June edition - The Police Association Victoria

wALL TO wALL
Ride for Remembrance
Takes to the highways to remember fallen colleagues
ABOVE: Last year’s ride through Canberra.
Police from across
Australia will ride to
Canberra in September
for the second annual
Wall to Wall Ride for
Remembrance. The
ride honours the 750
Australian police who
have lost their lives in the
line of duty and promotes
motorcycle road safety.
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The Wall to Wall Ride for
Remembrance will take place in
Canberra on Saturday, September
17. Riders from around the
country will converge on the
national capital and ride to the National
Police Memorial for a service to remember
our colleagues who are no longer with us.
Proceeds from the ride will go to Police
Legacies around Australia.
Police from the Northern Territory and West
Australia are going to take a week to ride
to Canberra. Tasmania’s riders will come
to Melbourne on the ferry and join their
Victorian colleagues for the two-day ride
to Canberra. The South Australian ride will
leave their wall of remembrance mid-week.
Last year Commissioners from NSW,
NT, Tasmania and the afP rode from
Sydney to Canberra. wa’s Commissioner
O’Callaghan led a ride from Perth. This year
the Commissioners from the Territory,
wa and Tasmania will lead their state’s
rides from their local memorials all the
way to Canberra.
There were around 800 riders in last
year’s inaugural Wall to Wall Ride for
Remembrance in Canberra, 100 of those
from Victoria. This year that number is
expected to increase to more than 1000.
Ride organiser, Association President Brian
Rix, expects many more riders to take part
in the Victorian ride this year.
"The ride is a tangible way of helping police
families across Australia, telling them that
they are not forgotten and will always
be a part of the police family," says Brian.
To promote the Wall to Wall Ride for
Remembrance, Brian Rix will ride a
motorcycle around Australia in July,
delivering hand crafted wooden batons
to the Commissioners in each state and
territory. These batons will be delivered