current financial institution, call 8208 5650 or e-mail dlu@policecu.com.au AFSL/Australian Credit Licence 238991
Free Legal Service for Police Association Members, Their Families & Retired Members. Leading Adelaide law firm, Tindall Gask Bentley is the preferred legal service provider of the Police Association, offering 30 minutes of free initial advice and a 10% fee discount. To arrange a preliminary in-person or phone appointment contact PASA on (08) 8212 3055.
Have you or a family member been injured in a car accident? Tindall Gask Bentley acts in more motor vehicle accident claims that any other law firm in SA. Gary Allison & Richard Yates can provide free preliminary legal advice on your entitlements to compensation. They can also help with Workers Compensation, public liability & medical negligence claims.
Family Law Matrimonial, De Facto & Same Sex Relationships • Children’s Issues • Child Support matters
• Property Settlements • “Pre Nuptial” style Agreements
Appointments with Wendy Barry (Accredited Family Law Specialist) & Dina Paspaliaris.
Commercial Law • General business advice • Real estate & property advice
• Business transactions • Commercial disputes & dispute resolution
Appointments with Giles Kahl & Michael Arras.
Wills & Estates • Wills & Testamentary Trusts • Enduring Powers of Attorney • Enduring Guardians
• Advice to executors of deceased estates • Obtaining Grants of Probate • Estate disputes
Appointments with Michael Arras & Rosemary Caruso.
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LEGAL
Internal Investigation Section turns up! What do you do? Rachael Shaw Senior Associate, Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers What you don’t do is fail to consult the Police Association, which can organize a lawyer for you
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order. An order to answer questions in a disciplinary interview without being apprised of the allegations If someone is at your door, you are not required to against you is not a lawful order. on, as IIS will never turn up for you. Think again. IIS let them in. A general search warrant authorizes the You are entitled to particulars of the allegations and Anti-corruption Branch speak to police officers holder among other things to enter premises where more than you know. he or she has reasonable cause to suspect that an against you. If you are unwell or suffering from fatigue, offence has been committed. Similarly, you’re probably thinking: “I’m a police you should not be expected to Bear in mind that an “offence” officer. I do this for a living. I know my rights.” Time participate in an interview. Interviews with IIS and time again, I speak to police officers who, for refers to a criminal offence and not You might want to “just get this and ACB are rarely whatever reason, after IIS or ACB have spoken to a disciplinary matter. You obviously over with”. However, you should them, seem to forego or forget their rights. have the right to open your door not proceed with an interview short. You need to be and let anyone inside. You can unless you’ve had the benefit of Call the Police Association also consent to your house being physically and mentally legal advice and you feel that you This might seem like a no-brainer but it amazes me searched or voluntarily answer can answer questions properly. fit to participate. how many police officers do not avail themselves of questions. Interviews with IIS and ACB However, before you do any of an opportunity to get some advice. The association is are rarely short. You need to this, you should seek advice. As you know, there is be physically and mentally fit to participate. An experienced in assisting members in situations just like no such thing as an “off-the-record” or “informal” this. It can put you straight onto a lawyer to get advice. order that you answer questions in a disciplinary Matters discussed with the association and conversation with police. Ensure that all conversations interview when you’re not well enough to participate a lawyer are kept strictly confidential. It is not the are recorded. would not be a lawful order. If you are asked to “come in for a chat”, find out point that you’ve been in the job for decades and can handle yourself. whether you’re under arrest. If you’re not under arrest, Human rights Similarly, it doesn’t matter that the allegations find out if you’re the “subject officer” or a “witness”. The protection of human rights is an important seem minor or can be easily explained. You might All these matters seem basic but you’d be part of police work. Every day, police protect take the view that a lawyer is just going to tell you surprised how they are forgotten when one is caught people’s rights, investigate breaches of rights and not to answer questions. off guard and faced with the stress of the situation. enforce rights. In a criminal interview, this is often true. However, If you find yourself the subject of an investigation, there might be good reason a lawyer gives you the Lawful orders don’t forget that the laws and rights that you advice. This advice isn’t just given to protect the Police officers are required to obey lawful orders. work hard to uphold are applicable and must be “guilty”. An adverse inference cannot be drawn as If you disobey a lawful order, you’re likely to face afforded to you also. a result of you seeking advice. disciplinary action and possibly lose your job. However, the order must be “lawful”. An order forbidding All these matters seem basic but you’d be surprised you from seeking advice from a lawyer is not a lawful order. An Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers provides free initial how they are forgotten when one is caught off order to recall yourself to duty advice through a legal advisory service to Police and open the door is not a lawful guard and faced with the stress of the situation. Association members and their families, and retired
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Books
Dishonour
Abattoir Blues
The Doll Maker
All Day And A Night
Author Gabrielle Lord Publisher Hachette Australia RRP $29.99
Author Peter Robinson Publisher Hachette Australia RRP $32.99
Author Richard Montanari Publisher Hachette Australia RRP $29.99
Author Alafair Burke Publisher Faber & Faber RRP $29.99
Detective Inspector Debra Hawkins has domestic violence in her sights. But as head of a new police unit targeting violence against women within cultural enclaves, she has hit a wall of silence. How can she help Rana al-Sheikly, a young woman who yearns for the freedom to lead her own life while her brothers are planning to send her into a forced marriage in Iraq? And what is the connection between the al-Sheikly men and the crime gangs that are running rife in the suburbs? A series of anonymous e-mails has Hawkins following her personal secrets, too – back to her childhood and the murder of her police sergeant father. Someone is digging up the past – threatening Debra’s hard-won career, and even her life. Dishonour taps straight into the issues of our times.
When t wo boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War II hangar nearby, and a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground. Things quickly become much more sinister. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. But, after a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, the investigation spins into a higher gear – in another direction. As Banks and his team struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time, when it’s their turn to become the prey…
Mr Marseille is polite, elegant and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love, Anabelle. And he is a psychopath. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. And there she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Strangled. Beside her is a formal invite to a tea dance in a week’s time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in a disused house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invite. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. A delicate porcelain doll. It’s a message. And a threat. With Marseille and Anabelle stalking the city, Byrne and Balzano have just seven days to find the link between the murders.
Alafair Burke returns to one of the most memorable characters in contemporary US crime-writing: NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher. When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband – until the District Attorney’s Office receives an anonymous letter. The letter’s author knows a detail that police have kept secret: the victim’s bones were broken after she was killed, echoing a signature used 20 years earlier by Anthony Amaro, a serial killer serving a life sentence. Now, Amaro is asking to be released from prison, arguing that he was wrongly convicted, and that the true killer is still on the loose. As both the NYPD and Amaro’s legal team search for certainty in years of conflicting evidence, their investigations take them back to deadly secrets left behind.
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DVDs
Derek Series 2 RRP $29.95 2 discs Ricky Gervais’s kind-hearted, slowwitted Derek is back for a second season, with a brand new six episodes! At Broad Hill Retirement Home, Derek Noakes is still spreading kindness. In the second season, he forges new friendships, with his positive outlook and good-natured spirit helping residents get through difficult times. And there are some new elderly tenants who have joined the home. The old gang is still there: Dougie (Karl Pilkington), Hannah (Kerry Godliman) and Vicky (Holli Dempsey).
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Brick Mansions
Snowpiercer
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The doctor makes a spectacular return to the big screen in the featurelength debut episode of Series 8: Deep Breath. D i re c te d by B e n W h e at l ey (Sightseers, A Field in England) and written by lead writer and executive p ro duc e r Steve n M of fat , the beginning of the twelfth doctor’s era stars Peter Capaldi as the doctor and Jenna Coleman as his companion Clara Oswald. It also features the return of fan favourite The Paternoster Gang – Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart) and Strax (Dan Starkey) – in a pulse-racing adventure through Victorian London.
In a dystopian Detroit, abandoned brick mansions left from better times now house only the most dangerous criminals. Unable to control the crime, the police constructed a colossal containment wall around this area to protect the rest of the city. For undercover cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) every day is a battle against corruption. For Lino (David Belle), every day is a fight to live an honest life. Their paths cross and, when drug kingpin Tremaine (RZA) kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien reluctantly accepts the help of the fearless ex-convict; and, together they must stop a sinister plot to devastate the entire city.
Set in a future in which a failed climatechange experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world. D i re c te d by J o o n - ho B o ng , Snowpiercer stars Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Tilda Swinton.
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Cinema
Episodes S3 RRP $29.95 2 discs Running time 210 mins T h e awa r d - w i n n i n g , c r i t i c a l l y acclaimed comedy Episodes is back with a much-anticipated third series. Friends favourite Matt LeBlanc teams up with David Crane of Friends fame and Jeffrey Klarik of Mad About You to serve up a singlecamera comedy about the television business. The Showtime project will focus on the funny process of reworking a hit British show for American audiences.
Son of a Gun
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Fury
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Season commences November 27
Son of a Gun tells the story of a young man drawn into the lawless world of a notorious criminal. While locked up for a minor offence, 19-year-old JR (Brenton Thwaites) becomes apprentice to the enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), a calculating crime boss with connections both inside and out. After helping Lynch and his crew orchestrate a daring prison escape, JR is invited to join in on their next job – a high-stakes heist that promises to deliver millions. But as they plan the heist, JR begins to suspect he is being played and soon finds himself on a collision course with his mentor in a very dangerous game.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins and has more than 65 million copies in print in the US alone.
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Fury is directed by David Ayer and stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Xavier Samuel, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Scott Eastwood, Jason Isaacs and Michael Peña.
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Leon’s recipe – Salad nicoise with Tasmanian poached salmon Ingredients 200g Tasmanian salmon steak (2cm thick)
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Method Place the eggs in a saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil over high heat for 5 minutes.
600g baby chat potatoes, halved
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Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until cooked, drain. Blanche the beans in boiling water until bright green and tender crisp. Drain and refresh under cold water. Chargrill the seasoned salmon steak both sides until cooked to your liking. Place the baby Cos lettuce leaves, potatoes, tomatoes, beans and olive oil on a plate. Cut the eggs in half and place on the side, stack the salmon on top of the salad. Drizzle the dressing just before serving. Serves 4
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The Last Shift Paul Alexander Stephen Andrews (1) Ben Broadbent (2) Anne Bush (3) David Casson (4) David Coultate (5) Roger Glazbrook (6) Barry Graham (7) Martin Hawkins (8) Trevor Jones George Kaiser (9) Geoff Malpas (10) Ross Nicholson (11) Brenton Robinson (12) Steve Taylor (13) Kevin Virgin (14) Kym Zander (15)
SNR CONST KEVIN VIRGIN Mount Gambier 37 years’ service Last day: 25.07.14 Comments… “I thank all staff of the Police Association for their efforts in obtaining good wages and conditions. “My time spent at Christies Beach and Mount Gambier has been memorable although, when stressful, it was made more bearable by the great colleagues I had to work with. “Through some of my tougher times I received full suppor t, from my immediate super visors through to current and previous superintendents, so I cannot thank them enough.”
SNR CONST 1C PAUL ALEXANDER APY Lands 10 years’ service Last day: 26.07.14 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for its past and ongoing support of police officers in South Australia.” SERGEANT DAVID COULTATE Eastern Adelaide Family Violence 38 years’ service Last day: 31.07.14 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for its support and the continuing efforts for greater benefits and working conditions for all members. “I also thank all those who I have worked with over the last 38 years. I have enjoyed great experiences and made lifelong friends.”
Snr Const 1C George Kaiser Millicent Police Station 43 years’ service Last day: 20.08.14
Comments… “I thank both past and present members of the Police Association for the assistance given to my family and me in our times of crisis. “I feel lucky to have been a tourist having been stationed at many country locations throughout the state, including Berri, Port Augusta, Streaky Bay, Kalangadoo, Whyalla, Burra, Murray Bridge, Hamley Bridge, Bordertown, Barmera and Millicent. “I wish all members of the association the very best.”
Above and right: at Burra police station in the late 1990s; far right: at Kalangadoo in 1983
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SERGEANT STEPHEN “JOCK” ANDREWS Fingerprint Bureau 40 years’ service Last day: 21.10.14 Comments… “The past 40 years have been an incredible journey. The changes in technology, especially in the forensic field, have been mind-blowing. “To everyone at the Fingerprint Bureau and Forensic Services: a big thank you for your friendship, humour, loyalty, dedication and professionalism. “Last but not least, thanks to the Police Association for the untiring and continuing commitment to members over the years. You really make a big difference. Keep it up.”
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SNR CONST 1C BRENTON ROBINSON Holden Hill 43 years’ service Last day: 26.07.14 Comments… “While the job was a very strenuous one, I've thoroughly enjoyed the friendships made and the fun shared, trying to make light of some very serious situations. “There are just so many great personalities involved along the way who have made this job so very worthwhile and that is what I will miss most of all. “To be successful, and survive, the focus should be on what you can do for others plus never forget family. That is what really works.” SNR CONST ANNE BUSH Major Crime 39 years’ service Last day: 11.07.14 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for its care and support I have received and for all its great work during my time with SAPOL. “I have met and worked with some wonderful great people since I commenced on January 30, 1975, especially during my 33 years at Major Crime and those memories will last forever.”
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Snr Const 1C Roger Glazbrook Holden Hill Police Station 45 years’ service Last day: 05.08.14 Comments… “I am the last serving member of Course 27, the three-year cadet training course, a tick on the bucket list. “I thank President Mark Carroll and you, Tom, for your kind attention and appreciation when needed. I am sure you do not receive sufficient accolades for your work ethic. “To all members of SAPOL who held out the hand of friendship, without reservations, to me personally, I thank you. It has been a great education and a life experience. “And a heartfelt appreciation of my beloved wife and sons, for putting up with 45 years of shift work and enduring bad moods and temper tantrums because of sleep deprivation and workplace stress.”
Below: Glazbrook the recruit; right: in the City Transport Pool in the early 1970s
CONSTABLE TREVOR JONES Transit Services Branch 6 years’ service Last day: 14.07.14 Comments… “I thank the Police Association for all the help and assistance during my service. I particularly thank Matt Karger for his commitment to resolving my problems with SAPOL. He operated in a very professional manner.”
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The Last Shift SERGEANT BEN BROADBENT Radio and Technology Support Unit 36 years’ service Last day: 13.08.14 Comments… “My years with SAPOL have been worthwhile. I have enjoyed, and been paid, to work with and support my SAPOL colleagues in all phases of providing communications support. “The longer you ser ve with SAPOL, the more important a part of society you are, and today’s society needs police officers who commit some of their lives to serving the community with all its pressures and demands. “I thank everyone with whom I have worked.”
CHIEF INSPECTOR KYM ZANDER Western Adelaide LSA 45 years’ service Last day: 25.07.14 Comments… “I found that job that you love in life. It took me through many good times and some that challenged. In the end, however, we all survived and I have very fond memories of all we did together. “It is not until you retire that you reflect and recognize the efforts of our early members of the Police Association committees and what they put into ensuring that we were all supported and looked after, both during work and, now, in retirement. “This support continues through the current committee and I thank them. “It is now time to leave and commence the next chapter in my book of life and travel into the future with my wife, Christine, who has been at my side all those years and I thank her for that.”
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Band of the SA Police 23 years’ service Last day: 13.08.14
Comments… “I have enjoyed the challenges and opportunities under three different directors of music: Snr Sgt Doug Drysdale (retired), Kevin Cameron and Constable David Polain. “It is with some sadness that, in SAPOL, I hang up my musical instruments: bassoon, clarinet, saxophone and banjo. “I feel proud and privileged to have performed in many ensembles with the professional musicians who, both past and present, have served in the band. “I believe the future is in great hands, especially with the mentors from within the band. “I have met many people from all walks of life and they have told me how much pleasure they get from attending functions at which the band has performed. “I bid my musical family not goodbye but a fond farewell.”
Above: at the Swiss Hotel in Basel before rehearsal for the Basel Tattoo 2013; right: at Elder Park in 2013
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BREVET SGT STEVE TAYLOR Hawker Police Station 39 years’ service Last day: 26.07.14 Comments… “It has been a great ride and one that I look back on with many fond memories. “I have decided to take retirement early due to health reasons. “I wish all the very best; and, perhaps, if you are passing through the Flinders Ranges, a chance to say ‘hi’.” DETECTIVE BREVET SGT BARRY GRAHAM Barossa CIB 32 years’ service Last day: 03.09.14 Comments… “Thank you for everything you have done for Police Association members over the years. The conditions and pay we now have are only because of the association’s hard work and determination for all police officers. “Thanks to everyone I’ve had the pleasure of working with since I first walked through the academy gates in June 1982. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the job and would do it all again. SNR SGT 1C DAVID CASSON Licensing Enforcement Branch 42 years’ service Last day: 10.09.14 Comments… “I would like to record my appreciation for the industrial and political achievements the association has negotiated on my behalf. It is the hard work of current and past committee members and staff which have secured the benefits that I enjoy. “At this stage of my life, I particularly realize how indebted I am to those past members of the association who negotiated the police pension scheme.”
SNR CONST GEOFF MALPAS Sturt Traffic 46 years’ service Last day: 17.09.14 Comments… “I am truly grateful to all present and past members of the Police Association executive, for the work done for all association members over the years. Any member who is not in the association is crazy, especially in this current litigious climate. “I walked through the gates at Fort Largs in 1968, in the middle of my school holidays, to start something I never thought would last. “The larger SAPOL family has provided me and my family with a good career and reasonable wages over the years, thanks to the efforts of the Police Association. “I had 10 great years at Christies Beach and luckily survived Ash Wednesday in 1983. I have been at Darlington/Sturt Traffic Enforcement since 1995 and now I retire from that post. “The people in Injur y Management assisted me with some issues arising out of the Ash Wednesday fires. A few nasty memories started to return in my sleep some 30 years later. “The human mind is not immune to some of the things we, as police officers, have to endure. “I thank my wife and children for supporting me throughout my time in SAPOL. It is now my turn to give them some time in return, through grandchildren duties. “It’s been one hell of a ride.”
Clockwise from top: Arresting a gunman after a siege at Naracoorte in 1996 – Hawkins (left) with Peter Foot and Tony Fioravanti (kneeling); Hawkins (back row, far right) with STAR Group colleagues in 1982; Hawkins helps make an arrest after a high-speed chase in 2007
Snr Sgt Martin Hawkins STAR Operations 42 years’ service Last day: 27.08.14 Comments… “It has been an honour and a privilege to have worked with so many fine officers over all these years. “I was fortunate to work at STARies for almost 34 years. The section is close to my heart and its members, past and present, have been my brothers. “I thank each and every STARie for all the great memories, the laughs, the banter, the black humour, the support, the loyalty, the respect and above all the professionalism, teamwork and that can-do attitude. “I am privileged to have walked with the few. “I can honestly say I’ve had a great time: no regrets, and memories and friendships that will last my lifetime. “Would I do it all again? Bloody oath I would. “To the Police Association, thank you for your continued efforts for the members of SAPOL.”
For the full version of The Last Shift, go to PASAweb at www.pasa.asn.au
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