1964

PASA executive committee:

• Dudley Walter Noblet (president)
• John Sylvester Carroll (vice-president)
• Ralph Mansfield Tremethick (secretary)
• Hector Alexander Gollan
• George Henry Huffa
• Douglas Wylie Nation
• William Rackam Teague
• Edwin Herbert Trotter
• Lionel Edgar Samuels

Objects of the Police Association:

• To conserve and further the interests of the SA Police Force.
• The promotions of good fellowship and social intercourse among its members.
• The promotion of efficiency and assistance to the administration.

Commissioner:

Brigadier John G McKinna

Annual earnings:

• First-year constable £1225 ($2450)
• Sixth-year constable £1306 ($2612)
• First class constable £1426 ($2852)
• Senior constable £1596 ($3192)
• Sgt (third-grade) £1716 ($3432)
• Sgt (second-grade) £1841 ($3682)
• Sgt (first-grade) £1951 ($3902)

All constables who have NOT qualified by exam for appointment as FCC after 10 years of services as a constable shall receive the same wage as an FCC.

Police pension:

Retiring age is 60 years or at option anytime between 60 and July 1 next after that birthday.

Benefits: cash payment of £1,500 ($3,000) and pension of either £480 ($960) per year or if by notice to the public actuary £508 ($1,016) per year until age 65 and thereafter a pension of £420 ($840) per year.

Awards:

First Class Inspector Brebner and Superintendent AE Chamberlain are awarded the Queens Police Medal in the New Years Honours list. Appointment: Superintendent NR Lenton is appointed Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police.

1974

PASA executive committee:

• TJ Jennings (president)
• PR Warman and WR Teague (vice-presidents)
• RM Tremethick (secretary)
• HA Gollan
• PR Warman
• B Wohlenberg
• B Lovegrove
• K Phillips
• LE Samuels

Commissioner:

Harold H Salisbury

Presentation:

Messrs Noblet and Trotter are presented with gold name badges following their election as life members of the Police Association.

Assets:

PASA assets are listed in the AGM as $175,931

Vale

• William (Bill) Vincent Molloy
• Leslie Henry Harold Read
• Walter Ludwig Ruwoldt
• Albert George Ewens

Annual earnings:

• First-year constable $5,100 ($195.50 fortnightly)
• Sixth-year constable $5700 ($218.50 fortnightly)
• FCC $6170 ($235.50 fortnightly)
• SC $6600 ($253.00 fortnightly)
• SC1G $6930 ($265.70 fortnightly)
• Sgt (third-grade) $7430 ($284.90 fortnightly)
• Sgt (second-grade) $7900 ($302.90 fortnightly)
• Sgt (first-grade) $8400 ($322.00 fortnightly)

Appointment:

PASA secretary, Ralph Tremethick, is appointed president of the UTLC.

Questionnaire:

Questionnaires are sent out in April 1974 to 1,000 members – which represented about 40 per cent of the membership – for a Sociological Study of the Police Association, conducted by Bruce Swanton of Queensland. The aim of the study is to find out “What makes PASA ‘Tick?’”

1984

PASA executive committee:

• Tom Rieniets (president)
• Barry M Moyse (senior vice-president)
• Kathryn Finnigan (junior vice-president)
• Jim Furnell
• David Easson
• Jack Walsh
• Bill Newman
• Barry Lovegrove
• Peter Parfitt
• Roger Halliday
• Daniel Brophy (secretary)
• Robert Rice (assistant secretary)

Commissioner:

David Hunt

Vale:

• Peter Atkinson
• Lawrance John (Jack) O’Leary
• Maurice Charles Jackson (Maurie) Chandler
• Walter (Wally) Siegried Daniel Roemer
• Jean Easther (Hillman) (police cafeteria)

Incident:

Sixty-three people are arrested in Glenelg riots.

Motion:

Moved: B Lovegrove
   Seconded: H Hills

That this meeting of delegates fully support the introduction of beards as an option for members of the SA Police Association.

Carried

1994

PASA executive committee:

• Peter Alexander (president)
• Wayne Jones (acting secretary – Sam Bass just elected to the state seat of Florey for the Liberal Party)
• Bob Wohlenberg and Peter Parfitt (vice-presidents)
• Dave Neale (treasurer)
• Mick Standing
• Trevor Haskell
• Nick Pippos
• Mark Carroll
• Brendan McGee
• Iain Robertson
• Ian Hills

Commissioner:

David Hunt

PASA industrial officer:

Chris Kennedy

PFANZ appointment:

New Police Federation of Australia and New Zealand secretary is Terry Collins from the Police Association of NSW.

Transit:

The first 19 Transit Services Branch police are sworn in.

Awards:

Det Sgt J Bean receives the Medal of the Order of Australia; Superintendent GR Baker, Superintendent JD LISTER and Snr Sgt J Watts receive the APM.

Workcover:

Amendments to Workcover suggest that workers will not be covered when travelling between home and work.

Election:

Members Standing, Robertson, McGee, Carroll, Rumbelow, Parfitt and Wohlenberg nominate for the position of PASA secretary.

EB:

PASA begins its first round of enterprise bargaining negotiations

Appeals:

The hearing of appeals against the formation of an Australia-wide police union is set down for May.