Inside this issues:

• Is Top Cop Scipione now our boss?
• Carpooling – its your choice
• Memories of Kel Overton
• AFA Charges doubled [Read more]

Over recent years, many members have expressed their concern to us about the Brigades’ changing approach – and growing addiction – to AFA charges. The Department’s increasingly inflexible approach saw a growing number of elderly, poor and disadvantaged being hit by blanket fines for AFA’s which were often beyond their control. Management’s decision to remove the Station Commander’s discretion on whether or not to charge suddenly saw the pensioner who burnt her toast being slapped with the same $250 AFA charge that the corporations copped for skimping on their installation’s servicing regime.