Pamela A. HODGKINSON

wife of former member Sgt 2/c Clayton J. HEINZ # 15595

aka  Pam

Late of Mt Tamberine, Qld

Goulburn Academy Class 212

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  22217

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Monday 13 May 1985 ( aged 22 years, 1 month, 21 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 26 July 1985 ( 22 years, 4 month, 4 days )

Constable – appointed 26 July 1986

Constable 1st Class –

Acting Senior Constable at time of MVA – Discharged Medically – H.O.D.

Stations:  Drug Surveillance Unit, Task Force One – D.E.A. & Crime Commission ( early 1990’s ), Liverpool District Office, South West Metro Region Office, Drug Enforcement, Green Valley ( 22 Division ), Liverpool ( 22 Division ), Campbelltown ( 35 Division ) ( MVA – On Duty – 1993 )  – Discharged HOD on 16 June 1996

Service:  From  13 May 1985  to  16 June 1996 = 11 years, 1 month, 3 days Service

Awards:   No find on It’s An Honour

Born:   Friday  22 March 1963

Died on:  Wednesday  3 September 2003

Age:  40 yrs  5 mths  18 days

Cause:   Asphyxiation – from a fall at home

Event location:  Home, Mt Tamberine, Qld

Event date:   Wednesday  3 September 2003

Funeral date:   Tuesday  9 September 2003

Funeral location:   Southport, Qld

Funeral Parlour: 

Buried at:   Cremated

Grave location:   Nil

Memorial located at:   Nil

PAM is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NOT JOB RELATED

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

Frederick John HANSON  QPM CBE(C)

aka  ‘ Slippery ‘

( late of Terrigal )

Penrith Police Academy Class # ??

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #   3958

Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 7 September 1936 ( aged 22 years, 3 months, 12 days )

Constable 1st Class ( during the War whilst with RAAF )

Sergeant 3rd Class – about 1947

Sergeant 2nd Class – 1952

Sergeant 1st Class – 1955

Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 26 September 1959

Inspector 2nd Class – appointed 16 April 1961

Inspector 1st Class – appointed 28 August 1962

Superintendent 3rd Class – appointed 31 October 1964

Superintendent 2nd Class – appointed 22 June 1966

Superintendent 1st Class – appointed 14 August 1967

Assistant Metropolitan Superintendent – 1967

Assistant Commissioner – appointed 25 September 1968

Acting Commissioner – appointed from 11 June 1970 to 22 July 1970, inclusive, during Commissioner ALLEN‘s recreation leave.

Acting Commissioner – appointed from 1 March 1971 to 28 March 1971, inclusive, during Commissioner ALLEN’s recreation leave.

Acting Commissioner – appointed 5 June 1971 ( due to illness of Norm ALLEN )

Deputy Commissioner – appointed 14 January 1972

Commissioner – appointed 15 November 1972

Resigned – December 1976

Stations:  4 Division – ( Pedestrian / Traffic Duties ),

Broken Hill GD’s ( September 1936 – 1940 ) & Plain clothes ( 1940 – 1942 ), 

RAAF during the War years 31 January 1942 – 30 January 1946, 

Vice Squad ( September 1946 – 1946 ),

Police Air Wing as Sgt 3/C ( 1946 – 1950 ),

21 Mobile Division – ( 1950 – 1953 ) Sgt 2/C

Broken Hill GD’s – ( 1953 – 1959 ) ( Sgt 2/c – Sgt 1/c )

Bega – ( 15 October 1959 – 17 April 1962 ) Inspector 3/C & O.I.C. (succeeded Insp. 3/C C. M. Lark, retired ).

Wollongong – ( 20 April 1962 – 16 June 1964 ) ( succeeded Insp. 1/C Allan Glenville Wild

Attended Australian Police College, Manly, 1963

Whilst at Police HQ, Phillip St and then College St, Sydney ( 22 June 1964 – 1976 ) he was the:

Metropolitan Police District – Superintendent 3rd Class

Superintendent 1st Class, Assistant Metropolitan Superintendent, Assistant Commissioner, Commissioner.

Service:  From  7 September 1936  to 31 December 1976 = 40 years Service

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World War II

Australian Imperial             Force Royal Australian Air Force

Regiment:  ?

Enlisted:  ?

Service #                                  407958

Rank:                                        Flying Officer ( Lieutenant )

Embarkation:  ?

Next of kin:  ?

Religion:  ?

Single / Married:                  Married

Returned to Australia:  ?

Awards:                                   M.I.D. ( Mentioned in Despatches) NCA ( No Citation Available ) Commonwealth of Australia Gazette  21 June 1945  Page 1353, position 54

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Awards:  King’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air – granted 1 January 1945

Queen’s Police Medal ( QPM ) – granted 11 June 1966

The Order of the British Empire – Commander ( Civil ) ( CBE(C)) – granted 1 January 1974

Born:  Tuesday  26 May 1914 in Orange, NSW

Died on:  Sunday  26 October 1980 in Terrigal, NSW ( his home )

Age:  66 years, 5 months, 0 days

Cause:  Suicide – Carbon Monoxide poisoning

Funeral date:  ?

Funeral location:  ?

Buried at:  Cremated

 Memorial at:  Police Rugby League competition ( 1970 ) Fred Hanson Shield.

FRED is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance  *NEED MORE INFO

FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

May they forever Rest In Peace

Frederick John Hanson CBE (26 May 1914 at Orange, New South Wales – 26 October 1980 at Terrigal, New South Wales), was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 15 November 1972 until his retirement in 1976.

Early life and career

Frederick Hanson was born the eldest of four children to Ernest Frederick Hanson and Vera Marie Hanson. He did not remain in Orange for long before moving to Burwood where he was educated at the Christian Brother’s Saint Mary’s Boy’s School. He became a jeweller’s assistant before being hired as a porter with the New South Wales Government Railways. Hanson joined the New South Wales Police on 7 September 1936 at the age of 22 and the next year was posted to Broken Hill where, in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, he married Carole Louise Whitehall with Catholic rites on 9 November 1938. In 1940 Hanson was transferred to plain clothes duties.^[1]

Military service

Hanson served in the Citizen Air Force from 1932 to 1936 and obtained a private pilot licence in 1939. On 31 January 1942 he was transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force. Commissioned on 14 January 1943, Hanson served as a pilot in Britain, the Middle East and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and was mentioned in despatches. On 30 January 1946 he was demobilized as acting squadron leader and returned to the police.^[1]

Policing career

Hanson was promoted to the rank of Constable (first class) while on active service and briefly posted to the vice squad before being transferred to the police air wing as Sergeant (third class).

Such rapid advancement in an organization which was committed to seniority based promotion resulted in a number of appeals. The first appeal was rejected and the remainder were withdrawn which allowed Hanson to overtake more than a thousand other police on the seniority list. After this he became known as ‘Slippery’.

The air wing was disbanded in 1950 and Hanson then moved to the new Number 21 Mobile Division.

He returned to Broken Hill in 1953 and was promoted to Sergeant (first class) in 1955.

Hanson served as an Inspector (third class) and also officer in charge at Bega (1959–62) and Wollongong (1962–64) before moving to the Metropolitan Police District as a Superintendent (third class).

After attendance at the Australian Police College in 1963, Hanson rose to Superintendent (first class) and Assistant Metropolitan Superintendent in 1967.^[1]

Hanson was appointed Assistant Commissioner in 1968, Deputy Commissioner on 14 January 1972 and Commissioner on 15 November 1972.

That year he also attended the general assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization at Frankfurt, Germany.

In 1974 he visited the Australian police contingent at Cyprus.

While Commissioner Hanson introduced merit rating, abolished seniority in executive promotions and also established the crime intelligence unit.

By objecting to New South Wales Police Association attempts to gain greater access to the Industrial Commission of New South Wales he sparked contention.

Hanson gained widespread support in 1975 when he initiated aggressive street patrols to counter hoodlum activity, however he failed to control illegal gambling which was to become a major public issue.

In 1976 Hanson sued the then Australian Broadcasting Commission for defamation when it had been suggested that he had a financial interest in an illegal casino situated at Gosford; the case was later settled out of court.^[1]

Retirement

Pressured to resign after adverse publicity, he delayed doing so until he was replaced in 1976 by his preferred successor and air wing colleague Mervyn Wood.

Further allegations of corruption were made against Hanson in the 1980s.

Hanson was a modest however humorous man, he kept his family life extremely private. He was a noted practical joker and esteemed by his subordinates for his genuine interest in their welfare, his readiness to delegate responsibility and his unwillingness to be hindered by red tape.

Survived by his wife, Hanson died from carbon monoxide poisoning by inhalation on the night of 25 to 26 October 1980 at his Terrigal home; the Coroner dispensed with an inquest and Hanson was cremated.^[1]

Corruption allegations

There were persistent allegations about Hanson’s involvement in organised crime, and was repeatedly claimed that he corruptly received payments from criminals and that he was the part-owner of an illegal casino at Gosford, in which former detective Ray “Gunner” Kelly is also alleged to have had an interest.

Hanson featured prominently in The Prince and the Premier, the 1985 book by investigative journalist David Hickie, which canvassed allegations of corruption against senior NSW government officials, including Premier Robert Askin and senior police including Norman Allan, Hanson and Merv Wood.

Hickie specifically named both Allan and Hanson as corrupt, stating that they knowingly allowed illegal casinos and illegal SP (off-track) betting to flourish in NSW. Citing an “impeccable” and highly placed source within the illegal gaming empire established by Perc Galea, Hickie alleged that Askin and his police commissioners, Allan and Hanson, were paid bribes amounting to A$100,000 per year from 1967 until Askin’s retirement.^[2]

Another of Hickie’s informants, a former croupier at Galea’s Double Bay Bridge Club, claimed that A$5000 per week from the club was paid in bribes to Hanson and Askin.^[3] Hickie also notes that Hanson was among the mourners at Galea’s funeral in 1976.^[4]

In 1979 John Hatton, an independent politician claimed in the New South Wales Parliament that Askin and Hanson knew of and may have even encouraged the penetration of Australian crime by “overseas mobsters, gangsters and the Mafia“.^{[citation needed]}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hanson

Scott Andrew NICHOLSON

New South Wales Police Force – Resigned

ProCst # 94539   

Regd. #  20237

Redfern Police Academy Class 182 B

Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy with Class 182B on Monday 8 March 1982

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 = 14 years, 8 months, 6 days Service    

Awards:  No find on It’s An Honour

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

Born:  Saturday 4 April 1959 in Temora, NSW

Died:  Thursday 14 November 1996

Age:  37 years, 7 months, 10 days

Funeral:  Leppington Lawn Cemetery, NSW

Funeral date:  ? ? ?

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

 

 

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.

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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:  [codepeople-post-map]

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

  By CYDONEE MARDON

  Jan. 9, 2015, 7:48 p.m.

  

  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.

  

  “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, 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.”

  “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

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N.S.W Police Watch

January 14, 2015 ·

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

 

Allison Mc Paul Ftp

Like · Reply · January 14, 2015 at 4:28pm

 

N.S.W Police Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-tJKFgbkWU

Police Integrity Commission investigate alleged cover up of…

youtube.com

Like · Reply · 2 · January 14, 2015 at 5:15pm

 

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…/

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First published on 26 October 2014.

Updated on 28 April 2026 with further information and calculations.

 

 

Andrew Robert DAY

aka  Andy

Son of Ernest Robert ‘Bob’ DAY # 4811 – deceased

New South Wales Police Force

Redfern Police Academy – Class # 171

Regd. #  19548

Rank:  Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 13 April 1981 ( aged 23 years, 1 month, 12 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 26 June 1981 ( aged 23 years, 3 months, 25 days )

Detective – appointed 26 June 1982

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed 26 June 1986

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Sergeant – appointed ? ? ?

Inspector – appointed ? ? ?

Final Rank:  Detective Inspector – death

Stations:  ?, Balmain ( 8 Division ) – 1980’s, coordinator of the South East Asian Crime Squad at the State Crime Command – Death

Service:  From  13 April 1981 to  14 November 2003 = 22 years, 7 months, 1 day Service

Awards: National Medal – granted 17 April 1997

Born:  Saturday 1 March 1958

Died on:  Friday 14 November 2003

Cause:  lack of oxygen “due to displacement of oxygen supply” in Hospital.  Pneumonia

Death location:  Concord Hospital, Concord, NSW

Age: 45 years, 8 months, 13 days

Funeral date:  ? ? ?

Funeral location:   ?

Buried at:  ?

Memorial location:  ?

ANDY IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

BUT despite being mentioned, there are no details as to the cause of his death

From 15 October 2003 Detective Inspector Day and other members of the South East Asian Crime Squad were involved in archiving official documentation which was stored in a garage near their covert workplace.  The inspector subsequently took ill and was admitted to Concord Hospital, where he unfortunately passed away on the 14^th November 2003.

The detective inspector was born in 1958 and was sworn in as a probationary constable on the 26 June 1981. At the time of his death he was the coordinator of the South East Asian Crime Squad at the State Crime Command.

Not only Andy was affected by ‘flu like’ symptoms whilst working out of these premises.  Several others took ill with severe flu like symptoms around the same time.

Widow Jacqui Day complained about the treatment of her husband Andy, a top undercover police officer, after an anonymous letter from nurses at the hospital said: “Mr Day should not have died.”

Detective Inspector Day, 45, was being treated for pneumonia and died when his oxygen tube fell out of its wall tap for the second time in six hours.

After an inquiry behind closed doors, the HCCC found that Concord, a major teaching hospital, had provided below standard care to Mr Day “in a number of respects”, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

The commission also found that Professor Matthew Peters, the head of respiratory medicine at the hospital, had “departed from the acceptable standard of care” in two areas.

He was referred to the Medical Board’s conduct committee for “counselling” for not transferring Mr Day to the intensive care unit and for failing to appropriately monitor his oxygen needs.

Mrs Day will today appear before the Government’s special commission of inquiry into the state’s ailing health system, sitting at Concord, to demand answers and ask why the complaints procedure is shrouded in such secrecy.

There was evidence before the HCCC from four medical experts that Mr Day should have been moved to intensive care.

Professor Peters told the inquiry there were no intensive care beds available and Mr Day did not want to be moved.

The commission’s report, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, said there had been at least one bed available on five of the eight days Mr Day was in hospital and there was no record in the medical notes of Mr Day’s comments.

“In 2008, you can’t leave your loved one in a public hospital on their own,” Mrs Day said yesterday, adding that all adverse HCCC findings should be made public.

“I still do not know how a 45-year-old man can be admitted to hospital and die on the floor in the middle of the night.”

It will be Mrs Day’s first visit to the hospital since her husband died at 3.30am on November 14, 2003, after eight days treatment. The HCCC took 18 months on its inquiry.

The anonymous letter from nurses was sent to the coroner who conducted a 2006 inquest into Mr Day’s death.

The cause of death was recorded as a lack of oxygen “due to displacement of oxygen supply”, however coroner John Abernethy found Mr Day’s condition was so serious he would have died even with different care.

HCCC executive officer Kim Swan said legislation limited what the commission could release to the public.

The Medical Board did not return calls. Professor Peters is overseas.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/cop-dead-on-hospital-floor/story-e6freuzi-1111116147165