To the Public of New South Wales

I have decided to draw your attention to various matters which occurred to me whilst I was a serving member of the New South Wales Police Force. I take this action because there are no other options available for me. In spite of all the legal and bureaucratic machinery which is in place there appears to be none which can help me with my current situation. In fact most of them are designed to make sure that I cannot get any help. The most apparent of them all is having a matter or situation statute barred. In other words if you have gone beyond the use by date of your problem bad luck chum we can't help. We can certainly give you advice. That is, advice to the extent that we can't help you.

My problem crosses and intersects with various situations which occurred to me whilst I was a serving member of the New South Wales Police Force. And although I have already mentioned this elsewhere let me say this again , it is not directed to the Police but to the system which was in place then which allowed certain things to take place. Please read the stories and become conversant with them. It will, I hope give you at least some insight as to why I am force to take this action.

After you have read them I would think that you would come to the same conclusion which I have. I was a victim of a series of; unfortunate circumstances. I have been served out an unjust punishment for being naive and trusting . In trusting the system that said it would look after me. You will learn of the humiliation my family and I where put through when I was fighting a machinery that refused to acknowledge injuries I sustained as a serving member of the New South Wales Police Force. The indignity of asking for a handout from Social Security as the Police Department convicted me of being a malingerer, a fraud long before I appeared before a Tribunal which ; vindicated my appeal. You will hear a recording of a certain high ranking officer gloating over the phone how my wages had been stopped no, compassion but outright excitement at the prospect of me having no income to support my family. This from a perfect stranger who did not know me. An event which turned; me at the time into a trembling mass of jelly. You will also read how after the Tribunal had recognised my injury has being hurt on duty takes a final stab by sending me to a Psychiatrist to attempt to overturn that decision. And lastly you will here how after the amount of grief that they have caused to myself, my wife, my children. No one apologised. Why because they were hiding behind the skirts of a system. No accountability the most dangerous of all tools to an insensitive individual.

Today as a result of these series of events I have once again become a victim. I have an insensitive Solicitor who after so many years have lapsed has a sudden recollection regarding an overlooked medical account and is asking for re-imbursement I do not know what would possess this gentleman to resurrect such an ugly period of my life after so many years. I also now have the G.I.O asking for a sum of approximately $31,000 for legal fees used to mount their defence against me. My argument once again. Why wasn't I warned about this some 3 1/2 years ago when this matter was finalised ? In writing for a start. Instead; they too have barged into my life after so many years unannounced. But this time they make up for all the lack of paperwork over the years and I receive a mountain of it reminding me that apparently I owe them money. Odd is it not no correspondence then suddenly they bury in mail. Does anybody out there know the answer to this?

Now, I mention various incidents above which are not related to the G.I.O. they are merely trying to recover monies that is sorely needed to support their C.E.O.'s , upper management and their poor investors and people like me and many like me in theory are the most vulnerable. Because we do not have the luxury nor the resources to dispute these matters. I have also received another account from the Supreme Court today asking me to pay a sum of over $ 1,2000 for some organization which has calculated the fees I owe the G.I.O. which is over $ 31,000. As of the 15 June I have 28 days before debt recovery action takes place. This is where I get off this merry -go- round. I am on a 72% pension which is not enough. I supplement this income by borrowing every three years from the Credit Union so my family and I can have a decent lifestyle. I think I am more than entitled to that. By the way you try to get a job with an existing back complaint and see how you go. In actual fact I should have years ago applied for a full 100% pension but I was too mentally drained after having been exposed to a series of dirty tactics by this system. I am sure my Police Association would have batted for me as they did in the past, but it was me who turned tail and ate humble pie all these years.

So this open letter amounts to advice, help and moral support from the ordinary person out there and to also make them aware. I am sure many will remember something off their past where the system screwed them too.

I find my ex-Solicitor's demand for money in September 1999 extremely outrageous after so many years have lapsed. At no time did he mention to me that I owed him money. There is also more to this in a page dedicated to him.

I find that the G.I.O. acted just as unprofessionally by sending a letter of intention even well beyond the 4 1/2 years after the Supreme Court had made it's judgment. One would think that the most obvious time would be straight after the Court has made it's ruling. I did not get that. I did not received any warning. The day my solicitor said ; its over get on with your life I thought that was it. It was not followed by let's wait till you are at your lowest ebb in life and let a numbers go years go by and surprise you. The G.I.O. did exactly the same.

Now in closing you may think I'm either a pretty courageous individual or stark raving mad. I am neither I am just average and I am absolutely uncomfortable with the action I have taken. But I have no choice. I feel my ex- Solicitor is unjust and so is the G.I.O. You cannot; imagine what I went through receiving these letters or should I say the continuous barrage of letters I have received since.