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PoliceNewsThe Voice of PoliceWhy your Revocable NominationForm should be up to dateIn the event of your death, whom would you like your life insurance paid to?This is the question that haunts Police Welfare Fund Insurances for all those memberswho have not provided us with a Revocable Nomination Form.If you or your partner/spouse have any of the following:Sworn Group LifeNon-Sworn Group LifeLife Insurance ExtraThen you need to make sure that Police Welfare Insurances holds a current RevocableNomination Form for each policy.What is a Revocable Nomination Form?A Revocable Nomination Form allows you to decide who will be the beneficiary ofyour life insurance payout in the event of your death. If you have a New ZealandPolice Sworn Group Life policy, it also asks you to provide the details of your spouse/partner whose life will also be insured under the Spouse Death Benefit.Why should you complete a Revocable Nomination Form?This form is held independently from your will and estate. The policy owner (PoliceWelfare Fund Insurances Limited) will pay the benefit to whomever you specify onthe form, instead of your estate.If we do not hold a form, any benefit under the Policy will be paid to your estate.In the absence of a will at the time of death (if you die intestate), it can take sometime to finalise estate issues. In this event, Police Welfare Fund Insurances Limitedwill not be able to assist with any initial death benefit payments to your survivingspouse/partner.Not sure if you have completed a form?Easy. Call our our Member Service Centre on 0800 500 122 and speak with oneof our representatives who can check if we hold a completed form for you, oralternatively you can go to the Members Only website on www.policeassn.org.nzwith your membership number and password and you will be able to view whetherwe hold a form for you.If you haven’t already filled one in and lodged it with us we are able to Email theforms to you upon request.Try our 5 minute quizOkay, morning or afternoon tea break hasarrived. You have your cuppa in hand and youand your colleagues could do with a quickbrain workout. So appoint your quizmaster andhave a go at these questions. The answersare under the quiz (upside down, no peeking!).1. How many Olympic gold medals didNew Zealand’s great middle distanceathlete Peter Snell win during hiscareer?2. Who was the actor who played thecharacter Jake The Muss in the NewZealand film “Once Were Warriors”?3. What Australian actor played thecharacter Mad Max in the Mad Maxfilms?4. What is the capital of Norway?5. He was born in 1642 – the year Galileodied. He became the greatest Englishmathematician of his time. Who washe?6. What is the closest planet to the sun?7. The well-known board game ChineseCheckers is a direct descendant ofanother game that was inventedin Victorian times. What is it? (A)Draughts. (B) Halma. (C) Ludo. (D) MahJong.8. One modern nation has Latin as it’sofficial language. Which nation is it?9. What does the prefix micro mean?10. The composer Mozart embarked ona major concert tour when he wasonly six years of age. In keepingwith the fashion of the time, whichof the following accessories did hewear while performing during thoseconcerts? (A) A kilt. (B) A sword(C) A wig (D) High-heeled shoes.Scoring: 0-2 – Hmmn, room for significantimprovement (perhaps next month). 3-5 Notbad, better luck next time. 6-7 – Good effort.8 – Very good. 9 – Excellent. 10 – Wipe yournose, take a bow and go to the top of theclass Einstein.• NZ Police Association President Greg O’Connor (left) was a guest of the InternationalAssociation of Police, United States Section, New York City recently. Pictured left toright are: Greg, IAOP President Jon Adler, Vice-President for Agency Affairs ChrisSchoppmeyer and NOAA AP Ernie Soper at the chapter meeting in Queens, New York.Answers: 1. Three. 2. Temuera Morrison.3. Mel Gibson. 4. Oslo. 5. Isaac Newton.6. Mercury. 7. Halma. 8. The VaticanCity, the smallest country in the world. 9.One millionth. 10. A sword.172August 2009
New Zealand Police AssociationObituary:Alfred Fairclough Edwardson 1916-2009 (Life Member)Police Association Life Member, AlfredFairclough Edwardson, will always beremembered as someone who stood forwhat he believed in, even if it meant goingagainst the grain.Never was this trait more evident thanwhen Mr Edwardson was championingfor the rights of Association members.Mr Edwardson served in the NZ Policefor 26 years and 3 months and in 1977received a Life Membership from theAssociation.Life Membership is only bestowed onmembers who have made significantcontributions to Police Associationmembers from a national perspective.Mr Edwardson’s time working with theAssociation was definitely testament tothis.During his early involvement he becamethe Auckland District Secretary in 1960.PresenceHe soon made his presence felt,encouraging the then secretary of theAssociation to talk to the Commissionerof Police about changing what heconsidered an outdated style of Victorianera policing. This discussion resulted inan internal inquiry, which was eventuallymade public.While holding this position, MrEdwardson also wrote numerous lettersto the Police Journal (now the Police News)championing the interests of members.One of the most memorable issues MrEdwardson brought to the table was a callfor coverage of management committeeminutes, despite this going against whatthe Annual Conference delegates hadpreviously agreed.After winning this battle, in 1976, MrEdwardson moved on to the next -assisting members, who as a result of adecision by Police National Headquarters,were in danger of being arrested if theywere deemed an overstayer under theImmigration Act.Most complaints received by MrEdwardson were against Policemanagement and he dubbed it OperationShambles. He identified the cause ofthe issue as a senior member of Policewanting to make a name for himself.His dislike for officers, learned from hisNavy days, never disappeared.Tireless workerMr Edwardson was a tireless worker onbehalf of fellow Association workers andthis was no more in evidence a year laterwhen he took on what was to be his mostsignificant battle. During the 1977 payround campaign he organised a meetingat the Mt Albert War Memorial Hall tosecure a 9.9% pay increase for members.Mr Edwardson was successful afteradopting his well-known “pull nopunches” demeanour, encouraging the800 police officers that attended to standas one against President Alan Monk andAssociation Secretary Bob Moodie.Work to rule threatHe achieved this by encouraging theofficers to threaten a work to rule andprovide negative public comment, whichwas aimed at deterring potential Policerecruits.Although the issues Mr Edwardson tackledwere often controversial, it never managedto stifle his drive to provide Associationmembers with fair and equal rights.Hamish Beckett, who seconded MrEdwardson’s Life Membership nominationdescribed him as a “very strong operator”in the area of welfare work for Associationmembers. Mr Edwardson was there whenmembers found themselves in trouble.This strong sense of pride in his workcould still be seen many years after he hadceased working for the Association.• The late Alfred Edwardson, Life Memberand Police Association stalwart.Great prideHe declined to attend the 75th AnnualConference, which honoured Life Members,after becoming confined to a wheelchair inhis later years. He was a man with greatpride.Aside from working for Police, MrEdwardson had also enjoyed a successfulcareer as a Royal Marine.In 1939 Alf saved a man from drowningwhile the Achilles was in the port of Aden.He received a Naval Board commendationfor courage.During this time, he served on HMSAchilles during the famed Battle of theRiver Plate.This South Atlantic battle was the firstmajor naval battle of World War 11 andinvolved ships from the Royal Navy’sSouth American Division taking on themight of the famous German warship theGraf Spee.Mr Edwardson is survived by his twodaughters, Patricia and Julie.– By Deb Stringer.Digital mirror cameras mooted for NYPD afterofficer shot dead in friendly fire incidentA cop-turned-lawmaker wants panoramiccameras placed in all New York PoliceDepartment police cars to investigateincidents like the recent friendly fire killingof Officer Omar Edwards, according to TheNew York Post.Edwards was shot while he was off-dutyand in street clothes. He was engaged in afoot pursuit of a drug addict who had brokeninto his car. Edwards had drawn his policeissue gun.When cops approached, Edwards failedto stop or drop the gun and turned towardOfficer Andrew Dunton, gun still in hand,according to Police reports.Dunton shot Edwards three times, killinghim. The circumstances are still underinvestigation.State Senator Eric Adams, a former policeofficer, is now advocating for the $2,500AV360's high-tech digital video and mirrorsystem, housed in the car's rear-view mirror,saying it would help take the NYPD "out ofthe eight-track age and into the iPod age."August 2009173
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