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ntelligence and Covert Support Command’s Detective Sergeant John Capewell will walk more than 350 kilometres across Victoria this month in memory of police who have died in the line of duty. Det Sgt Capewell will start in Shepparton, walking through Benalla, Mansfield, Yea, Seymour and Kalkallo before heading to Melbourne. Each day he will walk about 50 km or between nine to 10 hours and will end his walk by joining the Remembrance Day march to the Victoria Police Memorial on Monday, 29 September. Det Sgt Capewell, who is also president of the Blue Ribbon Foundation’s Northern Metro Branch, will be raising money for the foundation, which places emergency medical equipment into hospitals in honour of fallen police.
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“ The march has been designed to pay tribute to police colleagues who died or were injured on the job, simply working to deliver a safer Victoria,” Det Sgt Capewell said. “The march has been designed to pay tribute to police colleagues who died or were injured on the job, simply working to deliver a safer Victoria,” he said. Throughout the walk, he will visit sites where police have died including Stringybark Creek, where the Kelly Gang murdered three police in 1878. In Wandong, Det Sgt Capewell will visit the site where Senior Constable Stephen Henry was shot and killed by an escapee in 1982, and stop in Kalkallo where two police were shot by Pavel Marinoff, also known as ‘Mad Max’.
Marinoff was wanted at the time for shooting and seriously injuring five other police. In Northcote, Det Sgt Capewell will pay tribute to constables Fiona Robinson and Mark Bateman who died in a vehicle collision on their way to an incident in 2000. On arriving in Melbourne, he will visit the site of the Russell Street Bombing where Constable Angela Taylor sustained injuries from the blast and later died in 1986, and Walsh Street where Prahran constables Damian Eyre and Steven Tynan were murdered in 1988.
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WALK2REMEMBER .01 Det Sgt Capewell will be accompanied at times by his dog and training partner, Patch. .02 Some of the sites that will be visited on the March2Remember. It is hoped the walk will become an annual event, with more sites visited in future walks.
“The inspiration for the walk was to ensure we never forget those who have given their lives to helping the community and to show the family members of the deceased that we will never forget their service,” Det Sgt Capewell said. To find out more and to donate, visit https://give.everydayhero.com/ au/John-350 on the internet or follow the March2Remember page on Facebook.
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