Gregory Joseph JENSEN

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Gregory Joseph JENSEN

New South Wales Police Force

Redfern Police Academy – Class 203

( 1st Class at the new Goulburn Police Academy )

Regd. # 21470

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 7 May 1984

Probationary Constable – appointed 20 July 1984

Constable – appointed 20 July 1985

Constable 1st Class – appointed ?

Detective- appointed ? ? 1991

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Stations: Regional Crime Squad, Nth West ( Parramatta ), ?

Service: From: 7 May 1984 to To: ? ? ?

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system

Born: Thursday 25 July 1963

Died: ? ? ?

Cause: Stomach Cancer – H.O.D.

Funeral date: ?

Funeral location: ?

Grave site location: ?

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS MEMBER

GREG IS Mentioned on the Police Memorial Wall, Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills as of October 2022

25 October 2022

This afternoon, in a quiet and deeply-felt ceremony at the Sydney Police Centre, another thirteen names were added, and the memories of another thirteen dedicated NSW Police Force employees were honoured, at the NSW Police Force Service Memorial:

Sergeant Anthony Graham Backhouse

Detective Senior Constable Vaughan Anthony Hau

Detective Senior Constable Gregory Joseph Jensen

Senior Sergeant John Kelly

Senior Constable David John Koen (Ret’d)

Ms Angela Wai Sun Lee

Constable Joseph Lees

Inspector Anthony Peter William McCann

Constable James Liam O’Toole

Sergeant Christina Fraser Rees

Senior Constable Matthew Joseph Rees

Senior Constable Caroline Roberts

Sergeant Kevin William Smith

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/holding-judgement/2007/06/08/1181089328815.html?page=fullpage

June 9, 2007

It took up 451 hearing days, heard from 902 public witnesses and cost an estimated $64 million. Malcolm Brown reports on the Wood royal commission, 10 years on.

It began on June 15, 1995, when an unnamed Annandale detective jumped to his death from the seventh floor of a building, apparently through fear of the Wood royal commission. The detective’s suicide was followed by those of Ray Jenkins, a dog trainer (July 10), and Inspector Robert Tait, the acting patrol commander at Narrabri ( March 29, 1996 ). Nineteen days later a former Wollongong alderman, Brian Tobin, gassed himself.

On May 8 the same year, Peter Foretic gassed himself the day after giving evidence about paedophilia. On September 23, Detective Senior Constable Wayne Johnson shot himself and his estranged wife after being adversely named in the royal commission. On November 4, David Yeldham, a retired judge about to face the royal commission on questions of sexual impropriety, killed himself. A month later Danny Caines, a plumber and police confidant, committed suicide at Forster, on the North Coast.

Altogether, 12 people enmeshed in the Wood royal commission took their own lives. Scores of others were so profoundly affected by proceedings that their supporters and families believe it shortened their lives. A former detective, Greg Jensen, suffered a recurrence of the stomach cancer that ultimately ended his life, while another former detective, Ray McDougall, who faced the threat that commission investigators might expose his extramarital affair if he did not co-operate, succumbed to motor neurone disease.

There is no doubt that the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service, headed by the Supreme Court judge James Wood, purged the force of a rollcall of rotters. A total of 284 police officers were adversely named, 46 briefs of evidence were sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and by 2001 nine officers had pleaded guilty to corruption offences and three not guilty. Seven police officers received jail sentences, including the former Gosford drug squad chief Wayne Eade and a former chief of detectives, Graham “Chook” Fowler.

Several high-profile police ended their careers in disgrace, including Ray Donaldson, an assistant commissioner, whose contract was not renewed, and Bob Lysaught, the commissioner’s chief of staff, whose contract was torn up. Charges against 14 officers were dismissed because of irregularities in search warrants and their execution.

That left the question of what to do with police who were on the nose but who could not be brought to account by normal means. The solution was the creation of section 181B of the Police Service Act, under which the police commissioner could dismiss an officer on the basis of what had come out of the royal commission. Section 181D allowed the police commissioner to serve an officer with a notice indicating that he “does not have confidence in the police officer’s suitability to continue as a police officer”. The officer could show cause as to why he should be retained, and if dismissed could appeal to the Industrial Relations Tribunal.

In the wake of the two legislative changes, 380 officers were targeted for dismissal or internal investigation. By March 1998, 19 police officers had been dismissed under section 181B and three under 181D. Another had been dismissed under a separate provision of the act, 14 had resigned, four had been medically discharged and 15 had been given performance warning notices. Others were under consideration, and as the Police Integrity Commission – a legacy of the royal commission which became a permanent watchdog – has demonstrated, even officers who had been corrupt many years before were not necessarily in the clear.The former independent MP John Hatton, who was instrumental in setting up the royal commission, said he thought the Police Integrity Commission was the royal commission’s “greatest achievement”. The Child Protection Enforcement Agency, which launched a purge of sex offenders, is another positive legacy of the royal commission.But 10 years on, was the exercise worth it?To some there were considerable benefits. Some appalling malpractice – known as “process” or “noble cause” corruption – prompted Wood to wonder at one point about the quality of a lot of police evidence he had accepted over the years.Despite this, many officers still believe the royal commission was too puritanical. They claim the investigators, not able to grapple with the really big issues, jumped on anything they could: “They had to have runs on the board,” says Michael McGann, who as a policeman in 1984 participated in the so-called Kareela Cat Burglar case, in which police used mace on an uncooperative thief and sex offender. To some critics this treatment did no serious harm and only required a word of caution. But under the spotlight of the royal commission 12 years later, it ended the careers of high-flying police such as John Garvey, Brian Harding and Steve York. A decade later, Harding works in corporate security but insists that the real sting was that the investigators had fabricated evidence. When that finally came out, he says, the group received a confidential settlement, but it did little to redress the feelings of outrage.

Another former policeman, Dr Michael Kennedy, says the commission was a political response to the police commissioner, Tony Lauer, bringing about the downfall of the then police minister, Ted Pickering.

The attorney-general, ministry and judiciary took little responsibility for the state of the force, Kennedy says, while the responsibility of the police rank-and-file grew to “the size of a Pacific driftnet”. “I don’t think the royal commission contributed anything to the reform process except to provide a template for double standards,” he says.

“Chook Fowler put $200 into his pocket from Louis Bayeh. Chook was a lazy, good-for-nothing drunk. But he was put into the same category as Ray Williams and HIH.”McGann says that against the string of petty corrupt activities uncovered, “you have to look at what the government did and did not do with gambling and vice, over the decades. There have been direct links to Parliament for 50 or 60 years. That is hypocrisy.”The critics’ view is that the royal commission has left a demoralised police force, tarnished and rudderless, with limited operational effectiveness and the problem of corruption unsolved. Seven police officers have taken their lives since 2001, including two this year.”It highlights the fact that the structure no longer takes in the needs of the NSW police force,” says Mike Gallacher, the Opposition police spokesman, and a former internal affairs police officer. Gallacher believes, as does the NSW Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, that the tentacles of corruption no longer spread to embrace entire squads or larger units. But it does not prevent low-level incidents of corruption and there are continuing nests of corruption.In its most recent report, the Police Integrity Commission said it had undertaken 21 major investigations in 2005-06. These dealt with extortion, theft, unauthorised disclosure of confidential government information and perverting the course of justice, police brutality and the handling of $250,000 stolen from automatic teller machines. The then police integrity commissioner, Terry Griffin, said there had been 51 investigations in the 12 months, compared with 44 in 2004-05, and the 1141 written complaints represented a 15 per cent increase. Moroney says all these reports are disappointing, but one of the significant statistics was the number of police who were reporting on other police. “You go back a decade and the number of informants who were police was 5 to 10 per cent,” he says. “In the Ombudsman’s last report, that figure was 49 per cent.”The mechanism for dealing with internal complaints has been expedited: “I have not been afraid to use a section 181D notice,” Moroney says.He believes there is a different mentality in the force. A video of the royal commission had been shown at a recent reunion dinner of the old criminal investigation branch. “It is part of our history. But the interesting thing is that when Chookie came onto the screen, everyone booed. That was a signal to the Fowlers and the Eades that those found to have acted corruptly would not be accepted.”

However, Moroney accepts that corruption is not a thing of the past. “In the contemporary period, there are huge monies to be made from the illicit drug environment. You are talking in some cases of millions of dollars. It is the greatest menace in society today. And the greatest menace to officers is drug money. That is why rotation of officers out of specialist squads on a regular basis is important.”Taking over as commissioner five years ago, he had brought a low-key “Uncle Ken” influence, sorely needed, and had had to balance the principles of police accountability against the public demand for law and order, and the task has been awkward.A senior counsel told the Herald this week that the focus on integrity, scrutiny of professional standards and attacks by defence lawyers meant that talented police prepared to do the dirty work were deterred. “In the old days the best and the brightest went into plain-clothes,” he said. “But when the police perceive that when they have to go the extra yard [to get convictions], they are crucified – ‘Why should I go to plain-clothes when I can just get some uniform job with a 12-hour shift, and a second job?”‘Clive Small, a former assistant commissioner who set up crime agencies and established the child protection unit, says that after so many detectives were disgraced in the royal commission, the police force sought to take the spotlight off detectives and put more of the onus of responsibility for crime control onto local area commands. Crime agencies had a continual battle to keep up to strength. Regionalising responsibility for crime control reflected a lack of understanding. “A lot of crime spreads through the metropolitan area, across the state and across the nation,” he says.Kennedy, now a university lecturer, says the “business model” approach is incompatible with good police work. “We cannot expect police to behave like they are in the private sector, where competence is measured in terms of productivity,” he says.Kennedy attended the recent CIB reunion dinner and sat at a table with former drug squad detectives who remained friends of Wayne Eade. He takes issue with Moroney‘s claim that people at the dinner made catcalls when Fowler came on screen. “No one supported Chook,” he says. “But the animosity of the crowd was directed straight at Justice Wood and his commission.”Clive Small, who was also at the dinner, says: “I think it is really a matter of interpretation who they were booing. There were things the royal commission did not take care about. There was a lot of collateral damage. And the implementation [of its recommendations] has been pretty ordinary.”

CRUSADER WHO MADE THE CALL

JOHN HATTON well remembers the audience on May 11, 1994, when he made his speech calling for a royal commission into the NSW Police Service. MPs were listening, of course, but it was a gallery above him, packed with the “top brass of the police force – the commissioner himself, the deputy commissioner, superintendents – they were an intimidating force on the Parliament”.

“They thought they could stare down the Labor Party support for my motion,” Hatton, now retired, says. “It was probably the best indicator of the way in which the police force thought they could control the agenda.”

Hatton won the day, putting paid to a claim by then police commissioner, Tony Lauer, that “systemic corruption” was “a figment of the political imagination”. Hearings started on November 24, 1994, and Justice James Wood delivered his final report on August 26, 1997.

Ten years later, Hatton believes he was vindicated. He says Wood was “the right man” to head the commission and the recruitment of interstate police was crucial, along with the decision to use phone taps and surveillance.

The 11 volumes of material Hatton gave the royal commission had been accumulated over 14 years, he says, from the time he had first spoken up. He had received information on illegal gambling, drug trafficking and police involvement with the mafia.

There had been earlier moves to address police corruption, including inquiries by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, but these had only scratched the surface. “I can remember on one occasion I reported a death threat which had to do with the McKay murder in Griffith and 48 hours later the bloke who had given the information was threatened by a shotgun at his door in Queensland,” Hatton says.

The royal commission came into being because Hatton and other independent MPs held the balance of power in Parliament. The Labor Party may have had high public motives, but also saw a chance to attack the Fahey government. Labor stipulated that an inquiry into police protection of paedophiles, previously in the hands of the ICAC, become part of the royal commission.

The process of gathering information was helped greatly by Trevor Haken, a detective who became an informer and covert investigator as part of a deal to avoid being prosecuted himself.

Hatton says Haken‘s entry was “out of the blue”. Though useful, in the long term it had had a detrimental effect on the fight against corruption. Living in fear and watching his back, Haken had provided “the greatest disincentive for someone coming forward to finger corruption in the system”.

Malcolm Brown

Wayne JOHNSON

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Wayne JOHNSON

New South Wales Police Force ?

Regd. # ?

Detective Senior Constable

Stations: Tamworth ( 1989 ) ?

Service: From: ? to To: 23 September 1995

Awards: ?

Born: ?

Died: 23 September 1995

Cause: Suicide – shot himself. Murder: Shot his estranged wife

Funeral date: ?

Funeral location: ?

Grave site location: ?

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS MEMBER

[alert_yellow]Wayne is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow]

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/holding-judgement/2007/06/08/1181089328815.html?page=fullpage

June 9, 2007

It took up 451 hearing days, heard from 902 public witnesses and cost an estimated $64 million. Malcolm Brown reports on the Wood royal commission, 10 years on.

It began on June 15, 1995, when an unnamed Annandale detective jumped to his death from the seventh floor of a building, apparently through fear of the Wood royal commission. The detective’s suicide was followed by those of Ray Jenkins, a dog trainer (July 10), and Inspector Robert Tait, the acting patrol commander at Narrabri ( March 29, 1996 ). Nineteen days later a former Wollongong alderman, Brian Tobin, gassed himself.

On May 8 the same year, Peter Foretic gassed himself the day after giving evidence about pedophilia. On September 23, Detective Senior Constable Wayne Johnson shot himself and his estranged wife after being adversely named in the royal commission. On November 4, David Yeldham, a retired judge about to face the royal commission on questions of sexual impropriety, killed himself. A month later Danny Caines, a plumber and police confidant, committed suicide at Forster, on the North Coast.

Altogether, 12 people enmeshed in the Wood royal commission took their own lives. Scores of others were so profoundly affected by proceedings that their supporters and families believe it shortened their lives. A former detective, Greg Jensen, suffered a recurrence of the stomach cancer that ultimately ended his life, while another former detective, Ray McDougall, who faced the threat that commission investigators might expose his extramarital affair if he did not co-operate, succumbed to motor neurone disease.

There is no doubt that the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service, headed by the Supreme Court judge James Wood, purged the force of a rollcall of rotters. A total of 284 police officers were adversely named, 46 briefs of evidence were sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and by 2001 nine officers had pleaded guilty to corruption offences and three not guilty. Seven police officers received jail sentences, including the former Gosford drug squad chief Wayne Eade and a former chief of detectives, Graham “Chook” Fowler.

Several high-profile police ended their careers in disgrace, including Ray Donaldson, an assistant commissioner, whose contract was not renewed, and Bob Lysaught, the commissioner’s chief of staff, whose contract was torn up. Charges against 14 officers were dismissed because of irregularities in search warrants and their execution.

That left the question of what to do with police who were on the nose but who could not be brought to account by normal means. The solution was the creation of section 181B of the Police Service Act, under which the police commissioner could dismiss an officer on the basis of what had come out of the royal commission. Section 181D allowed the police commissioner to serve an officer with a notice indicating that he “does not have confidence in the police officer’s suitability to continue as a police officer”. The officer could show cause as to why he should be retained, and if dismissed could appeal to the Industrial Relations Tribunal.

In the wake of the two legislative changes, 380 officers were targeted for dismissal or internal investigation. By March 1998, 19 police officers had been dismissed under section 181B and three under 181D. Another had been dismissed under a separate provision of the act, 14 had resigned, four had been medically discharged and 15 had been given performance warning notices. Others were under consideration, and as the Police Integrity Commission – a legacy of the royal commission which became a permanent watchdog – has demonstrated, even officers who had been corrupt many years before were not necessarily in the clear.The former independent MP John Hatton, who was instrumental in setting up the royal commission, said he thought the Police Integrity Commission was the royal commission’s “greatest achievement”. The Child Protection Enforcement Agency, which launched a purge of sex offenders, is another positive legacy of the royal commission.But 10 years on, was the exercise worth it?To some there were considerable benefits. Some appalling malpractice – known as “process” or “noble cause” corruption – prompted Wood to wonder at one point about the quality of a lot of police evidence he had accepted over the years.Despite this, many officers still believe the royal commission was too puritanical. They claim the investigators, not able to grapple with the really big issues, jumped on anything they could: “They had to have runs on the board,” says Michael McGann, who as a policeman in 1984 participated in the so-called Kareela Cat Burglar case, in which police used mace on an unco-operative thief and sex offender. To some critics this treatment did no serious harm and only required a word of caution. But under the spotlight of the royal commission 12 years later, it ended the careers of high-flying police such as John Garvey, Brian Harding and Steve York.A decade later, Harding works in corporate security but insists that the real sting was that the investigators had fabricated evidence. When that finally came out, he says, the group received a confidential settlement, but it did little to redress the feelings of outrage.

Another former policeman, Dr Michael Kennedy, says the commission was a political response to the police commissioner, Tony Lauer, bringing about the downfall of the then police minister, Ted Pickering.

The attorney-general, ministry and judiciary took little responsibility for the state of the force, Kennedy says, while the responsibility of the police rank-and-file grew to “the size of a Pacific driftnet”. “I don’t think the royal commission contributed anything to the reform process except to provide a template for double standards,” he says.

“Chook Fowler put $200 into his pocket from Louis Bayeh. Chook was a lazy, good-for-nothing drunk. But he was put into the same category as Ray Williams and HIH.”McGann says that against the string of petty corrupt activities uncovered, “you have to look at what the government did and did not do with gambling and vice, over the decades. There have been direct links to Parliament for 50 or 60 years. That is hypocrisy.”The critics’ view is that the royal commission has left a demoralised police force, tarnished and rudderless, with limited operational effectiveness and the problem of corruption unsolved. Seven police officers have taken their lives since 2001, including two this year.”It highlights the fact that the structure no longer takes in the needs of the NSW police force,” says Mike Gallacher, the Opposition police spokesman, and a former internal affairs police officer.Gallacher believes, as does the NSW Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, that the tentacles of corruption no longer spread to embrace entire squads or larger units. But it does not prevent low-level incidents of corruption and there are continuing nests of corruption.In its most recent report, the Police Integrity Commission said it had undertaken 21 major investigations in 2005-06. These dealt with extortion, theft, unauthorised disclosure of confidential government information and perverting the course of justice, police brutality and the handling of $250,000 stolen from automatic teller machines. The then police integrity commissioner, Terry Griffin, said there had been 51 investigations in the 12 months, compared with 44 in 2004-05, and the 1141 written complaints represented a 15 per cent increase.Moroney says all these reports are disappointing, but one of the significant statistics was the number of police who were reporting on other police. “You go back a decade and the number of informants who were police was 5 to 10 per cent,” he says. “In the Ombudsman’s last report, that figure was 49 per cent.”The mechanism for dealing with internal complaints has been expedited: “I have not been afraid to use a section 181D notice,” Moroney says.He believes there is a different mentality in the force. A video of the royal commission had been shown at a recent reunion dinner of the old criminal investigation branch. “It is part of our history. But the interesting thing is that when Chookie came onto the screen, everyone booed. That was a signal to the Fowlers and the Eades that those found to have acted corruptly would not be accepted.”

However, Moroney accepts that corruption is not a thing of the past. “In the contemporary period, there are huge monies to be made from the illicit drug environment. You are talking in some cases of millions of dollars. It is the greatest menace in society today. And the greatest menace to officers is drug money. That is why rotation of officers out of specialist squads on a regular basis is important.”Taking over as commissioner five years ago, he had brought a low-key “Uncle Ken” influence, sorely needed, and had had to balance the principles of police accountability against the public demand for law and order, and the task has been awkward.A senior counsel told the Herald this week that the focus on integrity, scrutiny of professional standards and attacks by defence lawyers meant that talented police prepared to do the dirty work were deterred. “In the old days the best and the brightest went into plain-clothes,” he said. “But when the police perceive that when they have to go the extra yard [to get convictions], they are crucified – ‘Why should I go to plain-clothes when I can just get some uniform job with a 12-hour shift, and a second job?”‘Clive Small, a former assistant commissioner who set up crime agencies and established the child protection unit, says that after so many detectives were disgraced in the royal commission, the police force sought to take the spotlight off detectives and put more of the onus of responsibility for crime control onto local area commands. Crime agencies had a continual battle to keep up to strength. Regionalising responsibility for crime control reflected a lack of understanding. “A lot of crime spreads through the metropolitan area, across the state and across the nation,” he says.Kennedy, now a university lecturer, says the “business model” approach is incompatible with good police work. “We cannot expect police to behave like they are in the private sector, where competence is measured in terms of productivity,” he says.Kennedy attended the recent CIB reunion dinner and sat at a table with former drug squad detectives who remained friends of Wayne Eade. He takes issue with Moroney‘s claim that people at the dinner made catcalls when Fowler came on screen. “No one supported Chook,” he says. “But the animosity of the crowd was directed straight at Justice Wood and his commission.”Clive Small, who was also at the dinner, says: “I think it is really a matter of interpretation who they were booing. There were things the royal commission did not take care about. There was a lot of collateral damage. And the implementation [of its recommendations] has been pretty ordinary.”

CRUSADER WHO MADE THE CALL

JOHN HATTON well remembers the audience on May 11, 1994, when he made his speech calling for a royal commission into the NSW Police Service. MPs were listening, of course, but it was a gallery above him, packed with the “top brass of the police force – the commissioner himself, the deputy commissioner, superintendents – they were an intimidating force on the Parliament”.

“They thought they could stare down the Labor Party support for my motion,” Hatton, now retired, says. “It was probably the best indicator of the way in which the police force thought they could control the agenda.”

Hatton won the day, putting paid to a claim by then police commissioner, Tony Lauer, that “systemic corruption” was “a figment of the political imagination”. Hearings started on November 24, 1994, and Justice James Wood delivered his final report on August 26, 1997.

Ten years later, Hatton believes he was vindicated. He says Wood was “the right man” to head the commission and the recruitment of interstate police was crucial, along with the decision to use phone taps and surveillance.

The 11 volumes of material Hatton gave the royal commission had been accumulated over 14 years, he says, from the time he had first spoken up. He had received information on illegal gambling, drug trafficking and police involvement with the mafia.

There had been earlier moves to address police corruption, including inquiries by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, but these had only scratched the surface. “I can remember on one occasion I reported a death threat which had to do with the McKay murder in Griffith and 48 hours later the bloke who had given the information was threatened by a shotgun at his door in Queensland,” Hatton says.

The royal commission came into being because Hatton and other independent MPs held the balance of power in Parliament. The Labor Party may have had high public motives, but also saw a chance to attack the Fahey government. Labor stipulated that an inquiry into police protection of pedophiles, previously in the hands of the ICAC, become part of the royal commission.

The process of gathering information was helped greatly by Trevor Haken, a detective who became an informer and covert investigator as part of a deal to avoid being prosecuted himself.

Hatton says Haken‘s entry was “out of the blue”. Though useful, in the long term it had had a detrimental effect on the fight against corruption. Living in fear and watching his back, Haken had provided “the greatest disincentive for someone coming forward to finger corruption in the system”.

Malcolm Brown

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Evan Barry HEINJUS

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Evan Barry HEINJUS

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 25954

Academy Class 237 ? or 238 ?

Senior Constable

Stations: Wagga Wagga G.D’s & HWP in 1995, Tarcutta HWP ( paper transfer only ),

Batemans Bay HWP, Bodalla LUK & Jugiong LUK & HWP

Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system

Service: From ? – To 4 March 2007

Born: 1968

Illness: viral Myocarditis, this illness led to major organ failure.

Hospitalised ( St Vincent’s ) 11 September 2006

Heart bypass: 3 March 2007

Died: Sunday 4 March 2007 @ 6.15am

39 old

Funeral: 9 March 2007 at

Wagga Wagga St Johns Anglican Church ( Full Police Funeral )

Evan was Cremated and remains with the family

Memorial: NSW Police force Service Memorial Wall, Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills, F31 ( left wall )

Evan contracted an illness – viral myocarditis, this illness led to major organ failure. Evan was airlifted to to Sydney St Vincent’s hospital on 11/9/2006, and was placed in a coma for several weeks until a special total heart bypass machine was bought from England.

This Machine kept Evan alive and awake until a donor heart became available.

This machine bought many months of family time that the family will be forever grateful for.

The transplant surgery was a success on the 3/3/2007 but the effects of the prolonged use of blood thinners was unable to be reversed and Evan passed away 6.15am on 4/3/2007.

Evan is survived by his wife Helen, children Hannah, Olivia and Theo Heinjus.

Evan was a much adored country cop, he always said his mouth was his best weapon and he could talk people around with his manner. Evan loved his work as a NSW Police Officer and received many Superintendent and Commissioners commendation’s and awards.

May you forever Rest In Peace Evan.

The Commissioner’s Police Remembrance Day Scholarship

On the 29th day of each September, police officers, fellow officers, wives, husbands, parents, partners, and children gather at sites across the state to remember those police officers who have lost their lives in the course of serving their community.
A commemoration is held at the NSW Police Force Wall of Remembrance in the Domain, Sydney which includes a service and prayers for those fallen officers.

As the dignitaries laid wreaths they were accompanied by some of our young Legatees. We’d like to thank Theo, Olivia and Hannah Heinjus and Brendon Speechley who laid wreaths in honour of their lost parents and all fallen officers.

Each year at the Remembrance Day Ceremony, the Commissioner’s Scholarship is presented to a young Legatee to assist with furthering their education. Congratulations to Theo Heinjus, 11, who was the 2011 recipient of this $5,000
scholarship.

Theo was only six years old when his father, Senior Constable Evan Heinjus, died from complications after a heart transplant, aged 38.

Theo received the award from NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione. “Theo is a popular and enthusiastic boy, who has exhibited a great deal of courage in dealing with the grief of his father’s death,” Commissioner Scipione said.

“He has enormous potential to reach his dreams and I hope this scholarship will assist him to reach his potential.”

The $5000 scholarship will be put into a trust fund for Theo and will be managed by NSW Police Legacy.

“I am immensely proud that he has been able to achieve this award, it will certainly make a difference to his schooling in the upcoming years,” Theo’s mother Helen Foley said.

Legatee, Olivia Heinjus aged 12 records her experience of the 2011 October Camp
below.

This year we went to the Gold Coast, staying for the week at the Christian Youth Camp (CYC). I was in a room with Maddie, Jasmine, Margaret, Eleano and the new girls, Catlin & Katie.

On the first day we went to Dreamworld and I’m sure everyone loved it. I personally had a thrilling time because I went on the CLAW. Lara and Amy dragged me on to it!

On Monday we did stand up paddle boarding and surfing. The weather wasn’t great and some of us were being blown away by the wind but standing up paddle boarding was so much fun!

On Tuesday we did canoeing and tubing and it was great. While we were tubing Iveta and James did a switch and swapped sides and Callum and Mitch tried to flip it.

On Wednesday we went to Wet ‘n Wild and had lots of fun on all the rides. On Thursday we went to the movies at this giant shopping centre and after our movie we went shopping.

Friday was goodbye. When we landed Theo and I were back in our mothers arms. We had a great time and can’t wait to go on our next camp.

http://www.policelegacynsw.org.au/PDF/Annual_Review_2011.pdf

Evan is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

Evan is NOT mentioned on the Retired Police Association Vale list

Evan IS mentioned on the NSW Police Memorial Wall , Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills, F31 ( left wall )

Location of Church Service

Retirement of Sergeant Terence O’Rourke – 1924

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Terence Joseph O’ROURKE

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ?

Sergeant ?

Stations: Mounted Police, Newcastle District for several years.

Singleton – 7 years

Scone – 1896 ( four months duty here )

Denman – ?

Wyong – 1909 – 1911

Kempsey – 5.5 years

Wyong – ? – 1920

Scone ( Sergeant ) 1 December 1920 – Retirement date ?

Awards: ?

Service: From August 1890 to ?

Born: ?

Died: 18 January 1938, late of Artarmon,

formerly of Denman.

Funeral date: ?

Funeral location: ?

Buried: Macquarie Park Cemetery,

R.C., row G4, plot 0029 along with other family members

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Retirement of Sergeant Terrence O’Rourke.

EPISODES OF A LENGTHY SERVICE.

The Scone Advocate ( NSW ) Tuesday 25 November 1924 page 2 of 4

During the reign of Queen Victoria and several years before the birth of the Prince of Wales, there arrived in Australia fresh from Erin’s Isle, a young man by the name of Terence O’Rourke. Having received his education at the Royal University, Dublin ( now known as the National University ), at which he obtained a first-class Exhibition in French, he entered Queen’s College, Galway, for the purpose of studying medicine, but the dissection room proved to be too great an ordeal for the nerves of a man who appreciated the healthy freedom of the open air, and he gave up the opportunity of becoming a guardian of the health of Her Majesty’s subjects for what proved to be the no less useful career of a keeper of the peace in the antipodes. The late Sir Thomas Moffat, L.L.D., was then president of the college, and the recommendation that the student received from that source was, to say the least, sufficiently inspiring to gratify the vanity and increase the energy of any ordinary young man. In short, Sir Thomas looked for great things from his erstwhile pupil. Only a few years previously, Mr. T. P. O’Connor, member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool, and the father of the House of Commons ‘ at the present time, graduated at the same college.

Shortly after his arrival in Australia, O’Rourke seized the opportunity to go to Noraville, near Nora Head, to become tutor of the three sons of Mr. Edmund Hammond Hargreaves, B.A. ( Sydney ), a member of the Church of England Synod of Newcastle, and a son of the first great gold discoverer of Australia. The impression created by close contact with the family was a pleasing introduction to Australian life, for the new arrival found in his first employer a typical Australian and a broad-minded gentleman of kindly disposition. The intimacy then created with the sons is evidenced to-day in the friendship of Mr. Dudley Hargreaves, who is now resident at Noraville. Tasting not a little of the outdoor life at Noraville, young O’Rourke felt the need for more, and in August, 1890, he joined the mounted police and served in the Newcastle district for several years, during which time he attained some reputation during strikes. From Newcastle he went to Singleton, where he was stationed for seven years. His success in dealing with cattle stealers, not to mention sly-grog cases, earned for him the commendation of various Judges, and also brought him under the notice of the President of the Stock Stealing Prevention Association, Singleton, Mr. R. H. Dangar, who in his appeal to the Inspector General to prevent the constable’s transfer from Singleton, said that it would mean a great loss to the cattle owners.

SOLD IN SCONE.

It is interesting to note that while at Singleton Constable O’Rourke traced a man who had stolen a horse and buggy from Singleton to Scone, where the turnout had been sold through Messrs. Corbett and Simpson, auctioneers. The criminal escaped to Victoria, and it was several months before the trail led to Pentridge Gaol, where the culprit was found under going a sentence for larceny. A few days before Xmas, 1902, the prisoner was identified and brought by Constable O’Rourke to Singleton, where it was shown that the offender had served sentences in the various States of Australia aggregating 12 ½ years. ‘ At the Singleton Quarter Sessions in March, 1903, a further sentence of three years was imposed. At his own request, Constable O’Rourke was transferred from Singleton to Denman. Here, within a week, he received word that cattle had been stolen from the Baerami Estate, then the property of the Bank of N.S. Wales. In company with Constable Moore, he followed the tracks of the cattle for several days through the mountainous country towards Capertree where, in a basin of the mountains, the stock were found and driven back, although the offenders escaped. His good work on this occasion was warmly commented upon by the stock-owner and the Inspector General. An exciting incident in connection with a Chinaman took place when stationed at Denman. It so happened that a serious burglary had occurred at Merriwa, and suspicion lighted upon a Chinaman who had just completed two ???s’ imprisonment. The cunning of the Celestial was evinced in that he smothered his footprints by wrapping his boots in strips of blanket.

GAGGED WITH REVOLVER.

The senior constable, in plain clothes, came upon the foreigner at Dandy Hollow and, having learned the practical value of ” getting in first, “ lost no time, after his preliminary question, in dealing out unexpected justice upon the surprised heathen, who suddenly found himself on the broad of his back with a smoking revolver, which the constable had first fired into the ground, inserted like a throat spray between his teeth, causing his victim to squeal for mercy. For his misdemeanours the Chinaman served a sentence of three years at Newcastle Gaol. The two years following 1909 were spent in Wyong, after which he was given six months leave, which he made good use of by visiting the scenes of his youth in the Green Isle. On his return, he was sent to Kempsey, where again he put up a big record in obstructing the movements of cattle stealers, and here he received the commendation of Judge Edmunds for his generalship in capturing within a few hours of the theft, a burglar who had escaped from the Royal Hotel with booty to the value of £200. In the struggle that followed the arrest, the criminal had got rid of the bulk of the stolen articles but, strange enough, as the constable was passing the Convent grounds some time afterwards, he noticed a child’s handkerchief lying on the ground and going in to pick it up, found most of the missing goods actually lying on and close by the article. After 5½ years at Kempsey, where it was remarked that his name would last as long as the Macleay, he was transferred at his own request to Wyong, where a cordial welcome awaited him. In 1920, he received a public farewell and the staunch friendships made there stand out pleasantly in his memory to-day.

WYONG’S APPRECIATION.

The ” Gosford Times ” said of him: ” There never had been stationed at Wyong an officer who was so fondly and regretfully farewelled by the people. The great success of Sergeant O’Rourke as a police officer lay in his tactful, firm, and gentlemanly demeanour, always doing the right thing in the right way and treating rich and poor alike. The pity is that Wyong is not graded high enough to retain the services of the sergeant. ” On December 1st, 1920, he took up his duties at Scone, where he had previously put in four months in 1896. To all who have had the pleasure of coming into contact with the kindly nature of Sergt. O’Rourke, it will not be surprising to learn that during the whole of his career he has never been assaulted or insulted. His humour — as alive today, despite his grey hairs — as it was in the nineties, proclaims a man of genuine heart and happy, youthful temperament; moreover, his conversation is that of a man who, despite his sanguinary battles with fate in the shape of desperate characters, has not lost heart in the ultimate good inherent in all, not excluding the outcast. To attract the best is better than to subjugate the worst, and it is very apparent that the aim of Sergeant O’Rourke was to construct rather than to destroy and, by so doing, he received the homage and trust of actually those whom it was his duty rigorously to defeat and bring to justice.

RETIRING TO DENMAN.

A well-earned holiday will preface his retirement to Denman, where in 1910, he acquired a very fine property from Mr. E. R. White, of Merton. The deal, one guesses, would not have been made, were it not that the retiring officer was held in high esteem by the seller, and it is only right to add that the sergeant himself speaks of the White family with a respect which finds expression in the words, ” They are men in the best sense of the word. I shall always be proud to salute the White family. ” All will join in the hope that Sergeant O’Rourke will find in his change of occupation all he requires, to make his future a happy and useful one, and that he will live long to enjoy what Robert Browning so ably defines as ” the last of life for which the first was made. ”

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A woman named Elizabeth ALBERTS has been arrested for the alleged manslaughter of Mrs. Moore, aged 33, wife of Constable Moore, of Grenfell.

Deceased went to Sydney, and is alleged to have died in a hospital under suspicious circumstance.

The Richmond River Herald & Northern Districts Advertiser ( NSW )

Tuesday 12 November 1912 page 2 of 4

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Albert Edmund MOORE

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Albert Edmund MOORE

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 250

Rank: ?

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Police Gazette dated 14 February 1917 –

Probationary Constable: MOORE, Albert E., No 250, September 19, 1916.

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Police Gazette dated 31 October 1917 –

Ordinary Constable: MOORE, Albert E., No. 250, September, 19, 1917.

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Police Gazette dated 2 July 1924 –

Qualifying Examinations for Higher Rank – MOORE, A. E., No 250, Bellingen

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Police Gazette dated 30 December 1925 –

Constables to be Constables 1st Class

MOORE, A. E., No. 250; date of promotion, 1st January, 1926,

date of last promotion, 19th September, 1917.

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Police Gazette dated 2 May 1928 –

Regd. # 250, MOORE, A. E. Constable 1st Class

Date of Birth 13-4-88

Date of Appointment 19-9-16

Date of Appointment to Present Rank 1-1-26

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Police Gazette dated 21 May 1930

Qualifying Examination for Higher Rank.

MOORE, A. E., No. 250, North Coast.

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Stations: Bellingen, Kempsey ( 1924 ) ?

Awards: ?

Service: From pre February 1917 To ?

Born: 13 April 1888

Died: ? 1960

Age: ?

Funeral date: ?

Funeral location: ?

Grave location: ?

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Policeman Honored

BELLINGEN, Saturday. — Constable Albert E. Moore, who has been stationed here for several years, was presented to-night by Mr. S. J. Piggott, ex-Shire President, with a gold watch and chain on behalf of the business people of the town prior to his departure for Kempsey, where he has been promoted. Constable Moore was congratulated on the splendid work he did during the recent big fires in the town.

Sunday Times ( Sydney ) Sunday 17 August 1924 page 2 of 24

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LOCAL & GENERAL

POLICE EXAMINATION.

About two months ago several members of the police force of the Macleay sub-district sat for an examination, conducted by Sergeant Jones of the Police Instruction Department. The results disclose that First Class Constables Moore and Griffiths ( Kempsey ) and Berry ( Urunga ) passed the necessary qualification test for Third Class Sergeants. Constables Bodman ( Bowraville ) and Peate ( Port Macquarie ) have qualified as First Class Constables.

The Port Macquarie News & Hastings River Advocate ( NSW )

Saturday 14 June 1930 page 4 of 8

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An article in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner’s Advocate ( NSW ) dated Friday 25 January 1907, page 6 of 8, mentions “Maitland Distrist ……. The following transfers of police officials in the north-eastern police distrist have been approved….. “Senior-constable Moore, Jerry’s Plains to Gladstone”

Whether the Moore mentioned in 1907 is related to Moore born in 1888 is unknown.

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Owen John HALLIDAY

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Owen John HALLIDAY

aka ‘ Doc ‘ & ‘ Jeff ‘

New South Wales Police Force

Redfern Police Academy Class # 123

Joined NSW Police Force via Police Cadet System on 2 December 1968

Cadet #2417

Regd # 14262

Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced on 2 December 1968 ( aged 17 years, 3 months, 24 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 25 August 1970 ( aged 19 years )

Constable 1st Class – appointed 25 August 1975

Detective Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 24 March 1986

Stations: Balmain, ?

Service: From 2 December 1968 to ? ? 2003 = 34 years Service

Stations: Balmain, ?

Awards: National Medal – granted 8 June 1988

1st Clasp to the National Medal – granted 27 September 1996

Born: Saturday 25 August 1951

Died on: Thursday 1 December 2011

Cause: Motor Neurone disease

Age: 60 years, 3 months, 6 days

Funeral date: 8 December 2011 @ 12.30pm

Funeral location: Macquarie Park Crematorium

Buried at: Cremated

The late detective sergeant Owen John (Jeff) Halliday (aka Doc).

OWEN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED

Top NSW cop Detective Owen ‘Doc’ Halliday to be given full police funeral after losing battle with motor neurone disease

CRIME EDITOR MARK MORRI

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 07, 2011 3:07PM

NSW detective Owen ‘Doc’ Halliday mixed it with some of Sydney’s roughest and dirtiest criminals – invariably coming out the winner.

Detective Halliday will be given a full police funeral tomorrow, attended by the state’s top officers after he lost his battle with motor neurone disease earlier this week.

Halliday, 60, was responsible for bringing ‘Mr Rent-a-kill‘, Christopher Dale Flannery, back to Sydney after he went into hiding in Melbourne in the 80s.

”He was one of the most tenacious detectives I have known,’’ said Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas.

”Doc had a sense of fairness you don’t often see and had an incredible disdain for bullies. He was not only a great detective but a wonderful father and a terrific bloke.’’

Halliday was a mentor to many of the state’s now-senior police and worked on some of the most high-profile cases of the 80s.

These included the Family Law Court bombings, the murder of Justice David Opas and the murders of the Turkish consul and his bodyguard in the eastern suburbs.

He also investigated the gangland murders of underworld figures Mick Sayers and Roy Thurgar .

Halliday, or ‘Doc’ as he was known, joined the force in 1968 as a police cadet and was sworn in as a constable in 1970.

Much of his career was centred in the Balmain area where he became known to locals, both good and bad.

Besides a passion for the police force Halliday was a talented footballer playing first grade rugby league for the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 80s, in the era when they were known as the “Entertainers”.

Halliday retired as a decorated detective sergeant in 2003.

A service will be held at Macquarie Park Crematorium today.

He is survived by his wife Kay and his two sons Shane and Chad, both serving NSW police officers.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/d/story-e6freuzi-1226216288086

Jonathon PATEN

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vii. JONATHON PATEN

Senior Constable Paten was stationed at Queanbeyan. For some period of time Paten was exhibiting clear signs of mental illness that were recognised at the time by the Police Psychologist. Paten resigned from the NSW Police and committed suicide. The Coroner found that it was more convenient for the NSW Police to accept a resignation than to attempt to deal with an unwell employee in a professional way.

The Coroners Inquest has made a number of recommendations about dealing with mentally ill officers.

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Keith BAIRD

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vi. KEITH BAIRD

Senior Constable BAIRD was an officer who was diagnosed with a psychiatric illness following his treatment at work in the Eastern Suburbs. He was medically discharged from the NSW Police in 1997. The Police denied that his illness was as a result of his employment. He contested this in the Workers Compensation Court in 2001 with further hearings in 2002. Mr Baird committed suicide in 2002 before the decision of the Compensation Court was handed down. Can you say what the decision was particularly if it was in his favour?

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Kristine WOODS

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Kristine WOODS nee BUTT

( late of Cherrybrook & Ryde )

New South Wales Police Force

Original Regd. # 25??? ( joined around 1988 )

Rejoinee Regd. # 33682 ( rejoined in 1998 )

Rank: Senior Constable

Stations: Eastwood

Service: ( 1 ) From ??? to ??? = ? years Service

( 2 ) Rejoinee – From ? ? 1998 to 21 March 2002 = ? years Service

Awards: ? – Nil on It’s an Honour

Born: 29 January 1969

Died: 21 March 2002

Age: 33

Cause: Suicide – Service pistol to chest – inside Eastwood Police Station

Funeral date: Tuesday 26 March 2002 @ 1pm

Funeral location: St Charles Catholic Church, 582 Victoria Rd, Ryde

Grave location: ?

Kristine is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

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List of the fallen should include all the victims

Date October 1, 2011

LETTERS

National Police Remembrance Day was commemorated in a service at the Remembrance Wall, The Domain.

Lest we forget … Police Remembrance Day. Photo: Robert Pearce

Another week, another death of a citizen at the hands of the NSW Police (”High noon at Castle Hill”, September 30). It’s a week which saw the inquest into the police shooting of Adam Salter inside his own home; a week which saw a teenage victim of robbery shot in the stomach by another cop. And now we are led to believe that a man who apparently travelled to a police station needed to be pumped full of bullets in order to be subdued. Who goes towards a police station to make trouble?

All this in the same week that Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione led his officers in another Remembrance Day for his fallen comrades, the list of which is displayed on the NSW Police website as an honour roll. The list omits the name of Senior Constable Kristine Woods, who died by her own hand on duty at Eastwood Police Station. In fact, almost the only Google reference to Ms Woods is a Hansard entry.

The NSW Police don’t list the names of innocent citizens its own members have killed. When yet another member of the public is gunned down by a blue shirt, we hear that “the officer is receiving counselling and support”. No mention is ever made of any counselling offered to the family or friends of the real victim. The bitter juxtaposition of all these events seems to have also missed the media.

A decade after the police royal commission revealed systemic corruption, the NSW Police Force is now more powerful, more numerous and less accountable than ever.

Peter Maresch Lane Cove

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/letters/list-of-the-fallen-should-include-all-the-victims-20110930-1l1pn.html

v. KRISTINE WOODS Constable Woods was stationed at Eastwood. In November 2001 Woods and her husband divorced and shared joint custody rights over their two children. In March 2002 Woods committed suicide at work.

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Eastwood Police Station:

EPPING YOUTH DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Mr TINK (Epping) [3.38 p.m.]: I draw the attention of the House to the Epping Youth Development Group, otherwise known as the Shack. Following the compilation of a youth-at-risk study reflecting the needs of local Epping youth the Shack was found in 1992 by a group of concerned local residents, churches and businessmen. They have been operating from a disused scout hall that was converted into a counselling and recreation facility at that time. The Shack has to be seen to be believed—it is just that. There are exciting plans for a new building. The management committee, which meets monthly, comprises 10 members from the local community who voluntarily support the administration of the Shack.The Shack provides free and confidential service, home visits, counselling, family support, court support, resumé assistance, job board, youth and school liaison, health education, Centrelink assistance and referrals. The Manager of the Shack, Darlene Keenan, is an inspiration and is assisted by one other person. In the last 12 months the Shack has provided more than 800 hours of counselling for 385 people, 111 hours of court support to 44 people, 422 hours of home visits involving 127 people and many other sundry services. To try to move away from the statistics and into what the program is really about, I will read from what Darlene had to say in the annual report:

This lady and her supporters really work miracles. They are working at the very hard business end of youth at risk, so much so that their program is being copied elsewhere. The Rotary Club of Lindfield is setting up another Shack under the same program and principles. This is policing at its absolute best. I pay tribute to the links between Eastwood police and this operation. Constable Tim Drury, the Youth Liaison Officer from Eastwood police, has made a fantastic effort. Senior Constable Kristine Woods, who unfortunately took her own life at Eastwood police station, was an outstanding supporter of the Shack and did great work at all times with youth in the area. Senior Constable Rowena Thompson, Sergeant Jacky Lilley and Sergeant Bob Porter—who I understand is about to retire from the New South Wales Police Service—do magnificent work. It is an example of how our police and community workers can work together to make a difference for kids who are at high risk of ending up on the wrong side of the law.

It is important to note that the Shack would not be celebrating 10 years of effort in the community without the support of St Albans Church and Reverend John Cornish, and the tremendous support previously given by the former chairman, Mr Alan Gurman and Cathy Sanderson. The present chairman, Mr Ray Miles, from Associated Planners, provides unstinting support. The support through the church and its work in the area and a diverse range of clubs—the Rotary Club of Thornleigh, the Epping RSL and community club and all the voluntary groups and church groups throughout the area—for the operation must be seen to be believed. The Shack is presenting final plans to St Albans Church for approval for a rebuild. Preliminary approval for the plans has already been given to the initial sketches provided by the church. I wish the Shack well. I am delighted to be associated with it and with a program that really supports the kids at risk and, in doing so, takes some risks itself. It is to be commended for its work. [Time expired.]

Mr FACE (Charlestown—Minister for Gaming and Racing, and Minister Assisting the Premier on Hunter Development) [3.43 p.m.]: I thank the honourable member for Epping for bringing this matter to the notice of the House. It reinforces what I said a few moments ago about volunteers, Charity Awareness Week, and people who put so much effort and time into serving other people within our community. Although I am not directly aware of the group’s activities, because it started towards the end of the time that I was the chairman of police youth clubs in this State, I know that it was one of the more diverse organisations that was helping kids, particularly recedivist kids and youth at risk that a lot of other organisations were not prepared to help. That was at a time when the police youth club movement was moving away, to some degree, from completely structured organisations and what the original youth clubs were set up for, which has been of considerable benefit.

This is another great effort of a community accepting its responsibility to ensure that it is able to contend with people who, in many cases, are less fortunate than others. They are not always people from lower socioeconomic circumstances. It can be a result of communication breakdowns regardless of where they sit in the social strata. During my time as chairman of the police youth clubs I became aware that many kids were lonely and in need of someone to put a hand out to them—some of them were from the so-called better areas of my electorate and other parts of this State. The Shack is doing a great deal of good work. The community is to be congratulated on its efforts.

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Ryde Policing

RYDE POLICING

Page: 1119

The Hon. GREG PEARCE

On 6 March the

Northern District Times

Late last month a 16-year-old boy walking through Boronia Park in Ryde was assaulted and had his mobile phone and wallet stolen by two men, one of whom punched him in the back of the head. On 28 March a security guard was badly beaten during a ram-raid at the Fujitsu warehouse in North Ryde. Perhaps Commissioner Ryan should spend less time on his passion of Olympic security consulting in Athens and visit the streets of West Ryde, where there is still a marked lack of police. Perhaps he will be sent there around the time of the next election for a day trip, but there needs to be a genuine lift in the level of service for the people of the Ryde area long before then.

Police are desperately needed by the community, and after the tragic murder of Constable Glenn McEnallay and the suicide of Senior Constable Kristine Woods at Eastwood police station on 21 March, it is time for Commissioner Ryan to show some leadership and to help the police force get back to the basics of serving the community. Police are needed on the streets to fight crime, not for three-day operations that merely serve as a political stunt, similar to the stunt that was viewed by all in the Auburn by-election last year.

On 12 December 2001, the West Ryde Chamber of Commerce wrote to the honourable member for Ryde regarding police numbers, the lack of patrols in the area and the physical remoteness of West Ryde from Gladesville police station—Gladesville being the station that serves the people of West Ryde. What was the result? Merely the three-day operation I have referred to that took place early in March, not a real commitment to increasing police numbers and improving the quality of service. The police Minister likes to make an announcement almost daily about his finesse in fighting crime, but when it comes down to it, when we see where the promises are allegedly being acted upon, the result is disappointment—like the disappointment for the people of the Ryde area.

Superintendent Arthur Katsogiannis, who was appointed commander of Gladesville police station in January this year, is the sixth commander of the station in the past four years. Police in Gladesville must find it difficult to do an effective job with so many different commanders, no doubt all of whom have a different way of performing their job, different ideas and different ways of running the station. The residents of Ryde are being punished because of the commissioner’s inability to appoint a commander who will serve the community for a long period. Superintendent Katsogiannis has been appointed only until 31 December this year. Why has he not been given a longer contract? Clearly, Commissioner Ryan has very little faith in his local area commanders. This must be a terrible thing for police morale, prohibiting them from getting on with the job.

The people of the Ryde area need some stability and a serious police commitment on the streets so that levels of crime are reduced. People are still unsafe on the streets of Ryde. This clearly demonstrates that policing must be taken more seriously and that greater police numbers should be on the streets. There needs to be a genuine and substantial police presence in the Ryde area, not merely a passing show in the hope of buying a few votes for next year’s election.

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20020409045