{"id":549,"date":"2018-11-14T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=549"},"modified":"2018-11-14T17:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T17:03:23","slug":"finalists-announced-for-2018-rotary-police-officer-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/finalists-announced-for-2018-rotary-police-officer-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists announced for 2018 Rotary Police Officer of the Year Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-three NSW Police officers have been announced as finalists for the prestigious 2018 Rotary Clubs of NSW, Police Officer of the Year awards.<br \/>\nThe category winners and overall Police Officer of the Year will be announced at a special dinner held at the Hyatt Regency, Sydney, this Friday (16 November 2018).<br \/>\nThe finalists for each category are as follows;<br \/>\n<strong>Metropolitan Field Operations Police Officer of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading Senior Constable Daniel Glenn \u2013 North Shore Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Rahsan Keles \u2013 Auburn Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Steven Day \u2013 Blue Mountains Police Area Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Regional NSW Field Operations Police Officer of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspector David Maher \u2013 Orana Mid-Western Police District<\/li>\n<li>Detective Sergeant Justin Marks \u2013 South Coast Police District<\/li>\n<li>Senior Sergeant Lisa Westwood \u2013 Wollongong Police District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Investigations and Counter Terrorism Police Officer of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detective Sergeant Jay Locke \u2013 Child Abuse &amp; Sex Crimes Squad<\/li>\n<li>Detective Sergeant John Edwards \u2013 Criminal Groups Squad<\/li>\n<li>Detective Sergeant Joseph Maree \u2013 Homicide Squad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Specialist Support Police Officer of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergeant Gregory Moon \u2013 Forensic Evidence &amp; Technical Services Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Katherine Emerson \u2013 Traffic &amp; Highway Patrol Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Sergeant Raymond Cameron \u2013 Police Prosecutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Corporate Services Police Officer of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior Sergeant Barry Cash \u2013 Workforce Safety Command<\/li>\n<li>Sergeant Janelle Widders \u2013 NSW Police Academy<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Sascha Benn \u2013 Education &amp; Training Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Employee of the Year Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darryl Hamilton \u2013 Mt Druitt Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Gardner \u2013 NSW Police Academy<\/li>\n<li>Scott Mieni \u2013 Mid North Coast Police District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Volunteers in Policing Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry Scope \u2013 Tuggerah Lakes Police District<\/li>\n<li>Helen Chapman \u2013 Kings Cross Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Glen Fanning \u2013 Riverina Police District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rotary Community Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading Senior Constable Bianca Williams \u2013 The Hume Police District<\/li>\n<li>Chief Inspector Guy Guiana \u2013 Hunter Valley Police District<\/li>\n<li>Chief Inspector Robert Fitzgerald \u2013 Blacktown Police Area Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Customer Service Excellence Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergeant Aaron Greenwood \u2013 Richmond Police District<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Draz Brkljac \u2013 Youth &amp; Crime Prevention Command<\/li>\n<li>Sergeant Scott Mostran \u2013 Kings Cross Police Area Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Irene Juergens (IJ) Fellowship Award \u2013 Sworn Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sergeant Kelsey Priestley \u2013 North Shore Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Raffaelle Frisina \u2013 Liverpool City Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Senior Constable Sam Donni \u2013 Kings Cross Police Area Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Irene Juergens (IJ) Fellowship Award \u2013 Unsworn Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kim Fenwick \u2013 St George Police Area Command<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Owen \u2013 Newcastle City Police District<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-three NSW Police officers have been announced as finalists for the prestigious 2018 Rotary Clubs of NSW, Police Officer of the Year awards. The category winners and overall Police Officer of the Year will be announced at a special dinner held at the Hyatt Regency, Sydney, this Friday (16 November 2018). The finalists for each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/finalists-announced-for-2018-rotary-police-officer-of-the-year-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finalists announced for 2018 Rotary Police Officer of the Year Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}