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The ceremony honoured some of the command's longest serving officers, along with recent graduates of the police academy.

Police from across the country paid their respects to fallen colleagues for National Police Remembrance Day today, including the 275 officers from the

Hero police officer Kelly Foster farewelled after Blue Mountains whirlpool death ThuThursday 14 updated ThuThursday 14 JanJanuary 2021 at 1:41pm Police and community members have lined the streets of Lithgow to farewell Senior Constable Kelly Foster. ( Share Print text only Cancel Mourners have lined the streets of Lithgow, New South Wales, to bid farewell to "highly regarded and dedicated" police officer Kelly Foster. Key points: Senior Constable Kelly Foster died after she was sucked into a w...

Senior Constable Kelly Foster drowned at the Wollangambe Canyon at Mount Wilson on January 2. The young int...

Advertisement Lithgows main street was lined with blue balloons as mourners gathered outside the Uniting Church to farewell "one of a kind" Senior Constable Kelly Foster who died in Wollangambe Canyon, in the Blue Mountains this month. Senior Constable Foster was an avid bushwalker who loved the outdoors. It was this love of the outdoors that took her on the canyoning trip on January 2. During the guided tour, the 39-year-old was sucked underwater as she tried to help Jennifer Qi, a 24-year-old...

Police have revealed their heartbreak at having to recover the body of a fallen colleague who died trying to save a woman who became caught in a whirlpool.

"Its a very sad time for the NSW Police Force and Kelly’s death is a loss to the whole community," he said. "Kelly was a highly regarded and dedicated officer who will be sorely missed by colleagues across the force." The other victim is believed to be an international student, 24, from Chiswick in Sydney. She is yet to be formally identified and police were waiting for confirmation that family members have been notified. Reports from witnesses indicate the younger woman was tipped off her...

ONCE upon a time, if you wanted a beer you went to Queanbeyan, simple. Thanks to King O’Malley, the federal Minister for Home Affairs of the day, Canberra was a dry town from 1911 to 1929.  King O’Malley… a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice”. O’Malley, a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice” and abstained from it, persuaded his cabinet colleagues to ban, in 1911, the granting of liquor licences in the Federal Capital Territory.  Queanbeyan resid...