Class 113, sworn in on 11th December 1967. I count about 138 “graduates” after our probationary year. That’s Erwin “Seg” Bramble in the Mounted uniform in the front row, and Sgt Roy Shields on the far left as we look at the photo.
( Not verified but most probably his grandfather – of the same name )
DICK.- Sacred to the memory of my dear husband and our dear father, James Johnston Dick, who departed this life January 28, 1933. ( in Wallsend Hospital. Carpenter by occupation )
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Alan’s wife, Helen, predeceased him several years earlier.
Alan is survived by his son and daughter.
( L – R ) Alan KAY # 9185, Charlie PARSONS # 7336 ( Region Commander ? ), Ken BECK # 9675 ( Commander – Taree ), Supt. Bob HUISH # 7406
Upon the murder of two Police in Crescent Head, NSW, on Sunday 9 July 1995, it fell upon Alan KAY to attend and inform the families of the tragic murders of ADDISON & SPEARS.
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Cal
23 June 2024
Updated 24 June 2024 with additional photos
Updated 24 June 2024 with Funeral Time / Date / Location
Updated 26 June 2024 – Funeral Parlour contact details
Updated 30 June 2024 with further information and Live Stream video
Ronald John MITCHERSON
25/06/2024
Ronald John MITCHERSON
AKA Ron MITCHERSON
* Nickname: Mitcho
Formerly of Fairfield. Late of Toronto, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’:
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: Arthur C. MITCHERSON, NSWPF # ???? ( Smithfield & Fairfield – 34 Division – 1964 ) ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 129
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 15008
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 1 November 1971 ( aged 24 years, 0 months, 7 days )
Probationary Constable- appointed Monday 13 December 1971 ( aged 24 years, 1 month, 18 days )
Constable – appointed 13 December 1972
Constable 1st Class – appointed 13 December 1976
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( Course 2/1977 )
Senior Constable – appointed 13 December 1980
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Class 129 – Redfern Police Academy. Entered Redfern Police Academy on Monday 1 November 1971 and were Sworn In on Monday 13 December 1971.
Class 129 Reunion at the City of Sydney RSL on 13 November 2021. 50 YEARS. Paul Devine, Kris Sweic, Terry Geary, Nick Pavlov, Terry Steer, John King, John O’Niell, Don Robinson, The Kid Grahame Langford and Bill Davenport..
PRIDE: Toronto RSL sub-branch president Ron Mitcherson at Speers Point Park. 14 April 2015
* Story behind any Nickname: Mitcho = Play on surname.
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To my loving husband, our lives will never be the same without you here. My heart is shattered. I would do anything to have another 39 years with you by my side. You were the greatest husband, father, grandfather and friend that anyone could ask for. You fought to be with us until the very end and we will always be so grateful for the time we got to be with you. I will forever adore you, love you and never forget you. Rest easy my sweet man, I will love you always ❤️❤️❤️ xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Our deepest condolences to your wife, Vicki, family and friends of this gentle giant.
? & ? with David John MEURANT APM on the right at a Police March in Canberra – 2007
Class 169D
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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 22 March 1963 (No.27), page 805
SHIRE OF LIVERPOOL PLAINS. — Notice is hereby given that the Council has appointed Constable 1st Class Rodney George Rowley as Inspector of Slaughterhouses under section 4 (2) of the Cattle Slaughtering and Diseased Animals and Meat Act, 1902 – 57, for that part of the Shire of Liverpool Plains which is within the Curlewis Police Patrol District; in lieu of Constable E. J. Jurd.
A. G. HILL,
Shire Clerk,
Council Chambers, Gunnedah.
19th March, 1963.
( Curlewis Police Stn is in the Oxley LAC, Northern Region, NSW )
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NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # “probably” 041
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # P/W 0021
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday ? ? ?
Special Probationary Constable- appointed Monday 23 May 1955 ( aged 31 years, 3 months, 28 days )
Special Constable – appointed ? ? ?
Special Constable 1st Class – appointed 23 May 1961
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Senior Constable – appointed 23 May 1966
Final Rank: = Senior Constable
Stations: Traffic Branch – School Lecturing ( 23 May 1955 ), Newcastle – School Lecturing ( 30 May 1956 ), Traffic Branch ( 16 December 1957 ), C.I.B. ( Plain Cloths )( 24 March 1958 ), Sutherland ( 24 Division )( Plain Cloths )( 22 January 1959 ), Bankstown ( 19 Division )( Plain Cloths )( 1 May 1961 ), Eastwood ( 17 Division )( Plain Cloths )( 17 November 1966 ), Hornsby ( 16 Division )( Detectives Office ) – Resignation
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: Monday 23 May 1955 to Wednesday 4 September 1968 ( Resigned to Marry ) = 13 years, 3 months, 12 days
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From Monday 23 May 1955 to Wednesday 4 September 1968 ( Resigned to Marry ) = 13 years, 3 months, 12 days Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 44 years, 7 months, 10 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 55 years, 9 months, 10 days
Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system under either surname whoever:
NSW Police Diligent and Ethical Medal – granted 2002
Born: Friday 25 January 1924 in Melbourne, Victoria
Died on: Friday 14 June 2024
Age: 100 years, 4 months, 20 days
Organ Donor: No – Age prohibitive
Cause: Natural causes – Age
Event location: In her own home
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Friday 28 June 2024 @ 11am
Funeral location: South Chapel – Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, 199 Delhi Road, North Ryde, NSW
Ryde P.A.C. will provide an Official Police Guard of Honour
Aileen WHEELER aka Aileen DWYER, NSWPF P/W 0021 with David WHITEMAN # 14994
Back Row ( L – R ) Joan BANNER, Aileen DWYER / Aileen WHEELER, Dot IMRIE, Wilma WHYBROW, Ruth STYLES. Front Row: Julie LEWIS, June ABBOTT, Olga NORTH / Olga HATCH, Beryl SMITH, Madge WELBY – Redfern Police Academy about mid 1950s.
Unfortunately there is nothing found, via Google or Trove, with either Surname for this woman who Served for 13 years.
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NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 115
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 13273
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 13 May 1968 ( aged 19 years, 2 months, 1 day )
Probationary Constable- appointed Monday 24 June 1968 ( aged 19 years, 3 months, 12 days )
Constable – appointed 24 June 1969
Constable 1st Class – appointed 24 June 1973
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( YES )
Senior Constable – appointed 24 June 1977
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 31 August 1984
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Detective Senior Sergeant
Stations: ?, Hurstville Scientific ( 31 Division ), ?, Ex War Crimes Investigator, Special Operations – Forensic Services Group – Identifications Services Branch ( DNA Advancement Program ), Forensic Intelligence & Results Management – Retirement
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 13 May 1968 to 29 September 2018= 50 years, 4 months, 16 days
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 13 May 1968to 29 September 2018 = 50 years, 4 months, 16 days Service
( 44 years in Crime Scene )
Retirement / Leaving age: = 69 years, 6 months, 17 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 5 years, 8 months, 10 days
Awards: National Medal – granted 29June 1984 ( Det SenCon )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 7 May 1994 ( Det SenCon )
Australian Police Medal ( APM ) – granted 26 January 2016 ( Det SenSgt )
Born: Saturday 12 March 1949
Died on: Saturday 8 June 2024
Age: 75 years, 2 months, 27 days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: Cancer – Bladder ( Renal – Kidney failure )
* Stage 4 Ureter Epithelial Cancer
Health Cluster from his FSG work
* Stage 4 Ureter Epithelial Cancer (also known as Stage 4 Urothelial Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter) is a cancer that spreads to distant organs, such as the lungs, liver, or bones, or has metastasized to lymph nodes far from the original tumor.
It is considered advanced and has a poorer prognosis than earlier stages.
Event location: ?
Diagnosis date: shortly after Retiring
Funeral date: Wednesday 19 June 2024 @ 11am
Funeral location: South Chapel, Woronora Memorial Park, 121 Linden St, Sutherland, NSW
Forensic Evidence & Technical Services Command will provide an Official Police Guard of Honour
Family and friends are warmly invited to the farewell service for Stephen at Woronora Memorial Park, South Chapel.
The service can be viewed via the following live stream link from 11am. A recording of the service will also be available for download after the service has concluded.
NSW Police , Thought to share this – Remember those Nightshifts and early morning crime scene’s when Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Horn arrived. It was a matter of “who was in charge til I got here”.. A career spanning more than 50 years, there isn’t much this cop hasn’t seen. Detective Senior Sergeant Stephen Horn has investigated and solved some of the highest-profile crimes and disasters in Australia, and across the world.
Courtesy of Colin Walsh.
Granville train to war crimes: Hero cop’s 50 years on the front lines
From the Granville train disaster to the long search for Matthew Leveson’s remains, there isn’t much Detective Sergeant Stephen Horn hasn’t done in more than 50 years with NSW Police.
The veteran is hanging up his badge and hopes to spend more time with his family, and he spoke to A Current Affair about his career and the cases that have stayed with him.
“I’ve always tried to give more than 100 percent – as I say to some young people, get down and get dirty,” Det Sgt Horn said.
Detective Sergeant Stephen Horn is retiring after more than 50 years with NSW Police. (A Current Affair)
He joined the force in 1968, and for 44 years of his career he has been on the front line of crime scenes gathering any clue that might unravel a crime.
“Who else is going to speak for (the deceased) if not the police?” he said.
But despite his long career, he admitted the burden could be a heavy one.
Det Sgt Horn joined the force in 1968. (A Current Affair)
“I try not to take the work home and think about it at home, because if I worry about it and freak out and think about it, I’ll end up making mistakes,” he said.
“Multiple murders where a family has been murdered and children were involved – you always think to yourself, ‘why the children?'”
Det Sgt Horn was a fresh-faced, young forensic officer when a train derailed at Granville in Sydney in 1977.
Det Sgt Horn was one of the forensic officers on the scene at the Granville train disaster in 1977. (A Current Affair)
His job was to retrieve the 83 victims who died, and identify them.
“We had a temporary morgue put up in a large tent and when portions of the concrete from the roadway were actually moved off the carriages, we would go down and retrieve the bodies and take them up to the morgue, do an initial examination of them, photograph them, look at their injuries, look at their clothing,” he said.
It was far from the last disaster scene Det Sgt Horn would attend.
The forensic officers did their work at Granville in a temporary morgue in a large tent. (A Current Affair)
He also carried out his duties at the 1981 Sylvania Nursing Home fire (19 dead), the 1989 Kempsey bus crash (35 dead).
And in 1991, he received a phone call that shaped his career.
Det Sgt Horn was called on to investigate war crimes in Ukraine, where he dug up two mass graves and exhumed the remains of dozens of World War II victims – including 20 children.
Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter with Det Sgt Horn who hopes to spend more time with his wife and granddaughter in retirement. (A Current Affair)
“When we started to exhume these remains, we could actually see they were almost all grouped in an area – little tiny baby remains and things like that,” he said.
“Why did this happen? Why were these children taken from this village when the information was they didn’t know if they were Jews or not? They just decided to take them and dispose of them.”
He spent three months in the trenches, with minimal food and supplies.
Det Sgt Horn has also been called upon to investigate war crimes in Ukraine. (A Current Affair)
Back home, the evolution of DNA technology has allowed Det Sgt Horne to solve cases that were otherwise impossible to crack.
“I think we had about 27 sexual assault cases solved with DNA, with about 33 charges – some of them serial offenders,” he said.
Most recently, Det Sgt Horn’s experience played an integral role in finding Matthew Leveson’s remains, 10 years after he went missing.
Det Sgt Horn exhumed the remains of dozens of WWII victims, including children. (A Current Affair)
It is a gift Matthew’s parents Mark and Faye Leveson could never repay.
“He helped bring our Matty home and without that, we might still be out there looking for him, so a massive thank-you isn’t enough,” Faye Leveson said.
Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter commended Det Sgt Horn’s service.
Most recently, Det Sgt Horn played an integral role in finding the remains of Matthew Leveson. (A Current Affair)
“The NSW Police Force is extremely proud of you, we wish you the very best in retirement, and please go and enjoy yourself, and thank you for 50 years,” he said.
And Det Sgt Horn himself had one message for the new generation of young police officers.
“Be professional, diligent, loyal, courteous, and don’t give up,” he said.
There are three other ex-Forensics guys from Sydney who have the same problem.
One appears to have beaten it, but two others’ prognoses are very poor.
I worked with them all over the years.
I’m going to get a kidney health check next week, as are a few other former Forensics work mates.
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On September 27, at the NSW Police Wall of Remembrance, and all around the nation, National Police Remembrance Day was celebrated. Before the ceremony, our Chair Det Supt Donna McCarthy held a private Touchstone Ceremony, where members of the Zucchetti, Burns, and Schell families were presented with the Touchstones of their loved one.
At the service we honoured the names of NSW Police Force’s Sergeant Peter Thomas Stone, and SA Police’s Brevet Sergeant Jason Christopher Doig, who died while on duty, as well as the serving members of NSW Police who have passed away in the last 12 months:
General Administrative Support Officer Tammy Leigh Nagle
After the ceremony, three of our young Police Legatees – Oscar, Max, and Bronte – were presented with the Commissioner’s Scholarship. This award has the personal endorsement of the Commissioner, and each young Legatee receives money to support them in their chosen studies and endeavours.
A day of love and remembrance, a day of sadness and of promise.
Auburn Police Area Command regretfully inform the community that one of our beloved employees, passed away on Friday, 7 June 2024.
Fiona Taylor joined the NSW Police in 1995 as a civilian Administration Officer. Fiona progressed to her current role of a Senior Intelligence Analyst with the Auburn Police Area Command, where she worked for over 26 years. Fiona was 68 years of age.
Fiona will be greatly missed.
Our thoughts and prayers of the New South Wales Police Force are extended to the Taylor family and friends at this sad time.
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Det Cst 1/c Graham CLARK, P.C. Cst 1/c Stephen GORDON, Det Cst 1/c John DAVIDSON, Det Cst 1/c Stephen McCLELLAND, Det SenCon John LARKIN, Det SenCon Dennis HOLDMAN, Det SenCst Ted McCARTHY
Middle Row
Det SenCon John BRENNAN, P.C. Cst Bill BRANDER, Det SenCon Stephen LIVERSIDGE, Det SenCon Bill SUTTON, P.C. Cst 1/c Rod BRYAN, P.C. Cst 1/c Peter WHALAN, P.C. Cst 1/c Shayne McANULTY
Front Row
Det Sgt 3/c Jim THORNTHWAITE, Det Sgt 3/c Ken WATERS, Det Sgt 2.c Allen HALLIDAY, Det Sgt 1/c Russ COOK , Det Sgt 3/c Ray HALLAM, Det Sgt 3/c Brian BORTHWICH, P.C. P/W Const 1/c Jenny COUPER
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Sutherland Detective: