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Senior Sergeant Jackie Urquhart My Journey with Victoria Police  Jackie is a current mentee in the Police Mentoring program with Theresa as her mentor.
Jackie hails from Phillip Island and joined the Victorian Police Force in 2005 after time at university and in a corporate environment in an Organisational Development and Learning role. After initial duties at the Malvern Police Station and undertaking a number of temporary assignments, Jackie successfully completed Prosecutors Training Course 80. In 2010 Jackie obtained a position at Melbourne Prosecutions then in 2012 commenced duties at the Research and Training Unit (RTU). In 2013 Jackie was promoted to Sergeant at the Operations Response Unit (ORU). Jackie enjoyed the challenge in an area outside of her comfort zone and gained exposure in a variety of roles to large scale events such as bushfire emergencies, riots and demonstrations. In 2016 Jackie was promoted to Manager of the South East Prosecutions Region (Morwell, Bairnsdale and Sale Prosecutions Units) which meant a return to the Prosecutions Division as a Senior Sergeant. More recently, Jackie has been transferred to the Melbourne Prosecutions Unit where she is responsible for ensuring a professional prosecutions service is delivered. The mission of Prosecutions Division is to provide an independent and professional prosecutions service to the community of Victoria by supporting judicial and coronial proceedings on behalf of Victoria Police Victoria Police prosecutors handle approximately 300,000 cases every year including summary contested hearings, case conferences and contest mentions. In addition to criminal matters, we deal with significant numbers of other applications such as: intervention order applications, bail and remand applications, adjournments, CME, interstate extraditions, firearms act applications, forfeiture, restitution and comp orders, DNA and fingerprint orders and retention applications, driver licence restoration and alcohol interlock apps, sex offender registrations, exclusion orders. |
Mezzo soprano Shakira Tsindos holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
The International Committee held it’s annual Christmas dinner/break up at Rice Paper Scissors in Fitzroy on Thursday night. As always its difficult to find a time that suits everyone and we had to defer to the new year to get a quorum. Even then we missed Roy & Annie Garrett and Russell and Heather Rolls. But we raised a glass to them and toasted another successful year for RCM’s International program.
