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85 YEARS AND BEYOND
85 YEARS AND BEYOND
Ipswich Detectives and Support Staff Celebrate
By Ken Martin, Crime Stoppers Chairperson
They came from far and wide. Some hadn’t seen each other for
30 years, and though age had taken its toll, recognition brought
instant smiles as hands were shaken and old memories relived.
It was a case of the new breed and
the old brigade coming together for
a wonderful day as 130 current and
former Ipswich detectives and support
staff celebrated 85 years of service to
the community.
The venue was the Ipswich Turf Club
at Bundamba and it had been suitably
decorated with photographs and
memorabilia both past and present,
while a DVD also covering the old and
the new was played onto two large
screens.
Guest speakers were retired Assistant
Commissioner Terry McMahon QPM,
Mayor of Ipswich Paul Pisasale,
Assistant Commissioner Paul Wilson
APM, and Commissioner Bob Atkinson
APM. Acting Superintendent Lew
Strohfeldt was MC for the day.
Mr McMahon gave an overview of CIB
operational activities in bygone years
and related to events when he was the
Detective Senior Sergeant in charge of
the Ipswich CIB and JAB.
He commented that in those days,
DNA were simply three letters of the
alphabet, and that mobile phones and
computers were still in embryonic
stages. The insight he provided into
policing in the past was well received.
Assistant Commissioner Paul Wilson
spoke on the many feats achieved by
members of the Ipswich community
and acknowledged the excellent work
Current Ipswich CIB staff with the plaque presented to Ipswich CIB by Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale.
“One hundred and thirty current and former
Ipswich detectives and support staff celebrated
85 years of service to the community.”
undertaken both in the past and by the
current detectives and support staff.
Mayor Paul Pisasale thanked the
assembly on behalf of the community
of Ipswich for their contribution in
making Ipswich one of the safest
communities in Queensland. He
presented Detective Sergeant Gary
Dixon, Officer in Charge of the Ipswich
CIB, with a plaque on behalf of the
Ipswich City Council.
Commissioner Atkinson acknowledged
and thanked both past and present
staff for their contribution to policing,
and stated that the Ipswich CIB had
created a culture of excellent team
work and reliability over many years,
resulting in the development of fine
detectives.
The Commissioner presented the first
female detective in Ipswich, Noylene
Milne, with her Queensland Police
Service Medal. Noylene had spent six
years in the Ipswich CIB, which she
described as ‘a wonderful six years’.
And call it fate or call it coincidence:
the celebration luncheon was held
on 2 August, and due recognition
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Queensland Police Union Journal August 2012