June 2002 Volume 83 Number 6
"serving the protectors"
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Police Club under threat
The future of the Police Club is threatened. The demolition of number 1 Angas Street – which resulted in the loss of personnel to other locations – has had a disastrous impact on the club’s trading. This, combined with members’ changing social pursuits in recent years, and other factors, has left the club’s future uncertain.
The Police Association set up the club in 1961. It has operated ever since then and provided an excellent service to generations of police officers and their families, associate members and the community generally.
The association continues to pay the annual membership fee for all serving PASA members.
The club is now governed by the association committee under the leadership of long-serving PASA deputy president and Police Club president, Nick Pippos, and club secretary, Merge Presser, a serving member.
The association’s ownership of 27 Carrington St is certainly advantageous, but certain decisions have been taken to address the club’s trading concerns. The reality is that, unless a turnaround in trading eventuates, the club will be forced to close.
I encourage members to support their club in any way possible and have their say on the appropriateness of maintaining the Police Club for now and the future.
It is your club. You must decide its future.
PETER ALEXANDER
PRESIDENT
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