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Contents FEATURES

10 Resolved!

The task for Drug Investigation Branch detectives was to resolve the problem of an interstate drug syndicate worth millions of dollars – and they succeeded.

16 Toward the ultimate coaching role

An Australasian Police Basketball Association Hall of Fame inductee, Tracy York sticks to her way of drawing the best out of her players.

19 Police Journal ranked among world’s best

It’s the nation’s leading and most awarded police magazine, but the international honours keep rolling in too.

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COVER: Sergeant Tracy York Photography by Steve McCawley

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We had always wanted to tell the story of Operation Scarlet, which busted a highly sophisticated interstate drug syndicate centred in Adelaide.

Former Drug Investigation Branch detective Phil Neagle (now at Major Crime) sat down for an interview with me last month.

The insights he provided as to the workings of the syndicate, and the millions of dollars it was making, were extraordinary.

Phil explained what motivated the offenders to involve themselves in this risky criminal enterprise. He also summed up the character of the syndicate mastermind, Storm Strang.

Ultimately, Op Scarlet was, as Phil described it, a “cracking job” to work on.

Also in this issue, we present a followup interview with police officer and Adelaide Lightning coach Tracy York, who last spoke to us four years ago.

Back then, she was already a trailblazer and a woman revered in her sport (A success on court… and in life, April 2012).

Now, Tracy, a breast-cancer survivor, has not only become head coach of the Lightning but also assistant coach of the Adelaide 36ers.

On the industrial front, Police Association president Mark Carroll addresses the important issue of professional registration for police.

And don’t forget our second instalment of Family. For this issue we put the questions to father and daughter Joe and Sarah Gavini.

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PRESIDENT Mark Carroll

Professional registra evolutionary step A system of professional registration for police officers is not only

wholly appropriate but also long overdue.

I have maintained this view for several years; and, in February, the Police Federation of Australia argued for the concept at the Australia New Zealand Council of Police Professionalization (ANZCoPP).

The police recruits of today join a vastly different occupation from the one their predecessors joined 30, 20 or even 15 years ago.

The status which comes with a professional identity is simply the expectation of today’s recruit.

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations indicates that police officer and police detective are rated at skill-level two.

Teachers, nurses and other health professionals are rated at skill-level one.

The lower rating for police is unacceptable. No one could credibly assert that police, teachers and nurses do not all belong at skill-level one on the professionalization scale.

Once an occupation incorporates the key characteristics of a profession – and the community sees that it deserves professional status – practitioners establish bodies of their peers to control the standards of practice.

This brings about invaluable public trust in the particular profession’s registered members. It also ensures the protection of these standards and their freedom from external manipulation.

Among the major benefits of professional registration is its capacity to defend the police profession against the intrusion of other occupations.

Professional registration would also ensure seamless inter-jurisdictional mobility for police.

A registration system would provide agreed standards of policing practice for all jurisdictions.

It would also demand and support ongoing professional development and enable police officers

ation an to develop further and maintain professional competence.

Commissioners, under the registration model the PFA has proposed, would have the right to hire and fire (and discipline) in the context of the particular industrial regimes of each jurisdiction.

They would also have the right to set higher standards for their own jurisdictions.

The PFA maintains that commissioners can be confident that potential registered employees from other jurisdictions will have satisfied the minimum standards set by the profession.

T his, of course, would prove vital as inter-jurisdictional mobility increased in the future.

Professional standards would be critical in assessing whether an international recruit – at either commissioned or non-commissioned rank – met Australian and New Zealand standards for police employment.

Some commissioners strongly opposed aspects of professional registration at the February ANZCoPP meeting.

The PFA argues that this represents an attempt by some commissioners to prevent any change to practice standards.

So the PFA challenges the commissioners of South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland to substantiate their opposition to professional registration.

I suspect their opposition to professional registration is attributable to their fear of losing individual power over their fiefdoms.

Even more concerning is that those commissioners sit on ANZCoPP, a body charged with advancing, leading and advocating for professionalization of policing in Australia and NZ. It would appear some commissioners are in breach of their duties to ANZCoPP. If that is indeed the case, they should withdraw from any deliberations in respect of professionalization.

It is clear that professional registration is the next logical step in the development of the police occupation.

Most professions have a model of registration which establishes standards of practice and training.

D o c to r s , nu r s e s , l aw ye r s , arc h ite c t s , psychologists, teachers and chiropractors all have registration requirements.

Registration ensures that only police officers who have satisfied all the requirements for registration are able to exercise police functions.

And there is the great extent to which the community stands to benefit.

Professional registration assures the public of receiving quality police services from appropriately trained and qualified police officers.

Policing requires its practitioners to possess high levels of judgement, discretion, moral courage, physical bravery and the capacity for dispute resolution and problem-solving.

By necessity, police also

Policing is an undeniably professional task which presents its practitioners with continuous intellectual challenges.

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Commissioners and leaders who oppose it are holding police officers back from their aspirations, destinies and professional fulfilment. exercise considerable autonomous discretion.

Policing is an undeniably professional task which presents its practitioners with continuous intellectual challenges. It demands public recognition as a professional occupation.

French writer Victor Hugo famously said: “You cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” That applies to professional registration: its time has come.

It is simply another stage in the evolution of the police occupation. Commissioners and leaders who oppose it are holding police officers back from their aspirations, destinies and professional fulfilment.

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It was a drug syndicate with millions of reasons not to stop producing and selling its illicit product.

But the Drug Investigation Branch knew just how to bring down the lucrative racket.

WHEN Drug Investigation Branch detectives

Left: Detective Sergeant Phil Neagle

raided his luxury home in well-heeled St Peters, the drug kingpin had no idea that “resolution day” had come. So the 6am bust – launched on almost 80 other SA and interstate properties as well – left a totally unprepared Storm Strang “pretty well surprised”.

He likely felt mighty desperate, too, because he had to have realized what the STAR-led raid meant – apart from his arrest and serious charges. It was the end of his SA-based cannabis production and sales network, with its estimated annual turnover of $40 million.

And, with that shut down, his criminally funded high-end lifestyle would go, too. Among the obvious losses he stood to suffer was that of his lavish $1.3 million home.

“It had the best of everything, inside and out,” Detective Sergeant Phil Neagle remembers. “The gardens out the back, an outdoor kitchen area, the electrical work… The house had been gutted and renovated and it just had the best of everything.”

Other evidence of the Strang indulgence lay in his ownership of luxury items, such as his $110,000 Malibu ski boat. He also owned real estate at Sunnyside, north-east of Murray Bridge.

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for Strang. There were all his SA-based underlings and the interstate buyers of his cannabis.

Thirteen of the underlings wound up arrested and charged with participation in a criminal organization, trafficking drugs for a criminal organization, and money laundering.

“They didn’t say much at all,” Neagle says of their reaction to the police raids on their homes.

“They were all pretty stunned. They had no idea it was coming.”

Among those charged were former SANFL player and TV presenter Clayton Lush and his wife, Kylie.

In the raid on their Flinders Park home, police found $19,000 in cash and were able to link 62 notes to drug payments.

In the home of another offender, Luke Cranwell, detectives found $74,000 in cash and, in the Strang home, $10,000, which they could prove to be drug money.

At the end of the raids, police had seized 10kg of cannabis, 171 cannabis plants, cocaine, steroids, and around $200,000 in cash. That all came from 31 of the 67 properties the officers searched in metropolitan Adelaide, the Barossa Valley and Sunnyside.

Seized as proceeds of crime were six cars, two Harley Davidson motorcycles, two trail bikes, four jet skis, two ski boats and cash ($31,938) from three bank accounts. The total value of property and cash seized came to almost $447,000.

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In WA, police raided five properties, found cash and charged three suspects with trafficking cannabis and one with unlawful possession.

In Queensland, police raided six properties, found cash and charged six suspects with trafficking drugs and possession of the proceeds of crime.

Neagle remembers the synchronization of the simultaneous multi-state raids, which took two days, as a “logistical nightmare”. In SA alone, the job had drawn on the resources of more than 200 cops from both metro and country local service areas.

“It was predominantly CIB and Mantle members from all areas,” Neagle explains, “and there were uniformed people as well.

“We picked the (suspects) we determined to be the most likely (to yield results) and then filtered down to the least likely.

“Drug Investigation members took the 10 main targets and the rest were filtered out throughout the LSAs.” Information about the raids was restricted so details had to be kept secret until just before resolution day.

“So there were briefings conducted at all the major police stations the day before,” Neagle explains.

“The team leaders were the only ones invited.”

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plot to bring down Strang and his minions, and their sophisticated operation, had begun five months earlier.

Back then, in August 2012, Drug Investigation Branch detectives, led

by Detective Supt Des “Doc” Bray, devised and implemented Operation Scarlet. And it would require painstaking covert police work.

The branch set up Op Scarlet based on what it deemed credible information. It looked like Strang and Cranwell had been cultivating cannabis and selling it to buyers in WA and far north Queensland since 2008.

“I remember sitting down with Doc and going through this information to begin with,” Neagle recalls. “It hadn’t been tested but it was such good information at the time that it appeared there was definitely something in it.”

An ever-sharpening picture of the Strang syndicate emerged as detectives applied a range of covert measures to their investigation.

They found that Strang sat, as would a managing director, at the head of a particularly business-like operation.

Directly beneath him in the hierarchy was Cranwell, whose role was akin to that of a production and distribution manager.

Left and below: Bundles of cash sent back to Adelaide through Australia Post as payment for cannabis

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The basis of the business was a string of suburban and country “grow houses”, in which low-level players cultivated and watched over hydroponic cannabis crops. Once the cannabis had matured and was ready to supply, other offenders took it to Cranwell.

Among those he received it from were electrician Scott Harrison who wired up the grow houses, personal trainer Trent Minchinton and Clayton Lush.

These characters were, as Neagle describes them, “bigger players” and “tightly involved” in the business.

“Harrison and Lush,” he says, “would do the bulk of the collecting on behalf of the syndicate.”

The task then for Cranwell was to box up the cannabis into postal packs which he sent by Pack & Send and TNT to the WA and Queensland buyers.

In turn, those buyers sent back postal packs stuffed with cash as payment for the supplied cannabis. They also sent Strang Australia Post tracking numbers, which enabled him to follow the movement of the cash from interstate to Adelaide.

“So, when the cash was coming back in, they (Strang and his underbosses) were aware of each step of the process,” Neagle says.

After the money got here, Cranwell collected it from a post office box he leased at Kensington Park.

Police allege that nurse Petra Camm – who denies any involvement in the operation – also collected cash payments from a post office box at the Glynde Plaza.

“Strang wouldn’t have anything to do with the actual cultivation or collection of the cash,” Neagle explains. “Everything was brought to him.”

That included the piles of cash, some of which Strang used to pay all the low-level workers he employed to run the grow houses.

“So,” Neagle says, “if he was getting say, three grand a pound, he’d be giving them $2,000, so he’d make $1,000 himself.

“Obviously Strang took the highest cut. People doing the packaging, like Cranwell, Harrison and Lush, would get their cut in it as well. But he (Strang) was the one who was making all the money.”

E xactly how much that was remains unclear. Neagle suspects it was “well into the millions” of dollars, given the value of the properties Strang owned and the “toys” to which he had treated himself.

“They’d set up so many houses so they had a continuous flow of cannabis to supply.

It was really efficient; and it was really good quality cannabis.”

Left and far left: Cannabis crops in a Flagstaff Hill grow house; above left: gym equipment in the same house; above and top: cannabis crops in a Salisbury East grow house

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clearer to detectives was that Strang was issuing all the orders, such as who to send the cannabis to, and in what quantities.

“And, if they couldn’t source it from someone in their groups,” Neagle says, “they’d go somewhere else until they could get the 40-odd pounds they generally sent. Each Monday they’d send it and the money came later on in the week.

“It was one of the most sophisticated (operations) we’d come across. They’d set up so many houses so they had a continuous flow of cannabis to supply. It was really efficient; and it was really good quality cannabis.”

The interstate demand for that cannabis seemed to exist because of the high price of the drug in WA and Queensland.

And, in those states, Strang already had contacts.

So the syndicate functioned well enough to sell $40 million worth of cannabis per year. Detectives arrived at that figure on the basis of Pack & Send and TNT records from 2012, when the amount of cannabis sent interstate was likely 4,000kg.

“That’s huge!” Neagle exclaims. “To be able to prove that was the main thing. A lot of times you guess how much they (drug suppliers) are making, but it could actually be proved that they were making $40 million. I don’t think that’s been done before.”

An obvious priority for detectives was to alert their WA and Queensland counterparts to the syndicate and identify suspects for them. In WA, where police set up Operation Utopia, drug trafficker Daniel Malone was the key player.

“They (WA police) did some really good surveillance and tracking of the packages, which confirmed our suspicions,” Neagle says.

“Malone was receiving the cannabis and then taking the cash and putting it in a post office and sending it back to Adelaide.”

The Queensland connection became critical to Op Scarlet in mid-January, 2013, after the Pack & Send distributor in Cairns received a package addressed to a Noel Graham. He was, and remains, the alleged Queensland buyer of the Strang cannabis.

Detectives got confirmation that the package contained 44lbs of cannabis and, as a consequence, brought resolution day forward to January 30.

Resolution day was, of course, the day of the simultaneous multi-state raids, which the Drug Investigation Branch co-ordinated from Adelaide.

Doc Bray and Neagle set themselves up in the Police Operations Command centre along with Communications, Intel and management personnel, as 200 cops started the offensive at 6am.

After each crew had gone in and turned over a grow house, one of its members relayed results back to Bray and Neagle. And whatever cannabis and hydroponic equipment the raiders seized got loaded onto a truck and taken to the Ottoway police compound.

“So every time they’d finish one house, that crew would go out to another house,” Neagle says. “That just kept the ball rolling.”

Far left and above far left: A list of instructions for maintaining the crop and a mass of power points and cords inside a grow house at Elizabeth East; left, above left and above: lighting equipment and fans in an Elizabeth Vale grow house

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became the first to charge offenders with participation in a criminal organization, which had only recently become law. That led to consultation with the Office of the DPP. “We went through the structure and how everyone fitted into the criminal organization legislation,” Neagle says. “We could prove there was a managing director (Strang) and there was Cranwell’s role (of production and distribution manager).

“It was like a triangle effect. He (Strang) was at the top and all these other people played specific roles. Whether that was picking up cash, setting up grow houses, sending the cash off, growing the cannabis, or providing houses to grow the cannabis.”

“They were all doing something that benefited the organization, and they all made a profit out of it.”

The offenders who manned the grow houses faced charges of cultivating cannabis rather than participation in a criminal organization.

They might have watched over the growing crops but it was nonetheless “very hard” for detectives to link them with the syndicate.

“It was like a triangle effect.

He (Strang) was at the top and all these other people played specific roles.”

Says Neagle: “A lot of them didn’t necessarily know that, two houses up, others were doing the same thing.

“We couldn’t prove that they had knowledge, and that was the problem we were facing. That’s why we charged probably over 20 of them with cultivate cannabis.”

After they arrested Strang and his key cohorts, the detectives were open with them about all that they could prove. Still, each offender refused to answer any questions.

Ultimately, however, Strang, Cranwell and Harrison pleaded guilty to participation in a criminal organization, trafficking and money laundering.

Lush also pleaded guilty to participation in a criminal organization as well as cultivate cannabis.

This month, District Court judge Rauf Soulio sentenced him to jail time of three years, 10 months, which he suspended in favour of a three-year good-behaviour bond.

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In the District Court in 2014, Cranwell and Harrison received sentences of 14 and 10 years respectively.

In 2015, Strang wound up with 16 years, 11 months.

But the sentences of all three offenders wound up reduced – to 12 years, eight months for Strang, 12 years for Cranwell, and four years, six months for Harrison.

In the Adelaide Magistrates Court in 2014, Minchinton received a four-month prison sentence for cultivating cannabis. But, like Lush, he too got the benefit of a suspended sentence.

Petra Camm is due to face trial on a charge of money laundering next month.

In WA, Daniel Malone pleaded guilty to 16 charges of possessing or attempting to possess a prohibited drug. He received a prison sentence of four years, three months.

But the Western Australian DPP lodged an appeal against that sentence and, last year, the WA Appeal Court increased it to seven-and-a-half years.

OPERATION Scarlet was a “cracking job” to be

A cracking job “It was pretty obvious early on that it couldn’t have been just these 10 people involved.

Given the amount of cannabis that was going out, they had to be sourcing it from somewhere.”

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involved in as an investigator. At least that was how Detective Sergeant Phil Neagle (left) saw it. The longer the investigation went on, and the closer he and his dozen-odd colleagues came to busting up the syndicate, the more exciting it all became.

No job Neagle had ever worked on as a Drug Investigation Branch detective had ever had an annual turnover as high as $40 million associated with it. This was the highest-earning and most sophisticated drug business he confronted in the years he spent with the branch.

But while the job might have come with the bonus of exhilaration for the detectives, it also demanded plenty of hard-slog police work. Part of the drudgery lay in “identifying all the players”.

“It was pretty obvious early on that it couldn’t have been just these 10 people involved,” Neagle says. “Given the amount of cannabis that was going out, they had to be sourcing it from somewhere.

“That’s why it was a case of identifying all these houses and all the players that were actually growing for the syndicate, and the cash coming back as well.

“It just went to prove that the amount of money people can make from cannabis far outweighs what they can possibly make from labs.

“These people were making $40 million with relatively little risk, compared to (the production of) other drugs – the heroin and the meth. They didn’t have the chemicals and there was no bikie involvement.”

And Neagle saw the motivation of the syndicate members as nothing more than pure greed. “(With the money) they could afford their lifestyle: skiing, partying…” he says.

“This group had high-performance speed boats, jet skis…

They were just buying toys through the proceeds of drugs.

They were basically cashed-up bogans.”

Neagle found that those bogans were all “well into bodybuilding” and “spent a lot of time in the gym”, where he suspects they met. And he was in the perfect position to observe the characters of offenders such as Strang.

“He had a pretty magnetic personality,” Neagle says.

“People were drawn to him. I think a lot of them were just drawn in and used by Strang.

“They were a pretty tight-knit group that found a way to make easy money because they had the networks in place.

But they weren’t necessarily the smartest crooks.” PJ

D R A W E O T T A M I T L U E G H N T OACHI C Police officer and Adelaide Lightning coach Tracy York has kept on achieving in sport and in life. So might she end up coaching elite female athletes at the Olympic Games?

HER future as a coach in the sport she loved

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was, at the very least, uncertain back in early 2012.

It seemed wrong for Sergeant Tracy York – then only 48 and an acknowledged trailblazer in her field – to be in basketball limbo for any length of time.

Few, if anyone, could deny that she had proved her worth over the previous 26 years. She was the first woman in Australia to coach Australian Basketball Association men’s teams and score an assistantcoach role with the Adelaide 36ers in the NBL. York had also served overseas, as technical director for the Basketball Association of Singapore.

And, at the Atlanta and Sydney Paralympic Games, she was the senior assistant coach to the Australian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team.

In 2013, she not only won an induction into the Australasian Police Basketball Association Hall of Fame but also wound up as a nominee for Australian of the Year.

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And, as a graduate of the Governor’s Leadership Foundation programme in 2003, York won the 2015 Dennis Mutton Medal for outstanding community involvement and contribution.

The uncertainty of her future as a coach had come about at the end of the 2011-12 WNBL season. The Adelaide Lightning, with which she had served as assistant coach, was yet to offer her that role for another season.

Her preference was to carry on rather than retire, as her concluding remark in a Police Journal interview revealed. “If I’m offered the assistant role again, I’ll probably take it,” she said.

And, just as the subsequent story (A success on court… and in life) came out, in April 2012, the Lightning invited her back – and York accepted.

So the retirement she had briefly pondered never came to fruition and York has remained one of the most recognizable figures on the Australian basketball scene.

Over the last two years, the wife, mother, part-time copper and survivor of breast cancer has committed herself to multiple coaching roles and, therefore, a punishing workload. Although York describes it as simply “busy”.

She rejoined the Adelaide 36ers as assistant coach in 2014 and rose to the role of head coach of the Lightning in 2015.

York stood up to coach other women’s teams, too, in 2015-16. There was the Australian under-17s – who have qualified for the 2016 world championships – and the Southern Tigers in the Basketball SA Premier League.

E LE O R G York also took on the Immanuel College Open A girls’ team and coached the state under-18 women’s team, which won bronze at the 2015 Australian championships.

Sixers coach Joey Wright told her that only she could handle a workload of five basketball teams along with police work, motherhood and wifedom.

And Southern Tigers Basketball Association president Mick Fisher, who recruited York in 2015, knows that coaching will keep her “very busy this year”.

“She left to go to China last month,” he says.

“She went with the 36ers and did a coaching clinic for a week while she was over there. She’s a very busy person.”

York herself concedes that her multiple roles in 2015-16 kept her “flat out”.

“But I was very organized,” she explains. “With the Lightning, a lot of our training sessions were in the late afternoon. Sixers’ training was in the morning.

“But, then, I’d also have to be watching tapes and doing scouting for the Lightning. If I did it again, I don’t know whether I could fit all of it in.”

Her return to the 36ers came about after a direct approach from coach Joey Wright. He suggested that she take on an assistant-coach role under him, given that she did not plan to continue as an assistant with the Lightning.

“He’d seen me coach locally with the juniors,” York says. “His daughter’s about the same age as my daughter, Paige, but plays for a different club.

“His passion for the game is huge, and he’s a really good guy. In the first session I went out to we had a scrimmage, and he said: ‘What do you think? What did you see?’ I said: ‘Well, I’ll let you know.’

“So he was really open to seeing just what other people saw, and that was great for me.”

“… if I don’t show that interest as a person, I find it hard, and then there’s that disconnect.

So I try to do that with any groups and any players: I get to know them first.”

Tracy York addresses players during games at the Adelaide Arena (top) and Wayville Sports Centre (above and centre) in 2015

York stuck with her own style of engagement with players, be they men, women or girls. To her it was, and still is, all about drilling down on the personality and background to establish what motivates the individual.

And that was exactly the principle York applied when two-metre tall Queenslander and former US college player Brock Motum joined the 36ers in 2014.

“Really nice and a great player but very much introverted,” York says. “We weren’t winning games at the time, and Joey’s going: ‘Brock needs to do this and Brock needs to do that!’ ” So on her first day with Motum on the court, where he was shooting, York got him talking about his home and family. And she later worked with him on individual drills.

In his exit interview with Wright at the end of the season, Motum spoke of those drills with York as “fantastic”.

“He got on track and it helped him with his game,” she says. “In a team situation, you’ve still got to get people into line and on the team page.

“But, if I don’t show that interest as a person, I find it hard, and then there’s that disconnect.

So I try to do that with any groups and any players: I get to know them first.”

Mick Fisher reckons his Southern Tigers players love York, and he marvels at her capacity to remain ever unfazed under match pressure.

“She’s very calm,” he says. “She doesn’t lose it, even if there’s a questionable umpire’s decision.

Never loses it or throws a tantrum.”

And wherever social media have a role, in either professional or amateur basketball, York treads carefully. “When I do feedback for players,” she says, “I do it face to face because, then, it can’t be misconstrued.”

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– has not left York overly fearful of a relapse.

“But that is definitely there, in the back of my mind, that it could recur,” she says.

“Obviously I don’t want it happening again, but there’s no guarantee.

“It’s not a distraction, but I suppose that’s just me. I think I’ve got that positive mindset.

I’m always thinking the glass is half-full, not half-empty.”

York re mains appropr iate l y str ict about medical check-ups, which she undergoes annually.

And, now, at age 52, she hopes she might still have an opportunity to serve as an Olympic Games coach.

“Being with the Australian under 17s is great,” she says. “It’s a kind of feeder programme through to the Australian women’s team.

“If there’s any opportunity for the next Olympics after Rio well, then, certainly I’d put my hand up.”

But, in the meantime, York is prepared to blaze trails in other sports, such as Australian Rules footy. If clubs like Adelaide or Port Adelaide were to see value in her skill set and approach her, she would grasp the opportunity.

“I’ve coached men now for a long time,” she says, “so, whether it’s men or women doesn’t worry me.

“I think leadership skills go across the board. It’s about player management and people management.” PJ

The Big 95 41 to 50 41. The Journal of Commerce (USA) 42. EDUCAUSE Review (USA) 43. TravelAge West (USA) 44. Automotive News (USA) 45. California Schools (USA) 46. Construction Equipment (USA) 47. Oracle Magazine (USA) 48. Police Journal (Australia) 49. OPC Register (Canada) 50. CSO Magazine (Australia)

Police Journal ranked among world’s best

By Nick Damiani

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Police Journal has won another outstanding international accolade in the United States.

Trade, Association and Business Publications International released its inaugural The Big 95 list in Cleveland, Ohio, just before 6am (SA time) on February 26.

This list highlights the 95 most acclaimed trade publications in the world.

The Police Journal not only made it into The Big 95 but came in with a top-50 ranking at No. 48.

Titles in the list came from the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

To compile its list, TABPI used a formula that took into account the number of gold, silver and bronze awards, as well as honourable mentions, each publication had won between 2004 and 2015.

This made the Police Journal inclusion on the list all the more outstanding as the Police Association had only entered the journal in the Tabbie Awards in 2014 and 2015.

In that time, the journal has won two gold, one silver and one bronze Tabbie and three honourable mentions.

The categories were Best Single Issue, Best Focus/Profile Article, and Opening Page or Spread.

“Honouring excellent design and editorial work is what the Tabbies is all about,” TABPI president Paul J Heney said. “But we felt that it was also important to recognize consistency.

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“There are many publications that excel year after year, and The Big 95 honours those editors and art directors who have taken pride in what they do on a continual basis.”

Police Journal editor Brett Williams was the first to receive news of The Big 95 honour out of Cleveland.

“I was staggered that we’d made it onto the list after only two years’ participation in the awards,” he said.

“But, over the last few years, we just seem to be having this dream run with international recognition of the journal. It’s a real honour.

“Of course, the key ingredient in all of this is our members. They inspire us to produce the highest-quality publication we can; and it’s their exceptional stories we’re taking to the world. And the world’s responding.”

Police Association president Mark Carroll said he was delighted to see the Police Journal afforded “yet another enormous honour”.

“The journal’s status as the nation’s leading – and most awarded – police magazine would now seem indisputable,” he said.

“I’m intensely proud of the association team that puts so much work into our journal, and I’m deeply grateful to our members for contributing their stories.”

The top three placegetters in The Big 95 were Massachusetts-based magazines Computerworld and Network World and Minnesota-based publication Exhibitor.

The Police Association has entered the Police Journal in four categories of the 2016 Tabbie Awards. Winners will be announced in July. PJ

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The 801 group I write to inform Police Association members of the 801 group, which assists members of law enforcement agencies in the prevention of, and recovery from, psychological injury.

This group holds regular meetings and has a closed Facebook page.

Its meetings are held under the auspice of a charter, a copy of which is available on the Facebook page.

In the 801 group, we abandon rank, judgment and embarrassment and find validation.

Our members are sworn law enforcement officers (LEOs) and we constitute a group where any two, three or more of us gather under the charter.

The group is not responsible to any organizational authority, religion or sect other than the members of any group which might gather together.

Our purpose is to find reassurance, support and help from other LEOs with similar experiences and to reassure, support and help other LEOs.

Beyond that, the aim is to: Feel empowered and more self-confident in coping with challenges.

Learn new information and strategies for confronting problems.

Develop personal insights and achieve personal growth.

Learn to express ourselves better and to consider others.

Recommend avenues of further support and assistance outside the group.

Create a network of LEOs to offer group and individual support.

Confidentiality rules apply to the group insofar as information revealed and the identities of group members.

Other rules compel members to treat their fellow members respectfully and not judge them, or what they say.

The group meets regularly at Elizabeth and St Marys on Wednesdays.

The times and locations of meetings can be found on the Facebook page.

All serving, retired, sworn and unsworn members and their families are welcome.

For further information please contact me directly (ianschlein@gmail.com).

Kind Regards Ian Schlein

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Help fight prostate cancer On behalf of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) I am hoping to recruit volunteers for a bit of community service now and then and a project in September in particular.

Prostate cancer is the most common internal cancer diagnosed in Australia. More men die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.

Men as young as 40 can be diagnosed.

Each year, almost 22,000 Australian men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and, tragically, more than 3,300 men lose their lives to this disease. Almost double the annual road toll. One man dies every three hours, one a day in SA. Yet Australians generally know very little about prostate cancer, if there are symptoms, or even if they or their loved ones are at risk.

The disturbing facts are, the average male Australian has a one-in-five risk of developing prostate cancer by the age of 85 and, sadly, men in rural and regional Australia have a 21 per cent higher prostate cancer mortality rate than men in capital cities.

However, because there are often no symptoms in these important early stages, diagnosis is often delayed.

The good news is that, if detected in the early stages, prostate cancer is often treatable and curable. Simple steps can save lives and I’m committed to getting the message out and to raising funds for cancer research.

To that end, we have a range of fundraisers through the year and very few helpers.

Many in our support groups are older and many are quite frail, so standing around for a

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few hours at a barbeque, or coin-rattling session at the football can be quite taxing. We also need volunteer drivers.

I’m asking for help from SAPOL members, both active and retired, to assist when they can. You wouldn’t be alone: the staff of the MFS are very generous with their time.

If you can assist or would like to know more about what we do please contact me on 8231 6339 and leave a message with a phone number or contact me on karyn.foster@pcfa.org.au.

Yours sincerely Karyn Foster State Manager PCFA SA/NT

Q&A

Do you support a system of professional registration for police?

Senior Sergeant Andreas Dummin SA Police Academy How many times have we heard: “What will you do if and when you leave SAPOL?” Despite “academic” qualifications being obtained, the answer is often: “I’m not qualified for anything.”

While that belief is changing, it is time policing was recognized as a truly professional career and regarded, for example, the same way that teachers and nurses are.

While it is commonly acknowledged that ex-police officers are reliable and trustworthy employees, true recognition as professionals within their field as police officers (and spanning state boundaries) will help their standing and acceptance within the community.

I have had some previous involvement in investigating the concept of all triple zero call-takers and dispatchers having a standard professional qualification, recognized Australia-wide.

All emergency services participated in this workshop and concept analysis. This theory could be expanded across all of SAPOL, in line with recognized policing standards, and Australia-wide.

Working within a training environment for the past four years has made it clear to me that we cannot underestimate the value and potential advantages to be gained in recognizing our people for the true professionals they are.

Sergeant Paul Manns Police Academy A profession is something a little more than a job.

It is a career for someone who wants to be part of society, who becomes competent in their chosen sector through training.

It is a career for someone who maintains their skills through continuing professional development and commits to behaving ethically to protect the interests of the public.

As a result of current SAPOL practices, including ethical expectations, and the fact the workplace provides continuous improvement, police officers would fall within this definition.

Registering police as professionals would lead to the standards of the occupation being recognized nationally.

This would enable members to take their profession throughout Australia without the need to change rank or the need to apply for recognition of prior learning.

Senior Constable 1C Roger Sketchley Eastern Adelaide CIB SAPOL and the public of South Australia do not need any additional financial or regulatory encumbrance on their police officers.

It should not matter to us how we are compared with teachers, medical staff and other “professional” people in terms of our skill level.

We are police officers. Our skill-sets are remarkable, our job is unique and universally holds its own as being professional and, quite rightly, highly accountable.

It is also of some concern that professional registration could effectively alter the nature of our permanent employment status.

The concern here is that it could be used as a way of circumventing due process in disciplinary proceedings, because deregistration could be used as an alternative method of dismissal.

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From top: Senior Sergeant Andreas Dummin, Sergeant Paul Manns, Senior Constable 1C Roger Sketchley and Senior Sergeant 1C Christopher Relihan.

Senior Sergeant 1C Christopher Relihan Elizabeth Prosecution I am an advocate for SAPOL moving toward professional registration for police.

I primarily base this opinion on the fact that it would increase the opportunity for police to freely work in any jurisdiction within the nation.

Presently, police officers have to face the arduous task of making applications for each other jurisdiction, not to mention suffer the loss of seniority, rank and income.

It is unfathomable that police do not share the same freedom of professional movement as most other occupations, especially given the fact that similar restrictive trade was abolished between countries in Europe in the early 1990s after being challenged in the High Court.

My only concern about such registration would be the move towards ter tiar y qualifications as a pre-entry which might place too much emphasis on employing academic members of the community who might not possess the other important qualities required for policing.

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Ice: an unstoppable cycle of destruction In those it doesn’t kill it can cause anything from erectile dysfunction to psychosis

CRYSTAL

meth is short for crystal methamphetamine. It is just one form of methamphetamine, a white cr ystalline drug which people snort, smoke, inject or take orally.

Methamphetamines – sold as “crystals” or “ice” – have a similar effect to amphetamines.

Like amphetamines, ice decreases the need for sleep and food while increasing attention, concentration and focus.

And ice is relatively cheap, easily made in small-scale laboratories, and widely available.

The 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found that 7 per cent of Australians aged 14 and above had tried methamphetamine (including ice) or amphetamine, and 2.1 per cent had used them in the year preceding the survey.

Consumption of the drug in the preceding year was, for 50.4 per cent of users, mainly in the form of ice.

Other forms were less commonly used. Use of powder decreased significantly, from 51 per cent to 28.5 per cent, while the use of ice more than doubled, from 22 per cent in 2010 to 50.4 per cent in 2013.

In high doses over long periods, methamphetamines are extremely harmful, affect memory, cognitive awareness and (mal)nutrition, and trigger psychotic episodes. They also adversely affect the heart and brain.

Even in small doses, methamphetamines cause tissue damage and “no safe minimum” seems to exist.

There are essentially three broad life-changing and life-threatening effects of ice: • The direct danger from high-risk behaviour and physical body stress.

• Inflammation and ner ve -end damage to

brain/nerves and neurotransmitter production.

Depression, anxiety and stress all increase • Cravings from the depleted brain chemicals because of direct effects on mood. setting up an unstoppable cycle of destructive An overdose of ice is likely to cause behaviour. aggressiveness, hostility and violent behaviour.

The short-term effects of ice give the user a sense The release of adrenaline makes the user feel as if his or her life is in danger. of euphoria and well-being with increased energy and alertness, and talkativeness with increased With toxicity comes blurred vision, tremors, heart rate, breathing and body temperature. irregular breathing, loss of co-ordination and collapse, Affected individuals tend to clench their jaws and potentially causing stroke, heart failure, seizures grind their teeth. and excessively high body temperature.

On the down side they might have a dry mouth, The stimulation gives a feeling of extra energy nausea, vomiting, nervousness, anxiety and paranoia. and makes sleeping disturbed or even impossible.

In men, the increased In the long term, sleep deprivation An overdose of ice is likely is likely to mimic other situations libido is often associated with erectile dysfunction (“crystal in which sleep-deprived people to cause aggressiveness, have shorter life expectancies and dick”) making other drugtaking (Viagra) and frustration increased cancer risk. hostility and violent more likely.

If you believe someone has behaviour. The release Ice can induce a brief taken ice and is having bad psychosis with symptoms of symptoms, get him or her medical of adrenaline makes paranoia and hallucinations help right away. Use extreme the user feel as if his or caution around the person, a n d m a ke u s e r s w i t h schizophrenia or other chronic particularly if he or she appears to her life is in danger. be extremely excited or paranoid. psychotic symptoms worse.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre If he or she is having a seizure, gently hold the has found that around three in 10 dependent ice back of the head to prevent injury. If possible, turn the head to the side in case the person vomits. users will experience psychotic symptoms during Medical treatment is difficult in the acute phase any given year. and sometimes involves induced coma. Short-term These symptoms, which usually last up to three hours but sometimes longer, and can lead to high use of sedation needs to be done in medically danger situations (violence, aggression, risk-taking). supervised care because of risk to heart, kidneys Ice can cause cardiovascular problems and and other organs. even death for those with undiagnosed heart Once acute toxicity passes, the long-term problems. The risk of heart attack and stroke is management is complicated and there is a high risk further complicated if other drugs, such as alcohol of relapse, so helping a user to get into a support and/or cocaine, are combined with ice. programme is paramount.

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MOTORING Jim Barnett

An advance on predecessor It has its “superb” features but, in some areas, trails its competitors

DESIGN New eighth-generation Toyota HiLux SR5 diesel makes a bold statement. Its bulging front and rear guards and pointy nose make it look much bigger.

Front seats are more comfortable but back-seat comfort lags behind some of the opposition.

The new dash layout features a dominant central touch screen, which features sat-nav and audio functions.

The thick leather-bound steering wheel has both reach and rake adjustments.

Toyota claims a stiffer body and stronger chassis coupled with new suspensions, and brakes improve the on- and off-road ability of HiLux. A new generation turbo diesel engine features a smaller turbocharger with 50 per cent quicker response.

A rear diff lock, improved rear axle articulation, stronger bash plates and 279mm of ground clearance add to Hilux’s off-road credibility.

VALUE FOR MONEY SR5 diesel is one of the more expensive dual cabs around. Manual SR5 sells for $55,990. Add $2,000 for auto transmission, $550 for premium paint and $2,000 for optional leather trim and electric driver’s seat.

Standard features include: • Single-zone auto climate control.

• Cruise control.

• Trip computer.

• Eighteen-inch alloys.

• Smart entry.

• Push-button start.

• Satellite navigation.

• DAB Digital audio.

• Two 12-volt and one 220-volt socket.

• Alarm.

Acceleration is brisk, highway cruising smooth and the cabin very quiet.

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SR5 HiLux, which scores a five-star safety rating, features: • Seven airbags (including driver’s knee).

• Reversing camera.

• Trailer-sway control.

• Fog lights and LED daytime running lights.

• Auto-levelling LED headlights.

• Downhill assist control (auto only).

• ISOFIX child seat anchorage system.

SR5 auto diesel is highly capable on the highway, rough dirt tracks and sand. The new diesel is particularly well matched to the smooth six-speed auto.

Acceleration is brisk, highway cruising smooth and the cabin very quiet. Hilux corners confidently and soaks up rough roads but, like most utes, tends to buck at the rear when unladen.

Selecting 4WD High via the rotary switch (up to 100km/h) on floating gravel immediately takes any uncertainty away from its light rear end. Low-range engine braking is superb for an auto.

STATS Although smaller than the engine it replaces, the new 2.8-litre diesel – which produces 130kW of power – is smoother and more powerful.

Manual diesel SR5 produces 420Nm of torque with braked tow capacity of 3,500kg. The auto pumps out 450Nm with reduced tow capacity of 3,200kg.

Fuel economy ranges between 7.6 (manual) and 8.5 (auto) litres/100km.

Six-monthly servicing is capped at $180 for three years.

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VERDICT New SR5 is a solid, all-round performer and represents a significant advance on the previous model. But a number of others have more power and torque, bigger payloads, greater towing capacity with automatic transmission and better rear seats.

DESIGN

Sophistication in a fourwheel drive It might have shortcomings but it surpasses other ute-based wagons

SAFETY

Everest Titanium is a big smart-looking SUV featuring a bold front end, 20-inch alloy wheels, tailgate lip spoiler and LED tail lights.

Of seven leather-covered seats in three rows, the front ones come with heating and electric adjustment.

The second row is a typical 60/40 split-fold design, each seat capable of slide and recline functions.

Two electrically operated third-row seats fold into the cargo floor and are best suited to kids.

A large central touch screen provides sat-nav, audio, reverse camera and climate-control functions. Two smaller colour screens display a variety of other information.

Power is courtesy of Ranger’s five-cylinder turbo diesel matched to a six-speed automatic transmission with sports mode. The engine requires add-blue, an inexpensive diesel exhaust fluid which reduces the emission of oxides of nitrogen.

Everest’s full-time 4x4 system features a torque-ondemand active transfer case and four-mode terrainmanagement system. Other credentials include low range, a rear diff lock, down-hill assist and hill start.

VALUE FOR MONEY Titanium costs $76,990. Standard items include: Dual-zone climate control and rear air conditioning.

Electric sunroof.

DAB+ audio with 10 speakers and subwoofer.

Satellite navigation.

Leather trim.

Auto-levelling HID headlights with auto high beam.

Power tailgate.

Trip computer.

Parallel parking assistance.

Wi Fi hotspot.

SYNC with voice control.

Four 12-volt and one 230-volt sockets.

Aux, USB and SD card inputs.

Other Everest models are Ambiente ($54,990) and Trend ($60,990).

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Titanium has a full suite of safety gear: Seven airbags (including driver’s knee).

Tyre-pressure monitor.

Trailer-sway control.

Adaptive cruise control with for ward collision alert.

Lane-keeping system.

Blind-spot monitoring.

Emergency assistance (emergency services are called after airbag deployment).

Reverse camera and front/rear parking sensors.

Programmable key (which can limit speed and audio volume and prevent deactivation of driver assistance systems).

STATS Everest’s lusty 3.2-litre turbo diesel produces 143kW of power and 470Nm of torque. It’s helped off road by 225mm of ground clearance and 800mm wading depth.

Braked towing is 3,000kg with Ford claiming combined fuel economy of 8.5 litres/100km. Cargo storage varies between 450 and 2,010 litres.

ON THE ROAD Everest is impressive to drive. The big five-pot diesel offers effortless power for every situation.

The omission of steering-wheel reach adjustment is a let-down.

Highway cruising is smooth and quiet. Special sound-deadening technology negates external noise. On rough dirt roads the independent front end and rear coils soak up bumps with ease.

VERDICT Everest is a sophisticated family 4x4. Despite a couple of shortcomings, it is better than other ute-based wagons. It is strong on performance, ride, appearance and off-road credentials.

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HOLDEN PARTNER PROGRAM Our GM Partner Program gives valued Police Association members access to special offers and discounts on a wide range of Holden vehicles.

It’s a great way to find a new Holden that suits your budget and your lifestyle.

For more information, simply call the GM Fleet Customer Service Centre on 1300 559 696 or email us at gmfleetenquiries@gm.com.

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

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Police Credit Union salute to cops Paul Modra Executive Manager – Member Value and Distribution, Police Credit Union Seeing first-hand how police go about their work has left Police Credit Union staff with the highest regard for them

“The two police officers “It was a great feeling to know that the police are that came and helped us always around, making sure everyone is protected.” could honestly not have been nicer. They were so caring out between two men in a nearby car park. And that and sensitive to the whole situation. fight quickly erupted into an all-in brawl involving a “They didn’t rush at all. They took their time. They number of other offenders. were probably there for a good two to three hours But from two police officers patrolling the street with us and helped us cope while this was all going on. on pushbikes came an instant response. Clearly on “I can’t speak highly enough (of them). They the basis of a split-second decision, and with their showed such compassion to all of us, and I was physical safety at risk, the officers moved in and went so grateful.” about quelling the fracas.

As tragic as the situation was for Brenda, it prompted her to think about police responding They showed confidence, a measured approach, to deaths, and other tragedies, “all the time”. and oozed a sense of authority that ensured a quick turnaround in attitudes.

She realized “how hard it must be”.

When she went back to work, she sent the two “The speed and professionalism with which officers some notebooks as a thank-you gift. they handled the situation was extremely “And,” she says, “to let them know that I would impressive,” Glenn says. be there to assist if they ever needed anything.

“It was a great feeling to know that the police are always around, making sure everyone is protected.

“Both of them are currently members at Police “We weren’t just safe at the soccer game, but Credit Union and, to this day, we are all still in also we were safe leaving the venue too.” contact with each other.

The great respect Glenn and Tom already had “Simply having the police there, on one of the for police grew even further after they witnessed most difficult days of my life to support me and the swift police action, which killed off the potential my family, has definitely become one of my most for another tragedy. memorable and positive experiences. I honestly What they saw highlighted to them how police cannot thank them enough.” officers can never be complacent and have to be Another observation of outstanding constantly “switched on”. police work came from Police Credit “Simply having the police there, on one of the At Police Credit Union, our interaction with police Union personal banker Glenn Lewis and credit control officer Tom Jaworski. gives us something of an insight into their working most difficult days of my life to support me lives. But, in reality, we can only imagine what a day The two had just left an Adelaide and my family, has definitely become one of in their lives really looks like.

United-Melbourne Victory soccer match One thing we know for certain is that, thanks my most memorable and positive experiences. at Hindmarsh stadium and were walking back to their car. to our police officers, the SA community is safe.

I honestly cannot thank them enough.”

On their way, they saw a fight break At Police Credit Union, we salute our police.

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death of her mother left Police Credit Union Retail Operations senior manager Brenda Davidson facing one of the most difficult times of her life. But the care, compassion and sensitivity of two responding police officers helped her and her family survive the ordeal.

Her mother, who lived alone, used to receive morning Telecross calls from the Red Cross as a check on her welfare. On November 11, 2014, she failed to answer the phone, so the Red Cross rang Brenda to inform her.

As a concerned daughter, Brenda called her husband and he set out to check personally on his mother-in-law. To his great sadness, he found that she had died. He rang for an ambulance and, in turn, the ambulance service called for police to respond as well.

Today, 17 months later, Brenda still clearly remembers all the events of that day.

“Two police officers from the Hindley St station came down and joined myself, my husband, my brother and sister-in-law at my mother’s house,” she recalls.

“I also called my mother’s doctor, who went in with the two police officers to officially certify her death.

“Once the doctor and ambulance officers left, the two police officers remained and we did the formal identification with them and the paperwork.

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Deadline due for future medical expenses Amber Sprague Partner, Tindall Gask Bentley Lawyers So it’s important to apply to SAPOL Injury Management Section for coverage

has determined or accepted, on application made Return to Work Act came into effect before the end of the period referred to in sub-section from July 1, 2015 and is now the legislation which (20), that it is reasonable and appropriate for such governs work injury claims in South Australia. surgery to be undertaken at a later time owing to Workers with existing injuries (injuries that the impact (or likely impact) of the work injury on occurred before July 1, 2015) have transitioned onto the worker’s health and capacity (or future health this new system and workers who have suffered and capacity).

What this essentially means is that, if your injury injuries since that date have automatically come is such that you are likely to onto this new scheme.

The Police Association need future surgery, say in If you do not make this has successfully negotiated five, 10 or 20 years related application before that time, for weekly payments and to your work injury, SAPOL medical expenses to IMS can still be liable for it. it is likely that South Australia remain covered after the H oweve r, you n e e d Police will not be liable for your to make an application return-to-work cut-off dates before June 3 0, 2016, apply for certain classes future surgery after your cutwith supporting medical of injured workers.

I remind and encourage off date (unless, of course, you evidence that the surgery is you to make sure that reasonable and appropriate. are a seriously injured worker) you make the appropriate If you do not make this application to South Australia application before that time, Police Injury Management Section for future it is likely that South Australia Police will not be surgery and associated expenses to be covered – liable for your future surgery after your cut-off date even after your cut-off date applies. (unless, of course, you are a seriously injured worker).

If you suffer from an existing injury and were SAPOL IMS will then consider your application in receipt of weekly payments as at July 1, 2015, and either approve or reject the cost. If the latter, your medical expenses entitlement is presently for it can be the subject of a dispute in the South a maximum of three years, ceasing 12 months after Australian Employment Tribunal. your entitlement to weekly payments ceases.

The only other types of medical expenses that If you were not in receipt of weekly payments as are likely to remain covered after the cut-off dates at July 1, 2015, your medical expenses entitlement are “therapeutic appliances required to maintain will expire on June 30, 2016. the worker’s capacity”.

However, section 33(21)(b)(ii) provides for future There is likely to be a legal argument in the notcover in relation to surgery, any associated medical, too-distant future as to the meaning of “worker’s nursing or rehabilitation services (including cost of capacity” and whether that means “capacity for hospitalization) where the corporation (SAPOL IMS) work” or “capacity for life”.

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Given that the definition of therapeutic appliance in the Return to Work Act 2014 includes “spectacles or contact lenses, a hearing aid, false teeth, a prosthesis, a crutch or wheelchair or any other appliance or aid for reducing the extent of an injury or enabling a person to overcome in whole or part the effects of an injury”, I suspect that a “worker’s capacity” will be considered to be his or her capacity for life. However, that remains to be determined.

Essentially, if your injury has you being provided with any of these therapeutic appliances by SAPOL IMS, it is highly likely in my opinion that they will remain covered even after the cut-off dates.

Should your request for one of these items after your cut-off date be refused, you should certainly seek guidance from the Police Association in respect of your rights.

We are presently helping many injured workers obtain comprehensive medical information regarding their future surgical needs and making the applications for pre-approval.

If you need assistance with this process you should contact the Police Association. Likewise, if you have any queries regarding future therapeutic expenses or, in fact, any aspect of your work injury claim, speak with the association sooner rather than later.

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

BOOKS

The Butcher’s Hook

Breakdown

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Georgian London, in the summer of 1763.

At 19, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher’s apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him.

The only daughter of well-to-do parents, Anne lives a sheltered life.

Her home is a miserable place.

Though her family wants for nothing, her father is uncaring, her mother is ailing, and the baby brother who taught her to love is dead. Unfortunately, her parents have already chosen a more suitable husband for her than Fub. B ut A nn e i s a d ete r m i n e d young woman. In pursuing her own happiness, she shows no fear or hesitation – even if it means getting a little blood on her hands.

Dr A lex Delaware first meets beautiful and emotionally fragile actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son.

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Delaware turns to his friend, LAPD lieutenant Milo Sturgis, for help in finding the perpetrator.

Meanwhile, Delaware is caught up in another quest: the search for Zelda’s missing son. And, when other victims vanish from the same upscale neighbourhood, worry turns to terror.

As Delaware struggles to piece together the brief rise and steep fall of a gorgeous, talented actress, he and Milo unveil shattered dreams, the corruption of a family, and a grotesque betrayal of innocence.

Her pain is constant. And the danger is real.

M onic a suf fe r s from c hronic neuropathic pain. Every second of her life is spent in agony, and she is coping with it the best she can.

However, there are whole years of her life which are a blur to her.

Then Monica finds a suicide note, in her handwriting, saying she is going to end it all.

Did she write it? She has no memory of doing so and, as she reads the message again, she begins to suspect that someone once tried to kill her – and now that person is trying to do so again.

Linzi Birrell and Rhian Douglas: murdered. Angela McCabe and Josh Norbury: murdered.

A killer the police have dubbed Billy Dead Mates is killing pairs of best friends, one by one. Just before each murder, he sends his victim a small white book.

Three regional police forces are working to identify and catch Billy.

Then a potential fifth victim, scared by what she’s seen and heard on the news, comes forward to seek help.

Stand-up comedian Kim Tribbeck has one of Billy’s peculiar white books.

A stranger gave it to her after a gig she did a year ago. Was he Billy?

Now Kim’s life depends on working out why she – a woman who has no close friends because she trusts no one – should attract the attention of the Best Friends killer.

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THE STATISTICS

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WHAT DOES YOUR MONEY DO?

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It was a shocking crime. A middleaged couple hacked to death in their own home with a samurai sword.

Normal people. Who were they? And why were they targeted?

It was indeed a shocking crime.

But it wasn’t the first.

Twenty years earlier a policeman was murdered in his own back garden and the killer was never caught.

One woman might link these mysteries. But she is being watched.

Can detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac find her before it’s too late?

Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she hears that a woman has been shot while out walking her dog.

Then more long-range shootings swiftly follow, and it becomes clear that a highly trained serial killer is on the loose.

The victims seem to have just one thing in common: they were all good people with apparently no enemies.

So why are they dead?

As fear of the Taurus Sniper grows among local residents, all leave is cancelled for the Frankfurt police department as it is put on red alert.

The pressure is on Kirchhoff and her colleague, Oliver von Bodenstein, to find the killer before he can tick another name off his hit list.

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This is the story of East and West Germany from both sides of the wall, told through the exploits of one man – an intelligent, vibrant coming-of-age story set within a world of lies, deceit and treachery.

Deutschland 83 follows Mar tin Rauch, a young spy who, caught between two worlds, is sent by the East German Intelligence Service (the HVA) to discover NATO’s military intentions.

Set against a backdrop of fervent political feeling and the threat of nuclear war, Martin must leave everything he knows for a new life undercover in the West.

But nothing and no one is as they seem. Every friend is a potential enemy, every enemy a possible asset. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.

A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist “Calamity” Jane Bodine.

In self-imposed retirement after a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Bodine is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.

But as Candy zeroes in on every vulnerability – both on and off the campaign trail – Bodine is plunged into a personal crisis as intense as the one her team exploits nationally to boost its numbers.

Dramatic, rapid-fire and laced with satire, Our Brand is Crisis reveals the cynical machinations and private battles of world-class political consultants for whom nothing is sacred and winning is all that matters.

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Silicon Valley delves into the outrageous world of tech start-ups and the socially awkward underdogs trying to navigate its lucrative potential.

In season 1, the show charted the rising fortunes of Richard, an introverted programmer who lives with his best friend, Big Head, pompous Gilfoyle, and sarcastic Dinesh under the roof of self-satisfied dot.com millionaire Erlich who lets them stay for free...as long as he gets a 10 per cent cut of their projects.

With his career going nowhere fast, Richard suddenly finds himself in the middle of an extreme bidding war over his website’s unique search algorithm.

The third series of this riveting crime drama opens with a cataclysmic event which reverberates throughout the series.

Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster, with the wreckage landing right in the lap of H Division – on Leman St itself.

From the twisted debris of the crash emerge clues that uncover long hidden deceits.

These crimes threaten not only to destroy Reid’s iron grip on H Division, but to unravel his fragile psyche too.

The personal damage to Reid is profound and there is no limit to what he will do to avenge his own, deepseated grief.

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Truth is the incredible true story of Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett), an award-winning CBS News journalist and Dan Rather’s producer, who broke the Abu-Ghraib prison abuse story, among others.

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In the 3D animated comedy The Angry Birds Movie we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.

The movie takes us to an island populated entirely – or almost entirely – by happy, flightless birds.

In this paradise, Red ( Jason Sudeikis), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck ( Josh Gad), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride) have always been outsiders.

But, when mysterious green piggies visit the island, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

The hilarious, all-star voice cast includes Bill Hader ( Trainwreck , Inside Out), Maya Rudolph ( Bridesmaids), and Peter Dinklage ( Game of Thrones ), as well as Keegan-Michael Key ( Key & Peele), Kate McKinnon ( Saturday Night Live) and Tony Hale ( Veep, Arrested Development).

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Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

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WINE

Parous Wines Australia Barossa Valley, South Australia parous.com.au

Parous 2014 Heathcote Fiano Screw cap 13% alc $25 Parous believes in the excitement of possibility, and this year’s Fiano is a great example of this, borrowing an idea from the Old World and translating it into contemporary Australia.

Fiano’s original home is the sun-soaked shores of southern Italy, where the light and heat conspire to produce rich, ripe aromatic flavours of honey, quince, stone fruits and a touch of citrus.

Unsurprisingly, this grape variety is now beginning to shine in Australia, where similar climate and care produce an equally exotic character and profile – floral, spice, fruit and, above all, luscious, generous texture.

Fiano does not need food to shine as its generous profile is all about an immediate thirst-quenching character. It will, however, bring extra life and lift to spicy foods, particularly dishes that draw heavily on garlic, chili and ginger.

• James Halliday rating: 90 points

Parous 2012 Barossa Shiraz

Parous 2014 McLaren Vale Shiraz Mataro

Screw cap 14.5% alc $40 There can be no more representative Australian red wine than a Barossa Shiraz. Always bold, structured and built for longevity, Barossa Shiraz has depth and length that is best described as generous.

This example from Parous is selected from a patchwork of old vineyards. It has not only the expressive spice and hedgerow fruit character – which is typical of the region – but also contains a softer note of savoury texture. That’s the result of careful handling in a balanced mix of old and new oak vessels.

The scale of this wine calls for food and, while great wine can always be shared as simply a “great drink”, this wine really comes into its own when accompanied by food.

This Shiraz is at its best with warm, savoury autumn flavours: roast lamb, braised beef, seasonal game.

• James Halliday rating: 95 points

Screw cap 14.5% alc $35 The character note for Mclaren Vale Shiraz is well-known: black fruit and pepper spice with generous and luxuriant length. Always a wine of structure and purpose.

Add a little Mataro (Mouvèdre) into the mix, and the blend becomes more characterful if, perhaps, a little less easy and polished.

Mataro introduces a fascinating note that is often likened to a bitter herb and salty olive tone. In this instance, the Parous Shiraz Mataro balances the ripe, voluptuous nature of Shiraz with the natural, savoury cut of Mataro.

The result is a delicious and versatile wine that drinks well on its own. But it also brings a new dimension to a wide range of flavours and food styles: coarse terrines and pates, rich curry sauces, slow-cooked, braised meat casseroles, and mature, hard cheeses.

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Club the venue for 56-year celebration Nine high-spirited retirees who joined SAPOL in 1959 held a course reunion at the Police Club to celebrate their 56-year anniversary last month.

Former Course 71 members Allen Arthur, Neville Collins, Philip Day, Trevor Hoffman, Ian Moulds, Bruce Scotland, Fred Smith, Barry Trenwith and John Van Dulken revelled in the occasion.

Course members not present were Wally Hollow, Tom Moyes, Derek Evans and Grant Redden.

“When we started our careers we were issued with a key on a chain

Above: Back row: Allan Arthur, Barry Trenwith, Ian Moulds, John van Dulken, Phil Day and Trevor Hoffmann Front row: Neville Collins, Bruce Scotland, Fred Smith Right: Trevor Hoffmann and Neville Collins Below: Ian Moulds, John van Dulken, Anne Moulds and Rosemary Day

so that we could use the police callboxes throughout the city,” Phil Day said.

“Much of the work then was similar to that done today, but using ancient manual typewriters and unreliable valve radios.

“And the only piece of equipment which hung from our belts was our trousers. But we survived and, for most part, enjoyed every moment of the ride.”

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The Last Shift PETER BIERMANN (1) AL FRASER (2) ROBERT SCHOFIELD (3) KINGSLEY SMITH (4)

BREVET SERGEANT AL FRASER Elizabeth Prosecution 16 years’ service Last Day: 03.02.16 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association for its efforts in obtaining our current working conditions and excellent pay.

“I believe a police officer’s job/career is the best in the world and only age takes me from it.”

SENIOR CONSTABLE 1C ROBERT SCHOFIELD Eastern Adelaide LSA (APS) 40 years’ service Last Day: 23.02.16 Comments…

“I commend the Police Association for all its efforts over the years in improving both working conditions and welfare for all SAPOL members.

“I thank everyone I had the pleasure of working with in SAPOL in metro and country postings.

“I leave with countless memories. I hold the greatest respect for the job and those who work within it.”

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SENIOR CONSTABLE KINGSLEY SMITH South Coast Traffic 28 years’ service Last Day: 24.02.16 Comments…

“I thank the Police Association for fighting for my rights and that of all other members.

“A special thanks to association grievance officer Matt Karger and president Mark Carroll for their friendship, support and understanding.

“I have been through a lot of changes within the SAPOL system and have seen the wheel reinvented a number of times.

“There will be interesting times ahead for all, with the organizational restructure taking place.

“During my service I had the privilege to work alongside dedicated, professional individuals and was proud to make a difference to the good people of South Australia.”

DETECTIVE SERGEANT PETER “PAB” BIERMANN Confiscation Section 33 years’ service Last Day: 26.02.16 Comments…

“To the sworn and unsworn members of SAPOL, whom I have been fortunate enough to work with, I extend my gratitude for their assistance, friendship and humour during my various postings.

“The experience of the job has left me with many positive memories that I will cherish.

“I further extend my appreciation to our strong Police Association. Not only for its role and function but also for its ongoing contribution to members’ services and the benefits obtained over my whole career.”

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Course 5/2015 Graduates’ Dinner Fenwick Function Centre Friday, February 26, 2016

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1. Nikki Tiplady, Sophie Matthews and Holly Batty 2. Kathryn Khor and Laura Jakubowski 3. Aimee and James Hazel 4. Andrew and Sharon Lothian 5. Tia, Carl, Drew and Brandon Poynter 6. Rebecca Ward and Tyson Schrapel 7. Tracey and Brad Clee 8. James Canny and Sophie Matthews 9. Max Haddow and Lauren Johnson 10. Nicholas and Kirilee Collins 8

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8. Police Association president Mark Carroll with Academic Award winner Laura Jakubowski 9. Tyson Schrapel 10. Laura Jakubowski, Holly Batty and Kathryn Khor

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SENIOR CONSTABLE FIRST CLASS JOE GAVINI Police Academy

PROBATIONARY CONSTABLE SARAH GAVINI Salisbury Police Station

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It took him aback at first but the news that his daughter intended to follow in his career footsteps did not surprise Joe Gavini. Sarah joined SAPOL and the Police Association in November, 2014 and graduated last October.

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