NSW Police Training college – Penrith – Class # 03?
NSW Police Cadet # 1008
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 8344
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy as a Police Cadet on Monday 2 June 1952 ( aged 15 years, 1 month, 30 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Tuesday 3 April 1956 ( aged 19 years, 0 months, 0 days )
Constable – appointed 3 April 1957
Constable 1st Class – appointed 3 April 1962
Detective – appointed ? June 1963
Senior Constable – appointed 3 April 1967
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 20 July 1972
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? July 1979
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 1 January 1983
Inspector – appointed 6 April 1988
Final Rank: = Detective Inspector
Stations:
As a Cadet: Newtown ( 5 Division )( June 1952 ), ( 20 Division )( September 1952 ), C.I.B. – M.O. Section ( Modus Operandi Section )( 20 Division )( March 1953 ), Campsie ( 13 Division )( Traffic Room )( June 1953 ), Darlinghurst ( 3 Division )( Plain Cloths room )( November 1953 ), Newcastle ( January 1954 ), Campsie ( 13 Division )( Plain Cloths room )( June 1954 ), Traffic Branch ( 20 Division )( September 1954 ), Petersham ( 11 Division )( Station Duties )( January 1955 ), Traffic Branch ( January 1956 ), Redfern Police Academy ( Redfern )( late February 1956 )( Initial Training )
As a Sworn Policeman: Phillip St ( 4 Division )( 4 April 1956 )( GDs and Station Reserve Constable ), 21 Division C.I. Duties ( June 1960 ), Burwood ( 9 Division )( C.I. Duties )( December 1961 ), Liverpool ( 22 Division )( Dets )( November 1965 ), Campbelltown ( 35 Division )( Dets )( November 1968 )( Was one of four Detectives transferred from Liverpool to Campbelltown ( which was a sub-station of Liverpool – 22 Division ) to open the initial Detectives Office where, in July 1972 he was promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant 3/c. Jack went to Campbelltown with Det Sgt 3/c D.W. ‘Bill’ Newall, Det Cst 1/c Rodger Hall & Det Cst Dave McDonald ), Lidcombe ( 32 Division )( Dets )( December 1974 ), Public Transport Command ( Dets )( August 1976 ), Burwood ( 9 Division )( Dets )( March 1981 ), 9 Divisional Detective Sergeant-in-Charge ( September 1982 ), ( Fairfield )( 34 Division )( Dets – Divisional Det Sergeant-in-Charge, O.I.C. ), Liverpool District Office ( 22 Division ) – Optional Retirement
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 2 June 1952 to 13 March 1990 ( Optional Retirement ) = 36 years, 9 months, 11 days
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 2 June 1952 to 13 March 1990 ( Optional Retirement ) = 36 years, 9months, 11 days Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 51 years, 11 months, 10 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 35 years, 10 months, 13 days
Awards: No Find on the Australian Honours system – however:
Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal – granted November 1978
Commendation: for his actions as a member of the team investigating all aspects of the derailment and the collation and presentation of evidence following the Granville Rail Disaster on the 18 January 1977. Signed Mervyn T. Wood, Commissioner of Police
Born: Saturday 3 April 1937
Died on: Wednesday 15 January 2025
Age: 87 years, 9 months, 12 days
Organ Donor: No – Age prohibitive
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Tuesday 4 February 2025 @ 10.30am
Funeral location: St Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 421 Ocean Dve, Laurieton, NSW
ALL Friends and colleagues and welcome to attend
the Mid North Coast Police District will provide an Officer the the Church
Back in the day (1970s) when I was doing my ‘A’ list at Lidcombe Detectives I was partnered up with a very ‘Old School’ Detective Sergeant named Jack Hilder. Never before and never since have I worked with anyone who could consume Alcohol like him.
Jack was suffering from a hangover from a stint at the Catholic Club the night before and we had to do an inquiry in the very posh suburb of South Strathfield where Big houses and money were the norm.
We were invited into this very big home by a very posh middle aged Lady who wore diamond earrings and pearls and stepped into a very large Hallway with cloakrooms and ‘powder rooms’ off to left and right. Jack says to the Posh lady “Can I use your Toilet please, the Constable will start taking the details”.
I take out my notebook as Jack enters the ‘Powder room’ but only half closes the door. As I’m talking to the lady I hear the sound of Jack peeing into the middle of the water in the toilet. It sounded like a Cart horse peeing into a bucket of water. The lady and I just looked at each other, she with her mouth open and suddenly her eyes opened even wider and she gasped as this extremely loud FART emanated from the Powder room and resonated throughout the hallway.
Jack then came out still zipping up his fly. I don’t know who was the more embarrassed, her or me.
Overview of Liverpool ‘I’ District Bulls Police Rugby League Football Club, later known as the Macarthur Bulls Police Rugby League Football Club.
Liverpool ‘I’ District Police Rugby League was an inaugural member of the NSW Police Rugby League Competition formed in 1970.
The teams later competed annually for the ‘Fred Hanson Shield’ – he was Police Commissioner 1972 to 1976.
The team was co-ordinated from the Liverpool Detectives Office by Detective Sergeants Leo Purcell, Jack Hilder and assisted by Detective Senior Constable Pat Casey.
Another local, Detective Sergeant Frank Owens was a keen supporter of the Police Rugby League, but sadly he suffered a heart attack and died whilst watching a game at Moore Park, in May 1970.
Liverpool Detectives decided to donate a ‘Shield’ honouring Frank Owens, which they named the ‘Frank Owens Memorial Best and Fairest Trophy’.
Mrs Owens attended the Clubs presentation nights for several years presenting the trophy in memory of her husband.
Around 1975, the Club was co-ordinated from Green Valley Police Station by Mel Clews, Fred Whitton, Barry Ryan, Alan Stephens, Mick Rees, Colin Cameron and Stephen Reeves.
The ‘Frank Owens Shield‘ remained until 1989, when a new shield was struck honouring Constable 1/c. Mark Burns, a former player who was tragically killed in a motor vehicle collision, whilst on duty.
The shield was donated by Stephen Reeves and named the ‘Mark Shrimpy Burns Memorial Best and Fairest Shield‘ and was presented until 2019.
Source: Liverpool ( NSW ) Police Time Line ( 1788 – 2022 ) by Joe Stanioch.
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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
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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
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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
Mark DAVIDSON & John Stuart DAVIDSON
Daily Telegraph – 15 January 2025
Class 127
Al Sparkes
20 January 2025
I have done my best to copy this article from the Daily Mail, a UK News Paper. Its a story about many stories about Davo, the great man. Unfortunately, the actual article is behind a pay wall and I cannot share it from the web. Many thanks to Ray Lambie for his contribution to the story. Unfortunately I wasnt able to place the photographs in with the story but have attached them as best I could.
Two anecdotes repeatedly come up when old cops remember legendary detective inspector John Davidson, who died in a Sydney aged care facility last week aged 75.
One is how Davidson walked into an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry hearing dressed in a bright red suit in the early 1990s.
‘If I’m going to a circus,’ the always colourful and wildly eccentric character said, ‘I’m going to dress like a clown.’
The second vignette is how Davidson seized a .357 Magnum revolver from Neddy Smith after arresting the notorious gangster in a foiled armed robbery and kept to it carry as his own sidearm.
The suit stunt, which occurred when ICAC was investigating the relationship between NSW police and criminals, showed Davidson’s disdain for dealing with what he once called the ‘complaint industry’.
The revolver story was part of a more significant narrative – how Davidson brought to an end one of Australia’s most infamous criminal careers by putting Smith permanently behind bars.
But the tale also has an intriguing twist: one of Smith’s accomplices claims the handgun Davidson took as a trophy that day was actually his and that Smith had been carrying a shotgun.
John Stuart Davidson – ‘Davo’ to his colleagues – was a genuine hard man of the NSW Police Force who served with particular distinction as a member of the ‘Breakers’, or Special Breaking Squad.
Tall and powerfully built, he instilled fear in the felons he pursued and gained a reputation for doing whatever it took to send serious wrongdoers to jail.
He further stood out due to his neatly clipped goatee and a sartorial style which sometimes saw his suits complemented by a pair of crocodile skin or red leather shoes.
Davidson was accused of fabricating confessions and planting evidence to secure convictions against suspects he knew or believed were guilty, earning the nickname ‘Front End Loader’ among some crooks and lawyers.
But unlike his corrupt decade-older contemporary Roger Rogerson – who Davidson dismissed as ‘a poisoned, evil little man’ – no one ever credibly claimed he took a bribe. His desire to deliver a particular version of justice was insatiable.
At the top of Davidson’s hit list of targets was Rogerson’s sometime partner in crime Arthur Stanley ‘Neddy’ Smith, a convicted rapist, major heroin dealer and prolific armed robber.
Smith, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in his mid 30s, claimed crooked cops including Rogerson had given him a ‘green light’ in the early 1980s to commit whatever offences he liked, except murder.
In October 1987, Smith and Glen Roderick Flack were accused of stabbing to death a man called Ronald Flavell during a drunken road rage incident at Coogee in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Both were granted bail and Smith spent much of the next year staging drug rip-offs and other small jobs before turning his attention back upon stripping payroll deliveries at the end of a gun.
‘I kept going back to the armed robberies,’ Smith wrote in his 1993 memoir Neddy. ‘Perhaps I had a death wish. Perhaps I just loved the adrenalin buzz. And perhaps it was just because it was so bloody easy.’
The last big score Smith planned was to intercept the Botany Council Christmas payroll – $160,000 in wages and holiday pay, all in cash – which was to be delivered on December 22, 1988.
Smith, then 44, asked 32-year-old Flack to take part in the robbery. They roped in clean-skin Richard John ‘Harry’ Harris, a 27-year-old boxer and bouncer who had impressed the pair by standing up to them one night in the city at the British Ex Services Club.
The afternoon the heist was to go down in Sydney’s inner-south, Smith cased the Botany Council chambers in Coward Street with Flack and Harris.
Unfortunately for Smith, the trio was spotted by then detective sergeant Davidson, who was driving home to the Sutherland Shire with fellow detectives Wayne Temby and Alan Conwell.
Davidson immediately recognised Smith and Flack but none of the Breakers knew Harris. Those involved have always insisted this random sighting was simply good police work and not the result of a tip-off.
The next morning, Davidson led a team of detectives backed up by the Special Weapons and Operations Squad who lay in wait for the robbers from dawn.
Four SWOS members including Davidson were inside the council chambers, with detective Allan Sparkes on the third floor in an over-watch position, while other police cars were stationed nearby.
Davidson instilled fear in the felons he pursued and gained a reputation for doing whatever it took to put wrongdoers behind bars. He is pictured in 1991 with a birthday cake featuring a likeness of the .357 Magnum he seized after arresting Neddy Smith three years earlier
Davidson would later say his men had ‘the adrenalin running out of their ears’ as they waited for the arrests to go down.
About 7.30am, Harris pulled up in Coward Street in a Ford Econovan with Smith and Flack in the back. Harris then left on foot and returned half an hour later in a Ford Falcon station wagon which he parked across the road behind a bank.
Smith and Flack could not see out of the van and were communicating by walkie-talkie radio with Harris, who was acting as their ‘cockatoo’ and had to be taken out before his accomplices.
When the payroll arrived, a fresh complication arose. Council staff eager to pick up their wages had begun appearing on the footpath and had to be ushered inside.
Once those employees were out of harm’s way, a prearranged signal was given and detectives Ray Lambie and Craig McDonald from the Armed Hold-Up Squad moved on Harris.
The getaway driver was sitting on a loaded .38 police-issue Smith & Wesson it was later revealed had been stolen from a cop’s house in November 1985 but caused little trouble.
In the station wagon police found a black balaclava, baseball cap, walkie-talkie and a kit bag containing a mouth guard – an unexpected item Lambie said Harris later explained.
‘When we were interviewing him he said, “Look, I know I had a gun but I would never have pulled you blokes on – I would have just put my mouth guard in and duked it out”,’ Lambie recalled.
‘He was not a massive bloke, so far as height was concerned, but he was so built that we couldn’t put his arms together at the back to handcuff him.’
McDonald had been amused by Harris’s take on what might have happened if he tried to fight his way out.
‘I told him, “It’s no good trying to punch on when I’ve got a Remington 870 shotgun in my hands”,’ McDonald said.
When Harris was secured, Davidson and the rest of the SWOS team came out of the council chambers to take down Flack and Smith in the van.
‘I ran out with a shotgun and said, “Police! Come out with your hands up”,’ Davidson later told a court.
Smith gave his own self-serving version of what happened in his book Neddy, starting with the armoured truck pulling up to the kerb.
‘The guards got out and started to get the tins,’ he wrote.
‘Just as I was about to pull the door open and take the money from the two guards – it would have been over in seconds – a voice called out: “You, in the back of the van. It’s the police here. Put down your weapons and come out of the van with your hands raised above your heads”.’
Smith said he paused for a second, stunned his plot had come undone, as a cop said: ‘Come out or we will commence firing into the van.’
‘It was the worst feeling I had ever had, like getting caught with your trousers down, so to speak,’ Smith wrote. ‘It wasn’t fear I felt, but disgust at being caught. Trying to escape was useless.’
Council staff watched from the windows – one even took photographs – as Smith slid open the van’s side door before he and Flack put their hands above their heads and stepped out.
‘Guns were pushed up against our heads,’ Smith wrote in Neddy. ‘One cop was nearly frothing at the mouth, he pressed his pump-action shogun up against my neck so hard. He was really uptight.’
Smith said that cop warned him, ‘You weak c***, why don’t you have a go so I can kill you?’ before he and Flack were thrown on the ground and their hands cuffed behind their backs.
‘A shotgun was again pressed against my neck and my hands pulled up as far as they would stretch,’ Smith wrote.
‘Then one low a***hole started to kick me in the face. He was screaming at me all the time: “You f***ing maggot, now I’ve got you. It’s taken me 10 years, now I’ve got you.’
Smith didn’t name that detective but he was referring to Davidson.
‘The boss of the SWOS came over and stopped the crazy cop from kicking me in the face,’ Smith wrote.
‘Then the police started going silly, hugging each other, jumping up and down, slapping their hands together and yelling: “You f***ing beauty, we have got Neddy Smith”.’
Smith, Davidson later said, was ‘rattling around like a a battery toy on the footpath and it wasn’t just his Parkinson’s disease’.
Davidson would claim a council clerk was asked at the scene if he had witnessed any police misconduct during the arrests. According to Davidson, the clerk told him he had seen Smith ‘trying to bite a police officer’s shoe’.
When journalist Neil Mercer was researching his recently published book The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop, which traces the criss-crossing careers of Smith and Rogerson, he asked Davidson if Smith had been given a good kicking at Botany.
‘He might have got a boot in the head – I didn’t see it happen,’ Davidson told Mercer.
A court would hear Smith wanted to know of one of the arresting officers: ‘Why didn’t you shoot me? I’d be better off dead.’ The officer allegedly answered: ‘Well, if you hadn’t dropped the gun, we may have.’
Years later, solicitor Chris Murphy – who despised Smith perhaps even more than Davidson – quoted the detective as having said that pinching Smith was ‘the best day of my life’.
In the van, police found two black balaclavas, a walkie-talkie and carry bag, as well as a sawn-off 12-gauge shotgun and a loaded Ruger Blackhawk .357 Magnum.
It was this stainless steel-barreled, wooden gripped, six-shot revolver which Davidson later checked into the SWOS armoury then signed out to use as his personal sidearm.
Smith faced further indignity back at the Sydney Police Centre in Surry Hills where he was photographed wearing only a T-shirt and boxer shorts.
‘I took his freedom, his gun and then pulled his pants down and took a mugshot in his undies to humiliate him,’ Davidson told his son Mark, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Smith wrote in Neddy: ‘The police centre was like a zoo – and I was the only animal attracting visitors.’
‘The only difference between me and real animals was I didn’t get any peanuts for my performance. The police were continually photographing me.
‘One fool of a policeman tried to get me to pose for photo with him. He stood beside me, then went to put his arm on my shoulder. “F*** off fool, I’m not a f***ing trophy”.’
Smith’s solicitor Val Bellamy arrived at the police station but had almost nothing to do. ‘I knew I didn’t need him, I was finally at the end of my road,’ Smith wrote. ‘There was no way I could get this blue fixed up, no way at all.’
Smith pleaded guilty in September 1989 to conspiring to commit armed robbery and was sentenced to 13 years in jail with a minimum eight years. He also admitted possessing the .357 and sawn-off shotgun.
At the sentencing hearing Davidson had described Smith as ‘by reputation one of the most violent and feared criminals in the state’.
Flack had pleaded guilty a month earlier to his role in the bungled stick-up and got 12 years with a non-parole period of seven.
Smith would spend the rest of his life in prison. He was found guilty in February 1990 of Flavell’s murder and sentenced to life then refused to give evidence against Flack, who the Crown alleged inflicted the fatal wound.
The case against Flack fell apart and he walked on the murder charge. Flack has largely stayed out of the limelight in recent decades and has always tried to avoid publicity but has told associates the firearm Davidson took was his and not Smith’s.
Lambie had not previously heard that claim and said physical descriptions of a gunman wielding a similar weapon in previous robberies matched 195cm (6’5″) tall Smith rather than the much smaller Flack.
‘The issue with the silver pistol was that it turned up in a number of robberies,’ he said. ‘That was the signature for Smith as far as I was aware.’
Retired armed robber Graham ‘Abo’ Henry, who ran with Smith through much of the 1980s and was no friend of Flack’s, said he had not seen his onetime confederate carry such a fearsome handgun.
‘On most occasions if I ever did anything with him all he had him was usually a police .38,’ Henry said of Smith.
‘I’ve never ever seen him with a f***in’ Magnum, ever. I had one but he f***in’ didn’t. I had a big silver c***. That could have been mine for all I know.’
Whoever previously owned the revolver, its new custodian wore the weapon – far more powerful than a standard police .38 – tucked into the back of his belt.
Lambie insisted Davidson had approval from his superiors to carry the imposing hand cannon while he was at work.
‘I remember seeing the report he put in to take possession of it as his own personal weapon for protection purposes because he’d been threatened by organised criminals,’ he said.
Davidson would go on to command Task Force Magnum which was formed in 1991 to investigate a spate of hits on armoured vans and other armed robberies.
He was quizzed about the .357 while giving evidence at a murder trial in July 1995, a year after retiring with a stress-related illness, having spent a quarter of a century on the force.
Davidson said the revolver had been used in several robberies before the Botany Council payroll attempt and he had carried it for almost two years.
‘I wanted to show Neddy Smith he couldn’t beat me, couldn’t buy me, and when it was all over I took his gun,’ he said. ‘I hated and despised the man and it was the final thrust, if you like, of pulling him off his throne.’
Attempts were made during the trial to challenge Davidson’s credibility and portray him as something of a cowboy.
He agreed with Greg Woods QC, representing one of two men charged with murder, that he had fired two shots from the .357 into the air while arresting drug dealer Danny Landini.
Davidson denied such actions were irresponsible. ‘It got his attention,’ he said.
Dr Woods: ‘Burwood is fairly densely populated?’
Davidson: ‘Not in the sky it’s not.’
Davidson also told Clive Steirn, a former fraud squad detective turned barrister representing the other accused killer, he had never admitted giving perjured evidence.
Steirn: ‘You have admitted to being a mug lair.’
Davidson: ‘I’ve been called that’.
Stroking his trim white beard, Davidson added, ‘I’ve also been called the Kentucky Fried Colonel.’
Davidson might have left the police force – he spent much of his time pursuing his passion for fishing on the NSW north coast – but he continued to make headlines.
In 1996, a serial conman and fantasist named Danny Shakespeare (or Page, or Baxter, or McPherson) made wild allegations against him at the coronial inquest into the May 1985 disappearance of hit-man Chris Flannery.
Shakespeare ludicrously claimed he had seen Davidson shoot Flannery dead with a .38 revolver at Geelong racetrack six months after his last known sighting. After spouting this nonsense, Shakespeare got into his lawyer’s BMW and drove off.
Davidson attended Smith’s 1998 trial for the July 1983 murder of brothel keeper Harvey Jones, not as a witness but as interested observer.
Smith had told a cell-mate at Long Bay’s Special Purpose Centre of Jones’s last moments ‘I blew his heart out with a big .357’ – five years before the Botany attempted robbery.
Wearing a leather jacket with snake heads stitched on either side of his chest and one below the back collar, he offered to buy Smith’s wife Debra a cup of coffee from a stall run by volunteers at the Darlinghurst courthouse. She told him to ‘p*** off’.
Forensic analysis of two bullets picked out of Jones’s ribs when his remains were dug out of a beach at Botany in March 1995 had determined they could have been either .357s or .38s.
For what it’s worth, Henry – who detested Smith at least as much as Davidson by the time they parted ways – has long maintained of his erstwhile collaborator: ‘He never shot any c***.’
Smith was convicted of Jones’s murder and died in September 2021 at Long Bay jail aged 76, having been cleared of six other underworld killings.
Rogerson died in Prince of Wales Hospital at Randwick on January 21 last year aged 83, while serving a life sentence for the May 2014 murder of drug dealer Jamie Gao.
Following the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service (1995-1997) Davidson was charged with several criminal offences.
He was accused with three other cops of having fabricated evidence and faking the confession of a cabaret singer arrested over a 1991 robbery.
Davidson told this reporter the tension waiting for the jury’s verdicts was better than backing horses.
Upon his acquittal and that of his former colleagues in April 2002, Davidson attacked what he called ‘the complaint industry that has blown up over the last decade’.
In March the next year he and four others were cleared of assaulting and fabricating evidence against an offender known as the Kareela Cat Burglar who had been arrested in June 1984.
All five officers had originally been commended for their roles in convicting the thief, whose criminal record included the sexual assault of a five-day-old boy in a Melbourne hospital.
Chris Murphy, who often sparred with Davidson when he was in the witness stand, summed up his old adversary in a Sun-Herald column published in March 1995:
‘The unorthodox detective in the conveniently blood-red shoes thought he was doing God’s work for him. Even when God forgot.
‘When he couldn’t get a signed confession out of a tough guy, he usually had verbal admissions by the time he got his quarry to court. Not that they always stuck.
‘Among the pure and the putrid in the police, Davidson’s methods brought him a varied reputation but nobody denies him his hour of glory.’
Giving Davidson a slight promotion in rank, Murphy concluded: ‘While others held the gate open for murderer Neddy Smith to rampage through the 1980s, Chief Inspector Davidson had his teeth at his tail.’
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Class 152 were Sworn In on Monday 27 September 1976
17348 LARRY RAYMOND HILL M 17349 PAUL STEWART PARMENTER @ BOMBA M 17350 MICHAEL KENNETH ROBINSON M 17351 PETER FRANCIS MOSS M 17352 JOHN FRANCIS PURCELL M 17353 GEORGE MAXWELL SHIPWAY M 17354 C.L. JENKINS F 17355 GARRY ALWYN DOBSON M 17356 G.B. PARKER M 17357 COLIN MICHAEL KELSON / COL / PUSSA M 17358 M.B. THOMPSON M 17359 P.L. MAYGER M 17360 JULIE E. ESTELLE HERON / JULIE HERON F 17361 D.J. ISEMONGER M 17362 G.F. WARD M 17363 WARREN J GEANEY M 17364 I.R. BERRY M 17365 G.S. REICHART M 17366 T.A. BOON M 17367 C.J. BRAID M 17368 A.J. HETHERINGTON M 17369 WILLIAM K. HARVEY @ BILL HARVEY M 17370 B.W. EMMS M 17371 W.A. AITKEN / JOCK AITKEN M 17372 J.F. McGROGAN M 17373 G.L. BOOTH M 17374 W.J. MAGANN M 17375 M.J. SLADDEN M 17376 G.E. RICHARDSON M 17377 P.R. CAMPBELL M 17378 T.J. REJNOWICZ M 17379 J.M. EGAN M 17380 T.O. HARVEY M 17381 G.A. HOOK M 17382 C.J. HILLSLEY M 17383 J.S. TRITTON M 17384 K.J. POWER M 17385 R.T. BEATON M 17386 JEANIE B. RILEY F 17387 I.J. SKEWES M 17388 S.M. WILKINSON M 17389 GEORGE A. SAWYER M 17390 J.R. WITCOMBE M 17391 M.A. HERNANDEX M 17392 A.J. HILLIER M 17393 D R SMITH M 17394 MARK JOSEPH KOHUTEK M 17395 GARRY COLIN JAMES KEIR M 17396 DAVID CHARLES UPSTON M 17397 ROBERT JAMES ERSKINE M 17398 STEPHEN NORMAN ARCHER M 17399 MICHAEL ALEXANDER COWNIE @ MICK M 17400 IVER SANDRO PEDERSEN M
Prior to joining the NSWPF, Tony worked at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney.
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From Ron Garbutt: Inspector John “Trooper” Trent is a relation to the family on my wife, Helen’s side, and we were very sad to lose him. Even at 92. He was, as I always saw him, a “Bonza Bloke.” We spent part of our honeymoon at John and Nora’s, visiting when John was stationed at Candelo Police Station. The Police Station had its own Court Room and lock-up cells. Quite self-contained and was the residency as well. I have attached two photos. One is of John and Nora’s wedding with junior bridesmaids, right front, Helen Smith (my future wife), and her sister Marie, left front. The other photo is of John and I sitting in the backyard of the Police Station at Candelo, 57 years ago, chatting with John’s daughter Juanita. REST IN PEACE… INSPECTOR JOHN ‘TROOPER’ TRENT.
John Trent and Ron GARBUTT with John’s daughter Juanita.In the backyard of Candelo Police Station – 1967.John is in Police uniform and polishing a pair of shoes.
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Back Row ( L – R ) P.C. Cst 1/c WARFIELD, P.C. SenCon GUYATT, Det Sgt 3/c TRACEY, Det Sgt 3/c SQUIRES, Det SenCon SCOTT, Det SenCon MOORE, Det SenCon FLANNERY, Det Sgt 1/c LAMOND
Centre Row Cst 1/c WILSON P.C. SenCon HOGUE, Det SenCon HODGSON, Det SenCon DALEY, Det Insp SHEATHER, Det SenCon MOONEY, Det Sgt 3/c NEWHAM, Det SenCon DOYLE, Det SenCon CLARK.
Front Row: Det SenCon INKSTER, Det Sgt MURRAY, P.C. SenCst Maurice John DOUGHAN # 13469, Policewoman SenCon BUCKLEE, P.C. SenCst PHILP, Det Sgt 3/c McDONALD, Det SenCon VINCENT.
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Peter Alfred MYERS
23/01/2025
Peter Alfred MYERS
AKA Peter MYERS
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Late of Old Bar. Formerly of Mereweather and Williamtown, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’: None
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: None
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 078 ?
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 9356
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 20 April 1959 ( aged 25 years, 9 months, 3 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 1 June 1959 ( aged 25 years, 10 months, 15 days )
Constable – appointed 1 June 1960
Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Final Rank: = Constable
Appears in the 1969 ‘Stud Book’ but not the 1975 issue
Stations: North East District ( Cst )( 1969 ), ?, Newcastle STP ( 1960s ), ?
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 20 April 1959 to ? ? 1970 = 11 years,
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 20 April 1959 to? ? 1970 = 11 years, ? months, ? days Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 37 years, ? months, ? days
Time in Retirement from Police: ?
Awards: No Find on the Australian Honours system – However
Royal Humane Society Bravery Award – granted 6 March 1960.
( Probationary Constable Peter Alfred MYERS was awarded a Certificate of Merit for actions involving a drowning rescue at Newcastle Nobby’s Beach on the 6 March 1960.
Born: Monday 17 July 1933
Died on: Friday 6 December 2024 during the a.m.
Age: 91 years, 4 months, 19 days
Organ Donor: No – Age restrictive
Cause: Natural causes
Event location: Calvery St Francis, Residential Age Care, Eleebana, NSW
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Cal
18 December 2024
Updated 18 December 2024 with photos.
Peter Charles BURGESS
23/01/2025
Peter Charles BURGESS
AKA Peter BURGESS
* Nickname: Burgo
Late of Whale Beach, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’: William Bernard KNIGHT, NSWPF # 8783 or 10488 ( R.I.P. ) Brother-in-law
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 093
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 10442
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday ? August / September 1962 ( aged 24 years, ? month, ? days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Monday 29 October 1962 ( aged 24 years, 5 months, 9 days )
Constable – appointed ? ? ?
Constable 1st Class – appointed 29 October 1967
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( YES )
Senior Constable – appointed 29 October 1971
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 December 1978
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 31 March 1985
Final Rank: = Sergeant 2nd Class
Stations:
Lidcombe, Burwood ( 9 Division )( Detective )( 1980s ), ?, Ashfield ( 11 Division )( Detective )( 1975 ), ?, Brooklyn ( TRG )( 1990s ), ?, Mudgee ( O.I.C. )( last ten years of Service ) – Retirement
In 2010, after Retirement, Pete was working part time for Corrective Services Court Security in Downing Centre.
Also owned a Motel in the Mudgee, NSW, area and was a plumber.
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: ? August / September 1962 to 2 July 1993 = 30 years,
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From ? ? ? to 2 July 1993 = ? years, Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 55 years, 1 month, 12 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 31 years, 4 months, 14 days
Awards: National Medal – granted 6 November 1980 ( Det Sgt 3/c )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 17 March 1989 ( Det Sgt )
Born: Friday 20 May 1938
Died on: Thursday 14 November 2024
Age: 86 years, 5 months, 25 days
Organ Donor: No – age prohibitive
Cause: Kidney disease
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Thursday 28 November 2024 @ 10am
Funeral location: Ann Wilson Funerals, Cnr Berrenjoey Rd & Darley St, Mona Vale, NSW
The Northern Beaches PAC provided an Official Police Guard of Honour
Wake location: ???
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: Ann Wilson Funerals, cnr Barrenjoey Rd & Darley St, Mona Vale, NSW
Buried at: Cremated. Ashes to be scattered.
Grave Location: Section: Row: ?Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( December 2024 )
PETE 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.
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
Relations in ‘the job’: Son to Jan DENING nee MAGRIN – NSWPF # 8844499 – GSO at Broken Hill ( c1995 )
Step-son to Bob DENING, NSWPF # 14933 of Broken Hill ( c1995 )
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: ?
NSW Goulburn Police Academy – Class # 259E
This Class Attested at the Sydney Opera House
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 29590
Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Sunday 21 August 1994 ( aged 18 years, 10 months, 19 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Friday 17 February 1995 ( aged 19 years, 4 months, 15 days
Constable – appointed 8 December 1996
Constable 1st Class – appointed ( N/A )
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Senior Constable – appointed 19 December 2002
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )
Final Rank: = Senior Constable
Stations: Bankstown ( 19 Division )( GDs )( ProCst )( 16 Feb 1995- 20 May 1995 ), Liverpool GDs ( ProCst )( 22 Division )( 21 May 1995 – 6 April 1996 ), Barrier Region – Dareton ( GDs )( 7 April 1996 – 30 June 1997 ), Southern Region – Deniliquin – Dareton ( 1 July 1997 – 15 April 2000 ), Far South Coast – Moruya ( 16 April 2000 – 17 August 2002 ), Batemans Bay ( GDs )( 18 August 2002 – 15 Feb 2003 ), Far South Coast – ( TAG )( Target Action Group )( 16 Feb 2003 – 24 Feb 2007 ), South Region – Bermagui ( GDs )( 25 Feb 2007 – 15 Oct 2011 ), Lismore ( GDs)( Team 1 )( Richmond Police District )( 16 Oct 2011 – 10 Dec 2020 ) – Resignation
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 21 August 1994 to 11 December 2020 ( Resigned ) = 26 years, 3 months, 20 days
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 21 August 1994to11 December 2020 ( Resigned ) = 26 years, 3 months, 20 days Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = 45 years, 2 months, 9 days
Time in Retirement from Police: 3 years, 11 months, 3 days
Awards: No Find on the Australian Honours system – however
Commander’s Commendation – Officer has been Commended for his Discipline, Professionalism & Bravery displayed in a dangerous situation – granted 30 January 2000
Complimentary Remark – Officer recognised for being able to recognise an offender from just a description – granted 2 July 2002
Commander’s Commendation – In recognition of Professionalism, efficient response and rapid deployment to the murder scene of David McKEEVER – granted 12 May 2005
NSW Police Medal – granted 30 November 2005
Complimentary Remark: thank you letter from the Pearce family concerning the assistance given by a group of officers in relation to an out of control party at Surf Beach – recorded 20 January 2006
Commander’s Commendation: Professionalism and courage in the successful rescue of a male person in danger of drowning in rough seas at Bermagui on 16 February 2010
Acknowledgement of Good Police work – recorded 20 February 2010
1st Clasp to NSW Police Medal – granted 28 July 2011
National Medal – granted 15 August 2011
Unit Citation 2014 – Richmond OSG Unit Citation granted 29 October 2014
National Police Service Medal – granted 12 April 2016
2nd Clasp to NSW Police Medal – granted 14 April 2016
COP Customers Service Excellence Award – Letter to SenCon Magrin relation to 100% score achieved in 2015 – 2016 – Mystery Shopper series. Presented to SenCon Magrin by Insp Johnston – 3 June 2016
Premier’s Bushfire Citation – granted 4 May 2021
3rd Clasp to NSW Police Medal – granted 27 July 2021
Australian Citizen Dies in Motorcycle Accident on Marine Drive
Sahidul Islam, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar
Publish: Thursday, November 14, 2024 07:50 PM
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Ukhiya (Cox’s Baza) NOV 14, V7N- An Australian national has died in a motorcycle accident on the Marine Drive road in Teknaf, near the Belli Hatchery area in Cox’s Bazar.
The deceased has been identified as Magrin, Daniel Paul (49). The information was confirmed by Officer-in-Charge (OC) Arif Hossain of Ukhiya Police Station. ( Bangladesh )
According to local sources, the accident occurred on Thursday, November 14, around 4:30 PM at a location called Madhya Nidanir, near the Belli Hatchery on the Marine Drive road adjacent to Inani, Ukhiya. Magrin, Daniel Paul died at the scene of the motorcycle crash.
Upon receiving the news, the Inani police station team arrived at the scene, recovered the body, and prepared a preliminary report. The body is now being sent to Cox’s Bazar General Hospital for further examination.
Australian tourist killed in road accident on Cox’s Bazar Marine Drive
An Australian tourist was killed in a road accident on the Marine Drive of Cox’s Bazar last evening.
Magrin Daniel Paul, 49, a resident of Sydney, Australia, came to Cox’s Bazar four days ago, said Arif Hossain officer-in-charge (OC) of Ukhiya Police Station.
The accident occurred when the Australian citizen lost control over his rented bike and hit a roadside tree at Sonarpara area on the Marine Drive in Ukhiya upazila, he added.
He died on the spot, the OC said, adding that the Australian Embassy in Dhaka was informed about his death.
He was returning possibly from Inani beach, he added.
His body was sent to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital. He was staying at the Modern Resort in Kolatoli.
Dramatic rescue: man found dangling from cliff face
A 60-year-old Byron Bay local was sighted with one foot on a rock ledge, holding on to grass.
By Amber.gibson
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February 2, 2019 – 12:58PM
A LOCAL 60-year-old Byron Bay man was rescued from a cliff face after being swept onto the rocks by a wave whilst riding a surf ski this morning.
Tweed Byron Police District Sergeant Daniel Magrin who was the officer on scene said the police were notified at 9am that a man had been sighted hanging from the cliff face between The Pass and Wategos beach.
After being washed to the shore on his surf ski, the man attempted to climb up the cliff face to reach the path above but got stuck about 50ft above the waters edge trying to hold on to grass with one foot on a rock ledge.
NSW Police, Ambulance and Fire and Rescue services attended alongside NSW Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) who sent volunteers from the vertical rescue service to winch the man from the cliff down to the ground.
While waiting for the VRA crew to arrive, Fire and Rescue crew threw a rope and a safety lanyard down to secure the man from falling.
Apart from minor abrasions the man was uninjured.
“I would just like to thank everyone involved in the rescue, for the great team effort among services, it came to a great conclusion,” Sergeant Magrin said.
AN 18-year-old Lismore man has been refused bail and been remanded in custody after allegedly assaulting security, a bystander, and police.
By Mjohnston
less than 2 min read
April 28, 2014 – 5:41AM
AN 18-year-old Lismore man has been refused bail and been remanded in custody after allegedly refusing to leave a licensed premise in Lismore, then head butting an elderly man, before assaulting police as they arrested him.
Just before 11pm on Saturday night a young man was refused entry to a licenced premises in Lismore, Senior Constable Dan Magrin of RichmondLocal Area Command said.
This man then became aggressive towards staff and security and refused to leave an area.
He allegedly assaulted a security guard before walking across the road to a 65-year-old bystander who was not involved in the incident, police said.
The 18-year-old man then allegedly head butted the elderly man in the face, causing the victim to fall backwards and hit his head on the pavement.
The elderly man suffered a suspected broken nose and lacerations to the back of the head. He was taken to Lismore Base Hospital.
The man was then detained by security officers until police arrived. Police said they found the man still struggling.
Once police officer restrained and handcuffed him. Police say they then placed the man in the back of the police car, where they removed the handcuffs.
The 18-year-old then allegedly punched a police officer in the jaw.
The man was taken to Lismore Police Station, where he was charged with offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, assaulting police, resisting police, and failure to leave licensed premises.
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
A woman has died following a crash in the Port Stephens area earlier this month.
Just after 4.20pm on Friday 4 October 2024, emergency services were called to Nelson Bay Road, Fullerton Cove, following reports of a crash.
Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were told a female motorcycle rider had been ejected from her bike.
The 55-year-old woman was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics for head injuries before being taken to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition.
A crime scene was established and officers from Crash Investigation Unit commenced an investigation into the incident.
Police were told a utility had been travelling in front of the motorcycle.
Following initial inquiries, police attended an address in Chisholm and spoke to the 55-year-old male driver of the ute. He was taken to Maitland Hospital for mandatory testing.
Yesterday (Friday 18 October 2024), police were notified the woman had died in hospital.
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.
As inquiries continue, anyone with information or dash cam footage about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Anyone with information that may assist investigators is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.
Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.
