Dear Andy
Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due
to my resignation from SAPOL effective January 7, 2003.
Farewell to my course 9 colleagues, those I worked with on the
road at Glenelg and to my friends in the Sturt Community Programs Section.
Yours Sincerely
Grant Topham
Constable 4213/4
Sturt
Community Programs Section
Dear Andy
Please accept my resignation from the Police Association on
my retirement from SAPOL effective January 22, 2003.
During my 38 years of operational policing I have worked with
many partners and met numerous other members of SAPOL. I thank all of you,
whether retired, resigned, or still in the job, for your friendship and loyalty
and wish you all the best in the future.
I especially thank all past and present delegates and members
of the Police Association executive for their tireless and often unrecognized
efforts. Without the Police Association to fight for members’ rights, it
could be truly said: “It’s tough in the police.”
Yours
sincerely
David Paxon
Detective Senior Constable, 1736/5
Dear Andy
I write to tender my resignation from the Police Association
of SA as from January 24, 2003, which is my last day of service and my 60th
birthday. After just over 30 years with SAPOL, 23 years being in Prosecution, I
have decided to call it quits.
I bid farewell to all and thank those who I have worked with,
both in prosecution and the police service in general. I particularly give a
vote of thanks to the members of South Coast Criminal Justice Section for
making the last three years of my service probably one of the best postings I
had as a prosecutor.
Regards
Max Drinkwater
Sergeant
2185/4
Dear Andy
I wish to tender my resignation from the Police Association
effective January 29, 2003, my last day of employment with SAPOL.
There is a popular prayer kept on many desk and often
misquoted by cynics. In its original form, it requests:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference.
For many years I accepted. Then I tried to effect changes as
they affected me and those with whom I worked. Then, finally, I gained the
wisdom to realize the difference was too significant to overlook. It was either
time to move on or become part of the burgeoning, endlessly resourced SAPOL
“project squad”.
As a consequence, after 16 years of working for SAPOL and SA,
16 years of being efficient and effective, I have tendered my resignation to go
with my family to live and work in the Northern Territory because Tempus
fugit et numquam revertitur. In other words, it was now or never.
I regret the need to move on: I have made many friends among
colleagues and the metropolitan and country communities in which I have worked,
and I thank them all sincerely for their comradeship and support, but a
different future now beckons. I have been accepted into the Northern Territory
Police where I shall discover whether the grass really is greener on the other
side. It certainly looks like it. So I shall dust the footprints of others from
my shoulders and take my experience where I feel it will be valued.
I wish all the best to those with whom I worked at Holden
Hill, Regional Response Group, Surveillance, Intelligence Branch, Ceduna, and,
last but not least, to those stationed around me at my final posting, Narrung,
particularly the plonkas at Meningie. All the best for the future guys.
I also thank PASA for its assistance when I had my little
accident last year. It made me realize how important it is to its members.
To SAPOL, try looking after your personnel for a change, and
look at their conditions. When you compare SAPOL with interstate forces,
particularly in relation to conditions for country police, all I can say is
wake up and join the current century.
Some final advice to those who believe that clause 14 is a
licence to print money. I suggest you try it and then, only then, will I listen
to your opinion.
Cheers
Jon Mitson
Senior Constable,
2207/3
Narrung
Email: jonkaren@lm.net.au
Dear Andy
Please accept my resignation from the Police Association due
to my retirement after 30 years’ service, my last day of service being
February 3, 2003.
I wish to thank the Police Association for the assistance
provided to me during my career. The association continually faces governments
and senior management that accredit themselves with pursuing law and order with
budgets that are abysmally inadequate as compared to other states. I applaud
the association’s endeavour to pursue equitable and decent working
conditions for SAPOL members.
I have obtained a degree in business administration and I have
purchased a lucrative cleaning business. I expect to realize my ambition of
successfully running a business with simple and honest management principles. I
leave the job with no regrets and I wish all members of SAPOL the best in
health and happiness.
Yours sincerely
Alex Kusznir
Senior
Sergeant
Communications
Dear Andy
Please accept my resignation from the Police Association of
South Australia effective February 12, 2003, due to my resignation from SAPOL.
I am moving to Queensland and commence with QPOL on February 17.
My best wishes to not only those I have served with and who
know me, but to all the members of SAPOL.
GD Ambler
Senior
Constable 1183/1
West Coast Traffic
