IPA News

As the numbers of overseas visitors increase each year, more requests come in for home stays, “meet and greet” at the airport, requests to visit police stations and general requests, such as “just want to meet fellow IPA members.”

The Reception Committee does a great job in handling most requests from our visitors, but we need your help to maintain the current level of service.

We want to start a “pool” of IPA members, either serving on non, and draw on that pool when necessary to show visitors around. We are not concentrating on Sydney members – we need people all over the State to put their hand up.  We realise everyone is pretty busy these days, but we are only asking for whatever time you can spare.

As well as showing visitors around, if you would like to host an overseas guest, we would like to know that too.  Do you have a spare room or granny flat ??  Most of our visitors are serving or just retired police officers – so you may rest assured that they would trat you and your home with the utmost respect at all times.

If you are interested or have some spare time, please contact our Reception Officer Marcus Backway via email at (W) back1mar@police.nsw.gov.au  or (H) backers35@hotmail.com