Wednesday, March 9, 2011

March 2011

Welcome
Sergeant Mel Edwards of Northern Territory Police and Karen Salisbury (retired sergeant formerly of Queensland Police Service) are co-coordinators and looking forward to keeping you up to date on the events in our region.
The news covered the many natural disasters that have occurred within our region in recent times. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the many people affected by this devastation.
Prince William has been to New Zealand and is currently in Queensland.
March 8 has been the centenary celebration of International Women's Day (IWD). We can only imagine how much courage it took for the women in 1911 to take steps to initiate IWD. How proud would they be to know that in 2011 IWD is celebrated in over 100 countries throughout the world. It is wonderful to see the amazing achievements being made by women and we need to support those in countries where they are still working towards equal opportunity.
We can all help to raise the profile of females within police organisations by nominating for the 2011 IAWP annual awards. The closing date is March 21 and can be found on this link: http://www.iawp.org/index.html
It would be really great to have recipients from our region this year.
Coincidently, the Australasian Council of Women and Policing (ACWAP) conference is being held in Hobart from August 21 - 24. It is pleasing to see many officers from our region received awards listed on the following link: http://www.acwap.com.au/awards/awards10.html
Something to look out for - 'AFP, the series' will be broadcast on the Nine Network in the near future. Two season in documentary format have been filmed depicting our Australian Federal Police on both a national and international level.
Take care.