September 2001 Volume 82 Number 9 "serving the protectors"

Dear Andy

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due to my resignation from SAPOL effective July 3, 2001.

Yours respectfully
Roy Pront
Ex-Senior Constable 2578/6

Dear Andy

This is to advise you of my retirement from SAPOL, my last day of service being July 11, 2001.

I thank you and the members of your committee for your tireless efforts in protecting and improving the working conditions for all members of SAPOL. Like the majority of members, I took the Police Association pretty much for granted until a few years ago when I found myself facing criminal charges. The support, encouragement and very practical assistance by way of provision of counsel brought the matter to a rapid and successful conclusion. This incident allowed me to see the association in a different perspective and I will be always grateful for the support shown.

I have enjoyed my time with SAPOL, having served in many and varied postings. The job is made up of characters, one of every conceivable type, welded together by the common bond of getting the job done in the most effective manner. I am proud to have been a part of such a fine team of people. However, the job continues to change, and I am finding it increasingly difficult to change with it, which clearly indicates to me that it is time to go.

To you, Andy, to the members of your committee and to all members of SAPOL, I wish you health, happiness and success in the future, wherever it may take you.

Regards
Jim Whimpress

Dear Peter

Due to my retirement effective Friday, July 13, 2001, I wish to advise of my resignation from the Police Association of SA after almost 42 years.

I thank you and the executive and staff of the association for the professional manner in which all members’ rights and benefits are protected. It is reassuring for members to operate in an environment with the knowledge that support is forthcoming in times of external, unfair or unfounded attacks.

I thank the vast number of colleagues with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working and socializing.

Yours sincerely
Ron Champness
A/Superintendent
Officer-in-Charge
South Coast LSA

Dear Andy

I wish to tender my resignation from the Police Association effective from July 16 due to my retirement from the Band of the South Australia Police.

I thank the Police Association, especially yourself, for your efforts not only in helping me when management and I had disagreements but also in assisting the band to achieve a long overdue fair deal for pay and conditions. In 23 years, I have witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly. I remember a band tour to the mid-north of the state in the 1980s when we were mustered on duty at 0800 to perform a one-hour concert after setting up the stage. On completion, we packed up, went to lunch, then performed another one-hour concert after setting up the stage once again in the afternoon.

We packed up once again and had dinner then, once again, set up, performed a two-hour concert, then packed up once again. By this time, it was 2300. We then retired for the night and, when we returned to Adelaide after five days of similar workload, our officer-in-charge at that time informed us that we owed the department four hours for each day we worked, stating that we had an easy time and only worked four hours a day anyway.

On three other occasions, on the last day before the band broke up for Christmas leave, the same officer on each occasion declared that it was likely that the band could fold while we were on leave, but “merry Christmas, anyway”.

I have enjoyed my time with the band and hope that, one day, the Government and police department will finally realize what the public has always known. The Band of the South Australia Police is one of the finest public relations outfits in the world and, unless it is used to its full potential (think global), you are wasting this excellent resource.

Yours sincerely
Derek Dalton
Senior Constable 1252
Band of the South Australia Police

Dear Andy

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due to my retirement from SAPOL effective July 18, 2001.

Many thanks to the association for its excellent assistance and support during the last two years.

Regards
Rosalind (Ros) Bell
Detective Senior Constable 1385/1

Dear Peter

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due to my resignation from SAPOL, my last day of service being July 18, 2001.

I’d like to thank all those I have served with over the past 15 years and wish them all the best for the future. There have been the bad times but, thankfully, they were outnumbered by the good. I will take with me many fond memories.

All the best
Darren Spangenberg
Constable 773/9
Communications Branch

Dear Andy

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association. My last day of service will be July 19. I have considered my future over the last 12 months. It is not a decision I have taken lightly after 33 years in the force. I leave to pursue a new and challenging career in real estate sales. The only negative comment I would make at this time is: it is disappointing that very few alternative positions remain in the job for those of us who do not wish to remain patrol officers until we retire.

I thank the many wonderful people I have been fortunate enough to spend quite some time with, some unfortunately are no longer with us. The supervisors, Gary Hassett, Ron Thomas, Kyle Harrison, Bill (William) Teague, Peter Whellum, Jim Tate, Winnie Bachmann, Hank Swalue, Peter Redman and Ashleigh Gore who all showed the same quality of caring about their personnel.

To my many patrol mates from the old region-G days and, later, sector policing. I thank you for the great times and the fond memories. (The names are too numerous to mention, but the escapades I’ll never forget.)

The girls from mixed patrols, Gaynor Brook, Ann Yeomans and Bev McKechnie. I would single out two postings for special mention having spent about 10 years at each. The ex-members of team 5 Norwood patrols, Jim Tate, Leanne Bishop, Ian Elliott, Paul and Kirstie Miller, Peter Marchese and Paul Ralphs.

The second group - the ex-members of ORG/ORS, with special mention to Winnie Bachmann, Greg Pill, Viv Savron and Chris Sanders. I still can’t believe I was paid to work at the Grand Prix, AFL football, drive-fly around the State, dine with politicians, etc, etc. What great times they were.

I wish everyone all the best for the future and thank all of those who have and are serving on the PASA for the pay and conditions I have enjoyed throughout my career.

David Tonks
Senior Constable
Mt Barker

Police Association

I wish to advise the Police Association that I have resigned from SAPOL, my last effective day of service will be July 24, 2001. I have been successful in obtaining a supervisor position, senior intelligence analyst, border management, Risk Identification and Analysis Section position with the Australian Customs Service. I thank everyone I met along the way and worked with over the past 20 years. Best wishes and, again, thank you.

Kind regards
Robyn Filmer
Senior Sergeant 5158/9
Adelaide LSA Intelligence Manager

Dear Andy

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association of South Australia due to my retirement. My last day of service will be July 25, 2001.

Yours faithfully
John Woite
Detective Sergeant 69/9

Secretary

I wish to advise my last day of active service due to retirement is August 1, 2001. I no longer require the services of the Police Association as a contributing member. Please cease in deducting payments through direct debiting of my credit union account.

Regards
GW Beinke

Dear Sir

I wish to tender my resignation from the Police Association as of August 3, 2001, that being my last day of service with SAPOL.

I have accepted an offer of employment within the private sector.

The decision to leave SAPOL was a difficult one to make, but I feel that I am making the right choice at this time.

My career has allowed me to develop a vast variety of skills, which I was fortunate to gain through a satisfying career as a police officer.

I formally say thank you and goodbye to everyone I have worked with over the years. I will take with me countless memories of a great career and fantastic friendships.

Mark Jones
Senior Constable 3620/7
Drug and Organized Crime Investigation Branch

Dear Andy

I wish to advise you of my resignation from PASA due to my retirement from SAPOL, with my last day of service being August 3, 2001.

After 37 years of service it is with some regret that I do so, although the old body told me it was time to go.

I had a long, happy time in the job serving most of my time in the country, namely Millicent, Bordertown twice, Lameroo, Whyalla and Victor Harbor. I completed my career as a station sergeant at the Christies Beach police station.

To all the people I worked with during this time, thanks for the friendships and the many good memories.

Finally, I thank the PASA for its assistance in the past and its untiring efforts in gaining better working and pay conditions. I had the pleasure of being a delegate for three years and this gave me an insight to the effort put in by the executive members.

Yours sincerely
Bruce Brockelbank
Sergeant 131/3
Christies Beach Station

Dear Sir

I hereby tender my resignation from the Police Association effective August 8, 2001, due to my retirement from SAPOL.

I wish all members with whom I have worked during the past 30 years my best wishes and good hunting.

Bryan Constable
Senior Constable 904/5
Mount Gambier Police Station

Peter

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association because of my retirement with my last day of service being August 9, 2001.

After some 34 years or so, I can honestly say that the job has been good to me and I achieved all I set out to achieve. I retire with very fond memories of the friendships I made and the support I received because of those friendships. I pass on my appreciation of the tireless work of the association to get better conditions for members.

Just in passing, I make the following comment. Management could perhaps watch the movie Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood. Despite all the new progressive management introduced by the upper level of the US Army, which was portrayed in the movie, it was the dinosaur sergeant who saved the situation through common sense and understanding of his troops... Just a thought.

Darrell Ingham
Barossa/Yorke LSA

Andy Dunn

I inform you that I have retired from SAPOL. My last of service will be August 10, 2001.

Ted Forward
Chief Inspector

Dear Andy

Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due to my retirement from SAPOL. My last day of service will be on August 17, 2001.

Bill Gentilcore
Sergeant 1649/4
Holden Hill LSA

Dear Andy

I hereby tender my resignation from the Police Association due to retirement, my last day of uniformed service being August 22, 2001. I will continue my association with SAPOL having accepted a public service position within Information Systems and Technology Service.

At this point, I thank the association for its efforts in bettering conditions for all its members over my time in the job.

Yours faithfully
René Borst

Letters of withdrawal of Police Association membership should be addressed to PASA secretary, Andy Dunn, at:

• Police Association of SA,
  PO Box 6032, Halifax St,
  Adelaide, SA 5000
• secretary@pasa.asn.au
• Police Association 168 (internal dispatch)

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