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The Australian Police Rugby Union (APRU) commenced in 1997 and this year for the very first time established a women’s team. Every two years there has been a National championship for men and from there an Australian Police team is selected. This is the process that the women’s team is hoping to follow with interest from South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland. The affiliated State teams are in the planning stages of a championship in Wollongong, September 2018.
Before this happens, APRU are planning for a camp to be held in Canberra early next year where team members will play a couple of games against ADFA and a local union team.
There is an inaugural Police World Rugby Championship being held in Hong Kong in September 2019, which APRU are hoping to get both a men’s and women’s team to the event.
On October 3 and 4 the first ever women’s camp

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Police from across the Ipswich district and leaders from Muslim Groups across the Ipswich District met on Friday at the Yamanto Police complex for an informal morning tea.
Ipswich District Officer, Superintendent Brian Huxley hosted the morning tea with the senior leaders from the Muslim community and senior officers from across the district
Superintendent Huxley highlighted at the morning tea that it was crucial for police to build positive relationships with all members of the community if they are to be effective in delivering their core responsibility of community safety.
Superintendent Huxley, along with police across the district look forward to continuing to build stronger community relationships and ensuring that police and community leaders maintain open and honest dialogue. Police will continue to respond appropriately to calls for service and address issues raised by the community, as well as through police participation in community consultative groups, supporting community events and festivals across the

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The annual Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) State Conference was conducted at the Beenleigh Events Centre on Saturday, highlighting the theme Diversity is our strength.
A number of NHW volunteers from across the Ipswich District attended.

Congratulations to the overall State awards winners Sergeant Nigel Dalton of Mackay for the Liaison Officer of the Year and Mr Alwin Koo from Far North Queensland for the Neighbourhood Watch Member of the Year. Their list of achievements for the NHW program was outstanding and both were extremely deserving of the State awards.
The guest speakers were informative and entertaining and the key note speaker and Goodwill Ambassador, Ranger Stacey Thomson, was extremely engaging. Ranger Stacey brought back a lot of childhood memories for a lot of the attendees, myself included.
Members from Ipswich District at the NHWQ State Conference with Ranger Stacey and Sergeant Nadine Webster
Once again the State NHW conference highlighted that the NHW program is still

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