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Andrew Scott MILLWARD

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Andrew Scott MILLWARD

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 8014

Rank:  Sergeant

Retired 7 July 1988

33 years service

Stations: Pt Macquarie

Born:  ?

Died 19 November 2014

81 old

Funeral  Tuesday  25 November 2014 @ 10.30am

St Francis of Assisi Chapel, St Agnes Village,

37 Lochinvar Pce, Port Macquarie

 

 

 

With regret I advise death of Andrew Scott MILLWARD, 81 old, former Regd. No. 8014, a Veteran Member of the Mid North Coast Branch of the RPA.

Andrew passed away today, 19/11/2014, and his funeral is proposed to be held at 10.30am on Tuesday 25th Instant at the St Francis of Assisi Chapel, St Agnes Village, 37 Lochinvar Place, PORT MACQURIE

 

Location of Funeral Service



Peter James McGRATH

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Peter James McGRATH

New South Wales Police Force

Member of Police Academy Class  227

Regd. #  23807

Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 26 June 1987

Constable – appointed 26 June 1988

Detective Senior Constable – Death

Stations:  Petersham ( 1987 ) – 11 Division, Annandale Police Station

Service:  From Pre June 1987  to 15 June 1995 = 8+ years Service

Awards:  ? Nil

Born:  11 April 1963

Died on:  15 June 1995

Cause:  Suicide – jumped from 7th floor

Event location:  Camperdown, NSW

Age:  32

Funeral date:  ?

Funeral location:

Buried at: Cremated at Rookwood

 

Peter James McGRATH

 

At 4.15pm on 15 June, 1995 the senior constable fell to his death from a building in Glebe. He was off duty and on sick leave at the time. It was later determined that he was suffering from work related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression and anxiety as a result of his policing experiences.

 

The senior constable was born in 1963 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 26 June, 1987.

 

This member IS mentioned on the National Police Memorial Wall.

 

Death Of Detective Constable Peter McGrath

Legislative Council by date

24 October 1996

About this Item
Speakers Gallacher The Hon Michael
Business Adjournment, Condolence

DEATH OF DETECTIVE CONSTABLE PETER McGRATH
The Hon. M. J. GALLACHER [4.49]: I bring to the attention of all honourable members yet another example of bureaucracy gone wrong. On 17 August 1992 Detective Constable Peter McGrath attended the scene of an armed robbery in progress at the Associazione Polysportiva Italo-Australiana club, the APIA club. Offenders were present and were armed. They had taken eight hostages and were in the process of collecting $60,000 from the armed robbery when the police arrived. It was a classic stand-off situation, with the offenders and police pointing loaded firearms at each other. The cool head of this officer and his partner resulted in both offenders eventually giving up. On 26 November 1992 Detective McGrath together with another officer whilst off duty were viciously attacked by approximately 12 males, resulting in serious injury to Detective McGrath’s companion and grave psychological illness to himself.

During the course of Detective McGrath’s duty he attended a domestic situation in which a mother and her de facto partner had placed a baby into a bath of boiling water before picking the skin off the baby and putting it to bed. The baby died a few months afterwards. Detective McGrath had to attend the post mortem. At the time of the trial of the offenders the detective’s wife had given birth to a son. In May 1993, as a result of the assault in November 1992, Detective McGrath began to show signs of depression, which were accepted by the Police Service as illness related to the course of his duty. His doctor supplied information to the Police Service regarding his illness and it was accepted that he had been hurt on duty.

By June 1995 Detective McGrath’s psychological condition had deteriorated. He believed that he was being followed by personnel from the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. He believed that he was going to be set up by police in relation to a crime. On 15 June 1995 he went to work at Annandale with the purpose of resigning. Detective McGrath’s supervisor realised that he was suffering from depression, talked him out of handing in his resignation and sent him home on annual leave. Later that afternoon Detective McGrath told his wife that he was going to resign. He left his home but instead of attending the police station he went to a high-rise block of flats in Camperdown and jumped to his death.

Contrary to rumours, Detective McGrath was not the subject of any royal commission inquiry, and I am in possession of correspondence to that effect from Mr Michael Finnane, QC, who represents the Police Service at the royal commission. Detective McGrath’s integrity is not in question. The Police Service and the people of New South Wales can ill afford to lose police of the calibre of Detective McGrath. I resigned from the Police Service and within three weeks received my superannuation payment. Detective McGrath died on 15 June 1995 but his wife did not receive his superannuation payment until August 1996 – 14 months after his death. On 26 June 1996 she received a letter from the Police Service telling her that his death was not as a result of his police work.

Detective McGrath has left a wife and two children, Kata aged four and David who is now two. His wife must go it alone without any support from the Police Service. I have written to the Commissioner of Police in regard to the appalling treatment that this woman has received and I look forward to hearing from him that the decision made earlier this year will be reversed. On 19 September 1996 Mrs McGrath personally filed an application for determination with the Compensation Court of New South Wales to challenge the decision of the Police Service so that she might be entitled to a pension. She has to pay for those proceedings herself. The money that Mrs McGrath is using is money from the family, money that would be better used for the children.

I do not believe that this case has been accorded the credit to which it is certainly entitled. The Commissioner of Police must immediately reinvestigate this matter to ensure that Mrs McGrath is treated justly. It is important that all wives and husbands and all children whose fathers and mothers work for the Police Service know that if they are unfortunate enough to lose their loved ones they will be protected. Psychological illness does not disbar an officer from consideration for compensation from the Police Service. I firmly believe that this matter is one that deserves just consideration and I hope that the Commissioner of Police accords it such consideration expeditiously.

Motion agreed to.

House adjourned at 4.53 p.m. until Tuesday, 29 October 1996, at 2.30 p.m.

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC19961024053

 

 

 

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

 



John Joseph DAVOREN

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John Joseph DAVOREN

aka ‘ The Moth ‘

Late of Toormina
Formerly of Wallsend, Newcastle – NSW

Possibly from Redfern Police Academy Class # 100

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  11177

 

Rank:  Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday ? ? ?

Probationary Constable – appointed 17 August 1964

Constable – appointed 17 August 1965

Constable 1st Class – appointed

Senior Constable – appointed 17 August 1973

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 October 1980

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 5 December 1986

Final Rank:  ?

 

Stations:  ?

 

Born:  Saturday 17 July 1943

Died:  Saturday 15 November 2014

Age: 71 years, 3 months, 29 days old

Cause:  ?

Event location:  Baringa Private Hospital Coffs Harbour, NSW

 

Funeral:  Friday   21 November 2014 @ 2pm.

Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, 44 Boronia Street, SAWTELL

 

Buried at:  Cremated.  Hogbin Drive Crematorium

Grave / Plaque location:  ?

 

With regret I advise the death of John Joseph DAVOREN, 71 old, former Regd. No. 11177, an Unattached member of the RPA of Toormina, NSW.

John passed away today, 15/11/2014, and his funeral is proposed to be held at 2pm on Friday 21st Instant at the Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, 44 Boronia Street, SAWTELL

 

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Obituary:

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DAVOREN, JOHN JOSEPH
15th November 2014
Peacefully at Baringa Private Hospital Coffs Harbour
Late of Toormina
Formerly of Wallsend, Newcastle

Much loved husband of BETTE, loving father of CHRIS (dec’d), MADONNA, MAJELLA, BERNADETTE, MATHEW, much loved and adored Poppy of his grandchildren, dear brother.

Aged 71 Years
In God’s Care

Relatives and friends are invited to attend JOHN’s Funeral Mass to be Celebrated in Mary Help of Christian Catholic Church, Sawtell on FRIDAY 21st November 2014, commencing at 2.00pm, thence for private Committal Prayers at Hogbin Drive Crematorium.

All retired and serving Police Personnel are welcome to attend.

KEITH LOGUE & SONS
F.D.A. of N.S.W.
COFFS HARBOUR
6652 1999

http://tributes.theherald.com.au/obituaries/theherald-au/obituary.aspx?n=john-joseph-davoren&pid=173203256&eid=sp_ommatch&eid=sp_ommatch



Johannes ‘ John ‘ GERITS

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Johannes ‘ John ‘ GERITS A.P.M.

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ?

Joined NSW Police Force in 1971

Rank:  Leading Senior Constable – Retired

Stations:  Country NSW, Gloucester & Lord Howe Island 1999 – ?

Born:  1948 – 49

Died  Thursday  13 November 2014

66 old

late of Foster

Funeral:  Tuesday 18th November 2014 commencing at 11.00am

Tuncurry Catholic Church, Foster.

Former Senior Constable Johannes John GERITS
Former Senior Constable Johannes John GERITS

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FUNERAL NOTICE


GERITS, Johannes A.P.M.
Better known as John
Late of Forster
Passed away at home comforted by his loving family on the 13th November 2014.
Aged 66 years.
Much Loved husband of Carmel.
Loving father and father in-law of Michael & Kate, Cindy (dec), Fiona & Terry.
Proud and adoring POP to Molly, Lloyd, Jessie and Jack.
Cherished brother and brother in-law of Carolina & Henry, Anne & Neil, Yvonne & John (dec), Trish & Don, Barbara & Kevin, Maree & Robert.
Loving uncle to his No 1 favourite nieces and nephews.
“A Proud family man who loved his career in the police services”

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend John’s funeral service to be held at The Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church, Forster on Tuesday 18th November 2014 commencing at 11.00am, Prior to a private cremation.
“Forever in our Hearts”

 

ATTENTION: Funeral location has now changed to Tuncurry Catholic Church, Foster, same time.

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Sadly we have lost another colleague formerly in blue. Johannes (John) Gerits passed away this morning at home after a battle with cancer.

John worked almost all of his service in NSW country locations with his last two being Gloucester and Lord Howe Island.

He will be sadly missed. A Good man.

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Policeman helps destroyer

By TIM BISHOP

THE local knowledge of a Port Macquarie senior constable may have been responsible for saving the British destroyer HMS Nottingham from a major catastrophe.

Senior Constable John Gerits, who heads the one-man police unit on Lord Howe Island, was the first person to come to the ailing ship’s assistance after it ran aground on Wolf Rocks, several kilometres off the East coast of the island.

After receiving the ship’s distress call at 9.50pm on Sunday night, Sen Constable Gerits immediately coordinated a rapid emergency response which may have prevented the 3500-tonne navy vessel with a crew of 250 from sinking.

“I just got on the phone and called anyone on the island who I thought would have a pump which could be used by the ship’s crew,” Sen Constable Gerits said.

“I arranged for the pumps to be delivered to the airport where the Nottingham’s chopper collected them and took them out to the ship.”

Until the four pumps arrived on the ship, crew aboard the Nottingham only had access to buckets as they desperately tried to empty several flooded compartments.

The pumps, which collectively siphoned 5000 litres an hour, managed to keep the ship afloat for more than seven hours until the Royal Australian Air Force arrived with heavy-duty pumps on Monday morning.

“When we first responded to the distress call we truly didn’t know if the ship was going to sink. It was absolutely frightening,” Sen Constable Gerits said.

“You just don’t think this sort of thing is going to happen in a quiet place like Lord Howe. I was preparing to watch the Wimbledon final when I got the call!”

Sen Constable Gerits said the department of defence had taken over rescue efforts but he and other Lord Howe residents were still helping by providing the ship’s crew with fresh water and clean laundry.

British salvage experts are currently examining the HMS Nottingham, which is anchored at Lord Howe’s Middle Beach.

Commander Richard Farrington, who was in charge of the ship at the time of the accident, said the accident occurred as the ship maneuvered to put a helicopter into its hangar.

 http://www.portnews.com.au/story/989883/policeman-hslps-destroyer/

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NSW mid-north coasters recognised in honours list

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The president of Coffs Harbour Community Transport, John Ruth, is among the people recognised in today’s Queen’s birthday honours.

Mr Ruth of Sandy Beach has been given a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the community, particularly those with disabilities.

But he says the award recognises a contribution by the community for a service that is desperately needed.

“Government services especially. People in DOCS [Department of Community Services] and other agencies who have really given enormous support to the activities of volunteers. We’re still very much in our infancy in organising services to support people with a disability,” he said.

 

[blockquote]The state’s most remotely located police officer has been nominated for an Australian Police Medal as part of the Queen’s honours list.

Lord Howe Island’s only policeman, Johannes Gerits, is one of eight officers who have served 25 years or more to get the nomination.

Senior Constable Gerits has been a policeman since 1971, and took up the posting at Lord Howe in 1999.

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Other recipients of the Order of Australia Medal include Anne Bornstein of Harrington, who will receive her medal for her community service through the Franciscan Missionary Union.

Joyce Davey of Taree is being honoured for her cancer action group work in the Manning.

Husband and wife team Kevin and Mary Dunkley’s service to the north coast through the Trial Bay Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol is being recognised, along with William Radford from Taree for his service to veterans and their families in the Manning.

The late William Wright, of Nambucca Heads, is being recognised for a range of community deeds in the Kempsey community.

A special OAM was presented by Governor Marie Bashir to Bellingen councillor Sue Dethridge at a bedside ceremony in a Sydney hospital during the week.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-06-09/nsw-mid-north-coasters-recognised-in-honours-list/1867180

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William ‘ Bill ‘ Henry KERSTEN

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William ‘ Bill ‘ Henry KERSTEN

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ?

Rank:  ?

Stations:  ?

Born:  ?

Died:  Monday 10 November 2014 at home, of Corrimal

91 old

Funeral  St Columbkille’s Catholic Church, Corrimal

Saturday 15 November 2014 at 11am

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KERSTEN, William Henry
‘Bill’

Passed away peacefully at home in Corrimal on Monday 10th November 2014. Dearly beloved husband of Annie for 68 years. Loved father and father-in-law of Annemarie & Rod, Harry & Helen, Wilma, Frank & Robyn, Dot & John (dec) and Therese & John. Much loved Pop of his 13 Grandchildren and 26 Great Grandchildren. Sadly missed by his surviving brother and sisters.

Aged 91 years
Sadly missed by his family and many friends

Relatives and friends of Bill are invited to attend his Mass of Christian Burial to be offered at St Columbkille’s Catholic Church Corrimal, on Saturday 15th November commencing at 11am. In lieu of flowers, donations are invited to St Vincent de Paul. A donation box will be provided at the church door.

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Mark Wayne BARTLEY

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Mark Wayne BARTLEY

aka  Barts

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 22486

Detective Senior Constable – Retired 2002 HOD

Stations:  G.D’s in Newcastle District.  Detectives at Wallsend & Waratah Patrols.

Task Force Fenwick

Died  29 January 2009

Cancer – at home

51 old

Funeral  3 February 2009

Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Waratah, Newcastle

Mark Wayne BARTLEY
Mark Wayne BARTLEY

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Mark Wayne (Barts) BARTLEY
Retired Police Officer
Passed away 29th January 2009
Late of Warabrook

Dearly loved husband of DONNA, loving father of JANICE and GRACE, much loved son of AUBREY (dec) and HAZEL and son-in-law of BERNARD and JOAN (dec) FARRELL, adored brother, brother-in-law and uncle of LAUREL and LAURIE, BILL and MARIJA, GREG and COLLEEN and their FAMILIES.
Aged 51 Years.

 

 

Family and Friends of MARK are invited to attend a Celebration of his Life this TUESDAY (3/2/2009) commencing at 10.30am in Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Cnr Bridge and Platt Sts, Waratah. A private cremation will follow this Service.
In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of MARK may be left at the Church for Cancer Research.

 

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William Weston ‘ Bill ‘ TANKS

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William Weston ‘ Bill ‘ TANKS

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 12191

Rank: Senior Sergeant – Retired

Stations:  21 Division

Born:  ?

Died  10 November 2014

late of Seven Hills

70 old

Funeral  Thursday  13 November 2014 @ 10am

Chapel of the Castlebrook Crematorium,

Windsor Road, Rouse Hill

TANKS, Bill November 10, 2014 Retired Police Senior Sargent Late of Seven Hills Dearly loved husband to Doreen. Loved father and father-in-law to Melissa and Allan, Graham and Fiona. Cherished grandfather to Gabrielle, Katherine and Tayla. Loving brother to Sue, Jack, Jill (dec) and their families. Aged 70 Years Forever In Our Hearts
The relatives and friends of BILL are kindly invited to attend his Funeral Service to be held Thursday, November 13, 2014 in the Chapel of the Castlebrook Crematorium, Windsor Road, Rouse Hill commencing at 10.00am.
INTEGRITY FUNERALS
SMITHFIELD   9727 0400
Mark Malone
Funerals
Published in The Daily Telegraph on 11/11/2014

– See more at: http://tributes.dailytelegraph.com.au/notice/90282068?random=1415712369973

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Scott Andrew NICHOLSON

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Scott Andrew NICHOLSON

New South Wales Police Force – Resigned

Regd. #  20237

Redfern Police Academy Class 182 B

Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 28 May 1982

Constable 1st Class – appointed 28 May 1987

Detectives Training Course 28/ 20 May – 28 June 1991

Senior Constable – level 9 upon Resignation

“possibly” Acting Detective Sergeant – Resigned

After resignation ( due to PTSD ) Scott was a Ranger with Liverpool Council until his death

Stations:  Campbelltown ( 1980’s ), Camden,

Bulga, Fraud Squad, Child Mistreatment Unit

Service:  From ? February 1982 to ? ? 1996 = 13 years Service

Awards:  No find on It’s An Honour

Illness: – PTSD – Suicide – carbon monoxide gassing in vehicle

Born:  4 April 1959

Died:  14 November 1996

Age:  37 old

Funeral:  Leppington Lawn Cemetery

Funeral date:  ? ? ?

Buried at:  Cremated & Resting in the Fountain Garden, Nicholson plot,

Location: Beside Cafe Pagona Area

Section: Gazebo 3 bed 3

Lot:

Lat/Lng: -33.95538, 150.83279

 

"I should be on the Wall." I was once a Policeman, I served you for years, I saw so much pain, It reduced me to tears. I saved many lives, Did the best I could do, I served with distinction, All to protect you. Year after year, Without self regard, I lived for the job, No matter how hard. The toll it was taking, Eventually broke through, My brain now was broken, I did not know what to do. I keep telling myself, It will get better in time, Just keep pushing yourself, All will be fine. But it did not get better, It only got worse, The trauma I suffered, Became my own curse. It brought to an end, The job that I live, I can't do this anymore, No more I could give. The pain did not stop, In fact it just grew, The demons took over, I did not know what to do. I was empty inside, Lost and in pain, I tried to fight on, But I could no longer remain. The trauma had won, I saw no other way, So I took my own life, On a cool summer day. It was because of Policing, You all know it's true, It destroyed who I was, From the things I went through. The trauma of death, Seen hundreds of times, The witnessing of evil, The wickedest of crimes. Yet now I'm forgotten, By the job I died for, Even though I gave my all, After everything I saw. If I had died on duty, Answering the same call, You would all see my name, My name on the wall. I was still on duty, I just could not let go, I was still a Policeman, My brain made it so..... Written 12.2.15.
“I should be on the Wall.”
I was once a Policeman,
I served you for years,
I saw so much pain,
It reduced me to tears.
I saved many lives,
Did the best I could do,
I served with distinction,
All to protect you.
Year after year,
Without self regard,
I lived for the job,
No matter how hard.
The toll it was taking,
Eventually broke through,
My brain now was broken,
I did not know what to do.
I keep telling myself,
It will get better in time,
Just keep pushing yourself,
All will be fine.
But it did not get better,
It only got worse,
The trauma I suffered,
Became my own curse.
It brought to an end,
The job that I live,
I can’t do this anymore,
No more I could give.
The pain did not stop,
In fact it just grew,
The demons took over,
I did not know what to do.
I was empty inside,
Lost and in pain,
I tried to fight on,
But I could no longer remain.
The trauma had won,
I saw no other way,
So I took my own life,
On a cool summer day.
It was because of Policing,
You all know it’s true,
It destroyed who I was,
From the things I went through.
The trauma of death,
Seen hundreds of times,
The witnessing of evil,
The wickedest of crimes.
Yet now I’m forgotten,
By the job I died for,
Even though I gave my all,
After everything I saw.
If I had died on duty,
Answering the same call,
You would all see my name,
My name on the wall.
I was still on duty,
I just could not let go,
I was still a Policeman,
My brain made it so…..
Written 12.2.15.

 

Scott Andrew NICHOLSON
Scott Andrew NICHOLSON

 

Scott Andrew NICHOLSON - Class photo taken at Redfern Police Academy. Class 182 'B'
Scott Andrew NICHOLSON – Class photo taken at Redfern Police Academy. Class 182 ‘B’

 

Scott Andrew NICHOLSON - Memorial
Scott Andrew NICHOLSON – Memorial

[alert_red]Scott is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_red]  * BUT SHOULD BE

SCOTT ( as of 2017 ) IS mentioned on the NSW Police Wall of Remembrance

 SCOTT ( as of March 2019 ) IS NOT mentioned on the NATIONAL Police Wall of Remembrance – Canberra * BUT SHOULD BE

* Stemming from the continued work of the wives & parents of four Fallen NSW Police to Suicide – those four names will now be included in the newly refurbished NSW Police Wall of Remembrance, Sydney, as of 2017

Congratulations to those family members who fought the fight to right this wrong.

*

Commissioner Scipione has telephoned each of us today to advise that our loved ones names are being added to the replacement NSW Police Force Wall of Remembrance, to be unveiled in the next few weeks.

We would like to thank everyone who has offered support over a long and difficult journey and truly hope this sets a precedent for all police departments, not only in Australia but the global policing community.

It is so very important to remember that policing can and often does have a detrimental effect on those who serve.

We believe that the inclusion of suicide deaths, stemming from a work related psychological injury, is the most compassionate way of showing that the police hierarchy truly cares.

The following names will be added:

Detective Sergeant Ashley Bryant

Sergeant Tom Galvin

Senior Constable Scott Nicholson

Constable Morgan Hill

#OneWallForAll

 

Scott was a member of the New South Wales Police Force for 13 years and, suffering from the effects of PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ) took his own life on the 14 November 1996 by gassing himself in a car and leaving behind two children, aged 6 & 9 ( at the time ) and a wife.

Scott worked at various stations such as Campbelltown in the 1980’s, Camden and the One Man station at Bulga before leaving the Police Force and gaining employment as a Ranger with Liverpool Council.

Dimmy Nicholson Hi, my late husbands name is Scott Andrew Nicholson reg number 20237 who died by gassing himself on 14th November 1996 shortly after he resigned from the job when he could no longer cope with his PTSD, worked at Campbelltown police, Camden, one Man Bulga Police Station, Fraud Squad both in uniform & D’s, Child Mistreatment & others. Hope that’s enough info & thank you for all u do
October 19 2014  at 9:51am · Like · 9
Wife = Sharon
Dimmy Nicholson
Scott Nicholson - NSW Police Force PTSI / Suicide

PLEASE EVERYONE I ASK THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME OUT OF YOUR LIVES TO READ MY STORY. I’M LISA NICHOLSON AND MY FATHER WAS SCOTT NICHOLSON.

PLEASE JUST READ LIKE AND SHARE!!!!!!!!

 

[blockquote]Hi my name’s Lisa Nicholson and my father is Scott Nicholson. They say we are one big police family and we look after our own yet they don’t even care to see the damage there doing. My dad suicided when I was just 6 years old he was my world my life my everything. The day he died my world fell apart and the older I got the harder it hit me. I suffered and battled countless years of depression, I was raped and beat as a child and teenager and I had the balls to follow this through with court. But, tragically, all of this led to many suicide attempts.

Thankfully my dad had my back though I actually believed the world was so awful and painful that I belonged with my dad. I had a very hard time seeing other officers thinking that’s my dad he is as good a officer as you, yet why is he not remembered!??

He was so proud to be an officer and truly lived through his work right to the end! The end that the line of work he did helped drive him too!!! He worked his ass off to get the respect and acknowledgement that he gained and I’ve always been so proud to say that my daddy was a police officer!! Yet here these ass wipes are claiming that everything my father worked for his whole life everything he believed in and followed isn’t recognised. They claim that we’re one big family and in truth it has felt like that thanks to police legacy but then there’s the fact that I’ve got to, every single day, deal with the emotional grief that I will never see my daddy again and then there’s the fact that the man I love so much and am so proud to say he was an officer will never meet my daughter and my daughter will never meet her grandfather and that, in itself, has me pretty low but on top of all that these guys wanna destroy me; even more, give me no choice and take whatever is left in me to fight to have my daddy’s name on the police Remembrance wall; a wall that all our fallen officers are on, all except the ones who took things into there own hands. We’re one big family yet not only has their line of work taken my father and my daughters grandfather but they wanna take everything that I’ve left because they won’t respect what they’d say “one of our own” my dad deserves that respect and so do so many others and again they say we’re one big family but can they even see that their own choices, actions are killing us even more!!!!

I know I’m not the only one but I can only speak on behalf of myself. I wanna know why?? my daddy, the man that the only image I can recall is of him in his uniform, the man who tragically lost his life, the man who they claim death is not tragic enough to be remembered. Why??? I wanna know why?? my dad’s dead the same as officers who’ve died in the line of duty. Dead not coming back; he died from the pain and suffering from his job and they die in the line of duty but they’re telling me my dad’s death isn’t good enough or tragic enough.

No wonder half the population have lost faith in these guys. I will continue to support and stand tall and for as long as I can with everyone else and I won’t ever stop speaking out.

Your secret is no longer!

He will be remembered.

Thank you for reading my story. Please like and share this around. The more this gets around the more I hope will get in their face and finally remember all our lost men and women.

[/blockquote]

Police Officer Suicide Should Be Included on The Wall Of Remembrance
Thank you for sharing such a deeply personal and heart wrenching story of your journey Lisa! This is so courageous of you. The impact that your father’s death had on you and your family is something that the Police force haven’t been around to witness, acknowledge or support and sadly have contributed to your grief in doing so!
Glad to have you on this journey with us Lisa! Xx
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  • Sharona Sione Tylern Orlando Aweee hunni so heartbreaking thinking of you sweetie. X x x
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  • Lisa Nicholson No thank you for allowing me to share this!!! It is such a raw painful subject but I’ve had enough of holding it in and I can only hope that others have the courage to do the same. Will be on this journey till the end!!!!
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    Resting place of Scott: 

     

    When Sharan’s happy-go-lucky husband became a monster

    By CYDONEE MARDON

    Sharan Nicholson-Rogers has a plea for the minister: "Don't let any more families lose their husband, wife or parent by not making changes that you know will make a difference.'' Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
    Sharan Nicholson-Rogers has a plea for the minister: “Don’t let any more families lose their husband, wife or parent by not making changes that you know will make a difference.” Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN

    Sharan Nicholson-Rogers watched her husband change from a happy-go-lucky police officer into an unpredictable man prone to violent and emotional outbursts.

    The gentle bloke she loved grabbed hold of her one day and shoved his gun down her throat, telling her he couldn’t live any more because of what he was doing to their family.

    Eighteen months later, Detective Sergeant Scott Andrew Nicholson took his own life.

    That was 19 years ago.

    Today Mrs Nicholson-Rogers is as determined as she was the day her husband died to bring about change.

    [blockquote]” There is complete contempt for anyone who falls. They will kick you to the kerb. “[/blockquote]

    She is calling for the establishment of a centre of excellence – a place where police officers can go for respite, support and treatment from mental health professionals.

    “I know guys in the job right now who are crippled with PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder],” Mrs Nicholson-Rogers said.

    “They’re still working, doing their best to stay in the job, but they need help.

    “So many have gone through poor management and there is complete contempt for anyone who falls. They will kick you to the kerb.

    “[Sufferers] need a place where they can go, feel safe, be honest about the fact they need help to cope and a place where they can get the best available support from experts in the field.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers sought help for her husband when she saw the signs he was losing control.

    “He became this monster, he couldn’t help it, everything triggered him,” Mrs Nicholson-Rogers recalls.

    “I’d find him curled up in the foetal position, crying and crying.

    “One night we had a bunch of friends over, we cooked lamb on the Weber and I brought it in for him to cut up and he just lost it. He started smashing the kitchen up and screaming.”

    Later he revealed the charred lamb reminded him of two children he’d seen burnt to death in a caravan.

    Detective Sergeant Scott Andrew Nicholson with his family.
    Detective Sergeant Scott Andrew Nicholson with his family.

    “The kids were the same ages as ours,” Mrs Nicholson-Rogers said.

    She urged her husband to talk to his boss about his emotional well-being and asked him to contact police welfare.

    “He said to me ‘Are you serious? They’ll say go to the pub and have a drink, get over it’.

    “He didn’t drink much then but he soon learnt to so he wouldn’t be labelled a ‘sheila’.

    “They get this sick sense of humour, that’s the way they get through it. Down at the pub or the bowlo for a debrief then the wives are left to pick up the mess at the end.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers and her two children have been to hell and back since her husband’s 1996 suicide.

    It was only through counselling that Mrs Nicholson-Rogers, a health promotions officer with NSW Health, realised the true impact on her children.

    “The day Scott had the gun down my throat, my seven-year-old son witnessed that. I didn’t know at the time. It’s impacted on them terribly. As they got older they realised the enormity of what had happened. It’s been a really rough road for us.”

    Scott spent 13 years in the job, with stints in Camden, Campbelltown and a one-man station in the country.

    He died aged 37.

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers reached out for help when things got really bad.

    “I contacted police welfare the day after he went off his head about the barbecue, I told them he wasn’t well. He had his gun taken off him [temporarily]. They suggested maybe he should stay home, play housewife more, take more holidays, go for walks at night, debrief with his mates, that’s it.

    “He was suffering PTSD and he was told the best thing he could do is exercise.”

    Then one night Detective Sergeant Nicholson came home and told his wife he had resigned. Six months later he was dead.

    “We had been asking for help for a while, through his bosses. I tried senior management,” she said.

    “At one point when he got violent with me I said I’d had enough and I would have him charged if something didn’t change.

    “They said ‘Please don’t because we will have to take his gun off him’. I told them he needed help, he was a loose cannon, he will hurt someone.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers said suggestions he and other struggling officers were simply not right for the job was a cop-out.

    “I hear the same thing today, young guys now being told maybe they’re not right for the job, maybe they should get out. Well no-one is right for a job where day in, day out, they deal with trauma. Layer on layer it consumes them and no-one can take that without the proper support.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers with her children.
    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers with her children.

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers, a nurse familiar with the trauma of frontline emergency, is one of several police wives willing to work with government and police officials to create the centre of excellence.

    “We can give a family perspective to help them set up a place where police can go in the short term and stay if they need to and feel safe, where they are not going to feel compromised or spied on by insurance companies.

    “We need change. The attitude of senior management has got to change.

    “Right now, if you say you’ve got a problem, you’re not coping, the bosses think ‘Oh great there’s another one off sick. That means a man down, overtime, it’s the cost.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers and a group of police wives believe they have a solution and are urging NSW Police Minister Stuart Ayres to work with them.

    "We need change. The attitude of senior management has got to change.''
    “We need change. The attitude of senior management has got to change.”

    “We need change. The attitude of senior management has got to change.”

    “I’m one of the lucky ones who have healed to a degree and married again to a man who totally supports my fight for change,” she said.

    “I would like to see him meet with us, it’s not about us canning him, it’s about working together collectively with all our experience as families, to pick our brains on what they can do to make a change. Hiding from it is not the answer.

    “They can’t keep turning their back. There are more and more suicides and experienced cops are dropping out. They are losing an experienced workforce that can be real value.”

    Mrs Nicholson-Rogers has a plea for the minister: “Don’t let any more families lose their husband, wife or parent by not making changes that you know will make a difference.

    “Just take a minute or two of your time to listen to my children if you can’t talk to me, see the pain and grief in their eyes and I assure you it will change your mind and you will work to make positive changes.”

    The NSW Police Minister was contacted by the Mercury but so far has not responded.

    The NSW Police Force has provided details of the programs and initiatives already in place for preventing PTSD and supporting its officers.

     

    For help and counselling: Lifeline 131114; Suicide Call Back Service 1300 65946 

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  • stephen • 2 months ago

    Please keep running these stories, there needs to be a ground swell of public contempt for this culture within the policing system. Only that way will there be some light at the end of the tunnel for these men and women, and their families, who are having their lives ruined whilst serving and protecting the public.

    Joey • 2 months ago

    So proud of you sharon !!! Step by step change is coming !!!
    We cant change the past but we can change the future and prevent other families feeling the same pain . Much love to you and the girls so proud ox

    Macca • 2 months ago

    Not everyone is mentally able to absorb the rigours of the Military or Emergency services.
    I note that the Police “spokesman” has declared that they have in place procedures to help if PTSD becomes a factor.
    Having some knowledge of this issue Why are the recruits not adequately assessed during training rather than waiting for the nightmare to begin?
    It may not catch all , but may help some before their life is destroyed.
    The military at least have programs to assess their recruits and place them in areas of higher or lower degrees of capability to absorb stress. it cannot be that difficult.
    I thank God my daughter changed her decision and followed nursing.

    Who knows Macca • 2 months ago

    Im not sure that you can 100% assess how a person will handle situations. I see myself as pretty resilient but that may all change if i saw the aftermath of a bunch of children stabbed to death.
    I guess u just never know.

    Lilstudent • 2 months ago

    You are a strong woman Sharon for campaigning for this and no doubt keeping the wounds raw for you. It is horrible that your husband was not given the support he needed, and I’m sure there are many others suffering in silence like a ticking time bomb.

    Ted • 2 months ago

    There used to be government run places people could go but they had a few issues that the media beat up and politicians could see a few bucks in selling off the real estate to themselves so……………………………………………………………………thank the dumb Aussie people.

    http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2807747/when-sharans-happy-go-lucky-husband-became-a-monster/?cs=4401

 

Scott Andrew NICHOLSON - Detectives Course # 28/1991
Scott Andrew NICHOLSON – Detectives Course # 28/1991 – Memorial Port

 

 

13 January 2015

She said that they develop a “Sick Sense Of Humour” her husband put a gun in her mouth in front of her children, he took his own life some time after. She said they turn into monsters , and they lose track of reality and develop this “sick sense of humour” Black humour I know cops call it.. but those of us with a sense of balance and compassion, would call it “sick”.. Because it is “sick” Its as sick as the criminals they chase and lock up for doing “sick’ things, they themselves have a “sick” way after a while.. And it gets worse not better over time ..

“Sharan Nicholson-Rogers watched her husband change from a happy-go-lucky police officer into an unpredictable man prone to violent and emotional outbursts.

The gentle bloke she loved grabbed hold of her one day and shoved his gun down her throat, telling her he couldn’t live any more because of what he was doing to their family.

Eighteen months later, Detective Sergeant Scott Andrew Nicholson took his own life.

That was 19 years ago.

Today Mrs Nicholson-Rogers is as determined as she was the day her husband died to bring about change.

“There is complete contempt for anyone who falls. They will kick you to the kerb.”

She is calling for the establishment of a centre of excellence – a place where police officers can go for respite, support and treatment from mental health professionals.

“I know guys in the job right now who are crippled with PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder],” Mrs Nicholson-Rogers said.

“They’re still working, doing their best to stay in the job, but they need help.

“So many have gone through poor management and there is complete contempt for anyone who falls. They will kick you to the kerb.

Mrs Nicholson-Rogers sought help for her husband when she saw the signs he was losing control.

“He became this monster, he couldn’t help it, everything triggered him,” Mrs Nicholson-Rogers recalls.

“I’d find him curled up in the foetal position, crying and crying.
She urged her husband to talk to his boss about his emotional well-being and asked him to contact police welfare.

“He said to me ‘Are you serious? They’ll say go to the pub and have a drink, get over it’.

“He didn’t drink much then but he soon learnt to so he wouldn’t be labelled a ‘sheila’.

“They get this sick sense of humour, that’s the way they get through it. Down at the pub or the bowlo for a debrief then the wives are left to pick up the mess at the end.”

Mrs Nicholson-Rogers and her two children have been to hell and back since her husband’s 1996 suicide.

It was only through counselling that Mrs Nicholson-Rogers, a health promotions officer with NSW Health, realised the true impact on her children.

“The day Scott had the gun down my throat, my seven-year-old son witnessed that. I didn’t know at the time. It’s impacted on them terribly. As they got older they realised the enormity of what had happened. It’s been a really rough road for us.”

Scott spent 13 years in the job, with stints in Camden, Campbelltown and a one-man station in the country.

He died aged 37.

Mrs Nicholson-Rogers reached out for help when things got really bad.

“I contacted police welfare the day after he went off his head about the barbecue, I told them he wasn’t well. He had his gun taken off him [temporarily]. They suggested maybe he should stay home, play housewife more, take more holidays, go for walks at night, debrief with his mates, that’s it.

“He was suffering PTSD and he was told the best thing he could do is exercise.”

Then one night Detective Sergeant Nicholson came home and told his wife he had resigned. Six months later he was dead.

“We had been asking for help for a while, through his bosses. I tried senior management,” she said.

“At one point when he got violent with me I said I’d had enough and I would have him charged if something didn’t change.

“They said ‘Please don’t because we will have to take his gun off him’. I told them he needed help, he was a loose cannon, he will hurt someone.”

Mrs Nicholson-Rogers said suggestions he and other struggling officers were simply not right for the job was a cop-out.

“I hear the same thing today, young guys now being told maybe they’re not right for the job, maybe they should get out. Well no-one is right for a job where day in, day out, they deal with trauma. Layer on layer it consumes them and no-one can take that without the proper support.”

 

Tom Rigby PTSD is a terrible burden for anyone to wear, unfortunately though societies answer is exactly as written in the article ” Go to the pub and have a drink!”
Like · Reply · 1 · January 14, 2015 at 11:01am

 

Alan Hardy If you carnt handle the heat get out of the kitchen
Like · Reply · 1 · January 14, 2015 at 12:23pm

 

Stephen Evelyn Wall Just wondering Alan what job do you do??
These ppl do a wonderful job but doing that job they see and experience terrible things we can’t imagine. All the training in the world doesn’t prepare you for what they have to face.
Like · Reply · 1 · January 14, 2015 at 3:26pm

 

N.S.W Police Watch You need to do some more research Evelyn, many are not doing a wonderful job at all and then many above them cover for it..
Like · Reply · 3 · January 14, 2015 at 5:15pm

 

N.S.W Police Watch http://books.google.com.au/…/Enemies_of_the_State.html…

Enemies of the State
Tim Priest is a former police detective who was on the front line in the war against crime and drugs in…
books.google.com.au
Like · Reply · 2 · January 14, 2015 at 5:20pm

 

Alan Hardy You are right Evelyn wall ,but if you can not handle your job ,what ever that job is quit and get another job. It’s a job not your life
Like · Reply · 2 · January 14, 2015 at 9:58pm

 

Alan Medhurst Revell Well, well, well…. Looky ere…
Like · Reply · January 15, 2015 at 11:53am

 

N.S.W Police Watch Have edited Jeff, apologies for that.
Like · Reply · January 15, 2015 at 12:50pm

For more read on below

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/…/when-sharans-happy-go…/

 

 



Brian Reginald MOORE

| 21/11/2014

Brian Reginald MOORE

aka  Chicka

New South Wales Police Force

Redfern Police Academy – Class # 100

Regd. # 11154

Rank:  Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable – appointed 17 August 1964

Constable – appointed 17 August 1965

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed 26 August 1973 ( loss of Seniority )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 9 October 1980

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 7 December 1986

 

Final Rank:  Sergeant

 

Stations:  ?, ‘R’ District ( 1965 )( Newcastle? ), Newtown circa 1968, Newtown PCYC (Police Citizens Youth Club ), Redfern Police Academy, ?

 

Awards:  National Medal – granted 2 March 1961( Det SenCon )

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 7 October 1991 ( Det SenCon )

 

Retired:  April 1993 – 29 years Service

 

Cause of Death:  Illness from long time heart problems

 

Born:  Wednesday  19 April 1944

Died:  Sunday  26 October 2014

Age: 70 years, 6 months, 7 days

 

Time with NSWPF: 29 years,

Age at Retirement:  48 years, 11 months

Time in Retirement:  21 years, 6 months, 25 days

 

Funeral:  Friday  31 October 2014, 10.30am

Eastern Suburbs Crematorium,

Military Rd, Matraville.

  Funeral location

 

 

Wake:  The Henson ( formerly Henson Park Hotel ), Illawarra Rd, Marrickville.

 

Brian ' Chicka ' MOORE
Brian ‘ Chicka ‘ MOORE

Brian 'Chicka' Moore 3 - NSWPF - Died 26 Oct 2014 Brian 'Chicka' Moore 4 - NSWPF - Died 26 Oct 2014

rugby league lost a great player and a true gentleman of the game over night. Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore. One of Newtown Jets Immortals and an ambassador for our great game
Chicka Moore RIP

 

Brian Reginald MOORE, Brian MOORE, Chicka MOORE, Constable MOORE, Sergeant MOORE

 

 

 

Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore passes away                                 Monday, 27 October 2014 12:44
The Newtown Jets have lost one of the most iconic figures of their 108-year history following the passing of former player, coach and Team of the Century member, Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore.Mr Moore passed away from a long illness yesterday aged 70. Newtown Jets director and media manager Glen Dwyer says Moore will forever be remembered by the Henson Park faithful for his significant contribution to the foundation club.”For the baby-boomer generation, Chicka Moore was the living definition of Newtown,” Dwyer tells RLW.”He never had the privilege of being in a premiership winning first-grade side or playing in a Test match, yet no one who saw him in his prime would deny that he was one of the best centres of the period.”He was a tall, long striding, majestic running centre. In the days where men were starting to grow their hair longer Chicka with his bald head was a landmark at Henson Park.”His combination with fellow centre Bob Keyes was marvellous and I’ve heard lots of judges say that if Reg Gasnier and Graeme Langlands weren’t around, Brian Moore and Bob Keyes would have been the Australian Test centres without doubt.”Moore played for Newtown during a difficult period, with the Bluebags only making the finals three times during his 11-year career. However, there were a couple of highlights to savour.Arguably the finest moment of his career came in 1973 when he almost single-handedly helped Newtown to a remarkable comeback win over St George in the final of the 1973 Wills Pre-Season Cup.

“Newtown were down 15-2 at halftime and the heat was horrendous,” says respected rugby league historian Terry Williams.

“They won 17-15 and that was largely on the back of Chicka. He basically took St George on on his own. In attack he cut the Dragons to pieces out wide and when they had the ball he became a road block.

“In that form he could match any centre in the world.”

Moore represented NSW on three occasions between 1963 and 1970 and was Australia’s top tryscorer during the 1967-68 Kangaroo tour, despite not playing in any Tests.

Unfortunately, he had the misfortune of coming through in the same era as RLW Immortals Bob Fulton, Reg Gasnier and Graeme Langlands and probably didn’t represent Australia as much as he should have.

A Newtown man through and through, Moore also held the distinction of being the Jets’ last-ever first grade coach taking the reins for the 1983 season following Warren Ryan’s resignation.

A respected police officer, in 2008, Moore was inducted into the NSW police Team of the Century while in 2009 he was awarded the NSW Police Medal for diligent and ethical service during his 29-year career in uniform.

“For all his footballing achievements he probably affected more people’s lives in his role as a physical instruction trainer at the police academy,” Williams says.

“There’s a whole generation of young coppers for one or two decades who were put through their paces by Chicka.

“He used to wipe the floor with all these young blokes who were 20 years younger than him.”

“He was just a really memorable character,” Dwyer continues.

“He was a marvellous personality and a great ambassador for the Newtown club.”

BRIAN ‘CHICKA’ MOORE (1944-2004)
* 173 games for Newtown (90 tries, 270 points)
* Four games for NSW (2 tries, 6 points)
* 11 tour games for Australia (10 tries, 30 points)

Newtown Jets legend Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore dies after long battle

  • October 27, 2014 6:18PM AAP

Newtown legend Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore has passed away at the age of 70.
Newtown legend Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore has passed away at the age of 70.

ONE of the Newtown Jets’ rugby league players of the century, Brian `Chicka’ Moore has died following a long battle with illness.

Moore was a great of the now defunct NRL club, playing with the blue bags from 1962 until 1973 and also coaching the Jets in 1983.

Six years after he was named at centre in Newtown’s Team of the Century, Kangaroos international Moore passed away aged 70 over the weekend.

“Chicka was a player with an incredible try-scoring record,” said the NRL’s head of football, Todd Greenberg.

“In his 173 matches for Newtown, he scored 90 tries; that highlights what a player he was. In full flight, he was simply magnificent to watch.

“He was also a Kangaroo tourist and represented NSW, and then coached Newtown during its final year in the NSWRL.

“In 2008, he deservedly found a home at centre in Newtown’s Team of the Century. He will be missed by the game which he served so magnificently.”

Originally published as Newtown legend Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore dies

Brian Moore (rugby league)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brian Moore
Personal information
Full name Brian Reginald Moore
Nickname Chicka
Born 19 April 1944
Died 26 October 2014 (aged 70)
Playing information
Position Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1962–73 Newtown 173 90 0 0 270
Macquarie
Total 173 90 0 0 270
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1963–70 New South Wales 3 2 0 0 6
1966–70 City NSW 3 2 0 0 6
1967–68 Australia 0 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1983 Newtown Jets 26 7 2 17 27
Source: NRL Stats

Brian “Chicka” Moore (19 April 1944 – 26 October 2014) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach.

He played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Newtown “Bluebags” from 1962 to 1973 – scoring 90 tries during his long and successful career. He later coached the club for its final season, the 1983 Winfield Cup Premiership. He represented New South Wales in 1963, 1965 and 1970. He also represented Australia, touring Great Britain and France with the 1967/68 Kangaroos, playing 11 minor tour matches but no tests.[1] During the 1970s Moore captain-coached in the Newcastle Rugby League with the Macquarie club.[2] While playing football, Moore also served in the New South Wales Police Force and in 2008, rugby league’s centenary year in Australia, he was named at centre in a NSW Police team of the century.

In 2008 Brian ‘Chicka’ Moore was named in the Newtown Jets team of the century. He died following a long illness on 26 October 2014.[3][4]

References

  1. Brian Moore at rugbyleagueproject.com
  2. “1970-1979”. Newcastle Rugby League. sportingpulse.com. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  3. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/newtown-jets-legend-brian-chicka-moore-dies-after-long-battle/story-fni3fbgt-1227103961664?nk=b0d5ccef0cc479977ae7444eacaeda15
  4. http://www.rlcm.com.au/latest-news/29673-rugby-league
Preceded by
Warren Ryan
1979-1982		 Coach
Newtown Jets
1983		 Succeeded by
Club exited competition

 



John Joseph (Jack) CONAGHAN

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John Joseph (Jack) CONAGHAN

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 4631

Rank:  ?

Stations:  ?

Born:  ?

Died  18 October 2014

91 old

Funeral  Friday 24 October 2014 – Freshwater

Buried / Cremated: ?

 

 

John Joseph (Jack) CONAGHAN, 91 old, former Regd. No. 4631, a member of the Northern Metropolitan Branch of the RPA.

Jack passed away on 18/10/2014 and his funeral is proposed to be held at 1.30pm on Friday 24th Instant at St John the Baptist Catholic Church, 7 Johnson Street, FRESHWATER.

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