Police Journal October 2021

OCTOBER 2021

“The players were only allowed to train in small groups.”

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henever you used to hear of someone with asbestos disease (mesothelioma), you’d think it must be an old miner. But not these days.”

Content warning: Kathleen’s account of her ongoing mesothelioma cancer treatment might be upsetting for some readers.

“For every fibre you see of asbestos, there are thousands you don’t see. They are that miniscule. I won’t even walk down a street if there is a building site with signage indicating asbestos. Part of my 19-hour surgery was picking tiny fibres out of my bowel.

“It is just so dangerous.

“A house down the road burned down recently, which was asbestos. Who has to turn up? Police and emergency services.

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“The latency period for mesothelioma is around 30-45 years, but mine was only 15.

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The oncologist said only 8% of cancer is picked up from pap smears, and they think this is the only time ever in the world they’ve picked up abdominal mesothelioma from a pap smear. So, I’m rather glad I had that pap smear.

Police Health member Kathleen Drage, 58

“At one point I remember seeing a quote for what one treatment would have cost me if I was selffunded and thinking: ‘No one can afford this.’ So, I’m extremely grateful to be a Police Health member.”

“Since joining Police Health 12 years ago Kathleen has received more than $81k in benefits.”

“It was recommended that I undergo a full hysterectomy. While I was under, the doctor noticed the cancer had spread. They inserted a port and I had four rounds of chemotherapy – two through the port in my stomach and two intravenously.

“By then I’d done my research, so I asked the oncologist about this major surgery called the Sugarbaker technique, where they remove everything they can possibly remove.

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Luckily there was one being conducted through our local hospital which I went on for about 18 months. The cancer shrunk quite a bit and stayed stable throughout the trial, but now it’s starting to grow again.

Luckily a new trial’s been announced.

“Police Health have helped in every way they could throughout my treatment. At one point I remember seeing a quote for what one treatment would have cost me if I was self-funded and thinking: ‘No one can afford this.’ So, I’m extremely grateful to be a Police Health member.

“Police Health have just been fantastic, and not just with my mesothelioma journey. I went to get my glasses the other day and I told the girl I was getting back more than I thought I should. She put it through and said: ‘Oh, my, you’re getting double back!’ Even my physiotherapist was surprised at how much I get back, saying: ‘None of my other patients get it so cheap!’

“I’m very happy with the fund, it’s definitely worth the investment.”

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A police career of 40-plus years, much of it spent in undercover work, is bound to leave a copper with countless dramatic memories. It certainly has for Detective Senior Sergeant 1C John Schulz (ret), as we found out in an interview with him last month.

The difference with his story is that much of his personal life has been just as dramatic as his professional life. For us, he revealed plenty about both.

And then there’s another extraordinary turn his life has taken in the last two years. In 2019, he took on the role of integrity and security officer for the Adelaide Football Club. It keeps him extremely busy, but there’s a particular player or two with whom he enjoys a good laugh.

All the serious topics came up at the Police Association annual conference this month: COVID-19, stab- and bullet-proof vests, assaults on police, mentalhealth taskings…

Premier Steven Marshall and Opposition leader Peter Malinauskas attended the meeting, and both had messages for the assembled delegates.

Dr Rod Pearce explains the different types of arthritis, the stats on how many of us suffer from it, and what treatments might work best.

Police Association president Mark Carroll explains how the DPM has adversely affected police coverage of Hindley St. And, in Jobs you never forget, Brevet Sergeant Brendan Gottschutzke recalls an encounter with Sir Donald Bradman.

Brett Williams brettwilliams@pj.asn.au

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October 2021 12 The Crows’ own detective After an extraordinary career in policing, Detective Senior Sergeant 1C John Schulz (ret) is looking out for the integrity of the Adelaide footy club.

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he ongoing failure of the SAPOL district policing model to provide a permanent police presence in Hindley St continues to cause major issues.

SAPOL has indicated that it will provide this presence when its new CBD foot-patrol plan is developed.

In the meantime, however, both police and the public are placed at greater risk.

Members have described a recent situation in which all available patrols were required to deal with a single critical incident in the city — leaving no other police to respond to any other calls in the entire CBD. Before the introduction of the district policing model, the CBD had 12 two-person patrols.

Now, there is a maximum of four patrols for the entire CBD and surrounding area.

Members have shared concerns about insufficient numbers of officers to prevent outright violence. The current setup clearly does not provide a safe environment for police or the public.

I have urged SAPOL to review this issue immediately. It must, as a matter of urgency, address the failure of the DPM as it relates to the CBD, and ensure the city is fully prepared to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions.

Anything less would put South Australians at risk.

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It must, as a matter of urgency, address the failure of the DPM as it relates to the CBD, and ensure the city is fully prepared to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions.

Eyre Western CIB There are, sadly, similar issues on the Eyre Peninsula.

A general lack of numbers in Ceduna CIB and Family Violence Investigation Section is the major source of the issues.

In fact, SAPOL is requiring CIB members to be on call more frequently than seven days in 14, which is a direct contravention of the enterprise agreement.

This on-call requirement has resulted in Whyalla or Port Lincoln CIB covering Ceduna’s leave absences.

Some of these investigations are significant major indictable files, such as child sex offences, sexual assault and aggravated robbery.

The flow-on effects are real, too.

General-duties patrol members in the area suffer, as CIB members are unable to assist them with investigations and searches.

Members from other locations hundreds of kilometres away — Port Lincoln and Whyalla — are often called on to address shortages in the area.

It is another area in which SAPOL must act, and quickly, to avoid the matter progressing beyond the current stage two of the industrial grievance and dispute avoidance procedure.

ICAC reforms The Police Association strongly supported the new ICAC bill which MLC Frank Pangallo (SA-Best) recently introduced into the Legislative Council.

It is one of the most important pieces of legislation for police since the changes to the police discipline system.

The reforms stipulate that the ICAC would only investigate corruption, not misconduct or maladministration.

A host of other changes proposed in the legislation would strengthen public integrity institutions and align the ICAC more appropriately with its intended role and functions.

Ultimately, individuals summonsed to the ICAC over matters arising from their employment are at a disadvantage. The ICAC has significant public resources on which to draw, and a public servant is not likely to be able to fund his or her own legal representation.

The association has long had an interest in the proper functioning of the ICAC given that it has a significant impact on police.

For more than eight years we have received feedback from our members and our legal advisors, and we have assisted our members who have been subject to investigation. That has included welfare support.

We believe unequivocally that reform is necessary.

We have made detailed submissions at every inquiry into public integrity structures in SA. We also recently made a detailed submission to Premier Steven Marshall on why we believe the reforms put forward in the bill are critical.

The bill unanimously passed both houses of parliament.

Mandatory vaccinations SAPOL has recently issued a direction to members indicating that it will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations.

Current feedback indicates this direction will impact on a significant number of members who do not wish to have the vaccination.

The Police Association is on record as stating that it does not support the imposition of mandatory vaccination on its members.

We strongly believe in the right of each member to make his or her own decision.

We do, however, understand the need for members who voluntarily undertake specific COVID-related duties to receive vaccinations.

We have a duty, and a responsibility, to explore whatever options those members have within the existing legal frameworks.

Of course, the association encourages its members to make their personal health decisions with the fullest possible knowledge and understanding of the relevant medical facts and implications.

To this end, we recently held an online information and discussion session for members who were still undecided about having the vaccination.

The session featured a panel of medical experts and doctors, with members encouraged to ask them a wide range of questions.

In light of the recent SAPOL direction, the association has also called a meeting of delegates to discuss which options — legal or otherwise — will be available for members who do not wish to be vaccinated.

Clearly, some members hold strong views on either side of the mandatory vaccination argument.

Regardless of each member’s personal view, we have been presented with a situation in which potentially hundreds of members are facing a forced leave arrangement or, possibly, termination.

We have a duty, and a responsibility, to explore whatever options those members have within the existing legal frameworks.

The delegates meeting will be held in early November. We will keep members informed of any updates or developments on this issue.

If you have a specific enquiry about this issue, please email pasa@pasa.asn.au.

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The Crows’ own detective It is hard to determine which of his two lives has been more intriguing, the personal or the professional. And now in another life, Detective Senior Sergeant 1C John Schulz (ret) is plying his skills for the Adelaide Crows.

By Brett Williams

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round 50 cops stood and applauded John Schulz when he walked into the Mount Gambier police social club back in 1995. It was a rare form of peer acknowledgment and a first for the then undercover operative. But he had, after all, just ensnared a drug dealer with a $16,000 buy of 225 grams of amphetamine.

Schulz had kept up his drug-buyer façade for two months and, at one point, faced the closest call of his police career.

It happened in a Mount Gambier pub where he and his informer were waiting to meet up with the dealer. Another man, drinking in a corner of the bar, had fixed his gaze firmly on the waiting pair. Schulz noticed him staring and asked his informer: “What’s the go with this bloke?”

The informer confessed that he knew the starer, whose arm he had broken during some jail time he had spent with him. That, of course, had Schulz concerned but the staring man eventually left the pub, and it seemed a case of disaster avoided.

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A little while later, however, he came back – with a handful of his mates. They surrounded Schulz and the informer at the bar, and each had a schooner glass in his hand.

Then, from one of the intimidators, came a question to unnerve Schulz even further: “Glass or blade?” He knew that meant an imminent attack on him and the informer with either the schooner glasses or knives.

Still, today, he remembers thinking: “I’m f--ked!

I’m in real strife this time.” And that seemed a perfect summary of his predicament, until the 198cm barman swung into action. He jumped the bar and, as Schulz describes it, “pissed them (the aggressors) off”.

With the risk of a stabbing eliminated, Schulz got his meeting with the dealer who turned up at the pub late. The eventual drug buy went down in a local warehouse and the job ended with the arrest of the dealer. He wound up convicted and jailed.

The operation gave Schulz a “real taste” for covert policing, but not his first taste.

That came after he had completed the detective

training course and was back in uniform working Hindley St. He had gathered up all his files and set out on the walk from Bank St police station to the old Angas St headquarters.

That was the home base of Adelaide CIB, which he was to join within the next day or two.

But on the walk, in plain clothes, he wound up approached by a bloke who asked: “Hey, man, do want to buy some green?”

Seizing on the opportunity, Schulz agreed to come back and buy an ounce for around $300. Meanwhile, he went to consult the Drug Squad, where he got the okay to make the buy.

“So, I went down and did it,” he says.

“And I’d actually had police files in my arms as he was asking me whether I wanted to buy this green.

“That was my first taste of it (covert policing), and it sort of sparked my interest.”

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Indeed, Schulz would come to relish undercover jobs, like the investigation he and his Drug Squad colleagues undertook into Domenic Perre in 1995-96.

It all started after police had discovered two offenders cooking meth in a clan lab in the Adelaide Hills. And out of that discovery came an informer who knew NCA bombing suspect Perre.

That informer, along with two undercover officers from interstate, were to help Schulz and colleagues Pat McManus and Doug May get evidence of meth production against Perre and his accomplices.

“We got a UC (undercover) and controller from Victoria and another UC from New South Wales,” Schulz explains. “The UC from Victoria had actually been taught how to cook meth.

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“We were supplying the chemicals and he (Perre) was supplying the money and the (Angle Vale) premises and some of the other equipment.”

“He and Perre negotiated and eventually came up with the conspiracy to build a meth lab. So, the lab was all set up.

“We were supplying the chemicals and he (Perre) was supplying the money and the (Angle Vale) premises and some of the other equipment.

“The cook went ahead, and we did the raids early one morning and locked up everybody with two UCs. “That was a great job. To get Perre on-site at a clan lab that he financed was quite a significant thing. He did a fair stretch for that.”

1. Schulz on an undercover operation in 1998.

2. During his undercover days in 1998.

3. About to undertake a drug buy at the Hyatt Hotel in 2001.

or a bloke who, in his youth, had never had a burning desire to be a cop, Schulz was acquiring a lot of job satisfaction. It was perhaps compensation for a lot of bad luck in his childhood and later personal life.

After his parents split up when he was just seven, his father never again sought contact with him.

“He was a pretty abusive father, both to my mother and to me,” Schulz recalls.

“I can remember being petrified when he came home, as to whether I’d get a belting or not. And I think he was probably an alcoholic.”

Schulz and his younger brother went to live with their maternal grandfather in Kimba while their mother remained in Adelaide to study nursing.

She had completed her training and worked as a nurse years earlier.

But in those days, the 1960s, former nurses had to undertake the three-year live-in course all over again.

“When I was over in Kimba, I really struggled with it,” Schulz says. “One, he (my father) had left, and two, my mother was gone a fair bit of the time.”

During holidays was when mother and her sons got to spend time together.

But after a couple of years had passed, and she had re-established herself, the three got to resume life as a family back in Adelaide.

“I look back now,” Schulz says, “and think how remarkable she was, and I probably didn’t realize it at the time.”

Schulz had attended Kimba Area school before returning to Adelaide, where he continued his education at Highgate Primary and Unley High schools.

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When the time came to think about job prospects, he spoke with his then stepfather who raised the idea of a police career. Then 16, Schulz had never considered law enforcement but knew a family friend who, at the time, was undertaking his academy training.

Word from the young man’s family was that he was “having a great time”.

“And, so, I applied and got in,” Schulz says. “It was a really quick decision.

I started on February 5, 1976, and I’d just turned 17 two weeks earlier.

“For probably the first three months I really didn’t want to be there, but then, it just swept me up.”

The only other job the young Schulz might have scored was with the Reserve Bank. He got an interview but ended up overlooked, which he came to see as a blessing.

Of course, few young recruits ever got through their training without an element of misadventure. Schulz had his moment while “skylarking” in a dormitory block.

He had jumped up to touch a light globe, but it smashed and some of its pieces wound up in his eye. It was a serious injury, but Schulz recovered and continued his training with Course 56.

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“And, at one stage, I thought I was going to lose my leg.

I thought: ‘What am I going to do with my police career?’ ” 4. About to search a roof for a break-in.

5. As team manager for SA amateur footy side against Victoria.

Another memorable moment, while still a recruit, came at the funeral of his paternal grandmother. There, at the ceremony, was his remarried father, whom he had neither seen nor spoken to since his parents had split.

“He didn’t speak to me,” Schulz recalls.

“I just found it unusual. He bought me a beer but didn’t come and talk to me.

“The last I knew he was up at Mount Isa. I’ve got no idea whether he’s dead or alive. I’ve just sort of wiped him.

Bit annoyed.”

Once through his recruit training, after two years and nine months plus three months as a reserve cadet, Schulz graduated in December 1978. Region B was his first post, where he worked as a patrol officer.

“In those days, we had the whole area out to Athelstone and down south to Darlington,” he says. “With the Traffic

guys, there’d be 200 people on parade every morning. It was quite remarkable, and I had a lot of fun.”

But the fun ended abruptly after Schulz went down in a motorcycle accident and broke his lower leg.

To repair the damage, doctors inserted a plate which enabled Schulz to get back to work, but on crutches and in the non-operational role of Region B collator.

Around 12 months later, with the plate removed, he got back on the road and had no problem with his leg – for a while.

Long involved in local football, he fell over while coaching teenaged players in the parklands and rebroke his lower leg. With the “bone sticking out” it was clearly a shocking break.

It led to a couple of rounds of surgery, a battle with gangrene, and bone-growth stimulation treatment, which lasted for 15 months.

“And, at one stage,” Schulz says, “I thought I was going to lose my leg.

I thought: ‘What am I going to do with my police career?’

“So, I made a decision to go teaching down at the academy. I was there for a bit over two years, until my leg got fully healed.”

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s he had undergone hospital treatment for that second break, Schulz met his then future wife, a nurse who hailed from Tasmania. She had come from a family of 16 children, among whom she was a middle child.

Her parents had produced 14 children but, after they divorced, her mother remarried and had two more. And the man who had become her mother’s second husband had nine children from his first marriage.

Ultimately, the couple ended up with an extended family of 25 children.

“So, I’d go down to Tasmania and there was still about nine or 10 kids living at home,” Schulz remembers.

“I just couldn’t get over it. It was like living in an army barracks.”

Still, Schulz married into the family at the age of 29.

Naturally, when his future parentsin-law came to Adelaide for the wedding, they met his mother and stepfather, who had retired to Normanville. The visitors found the seaside town so enchanting that they eventually bought a block of land there.

But that led to bad news for Schulz one evening when he arrived home from work. His parents-in-law were going to come to Adelaide to build on their block.

No problem with that. Until his wife told him that her parents, along with a heap of the children, would “live with us” as the construction took place.

Schulz exclaimed: “No they’re not!”

But, after he arrived home from work one other evening, he found a caravan parked in his driveway. The family had lobbed.

With the disagreement unresolved, Schulz moved out of the family home.

He returned but he and his wife separated and ultimately divorced.

“There were other issues (besides her family moving in),” Schulz says, “but that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

When Schulz and his wife separated, she was pregnant. He only learned of the birth of his child when he got a phone call from his mother-in-law.

“I was working afternoon shift at Adelaide CIB when she rang,” he says.

“She said: ‘You've had a daughter,’ and the phone went ‘clunk’. And that was it.

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“We knocked on the door and the (husband answers and) says: ‘Oh, I’ve killed my wife.’ ” 6. Preparing court files at Adelaide CIB in 1990.

7. On the CIB designation course in 1991 (front row second from right).

8. Receiving the APM from Governor Kevin Scarce in 2009 for his commitment to the investigation of organized crime throughout Australia.

“My ex-wife then married her stepbrother and moved to Sydney.

So, before my daughter was two, she’d moved to the eastern seaboard, so I’ve had a long-distance relationship with her.”

Schulz found the dynamics of that relationship tough at the outset. He only got time with his daughter twice a year, during school holidays. And the sight of his two-year-old walking toward him across the Adelaide Airport tarmac, escorted by a flight attendant, broke his heart.

It was rare, however, for Schulz to get overly emotional in his work. His greater interest was always in dealing with offenders rather than victims.

Nonetheless, the plight of some victims did move him. In one case in the city around 1982, the driver in a car-crash wound up trapped in his seat. Schulz was the on-scene cop he reached out to, and whose hand he grabbed and held as he lay dying.

The incident had “a bit of an effect” on the then patrol officer, who was only around 23 years old.

Another job had some effect on him, too. It was a death message he had to give a young wife and mother.

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Her husband had died in a motorbike crash on Norton Summit Road.

“You just couldn’t do anything for this woman,” he says. “And I don’t think we were very good in those days at following up on how people were (coping).”

Before he left Adelaide CIB for the Drug Squad, Schulz undertook one of his most memorable jobs with now Major Crime boss Des “Doc” Bray.

In 1993, a young woman had gone to visit her older married sister and not returned home to her parents.

They tried calling their elder daughter but got no answer and so eventually called the police.

Schulz and Bray drove out to the older sister’s Holden Hill home after themselves getting no answer on the phone. The most they expected was a case of abduction.

Says Schulz: “We knocked on the door and the (husband answers and) says: ‘Oh, I’ve killed my wife.’

“He’d raped the sister in front of his wife and left her (the younger sister) tied up in the shed out the back. He then killed his wife and buried her in the backyard in a very shallow grave.

“He made full and frank admissions.

Still don’t know why he did it.”

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“We ended up locking up 18 people Australiawide and they got a total of 180 years in head sentences over 20 years.”

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New members to the squad were to have six months’ experience before they attempted any drug buys.

“Undercover work just enthralled me,” Schulz says, “and I didn’t last the full six months before I started doing it.

“For my first undercover drug buy I bought from a bloke we used to call The Businessman. He would walk around with a briefcase with all these drugs in it.”

After his start, buying heroin from The Businessman, Schulz continued with undercover work until 2002, when he transferred to Port Adelaide CIB. He calculates that, before then, he had applied for detective-sergeant positions 23 times – and now he had one.

“So, I went down to the Port and loved it,” he says. “I hadn’t been in mainstream CIB in eight years and things had changed a lot in that time.

“I had a really good young team, and I was amazed at the level of investigation these kids were doing.

It was so much higher than what I’d done as a young detective.”

In 2006, as OC of the Viking Joint Task Force, Schulz got to work on Operation Confound. The objective of the operation was to bring down a syndicate of international drug traffickers importing heroin into Australia.

On the case, in partnership with the Australian Crime Commission, was Customs, the Australian Federal Police, and cops from SA, WA, NSW and Victoria.

The investigators knew that Vietnamese-born Australian drug couriers were bringing the heroin in from Vietnam. Their challenge was to identify them, among hundreds of other travellers, and establish how they were concealing the heroin.

The initial thought was that the couriers were sewing the drugs into their clothes. But, as the investigation went on, it looked like they were sewing them into their suitcases.

As the investigators drew toward a big win, they determined that a courier was flying into Perth, so Schulz and his colleagues flew over there, too.

“Two of the organized crime syndicate had driven to Perth so we knew it was on,” he says. “We thought we knew who the courier was, a woman, and we got seven kilos in her two suitcases.

“I remember conducting a briefing in the Sydney office of the ACC. I had about 400 coppers ready to go the next morning, so the pressure was on.

“We ended up locking up 18 people Australia-wide and they got a total of 180 years in head sentences over 20 years.

“The main crook had gone to Melbourne, but we got him extradited.”

So, there was Schulz, a detective from Adelaide in Sydney with an offender extradited from Melbourne for an offence that occurred in Perth.

Explaining that to the Sydney City Watch House sergeant was a tough exercise.

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n mid-2019, as Schulz drew close to retirement, he applied for and scored the job of integrity and security officer for the Adelaide Football Club. And his appointment made sense. He was a highly experienced detective, had 40-odd years’ involvement in amateur footy, and had long supported the Crows.

But it was a time of upheaval.

Controversy had beset the club after its 2017 grand final loss to Richmond and the Dunstall-Pavlich post-season review was soon to take place.

Schulz, in his new role, was to manage compliance audits, which included player contracts, the club salary cap, and all AFL rules.

But he would also spend time with the players as he did last year during segregated training sessions forced on them because of COVID-19.

“I was doing something like an operation order every day for training,” he says. “That’s because there were so many rules and regulations the AFL had in place.

“The players were only allowed to train in small groups. I had them going to the gym at different times, and on the oval at different times. It was really difficult, and then we spent two weeks up on the Gold Coast in a hub.”

Schulz accompanies the players on occasions like mad Monday.

He also talks to them about criminal associations and drug use, and the scope for reputational damage to themselves, the club and the entire footy industry.

After an incident occurs – as it did on a plane last May when players wore masks incorrectly – Schulz investigates it and prepares a report for the AFC board.

Even enquiries into the controversial 2018 Gold Coast training camp, which happened before his appointment, have demanded his input.

“I had to send SafeWork SA those training plans that I do,” he says, “and copies of the presentations I’ve given the players about criminal associations and drugs. That’s all finalized now.”

Among those Schulz reports to is the club deputy chair, Police Association member and SAPOL assistant commissioner Linda Fellows.

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Schulz at Adelaide Football Club headquarters.

It is a kind of reversal of roles given that, during his time at the police academy 30-odd years ago, he had taught Fellows as a cadet.

And, later, the two worked together at the Drug Task Force.

But it is the players who interest Schulz the most. He speaks of them as “good young people” whose lives are not “all beer and skittles”.

“Everyone thinks about the big money they get,” he says. “But, of the kids who come into the system, I think about 50 per cent of them are gone within five years.

“Starting wages are less than a probationary constable on shift work, and they’ve got this window of opportunity of maybe 10 years.”

“It’s really interesting to see these kids develop from 18-year-olds.

You’re starting to see it with players like Jordan Butts, Ned McHenry and Harry Schoenberg.

“It’s also sad when you see some that don’t make it. What are they going to do?”

But Schulz enjoys plenty of laughs, too, particularly with players like 29-year-old midfielder Paul Seedsman.

He describes him as an “absolute card” and a lover of TV cop shows.

“So, he’ll be watching a cop show at 11 o’clock at night,” Schulz explains, “and he’ll ring me and say: ‘Schulzy, do you know about this one?’ ” Just as some older players move from multi- to single-year contracts, so too has Schulz at age 62. He had always expected to work to the age of 65, so he might yet remain in the role for three more years.

After he does retire from paid work, he intends to stay involved with his local footy club and travel around the northern half of Australia. The only regret with which he retired from policing last month was that he never served in the country.

And he figures that, had he pursued and attained commissioned rank, he would never have had the all the good times he enjoyed.

Of his days in undercover work, he still says: “I loved it.” PJ

After taking part in the interview for this story, John Schulz visited Queensland where he discovered that his father had died in 2019. And, having found out some years ago that he has a half-sister, he discovered on his visit to Queensland that he has a second, younger half-sister.

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Left to right: Police Association president Mark Carroll, Premier Steven Marshall, Opposition leader Peter Malinauskas and Police Commissioner Grant Stevens.

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Annual Conference Staffing issues still overwhelming cops The COVID burden on police certainly came up at the Police Association annual conference. But so too did the high demand for cops to respond to mental-health incidents.

Premier Steven Marshall and Opposition leader Peter Malinauskas joined association delegates and had their say.

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Staffing issues across many areas of SAPOL continue to pose issues for members, according to Police Association president Mark Carroll.

Mr Carroll, in his address to association delegates and the media, said the events of the last 18 months continue to have an “overwhelming” impact on police officers. ”It’s regrettable that COVID-19 is still the major news topic of the day,” he said.

“Many members have spent extended periods away from their families, ended in up quarantine, had leave cancelled, put their own life commitments on hold, and suffered both physically and psychologically.

“At times, more police were on duty in medi-hotels than in some police districts.

“Our position has been that some COVID duties are simply not roles for sworn police officers.”

Mr Carroll said the association had outlined several practical solutions to SAPOL and the government over the last 20 months of the pandemic.

“These include increased recruitment, and the recruitment of recently retired or resigned officers, incentive payments and the recruitment of protective security officers,” he said.

“The PSOs were an obvious solution.”

He acknowledged that the government and Commissioner Grant Stevens ultimately responded and implemented some of the solutions but said the association would have preferred to see the outcome sooner.

Mr Carroll explained that staffing issues all across SAPOL — some unrelated to COVID duties — were causing a serious strain on members and affecting the delivery of services to the community.

“We have spoken to the commissioner about areas such as Southern District Response, the district policing teams, Riverland CIB, Hindley St patrols and the broader Eastern District,” he said.

“A long-running industrial dispute about staffing issues on Kangaroo Island also remains in progress.”

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“It is a lot to ask men and women to protect the public from dangerous criminals, at the same time they do the jobs of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists.”

Police duties unlike any other

Mental-health incidents demand too much of police

SA police officers have led the nation when it comes to community support and positive feedback during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Premier Steven Marshall.

Mr Marshall told delegates this year’s nationwide report on government services revealed Police Association members had been the pacesetters for the entire nation. “(You) are the highest-ranking police in the nation for community satisfaction and community perception of professionalism,” he said.

The premier said that, although nobody could have predicted the events of the last two years, SA cops had calmly risen to every challenge thrown at them.

“More than 350 police members on average, each day, have dedicated themselves (to COVID duties),” he said.

“The duties these members have performed have been unlike any other policing duty.

“I’m quite certain that no police members, as they were undertaking their training as cadets, would have envisaged their duties as members to include guarding our borders, processing crossborder applications and ensuring compliance with pandemic restrictions.”

SA must urgently invest in its “broken” health system or face ongoing issues with police resources, according to state Opposition leader Peter Malinauskas.

Mr Malinauskas told delegates the percentage of police resources used to respond to mental-health episodes was too high.

“Being a police officer is more difficult today than it has ever been before, and I’m not just talking about COVID,” he said.

“It is a lot to ask men and women to protect the public from dangerous criminals, at the same time they do the jobs of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists.

“Cutting crime means preventing crime, but none of it is achievable without the right level of resources.”

Mr Malinauskas also announced he was backing the Police Association call to compel people to undergo a blood test if they spit on — or bite — police officers and other emergency-services workers.

He said the general number of assaults against police officers was still a major concern, with over 660 people charged with assaulting police since the beginning of the pandemic.

The former SDA secretary also praised the conference delegates for their strong union representation.

“Being a delegate is a thankless task,” he said.

“Your day job is to be in harm’s way but, as a delegate, you take on additional responsibilities to look after your fellow workers, sometimes putting you in harm’s way of your superior officer.

“That takes a degree of courage and sacrifice.”

Mr Malinauskas promised funding for stab-proof vests — over and above the commitment already made by the Marshall government.

The government is currently rolling out 2,900 vests, but the Opposition leader has promised a further 1,500 if he is elected premier, ensuring more members will be protected.

The commitment, supported by the Police Association, is worth an extra $4.5 million.

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Premier Marshall said the relationship between the Police Association and the state government was as strong as ever.

“PASA has delivered strong outcomes over the last three-anda-half years,” he acknowledged.

“We have worked through COVID issues. In total, we’ve provided more than $100 million in additional funding and resources to support SAPOL’s response to the pandemic.

“This includes accelerating the recruitment of an additional 72 cadets and 168 protective security officers.”

The premier also highlighted the current rollout of custom-made stab- and bullet-proof vests, and the new assaults-on-police legislation, as two more examples of the association’s strong collaborative approach with government. “(This legislation) has seen the strongest penalties this state has ever had in place for assaults against police and emergencyservices workers,” he said.

“They send a clear message to those who think they can get away with committing violent acts against some of the most respected members of our community.”

The premier said the vests had already been rolled out to 2,600 officers.

DPM 2 still to be trialled The second phase of the SAPOL district policing model has not been properly trialled owing to COVID-19 staffing issues, according to Commissioner Grant Stevens.

The commissioner told conference delegates the model is still yet to be tested under normal working conditions.

“We launched DPM two in late March 2020,” he said.

“DPM two has not be trialled — that’s the reality.

“My hope is that we’re able to push as many people out of COVID-19 duties back into the districts as soon as possible, so that we can commence the model as it’s supposed to look.

“We believe it’s a sound model, but it has to be tested.

If we need to make changes, we will make changes.”

Commissioner Stevens said the COVID burden was likely to be lifted in 2022, at which point he was hopeful the newly acquired protective security officers would transition into substantive ongoing roles.

He also said the current regional review was uncovering issues that require “the ongoing attention of a part of the executive”.

“We’re already under pressure (even) in the outer metro area,” he said. “The Barossa and Hills Fleurieu areas, are seeing phenomenal growth.”

The commissioner also told delegates he was optimistic about the rollout of SAPOL’s new Mobile Workforce Transformation programme.

“This means we’re rolling out (smart devices) to every employee, with full access to systems, and for personal use,” he said.

“It’s not just about saving 30 minutes of a patrol officer’s time every day.

“What the programme really means to me is putting information into the hands of every SA police employee, so you have direct access wherever you are, whatever you’re doing.”

Members can expect the rollout of devices to gather momentum within the next 12 months, Commissioner Stevens said.

He also discussed the direction which requires all SAPOL employees to provide notification of their COVID-19 vaccination status by October 24, but stressed the jabs were not mandatory.

“It’s essential for us to have an appreciation of how many are not vaccinated and potentially where they are,” he said.

“We haven’t made a determination about mandatory vaccinations. “(But) one of the factors that would influence our thinking is just how many of the workforce are not vaccinated.

“The absence of that information will probably cause an alternative decision that we might not ordinarily make if we had all of the information at our disposal.”

Award for highlighting shortfall in DPM

Sergeant Tim Tollenaar receives the Step Up Award from Police Association president Mark Carroll.

Eastern District Response sergeant Tim Tollenaar has won the 2021 Police Association Step Up Award for workplace safety.

Sgt Tollenaar submitted a hazard and incident report on January 17, 2021.

The report highlighted the district policing model’s impact on response and team structure within the Eastern District, including issues such as: • Response staffing before and after the implementation of the DPM. • The area of responsibility extended from Hindley St to suburban areas.

• Hindley St foot patrols not being part of the DPM structure. (A lack of operational presence had resulted in increases in victimreported crime and decreases in the policing of licenced venues.)

• District policing teams were unable to address occurrences or had insufficient staff to respond to taskings.

• Workload intensification.

• The current policing model was unsafe for response members and the community in general.

Sgt Tollenaar continued to represent the workplace and provide information to the association about

his district policing model concerns, particularly in respect of: • Staffing and rostering at Eastern District.

• Enterprise bargaining.

• The lack of workplace consultative committee meetings and OHSW meetings.

• Police station design.

The association then wrote to Commissioner Grant Stevens on January 25, 2021, highlighting its concerns about the ongoing failure to facilitate a permanent police presence in Hindley St and surrounding areas.

President Mark Carroll also fronted the media to address the public about the association’s concerns surrounding member and community safety.

On February 3, 2021, Commissioner Stevens wrote to the association highlighting that he had requested the assistant commissioner, Metropolitan Operations Service, to provide a permanent foot patrol in the area.

Association assistant secretary Steve Whetton told delegates that “Sergeant Tollenaar’s actions demonstrated exceptional professionalism and reflect the association Strategic Plan 2017-2022”.

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Influential delegate an award-winner Detective Brevet Sergeant Scott Milich won the Police Association Biennial Delegate of the Year Award.

Assistant Secretary Steve Whetton told delegates there had been many examples of Detective Brevet Sergeant Milich’s influence as a delegate, including: • Seeking and explaining award conditions to his and other workgroups.

• Assisting members with administrative grievance processes.

• Roster-change compliance with the award.

• COVID implications and changes conducted in the workplace.

• Commissioner of Public Employment guidelines.

• Explaining the historical aspects of current conditions of employment.

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• Explaining the enterprise bargaining process and new clauses.

• Equipment concerns and WorkCover considerations.

• Meeting with association staff while on programmed leave.

• Superannuation contributions.

• Assisting with the provision of hazard and incident reports.

• Arranging statements from members to enable industrial action.

• Attendance at Crime Command Branch meetings.

Assistant Secretary Whetton told delegates the actions Detective Brevet Sergeant Milich undertook were “overwhelming evidence of the advocacy and assistance he has provided in his role as a workplace delegate”.

Service awards Police Association president Mark Carroll presents service awards to: 1. Senior Constable 1C Andrew Bradley (five years) 2. Detective Brevet Sergeant Alex Grimaldi (five years) 3. Superintendent Les Buckley (five years) 4. Police Association vice-president Daryl Mundy (10 years) 5. Police Association committee member Chris Walkley (10 years)

Police Association service awards for five years continuous service went to Senior Constable 1C Andrew Bradley (Metro South Branch), Detective Brevet Sergeant Alex Grimaldi (Crime Command Branch) and Superintendent Les Buckley (Officers Branch).

For 10 years’ service, awards went to Police Association vice-president Daryl Mundy and committee member Chris Walkley. PJ

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rivate motor vehicle travel claims continually frustrate regional members.

The Police Association knows of a case in which a country member submitted a claim for “private” motor vehicle travel he/she undertook to attend, and return from, the Magistrates Court in two metropolitan districts.

According to SAPOL general orders (Rates – employee claims and reimbursements) a private vehicle used on transfer – for permanent, temporary or relieving duties – attracts, for motor cars or station wagons, 32 cents per kilometre.

A private vehicle used (with prior approval) for “official purposes” attracts 100 cents per kilometre.

The general order does not define official purposes.

In line with SA Police requirements, the member sought approval to travel by air and the supply of taxi vouchers to attend the respective courts in his/ her official capacity as a police witness.

General orders (Travel) stipulate that members should, in the first instance, contact their administration managers in respect of air travel.

According to the guidelines, “an employee who is travelling is required to select the lowest airfare that is compatible with their business needs”.

The order further stipulates that an employee should only hire vehicles/ taxis, when necessary, in connection with specific SAPOL duties, and must make sure that only the legal fare is charged.

The association understands that the flights for the member were not approved and a request for a police vehicle followed.

When travel options are confirmed in writing to be unavailable and you choose to use your private vehicle for official purposes, you are thoroughly entitled to claim the appropriate reimbursement.

The subsequent instruction to the member was to travel in his/her private vehicle, and an application for that purpose received approval.

General orders (Private Vehicles) stipulate that: “Employees must not use their private vehicle on duty without permission from their District/LSA/branch manager.

“Employees will not be required to use their private vehicle for official purposes when they do not want to.

Employees wanting to withdraw their acceptance to use their private vehicle on official business must notify their District/LSA/branch manager.”

The member, who had no other options, used his/her private vehicle to travel to Adelaide to attend the courts and give evidence as a police witness.

Then, in line with general orders (Rates), the member submitted a request for reimbursement for 1,402 kilometres at the then-rate of 98 cents per kilometre.

SAPOL rejected the claim and gave its approval only for 31 cents per kilometre for travel. It also ordered the claim be “capped” at $300.

The association wrote to SAPOL to seek payment of the appropriate remuneration rate of 98 cents per kilometre.

The SAPOL response was that the relevant industrial instruments were the applicable general order and determination 3.2 for the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment (CPSE).

The CPSE determination stipulates that: “When public or Government transport is available, that transport is to be the first preference. However, where the employer is satisfied that there are grounds for the use of a private

vehicle, reimbursement will be limited to the cost of travel by public transport.”

The determination provides the basis for “capping” reimbursement rates at the cost of a bus fare when an employee uses his or her private vehicle for official purposes.

This is clearly and grossly unjust.

A member drives his or her private vehicle for eight or more hours to Adelaide for official police business and returns to his or her country location for reimbursement equal to a bus fare.

The association sought industrial advice on the application of determinations of the CPSE pursuant to section 16(1)(b) of the Public Sector Act 2009 and regulation 9 of the Public Sector regulations 2010.

The determinations of CPSE apply only to employment to which part 7 of the Public Sector Act applies – which is not employment under the Police Act. The member had a clear entitlement to reimbursement at 98 cents per kilometre.

SAPOL has subsequently agreed to the payment at that rate.

If you are required to travel for official purposes, communicate with your manager as soon as possible and retain all e-mail and other written communication covering your request for airfare and/or the use of a police vehicle.

If you are directed to use your own vehicle, express your position on that to management in writing.

When travel options are confirmed in writing to be unavailable and you choose to use your private vehicle for official purposes, you are thoroughly entitled to claim the appropriate reimbursement.

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rthritis is usually split into two main types. One occurs when some diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis, actively destroy the joints. These are usually known as erosive forms of arthritis because the disease process erodes the joints and bones.

Gout is an erosive arthritis caused by the urate crystals damaging the joint. With these diseases comes active inflammation. Joints might be hot and tender.

The other type of arthritis is more common and not always caused by inflammation but more so wear and tear associated with age. It is commonly known as degenerative arthritis or osteoarthritis.

Despite one in six of us having this type of arthritis, there is not any real agreement about exactly what it is, other than something wrong with our joints.

In medical terms, it is thought of as primarily a degenerative disorder with inflammatory components arising from the biochemical breakdown of articular (hyaline) cartilage in the synovial joints.

As the joint wears down with age and activity it triggers irritation and inflammation and includes not only the joint but also the cartilage, the lining of the joint (synovium) and the surrounding bone.

Symptoms of arthritis include deep, achy joint pain – made worse by extensive use – with reduced range of motion and crepitus (grinding noise).

Joints typically have increased stiffness after rest.

As the joint wears down with age and activity it triggers irritation and inflammation and includes not only the joint but also the cartilage, the lining of the joint (synovium) and the surrounding bone.

Arthritis of the hand usually involves the last joints of the fingers, the base of the thumb and sometimes disfigurement of the hand with lumps and bony protuberances.

There are thought to be many reasons the joints are painful.

The presumption is that the pain arises from a combination of mechanisms. Sometimes the bones form spikes which push against the ligaments (osteophytes). Rubbing of bone on bone might cause vascular congestion of subchondral (under the cartilage) bone, leading to increased “bruising” or internal pressure.

The lining of the joint (synovium) might swell and become inflamed and cause irritation to the nerves in the joint.

The muscles that cross the joint might become fatigued. The joint itself might become scarred and contract. Fluid might cause swelling. The cartilage might tear or the tissue around the joint might become injured through overuse.

Psychological factors. Sometimes crepitus (a rough or crunchy sensation) might alter the way you walk. Other times it is just the chronic nature of the problem that can become depressing.

The goals of osteoarthritis treatment include pain alleviation and improvement of functional status.

It is also important to do no harm with medicines, as the condition is chronic, and to handle the pain and stiffness but not always inflammation.

Sometimes heat packs and other times cold packs are useful. Exercising is important to help the muscles protect

the joint. Think of the joints like opening a door. If you thrust the door open it can hit the wall and make a hole. If you slam it shut the whole frame can shudder. So too a joint.

Over-exercising can stir up pain but if the muscles control the movement there is less disruption of the joint.

To reduce the stress on the joint you need to reduce the weight on it.

That’s why muscle training, such as strengthening the quadriceps for the knees, becomes important.

The issue of whole-body weight loss is about more than just helping joints like the knee and ankle. It appears that the weight reduction decreases the risk of active inflammation in all joints.

So, less shoulder pain if you lose weight, but also less knee pain because there is less for the joint to carry.

If drugs are needed, the first suggested are those other than nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This is partly because there is not always inflammation, but also because of the long-term side effects on blood pressure, the heart and kidneys, and the creation of stomach ulcers.

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Kia Stonic DESIGN AND FUNCTION The new Kia Stonic urban SUV offers a trendy, youthful alternative in the compact SUV market. Based on Rio’s hatch platform, it is available in three trim levels: S, Sport and GT-Line, with drive-away pricing from $23,490.

S and Sport share a 1.4-litre fourcylinder petrol engine with either sixspeed manual or automatic transmission.

A smaller three-cylinder 1.0-litre turbo petrol engine, with seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, powers the GT-Line. While producing the same power, this engine offers substantially more torque, uses less fuel and produces lower emissions.

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Pricing S manual $23,490 (six-speed auto adds $1,000), GT-Line $30,490 (both drive away pricing).

Power train S and Sport have 1.4-litre four-cylinder petrol (74kW/133Nm) with six-speed manual or auto transmissions. GT-Line has 1.0-litre turbo three-cylinder petrol (74kW/172Nm) with seven-speed dual clutch transmission.

Fuel economy GT-Line 5.4 litres/100km, S and Sport 6.0 litres/100km (manual) – 6.7 litres/100km (auto).

Safety Five Star (ANCAP), six airbags, AEB with pedestrian and cyclist recognition, lane-keeping and lane-following assistance, driver-attention monitor, rear camera and rear parking sensors.

Warranty Seven-year unlimited-kilometre warranty with seven-year capped-price servicing.

of two-tone paint with black roof or a sunroof with standard paint colours.

GT-Line seats are trimmed in a black cloth, imitation leather combination with contrasting stitching. An eight-inch colour touchscreen features with sat nav (10-year map update), DAB+ radio, Bluetooth, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

Up front are big bottle holders in the doors, a small-lidded console bin, 12-volt and USB sockets and, in the back, another USB charger.

The rear 60/40 seat is just roomy enough for adults but it lacks a centre armrest. Generous cargo space varies between 352 and 1,155 litres with both rear seats folded. A space-saver spare wheel hides under the floor.

DRIVING GT-Line comes with push-button entry and start, and the driver scores a comfortable, supportive seat with ample manual height and leg adjustments.

The thick leather-bound flat-bottom steering wheel offers reach and rake adjustment. Visibility is good, and there’s a 4.2-inch TFT screen providing trip computer information and digital speedo.

GT-Line’s small 1.0-litre turbo engine is smoother than expected and freerevving by nature. It can be lacklustre off the line but, once revs build (generally over 2,000rpm), it performs better than its modest (74kW) output suggests.

The seven-speed dual-clutch transmission makes the most of available power, delivering slick changes and keeping the engine on the boil. While moving the gear selector to the right engages manual mode, this car could really benefit from paddle shifters.

Three selectable drive modes (Eco, Normal and Sport) affect the steering, throttle and transmission settings.

Ride comfort is firm but not uncomfortable with its suspension tune biased toward agility in corners and Australian road conditions.

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Third row can accommodate adults as long as second-row seats are moved forward.

Cargo space is versatile and generous. Available floor space measures between 540mm long by 1,360mm wide (all seats in use) and up to 2,150mm long with rows two and three folded.

All Palisade models feature a full suite of advanced safety and driverassistance technologies along with a new rear-passenger detection system to prevent children or pets being trapped inside a locked car.

The new Hyundai Palisade might just suit you – if you need a big familyfriendly SUV with up to eight seats.

Palisade and two other model variants (Elite and Highlander) offer petrol FWD or turbo-diesel AWD drivetrains. All models feature an eight-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters.

This SUV is big and bold but some might baulk at its imposing chrome grille.

Inside, the spacious environment is superbly crafted and family-friendly.

Palisade features three rows of comfortable seats trimmed in perforated or Nappa leather (model dependent). There’s wireless phone charging, 16 cup holders, seven USB ports and air conditioning to each row.

While Elite and Highlander have the option of two captains’ seats in the centre row the standard layout is a three-seat 60/40 configuration.

AWD a steal

DESIGN AND FUNCTION

DRIVING Highlander provides a superbly appointed interior with seats trimmed in luxurious Nappa leather.

A commanding driving position provides excellent visibility.

Gear selection is via buttons on the console and an electric park brake frees up console space. The result is a tall console with two large bins and an enormous tray underneath.

The instrument cluster features a seven-inch LCD screen delivering varied information flanked by

Model Hyundai Palisade seven- or eight-seat large SUV. Pricing V6 petrol FWD: Palisade $55,000, Elite $61,500, Highlander $71,000 (plus ORC).

Diesel AWD option adds $4,000.

Drive 3.8-litre (217kW/355Nm) trains V6 petrol with FWD or 2.2-litre (147kW/440Nm) turbo diesel with AWD. Both have eight-speed auto transmissions with paddle shifters.

Fuel V6 petrol economy 10.7 litres/100km, diesel 7.3 litres/100km (combined test).

Spare wheel Full-size alloy.

Towing 2,200kg braked towing.

smart analogue gauges with a head-up display projected onto the windscreen.

Central is a 10.25-inch colour touchscreen featuring DAB+ radio, satellite navigation and reversing camera .

With split- s c r e en functionality, it is also programmable for different drivers.

While the 3.8-litre V6 engine is superbly smooth and powerful (217kW), the 2.2-litre diesel AWD option is a steal at $4,000. This is seriously one of the quietest and smoothest diesels around.

With its additional torque, the diesel delivers power effortlessly.

It is far more frugal at the fuel pump and the AWD system offers snow, mud and sand drive modes for difficult conditions.

Drivers have multiple camera views available, including blind-spot video down either side when indicating. They can use the vehicle’s audio system to speak with rear passengers without the need to raise their voices.

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uy-now-pay-later (BNPL) options are at the fingertips of most Australian shoppers. They provide the perfect instant gratification of buying something now with the “convenience” of paying it off later.

But there are some serious potential pitfalls to consider, with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) finding that 20 per cent of BNPL users go without everyday living essentials to meet repayments and another 15 per cent have been forced to take out additional loans to make ends meet.

A staggering $9bn of BNPL payments were processed in Australia during the 2019-20 financial year, with one in every five Australians regularly using these services. A growing number of merchants now offer BNPL as a payment option to increase their online and in-store transactions.

How does BNPL work?

A BNPL service lets you buy goods up to limits of around $2,000 by paying part of the purchase price at the time and the rest in instalments from a linked debit or credit card. Get what you want right now, and the merchant gets paid upfront by the BNPL provider.

If you manage to pay your instalments on time, there is normally no interest or fees to worry about.

Merchants are charged a service fee for BNPL payments and, while they receive the full amount of the purchase price upfront minus the associated fee, BNPL running costs are significantly higher than other payment options such as credit cards and PayPal.

Most BNPL providers impose nosurcharge rules that prevent the cost of fees being passed to the consumer, but there are calls to change this in the future and that might increase the cost of goods to the consumer in the future.

What are the downfalls of BNPL? Difficulty in tracking your spending.

According to ASIC, more than half of BNPL users are spending more than they otherwise would, with one in six with overdrawn accounts, delayed bill payments, or borrowed money because of overcommitment through BNPL platforms.

Be careful of the effect of BNPL on your credit score and late payments.

While older Australians had largely shunned the BNPL boom, they’re now one of the growing groups of consumers.

Younger people and low-income earners are very familiar with BNPL schemes, using it to shop online, and buy clothing and big household items.

This payment option has brought about a jump in the number of people struggling to pay debts and, with six out of 10 BNPL users aged under 34, there is growing concern that regular late payments could affect their future credit rating and shatter their dreams of future home ownership.

BNPL schemes are unregulated BNPL accounts might seem easy to use but people forget they’re entering legally binding contracts that are not regulated like normal credit applications done through a financial institution such as a bank or credit union.

It means people are not carefully assessed on whether they can afford the repayments, taking into account regular living expenses.

This can lead to financial heartbreak when something goes wrong, like losing your job, getting your hours cut or an unexpected large bill.

It means people are not carefully assessed on whether they can afford the repayments, taking into account regular living expenses. This can lead to financial heartbreak when something goes wrong, like losing your job, getting your hours cut or an unexpected large bill.

What you should consider with BNPL As with any spending decision, consider whether you can afford something and really need it, as you are only delaying the need to repay a purchase. If you rely on BNPL payment options, consider the type of account access card linked to your BNPL account to avoid paying extra interest on purchases. Limit yourself to only one BNPL account to track your spending.

Could a credit card work better for you?

Although BNPL options are widely available at many merchants, they cannot be used to pay bills and all daily transactions, unlike credit cards.

Credit card interest-free periods could be used as part of a cash-flow strategy combined with offset or redraw accounts. For example, depositing your salary in your offset or redraw accounts during interest-free periods means you do not use these funds for your daily spending. You can then benefit by having your money lowering (offsetting) the interest payable on your mortgage, until you require the funds for your credit card payment.

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Minnesota murder law a disservice to Justine?

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innesota p olice officer Mohammed Noor shot and killed Justine Ruszczyk on July 15, 2017.

He was charged with second-degree intentional murder, third-degree depraved-mind murder and seconddegree manslaughter.

A jury sitting in Minnesota acquitted Noor of second-degree intentional murder but convicted him of thirddegree depraved-mind murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Noor appealed his conviction of third-degree depraved-mind murder to the Supreme Court of Minnesota.

The court allowed his appeal, quashed that conviction, and remanded him back to the trial court to be resentenced for the second-degree manslaughter charge only.

The court made clear that the issue in the appeal was not whether Noor was criminally responsible for the death of Justine Ruszczyk – he was – as he did not appeal his conviction for second-degree manslaughter. The question before the court was a technical point of law about the elements of third-degree depravedmind murder, and whether in law Noor could be guilty of that offence.

The law of murder in Minnesota is unusual compared to Australian and English law. In some respects, it is also a little unusual in American law. While the US law is a cousin of Australian law – both Australian and American law descending from the English common law – over the centuries US law could accurately be described as a third cousin twice removed.

It was the elements – or ingredients – of what constitutes third-degree depraved-mind murder that were the subject of the Supreme Court’s decision and Noor’s appeal.

In Australia, there is one offence of homicide: murder and manslaughter are really two different species of the one offence. Murder requires proof of an intention to kill or to do grievous bodily harm or of being reckless as to those results. If the act that causes a death is not accompanied by an intention to do, or recklessness as to, either of those results there is usually no murder.

Manslaughter meanwhile is a catchall applicable when a person does an act that causes the death of a person but there is either no intent or recklessness as to the result, or there is some part justification or excuse for the unlawful killing.

It might apply where a person does an act that causes a death, with intent or recklessness, but the act was done in self-defence and the force that was used was excessive so not completely justified.

We call that voluntary manslaughter because the act is done with a state of mind that considers the result.

But manslaughter might also apply where a person does an unlawful and dangerous act like stabbing a person, without an intent or recklessness as to the result, but that act kills the deceased.

Or it can apply where someone does an act that kills the deceased, without intent or recklessness, but the act is so negligent that it is criminal, and the person should be criminally responsible for the death. We call that involuntary manslaughter.

For historical reasons, manslaughter is always available to a jury as an alternative verdict to murder as a

merciful verdict. That was because, at common law, murder was the first offence to which mandatory sentencing was applied: the judge had no choice but to impose the death penalty. So, the common law created a work-around for juries who felt sorry for the accused and allowed them to convict of manslaughter instead which was not punishable by death.

In most states in Australia, you won’t find the ingredients for murder and manslaughter in the statute books. They are pure common law offences. That (and for other historical reasons) means in Australia there is no such thing as “aggravated” murder or manslaughter.

A drug dealer causing the death of a police officer, or a domestic violence perpetrator causing a death of a victim during a DV incident is, in our law, treated the same as when a drug dealer causes the death of another one.

In America it is quite different.

American criminal law is code-based, which means you find it in the statutes.

By and large, the criminal law is statebased and the law varies wildly depending on which state you’re in.

It’s hard to make generalizations for that reason.

In about 1794, in Pennsylvania, murder was first graded into subcategories – first and second degrees.

That was for the same reason as the common law in England and Australia allowed juries to convict of manslaughter instead of murder: firstdegree murder carried the death penalty, second-degree murder didn’t.

Eventually all the American states followed suit.

First-degree murder is murder where there is an intention to kill, and there is some feature of the murder that is particularly serious and an element of premeditation or pre-planning.

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B E BOOKS

The Devil’s Advocate Steve Cavanagh Hachette Australia, $32.99

A deadly prosecutor.

They call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.

A twisted ritualistic killing.

When a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone that Dubois is innocent.

A small town boiling with rage.

Everyone in Buckstown believes Dubois is guilty. He has no hope of a fair trial. And the local defence attorney assigned to represent him has disappeared.

A former con artist.

Hot shot New York lawyer Eddie Flynn travels south to fight fire with fire. He plans to destroy the prosecutor’s case, find the real killer and save Dubois from the electric chair.

But the murders are just beginning. Is Eddie Flynn next?

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When You Are Mine

Michael Robotham Hachette Australia, $32.99

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster.

Called to the scene of a domestic assault one day, she rescues a blood-covered young woman, Tempe Brown, the mistress of a decorated detective. The incident is hushed up, but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy with powerful friends.

Determined to protect each other, the two women strike up a tentative friendship.

Tempe is thoughtful and sweet and makes herself indispensable to Phil, but sinister things keep happening and something isn’t quite right about the stories Tempe tells.

When a journalist, with links to Phil’s father and to the detective, is found floating in the Thames, Phil doesn’t know where to turn, who to blame or who she can trust.

Before You Knew My Name

Jacqueline Bublitz Allen & Unwin, $29.99

Eighteen-year-old Alice Lee arrives in New York looking for a fresh start with $600 in her pocket and a stolen camera in tow. Just one month later, she’s the city’s latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim splashed across the news.

Ruby Jones arrives in the city with a grand plan to reset her life away from Melbourne but quickly finds herself lonelier than ever. That is until she discovers Alice’s body by the Hudson River on a morning run.

Alice, the novel’s narrator watching from above, is sure that Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her life – and death.

Ruby, traumatized by finding Alice and the lack of answers available as to who she was and why she died, is unable to let Alice go. Ruby becomes determined to give her the ending she deserves.

The Platoon Commander

John O’Halloran Hachette Australia, $34.99

John O’Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, and was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough, determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR’s B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of the war, including Operation Hobart and the Battle of Long Tan. But he faced his hardest military challenge at Operation Bribie, leading a fixed bayonet charge against a deadly Viet Cong jungle stronghold.

The Platoon Commander is a firsthand account of the realities and brutalities of war. O’Halloran’s sense of humour kept him going through the years afterwards. His indomitable spirit inspired the men of 5 Platoon to fight against the odds to achieve the mission.

O’Halloran has never told his own remarkable story. Until now.

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C E 1979

CINEMA

Val McDermid Sphere, $32.99

The first in a new series of novels introducing Allie Burns, set at pivotal moments of the past four decades.

1979. It is the winter of discontent and ambitious young journalist Allie Burns is on the hunt for the story that will change her career.

The only woman working for the Glasgow news desk, she needs a groundbreaking scoop for the boy’s club to take her seriously.

Soon Burns and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland.

They risk making powerful enemies – and Burns won’t stop there. After all, she is a woman in a man’s world, and nobody can be trusted.

Ron’s Gone Wrong October 28

The Nameless Ones

John Connolly Hachette Australia, $32.99

Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller, with Angel and Louis taking centre stage, following from events in A Book of Bones, from the bestselling author of the acclaimed Charles Parker novels.

In Amsterdam, four people are butchered in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between, and confidant of the assassin named Louis.

The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland.

They are wrong.

For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down, five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into the east.

There is only one problem. The sixth.

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Barney is a socially awkward middleschooler and Ron is his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend out of the Box”.

Ron’s malfunctions, set against the backdrop of the social media age, launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.

Cast: Jack Dylan Grazer (Barney – voice), Zach Galifianakis (Ron – voice), Olivia Colman (Donka – voice).

Last Night in Soho November 18

An aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer.

However, the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy (Sandy), Thomasin McKenzie (Eloise), Matt Smith (Jack), Diana Rigg (Miss Collins), Terence Stamp (Jack).

Eternals

November 4

M a r vel Studio s ’ Eternals features an exciting new team of superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years.

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite to battle mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

Cast: Angelina Jolie (Thena), Kit Harrington (Dane Whitman), Salma Hayek (Ajak).

No Time to Die November 11

Globe-trotting spy James Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived, however, when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help.

The mission, to rescue a kidnapped scientist, turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Ana de Armas (Paloma), Rami Malek (Lyutsifer Safin), Christoph Waltz (Ernst Stavro Blofeld), Naomie Harris (Eve Moneypenny), Ralph Fiennes (M).

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Sergeant Chris Jackson

Telecommunications Interception Section 43 years’ service Last Day: 25.08.21 Comments…

“I thank current and past executive teams, current and past association employees and current and past workplace representatives for everything that has been achieved and continues to be achieved.

“I have always been grateful for the association’s efforts in securing improvement in pay and workplace conditions.

“I joined SAPOL, along with other Course 66 recruits, on June 15, 1978, as a soon-to-be 17-yearold graduating over two years later, on September 11, 1980.

“I have fond memories of the ’80s and ’90s having served at Adelaide, Stirling, Nuriootpa, Kangaroo Island (Kingscote), Unley, Surveillance Section, Vice and Gaming Task Force, Southern Command Response and Adelaide Investigations.

“Since September 9, 1999, I have been attached to the Telecommunications Interception Section, where I hope I have been more help than hindrance.

“I have met many remarkable people during my service and thank them for their guidance and friendships. I leave with no regrets and a lot to be grateful for.”

Senior Constable 1C Verlaine Bell

Aldinga Police Station 35 years’ service Last Day: 02.08.21 Comments…

“I particularly thank Mark Carroll for his dedication to the association and its members and for always being there to protect and fight for members’ rights, working conditions, wages and entitlements and for his personal support when I have needed it. Just his length of service alone speaks for itself.

“I thank all other past and present committee and reps for the great work they do in caring for and representing members, including me. Keep up the great job you are all doing.

“I have my regrets which are few but mostly I have great memories of the many interesting and exciting things I have experienced and some fabulous people I have had the pleasure to work with.

“My advice to everyone is always to have a plan B, and even a plan C, just in case things don’t work out how you would like them to due to injury, stress or other personal circumstances.

“I retire on August 2, 2021, which is also my birthday. A gift to myself.

“Aldinga has been a fabulous place to work with some good people and I have really enjoyed the last few years and my time with the Neighbourhood Policing Team at Christies Beach with Russell Stone as my sergeant and the team of guys.

“I have been volunteering as an SA Ambulance officer and with St John SA

for the past two years and will continue to do this both as a volunteer at Goolwa station and a casual at other stations around the state when needed.

“I am now fortunate enough, thanks to the training I have had with SAAS, to have gained a 0.5 FTE position with the Royal Flying Doctor Service working out of Andamooka, Maree and Marla.

“You might still see me around from time to time at SAPOL jobs.

“I encourage you to support the association and its endeavours as it will always be there for you when you need it.”

Senior Constable 1C Mick Abbott

Police Media Section 44 years’ service Last Day: 11.08.21

Comments…

“While my rank didn’t reach any dizzy heights, I would like to think I have made a passionate and reliable contribution to SAPOL operations, especially through my many years in the Media Section.

“I thank the current association committee and all those people who have served in it over the many years of my service – policing and the association have certainly evolved since 1977 when I started.

“I also thank all those people I worked with during my 40-plus years in uniform, especially the past and present members of the Police Media Section, the most underrated and unrecognized section in SAPOL. “Started in SAPOL as a teenager who had just turned 17, leaving as a 61-year-old soon-to-be grandfather.

I have a lifetime of memories and friendships I will always treasure.”

Detective Superintendent Stephen Ryan Health, Safety & Welfare Admin 43 years’ service Last Day: 15.01.21

Comments…

“In 1978, I joined SAPOL via adult Course 126 and completed a six-month recruit programme.

“By the early 1990s, about 80 per cent of my course colleagues had moved to alternative careers. I didn’t take the hint, primarily because I enjoyed the sense of identity and camaraderie provided by policing.

Valued friendships from Course 126 remain to this day.

“I depart SAPOL with the satisfaction of knowing that I maximized my policing experiences by working as a patrol officer, research officer, detective, negotiator, trainer, supervisor, and manager.

“As a young detective, I attended court in France, interviewed dubious witnesses in Monaco, and conducted multiple investigations in England, Switzerland and Thailand.

“Completion of the FBI National Academy course and Hong Kong Police exchange programme were career highlights. I returned to Hong Kong to study Triad organized crime and Shenyang, China, to lecture periodically at the National Police University of China.

“For about six years, I worked with national law enforcement agencies via the former National Crime Authority and Australian Crime Commission.

“I am particularly grateful for the staff at the former Ethical and Professional Standards Branch and their ability to continually perform challenging and often unappreciated investigations. Over a two-year period, as officer-in-charge Internal Investigations, I worked with Doug Barr, a dedicated, intelligent and honest police manager and friend.

“My years as a local service area commander in country and metropolitan locations and Crime Service manager were challenging and rewarding. I have fond memories of stints at Coober Pedy and the APY Lands.

“For more than a decade I delivered a police management subject at Adelaide TAFE, and I depart knowing that probably 25 per cent of SAPOL’s current supervisory ranks completed my subject.

“I thank the association for its ongoing pursuit of better conditions and employee well-being.”

Stephen Ryan at the FBI Academy in Virginia, USA.

Brevet Sergeant Paul van der Ploeg

Barossa Crime Scene 35 years’ service Last Day: 21.07.21 Comments…

“I thank the association for its service to members and the resulting improved conditions and wages.

“I wish all members, other staff employed within SAPOL, and Police Association staff all the very best for the future.”

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Senior Sergeant Andrew Fortington

State Intelligence 35 years’ service Last Day: 16.07.21 Comments…

“During my 35-year career in SAPOL I have had the good fortune to have been able to share a wide range of experiences with so many good people.

“It is those shared experiences that will remain with me, so thank you to everyone who played a part in creating all these great memories.

“I also wish everyone good luck with their own careers and sincerely hope that you get as much satisfaction and enjoyment from them as I have from mine.”

Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Overmeyer Professional Conduct Section 44 years’ service Last Day: 16.07.21

Comments…

“I am grateful for the opportunities this career has given me and the friendships I have made along the way.

“As a 16-year-old from Willunga, I was lucky enough to be accepted into SAPOL and so the ride began. From patrols to CIB and various squads as well as metropolitan and country spots. I have loved it all.

“My wife and I are very thankful for the many kind words and well wishes received.

“I thank the association for its work in gaining our standard of pay and conditions and its continued efforts to support individuals in need.”

Brevet Sergeant Peter Wickham

COMCEN 44 years’ service Last Day: 29.07.21 Comments…

“I leave after 44 years with plenty of friendships and fond memories and, most importantly, no regrets.

“It was good in the police.

“I thank the association’s past and present members for all their achievements. The association has come a long way in my short time from what it was back when I joined. I can now sit back and enjoy some of the benefits.”

Inspector Glen “Gus” Sickerdick

Hills Fleurieu Local Service Area 41 years’ service Last Day: 30.07.21 Comments…

“I have had a great and rewarding career with many experiences along the way.

“During my journey, which has covered two tours (so to speak), starting originally from January 4, 1971, I can proudly say I have worked with and alongside some great people through my career, while also seeing and being inspired by great leadership.

“Everyone I have been involved with has contributed to what I call extremely fond memories. All have contributed to my enjoyable career and to what I have been able to achieve along my journey.

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“I am extremely proud of the work all our members have done and continue to do on a daily basis, especially through these current trying times.

“To everyone with whom I have been associated, I thank you for your friendship, camaraderie and support.”

Senior Constable 1C John Adamczyk

Eastern District 46 years’ service Last Day: 22.09.21

Comments…

“Time has caught up with me.

Unfortunately, the last 18 years on the long-term injury list.

“To all those who gave me guidance throughout my career I thank you. To those who I have been able to educate and assist, I thank you. To those who helped me through some awful times with my injury, I thank you.

“I wish those remaining in the job all the best in their future endeavours.”

Detective Senior Sergeant 1C John Schulz APM Human Source Management 45 years’ service Last Day: 29.09.21

Comments…

“My thanks to the association for its efforts over the years in attaining the pay and conditions I have enjoyed during my almost 46 years with SAPOL. “I also thank all those I worked with during that time, and I struggle to work out how it all happened so quickly. February 1976 seems like yesterday.

“I have no regrets and have enjoyed all my postings. Region B patrols, teaching at the academy, Adelaide CIB, Drug Task Force, Port Adelaide CIB, Viking Joint Task Force, Coverts and Human Source Management – I have been

privileged to work with and enjoy the company of so many dedicated and relentless investigators.

“Undercover policing was my passion, and I loved every minute of it.

“I am currently enjoying a new challenge with the Adelaide Football Club, which has reinforced my belief that the achievements and abilities of people within of our organization are quite remarkable.”

Senior Constable Tom (Antonius) Bosman Murray Bridge Police Station 16 years’ service Last Day: 13.08.21

Comments…

“I am taking on a new role outside of the public service for the last few years of my working life as a church pastor.

“I have many enjoyable memories of my time in SAPOL and wish my colleagues past and present all the best.”

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CEO Brett Schatto, former SA police officer and Police Association member (11 years).

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For hands, the suggestion is to try things like topical capsaicin and topical NSAIDs, such as heat rub or anti-inflammatory applications.

For knee osteoarthritis, the rheumatologist conditionally recommends using paracetamol, topical and oral NSAIDs, other pain killers such as tramadol and, in more severe cases, intra-articular corticosteroid injections.

The same can be tried on the hips but, in the end, the only thing that might work is a joint replacement.

If surgery is needed, some joints do well with replacements but, sometimes, fusing the joints becomes an option.

Results are excellent insofar as hip replacements. Ankle replacements, however, tend to be unstable because the muscles around the joint are vulnerable to stretching, so a fusion is more common.

Replacing joints in the hands and fingers sometimes becomes a cosmetic operation rather than leaving a functional joint, or it reduces pain rather than improving function.

Arthritis is more common as we age.

Certain diseases can predispose the joints to more injuries and trauma and injury through activity, like some sports, increases the risk of developing arthritis. Some people seem to be genetically predisposed.

It is important to understand how to manage your arthritis and not spend money on treatments that don’t work and medication which can be more dangerous than the original problem.

Just remember to pay off your credit card spending once your credit card payment is due to avoid extra interest.

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So, in America, killing a police officer intentionally, or a DV perpetrator intentionally killing a victim in a DV incident, would be first-degree intentional murder.

First-degree intentional murder would be similar to murder in SA if murder was intentional (and not reckless) and accompanied by circumstances of aggravation set out in s5AA of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act, but also if the murder was pre-planned.

Second-degree murder would be closer to what we in Australia understand as murder: one drug dealer intentionally killing another one would usually be second-degree intentional murder, provided there was no element of pre-planning.

Depending on the state you’re in, the offence is generally also graded by intention or recklessness, and the type of intention or recklessness held in the mind of the accused. Manslaughter is also usually graded, by whether it is voluntary or involuntary and what state of mind is held or how criminal liability arises.

Noor was charged with second-degree intentional murder – that he did an act that caused the death of Ms Ruszczyk and intended to kill her in doing so, but that there was no element of pre-planning. Of that offence he was acquitted.

Here’s where it gets more complicated.

Three states only, of which Minnesota was one, created a further subcategory of murder: third-degree depraved-mind murder. There are still only three states that recognize this form of murder.

Noor was charged with this offence and was convicted.

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The state’s case at Noor’s trial was that he deliberately shot the deceased: the person he shot was the person he meant to kill.

Accordingly, the Supreme Court found that Noor could not have a “depraved mind” because the act was directed towards a particular person.

It was the elements – or ingredients – of what constitutes third-degree depraved-mind murder that were the subject of the Supreme Court’s decision and Noor’s appeal.

Third-degree depraved-mind murder does not require preplanning or an intention to kill a particular person. It does not require that the person shot was the person who was meant to be killed.

In Minnesota, third-degree murder occurs when a person, without intent to kill a particular person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others that evinces a depraved mind, without regard for human life. This is basically what, in our law, would be something in between unlawful and dangerousact manslaughter or manslaughter by criminal negligence.

In Noor’s case, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that a “depraved mind” cannot be established when a defendant’s conduct is directed with particularity toward the person who is killed: that is, toward a particular person.

So, in our stabbing without intention to kill example, in Australian law this could either be an unlawful and dangerous-act manslaughter and the prosecution would have to show that the accused intentionally stabbed the deceased, but that he or she did so without an intention to kill or do grievous bodily harm and was not reckless as to either of those results.

Or it could be manslaughter by criminal negligence and the prosecution wouldn’t need to prove an intention to stab a particular person even if that intention was present. In Minnesota it could never be third-degree depravedmind murder because the stabbing was directed towards a particular person.

To use an example put forward by Noor’s lawyers, third-degree depravedmind murder “is like shooting into a crowd” or “like driving a car, speeding down the road with a blindfold on”.

The state’s case at Noor’s trial was that he deliberately shot the deceased: the person he shot was the person he meant to kill. Accordingly, the Supreme Court found that Noor could not have a “depraved mind” because the act was directed towards a particular person.

It followed that Noor could not lawfully have been found guilty of third-degree depraved-mind murder.

In Australia, because our common law is more flexible, the conviction could be upheld on the basis that it was just a different kind of manslaughter: not manslaughter by an unlawful and dangerous act directed to a particular person, but criminal negligence.

In Minnesota, as in America generally, the prescriptive nature of the statutory law meant that Noor had to be acquitted of the offence.

As Noor was sentenced for the thirddegree murder only, the Supreme Court remitted him back to the trial court to be sentenced for the second-degree manslaughter offence.

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Jobs you never forget We’ve all attended fatal motor vehicle accidents. One accident still remains with me to this day. When working at Ceduna police station in 1992, I was on a night shift with an amazing police aide, Jenny Scott.

Just after midnight we received a call advising us of a serious head-on motor vehicle accident west of Ceduna on the Eyre Highway. Once we attended the scene, I realized the male driver was in fact a friend of mine. He was the only person in his vehicle which had collided head-on with a semi-trailer. While at the scene, I was able to talk to him and provide comfort in the circumstances. He passed away due to significant injuries. I never go into detail about it other than to say I’ll always wonder if he heard me comforting him just prior to passing.

As a young probationer in 1989, I had the pleasure to operate the Government House guard room. It was mid-afternoon and I was in the office watching traffic go by when there was a knock at the door.

A well-dressed elderly man appeared and said: “G’day, my boy, can you help me?

I locked my keys in the car.” I opened the door and there stood the great Sir Donald Bradman. His ageing Mercedes Benz was parked within the gardens of Government House. He and Lady Bradman had attended lunch with the governor. I took the opportunity to find an old coat hanger and accompany him to the car. I gained entry but took some paint off the door. Sir Donald was elated and I was the beneficiary of a halfhour conversation with him.

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BREVET SERGEANT BRENDAN GOTTSCHUTZKE (South Coast Prosecution)

I conducted a trial many years ago which involved a father and son. The matter related to an assault (child chastisement).

The prosecution case did not rely on the victim’s version of events. For various reasons the victim was excluded from providing evidence at trial. This clearly diminished the prosecution’s attitude toward proceeding to trial. However, the trial proceeded. Having presented facts that were provided by other witnesses and tendered in evidence, the charge was proved, and a conviction imposed. This was subsequently appealed by counsel but upheld. This is now case law and referred to by other prosecutors. I’ve recently spoken to the mother of the victim and her appreciation toward police remains strong.

“I opened the door and there stood the great Sir Donald Bradman.”

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