Recruits ready to serve and protect Four new police officers started work in the Blue Mountains last week as latest class graduates Academy ERIN MAMO
he Blue Mountains community can feel a little safer now that four new police officers have joined the force. Class 331 welcomed 226 new probationary constables to the NSW Police Force in Goulburn on Friday, August 18. Of those 226 are Aaron Wright, Shane Woodland, Max Peake and Melissa Shepphard, who will now be based at Springwood Police Station for the next 12 months. Constable Peake, who grew up in Springwood and attended Saint Thomas Aquinas Primary School and St Columba’s High School, comes from a family of law enforcers with both his father and grandfather serving. “Policing and policing values surrounded my upbringing and household,” he said. Now Constable Peak is very excited about what’s next and is keen to give back to the community. “This community gave so much to me growing up,” he said. “I loved growing up here and now I will aim to offer local knowledge and be another friendly face in the police force with a passion for serving and protecting
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the community that I was raised in.” NSW Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller, said the new recruits will experience all facets of policing over the next 12 months. “Police are an integral part of the fabric of the communities they serve and these men and women have worked hard to reach this milestone,” he said. “As they embark on their new careers, they will uphold the values and honour of what it means to be a NSW police officer.” Blue Mountains Local Area Command Superintendent, Darryl Jobson, said the new recruits are joining a committed and dedicated team who serve the local community. “The new recruits have undertaken an arduous program of learning and have demonstrated that they have the tenacity and resolve that is required to be a police officer,” he said. “In their first 12 months they will build on their training by putting into practice what they learned at the Academy. “They will be challenged with something different everyday and their training has well-equipped them for those challenges. “It is an exciting time for them and their families, and I wish them all the very best with their careers, which I know will be very rewarding.”
the blue mountains record » Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Aaron Wright, Shane Woodland, Darryl Jobson, Max Peake and Melissa Shepphard
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