We are excited to introduce the 2021 Rotary Police Officer of the Year, Sergeant Vanessa Rolfe, from Crime Scene Services Branch. Sergeant Rolfe works in Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), an internationally accepted process of identifying victims in mass casualty events. Vanessa has performed the role of Ante Mortem Coordinator in numerous DVI events over her career including the 2004 Thailand Tsunami, the Victorian and NSW bushfires in 2019/2020 as well as multiple fatal air and motor vehic

Thousands of general duties and specialist police are making final preparations for the biggest planned operation conducted by the NSW Police Force every year: New Year’s Eve in Sydney. The planning for Operation Devlin started 12 months ago, and has incorporated input from at least 20 other government agencies, landowners and stakeholders. The operation will be in place from 5.30am tomorrow (Thursday 31 December 2015), and will run until Sydney’s party precincts have safely emptied on New Year’