Cobar High School students were recently given a presentation of the NSW Police IPROWD program, which encourages indigenous and Torres Strait Islander students to consider careers in the police force. Central North Police District Detective Inspector Paul Quigg joined the IPROWD facilitators and other police attached to Central North Police […]
A new police officer, Senior Constable Lucas Hardy, has joined the ranks at the Cobar Police Station. Senior Constable Hardy and his partner Jordan (and their two German Shepherd dogs) recently relocated from Tuggerah Lakes where Senior Constable Hardy has served as a police officer for the past seven years. […]
After 33 years serving with the NSW Police Force, Sergeant John Bennett has decided it’s time for a career change. The much respected police officer, who’s been the boss at the Cobar Police Station for the past 17 years, worked his final shift last week. However John is not taking […]
A quick ‘true or false’ quiz about technology offered to parents and carers at a cyber safety seminar in Cobar last week revealed that there’s plenty to learn about keeping our kids safe in the cyber world. NSW Police Liaison Officer Senior Constable Marty Paice, who presented to the Think […]
A training exercise in Cobar last week that involved Police Rescue officers had many locals concerned that it was the real thing. Emergency Client Rescue Health and Safety Training Advisor at CSA Mine Tony Walkinshaw, who is also the Fire & Rescue NSW Station 256 Acting Captain, was approached by […]
In June 2016 Cobar had the worst domestic violence (DV) repeat rate in the region at 33.8 per cent. However thanks to a new NSW Police pilot program in the Darling River Local Area Command (LAC), that figure has now dropped. The terrible statistic was revealed by Detective Inspector Rodney […]
Justice Stephen Campbell has found that local residents Margaret and Ian Settree were murdered by their son in December 2014 however, at the time of the offence, the accused was deemed to have been suffering from a significant mental illness. In the week long trial at Dubbo Supreme Court, which […]
NSW Police, Senior Constable Greg Martin handed his badge after he completing his final shift last Thursday, retiring after almost 35 years of service. A local, Greg has been stationed in Cobar with the Highway Patrol for the past 16 years. Upon leaving school, Greg completed an apprenticeship with the […]
Local landholder Steve Motton has applauded proposed new police laws that would see poachers charged on the spot. Mr Motton, who runs a property on the Barrier Highway west of Cobar and has been the victim of rural crime on a number of occasions, said in his experience landholders have […]
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