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Russell Street Bombing 1986 by Pete Henry Arthur Troop Scholarship Report
2016 NSW IPA Tour of Italy & Sicily - Part 1 Regional News . . . and more!
International Police Association (Australian Section) Inc.
Police Down Under August 2016
Police Down Under August 2016
Contents
Featured Articles . . . National Executive Bureau ....................2
President’s Message .............................3
6
Editor’s Message ...................................4
HLM’s / Associate Secretaries ..............5
Russell Street Bombing
President’s Perpetual Trophy .................9
1986 by Pete Henry -
Dodd Memorial Award ........................10
Victoria Region
2016 AGM Registration Form ..............11
Article Writing Competition .................13
15
Photography Competition ...................14
New South Wales Region News ..........23
2016 IPA NSW Tour of
Queensland Region News ...................28
Italy & Sicily - Part 1
Spain 2015 by David Eugarde .............30
by Rob Sutton-Griffith
South Australia Region News ..............35
24 An Aussie Cop in the USA ...................37
Victoria Region News .........................42
Arthur Troop Scholarship An Indian Summer - Part III .................45
Report by Liz Berglund, Western Australia Region News ..........51
Forthcoming Events ...........................55
IPA Sweden - Stockholm
PoliceOne.com Article .........................58
Tribute by G. Simmons ........................61
Cover Shot: IPA NSW Group
Agrigento - Valley of the Temples IPA Office Bearers ...............................62
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National Executive Bureau
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OFFICE BEARERS
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from the President
National President: National Patron:
GREETINGS TO ALL MEMBERS Geoff Rodda AFP Commissioner
Andrew Colvin
APM, OAM
MEMBERSHIP CARDS of the two tour managers, stayed behind with
this member in the hospital and after he was
This year we experienced lengthy delays in
cleared, was faced with the problem of getting
receiving our 2016 IPA membership cards. We
the two of them to Montreal to re-join the
also manage the printing of the New Zealand
group.
Section, membership cards and send them
to their executive for distribution, so they too Through Michele’s role as Travel Secretary for
received their cards late. The reason behind USA/Canada, she had contacted a gentleman
this, was that International were considerably by the name of Bill Murrell from Ottawa IPA,
late in providing the 2016 card templates. The who is also the secretary for Region 6, Canada.
problem was compounded when our printing Prior to the group departing Australia, Bill
company had diffi culties with our database had organised a tour for this travel group of
when printing names onto the cards. These the Ottawa Police Department. Michele rang
issues have been discussed by the NEB and Bill for some advice on how to get from the
addressed and we are confi dent that our 2017 hospital to Montreal.
membership cards will arrive early.
Bill and his wife, most generously drove
Please keep your personal details up to from Ottawa, picked them up and drove
date to enable us to effi ciently deliver your them to Montreal, then returned to Ottawa. I
membership cards, Police Down Under understand this is a full day of driving.
magazines and maintain contact with you,
This is one of many stories I hear from IPA
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members who travel around the World and
forthcoming events. You can update your
experience the incredible good will and
details by either personally amending them
friendship our great organisation delivers.
on the database with your password, or by
Bill’s ‘Servo per Amikeco’ is a credit to himself
advising your Regional Treasurer.
and IPA Canada and demonstrates our true
IPA VALUES IPA spirit and values. In recognition of Bill’s
kindness and commitment to IPA and support
Recently, we ran a tour to Canada and the USA
for the Australian tour group I have sent a
where unfortunately, one of the tour members
formal letter of thanks to our IPA friends in
had an urgent medical episode and was rushed
Canada. His efforts were above and beyond
to hospital in Canada. Thankfully he was
the ‘call of duty’ but were willingly offered just
treated and discharged a short time later.
to help out in a time of need.
On the day of the event, the rest of the group
Servo per Amikeco
were checking out of the hotel in Ottawa and
heading off to Montreal. Michele Ledden, one Geoff Rodda - National President
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from the Editor
G’DAY IPAers & FRIENDS: National Editor:
Ray Newman
LEST WE FORGET!! Police Remembrance Day many QPS members we both knew while in the
falls on September 29th each year, the feast day ‘job’ – small world. Picture shows Judy, Barry and
of the Archangel Michael – the patron saint of I at the old Stonehenge Police Cells. Travelling in
police. Members and friends are asked to attend areas you are not familiar with it is a great idea to
a memorial service in their local area to remember stop at an “I” office. Judy at the Stonehenge office
your mates. If you are not sure where the Service was a wealth of information and support, with my
will be held contact your local Police or Region wife Ann joining her in a yoga session and walk at
Chairman. 6am next morning. On the way to the gulf country
and will be home as you are reading this edition.
My wife and I are still travelling in outback
Queensland, stopping at different Police Stations
and promoting IPA and PDU in general. At Eulo OIC
Andrew was relieving as Sergeant at Cunnamulla.
We had a good yarn with his wife who was looking
after the ‘shop’ as a typical bush coppers’ wife
does. Well then the rains came, which was a
welcome sight for the locals after 4 years of ‘very
little’ rain if any at all.
We were held up in Yowah (opal fields) with the
red soil turning into a bog. Stuck for 3 days in our
‘whiz banger’, which happens if you don’t have a
4WD, we didn’t. On the road again but stopped by
the flooded Bullo Creek 20kms north of Toompine. Don’t forget the Bill Weaving Memorial Award
I attempted to walk across but it was running a Photographic and Article Writing Competitions
little too fast for my liking. After a few hours we close soon. All members are invited to enter these
followed in the wake of a 4WD going our way and competitions.
got through. Stopped at Stonehenge for a couple
Until next time (now at Burketown) stay safe and be
of days and met up with former QPS member and
well.
now Senator Barry O’Sullivan who was on the
campaign trail for the July elections. Surprising how Ray Newman - National Editor
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Russell Street Bombing 1986
A Personal Perspective by Pete Henry - Victoria Region
Russell Street Melbourne will always how to blow up a car with six sticks of
be remembered as the location for the explosives, two front, two rear and two in
headquarters of the Victoria Police, for the middle. From a safe distance of half a
many years. Adjacent buildings included the kilometre away we watched the disintegration
Magistrates Court, City Watch House, Police of the vehicle and the return to earth of its
Garage and Old Melbourne Goal. many parts over a wide area. We would
normally only associate this with something
in the Middle East. That somebody would
do this in the CBD was something almost
incomprehensible.
Thankfully the Ambulance headquarters were
only around the corner and ambulances
officers were quickly on the scene attending
somebody assisted by police members pouring
out of adjacent buildings. I returned inside,
grabbed a camera and took a number of
photographs. (See footnote)
The car was still burning and fire was spreading
to a second vehicle parked behind it. A high
ranking officer took charge and was faced with
the decision, contain the scene or put the fire
Easter was early in 1986 and Thursday the 27th
out before the second car was destroyed and
was the day before Good Friday. At 1pm a car
what if the second car contained explosives
bomb explosion in Russell Street outside Police
also.
Headquarters.
The scene was highly inflammable and a
At this time I was in an office on the first floor
number of minor explosions followed as
of the old Police Garage. As a result of the
unexploded detonators etc rolled back into the
explosion all of the windows facing the street
fire. Senior Constable Dennis Tipping a Bomb
disintegrated showering us with broken glass
Technician from the SOG donned a bomb suit
and debris. Thankfully I was in an adjacent
and took a fire hose to put the fire out. The
room some 40 feet from my desk which was
force of a subsequent explosion blew him off
against the window. My office chair was
his feet and on to his back. He got up, which
destroyed by a large sheet of falling glass.
was not easy in a bomb suit, grabbed the hose
Had I been at my desk I would have been badly
and returned to fight the fire.
injured or worse.
The explosion was accompanied by a power
failure, loss of lighting and a very loud alarm
on the nearby SOG ammunition store which
obviously had a battery back up. We first
believed that the petrol bowser in the garage
had exploded. The lack of fire still caused us
to evacuate the building. The source of the
explosion was a car bomb, the remains of
which were less than 30 metres away.
The scene immediately reminded me of
attending an Army base during our Sergeants
Course. The Army Engineers demonstrated
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of the stolen 1980 Holden commodore sedan.
Left over detonators tools, nuts bolts and
other equipment were placed on top of the
explosives in the boot to create shrapnel. 150
unexploded detonators were later recovered at
the bomb site as they had been thrown out by
the force of the explosion.
Why did the bombing occur? The simple
answer is hatred of the police by a group of
criminals. Having been taken into the then CIB
Armed Robbery Squad offices at Headquarters
Personally I think he should have got a medal.
on many occasions, “to assist with enquiries”,
Instead all he got was criticized for disturbing
they talked about driving a car into the
the scene. To add insult to injury the media
courtyard at Russell Street and killing as many
praised the brave fireman. Dennis is now an
“jacks” as possible. Such was their hatred
IPA member.
that the talk turned to action. The explosives
Then followed the crank calls to D24, such as were stolen from a mine at Blackwood near
“that was only the first, the next one is due Ballarat. The car was stolen and packed with
to go off at 2 o’clock”. The scene had to be explosives. It was their intention to drive the
evacuated for each dead line. At one stage I vehicle into the courtyard under the pretext of
was sheltering with fellow IPA member Geoff having it fingerprinted after being stolen, which
Woodman a former commando and Bomb was a regular occurrence in those days.
Technician with the AFP who had travelled
If the car had been placed as intended in the
in from the Tullamarine Airport. He was
fingerprint bays, the explosion would have
accompanied by another AFP member who
been much worse and could have destroyed a
remarked in a broad Irish accent “bloody hell I
good part of the building as happened to the
left Northern Ireland to get away from this and
Federal building in Oklahoma USA. The first
now it’s followed me.”
level of the CIB building then was occupied
I was asked what I was actually doing when by the Information Bureau of Records with a
the bomb went off. It took a while to remember multitude of mostly female civilian staff. In the
that I had just answered the phone. It was days before computers it would have been
my mother that called and while talking to great advantage to criminals to destroy any or
her the bomb exploded, I swore and dropped all of their criminal records.
the phone. She was listening to the radio and
thought I had been blown up also. She was
very relieved when I eventually called to her to
say I was OK.
The scene was cordoned off for a fortnight.
The bomb was so powerful that shrapnel was
found over a full city block away in Swanston
Street and in the rear car park behind the
police complex. While thousands of windows
were broken in surrounding buildings very little
structural damage was sustained. This included
a power substation, one police vehicle totally
destroyed and several cars damaged. Total
damage was put at $350,000. (30 years ago).
The noise of replacing all the broken windows
haunted us for weeks.
It was later established that 50-60 sticks of
gelignite were packed into the boot, centre
console, glove box & front door side pockets
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Usually courts adjourn for lunch at 1pm.
Between Police Headquarters and the
Magistrates Court the street would normally
have a lot of pedestrians such as school
groups coming from the courts. Thankfully,
courts were not sitting that day due to a
Magistrates conference. Members attending
the Detective Training School usually broke
for lunch at that time. However, due to a
particularly interesting guest speaker, the
usual group had not exited the south door of
the building exactly where the bomb car was
placed.
A Bomb Task Force was established and
eventually five criminals all with convictions
for Armed Robbery and other serious offences
were charged and convicted. These included
Peter Reed, and the Minogue brothers Rodney
(later to be acquitted on appeal) and Craig the
latter is the only one still in custody. He is now
trying to get parole despite murdering another
inmate while in prison.
Our police museum has a number of exhibits
of the bombing. Some of the remarkable items
of evidence include an off-cut of a timber
fence post used as a base for the bomb timer.
Although singed, the block was matched to the
post it was taken off and a rubbish tin handle
used to attach the clock to the timber block
was match to the rubbish bin it was taken from.
The Russell Street Bombing was the most
significant attack on the Victoria Police since FOOTNOTE
the murders at Stringy Bark Creek by the Kelly
A number of the photographs I took on the day
Gang in the 1800’s. As so often happens in
were later used in the subsequent prosecution
police work, it is the most junior members
briefs. One of them, with the 1985 XF falcon
who are placed in harms way. Angela Taylor
in the foreground, was used on the front cover
was a really brilliant young woman who had
of the book, “In the performance of duty, the
a great life and career in front of her. She
Murder and Assault of Victorian Police 1837-
was in the wrong place at the wrong time as
1988.”
a result of loosing the toss to go and get the
lunches. She was within ten metres of the car This was written by the late Gavin Brown,
bomb when it exploded and paid the supreme former Assistant Commissioner and IPA
sacrifice. She will not be forgotten. member, together with former Inspector Ralph
Stavely and Gary Presland the first Police
Museum curator.
The accompanying photographs have been
provided by the Victoria Police Museum
Collection and I thank them for their assistance.
Pete Henry, Victoria Police Sergeant 17581,
1972 – 2008.
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