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SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE FISK
VALUING OUR PEOPLE EDITORIAL JANAE HOUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREW HENSHAW
OLD TIMERS .01 Superintendent George Fisk and Sergeant Ian Dunn have served 50 years with Victoria Police. .02 A younger Supt Fisk. .03 Sgt Dunn in his early policing career.
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s Victoria Police continues to recruit people about to embark on an extraordinary career, meet the organisation’s two longest-ever serving members. Corporate Strategy and Governance’s Superintendent George Fisk and Heidelberg Prosecutions’ Sergeant Ian Dunn started together as 16-year-old police cadets in 1962 at the old Police Depot on St Kilda Road. While their hair may be a bit thinner, the bodies not as agile as they once were, there is nothing wrong with either of the 66-yearolds’ memories.
SERGEANT IAN DUNN Sgt Dunn still struggles to forgive Supt Fisk for having a go at him on their very first day for smoking. “I have given up now and he may have been right, but still I haven’t forgotten George calling me an idiot.” The two men have seen 10 chief commissioners in their time and spent stints serving in the Australian Army. Reflecting on his 50 years in the job Sgt Dunn remembers his career fondly. While he worked at various stations and departments during his service, it was his career working on the crime cars, a sort of mobile Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) that attended serious incidents around the state, that he had the best of times.
“I spent a lot of time on the crime cars and it was just fantastic. We attended any serious incident that happened such as armed robberies, murders, all the things the CIUs do now. It was great days there.” Supt Fisk has spent his 50 years in a range of operational and administrative roles. However, his first day on the job as a probationary constable is hard to forget. “I passed out on the Friday and began duty on Sunday, 14 June, 1964. This was the day The Beatles arrived in Melbourne.” Throughout his career, Supt Fisk worked at various police stations, with stints at CIUs, as well as a range of specialist positions such as heading up security at Government House, capital works and property and as a planning officer, where he helped introduce computers to Victoria Police in the early 1990s. He now works in Corporate Strategy and Governance, as well as teaching workplace management to senior sergeants at the Victoria Police Academy and inspectors at the police training centre, Airlie. Sgt Dunn will slowly move towards retirement in the next few months, while Supt Fisk still feels he has a lot to offer Victoria Police. If you would like to embark on an extraordinary career visit www.policecareer.vic gov.au on the Internet.