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Police World
Vol 58 No.1 2013
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s custodians of the sponsorship
package, paid for by the IPA
International Treasury and being
supplemented by additional funds from Section
UK and Region Northern Ireland, the committee
held their first planning meeting last August. It
was joined by Billy Saunderson, a member of the
IPA International Social Commission from
Section Ireland and Stephen Crockard, Assistant
International Secretary General. Members from
Section Ireland were also present as guests.
Soon after, I met with Pete Loughins to progress
plans. Pete, an IPA member of Belfast Branch
since 1984, is Project Manager for Games
Security and Games Operations and is
responsible for planning, transfers, equipment,
logistics, games control, medical and venue
planning. I was was joined by Mandy Kernohan,
Branch Secretary of Belfast Branch.
News and circulars soon went out to members
via the IPA Section UK website and IPA
memberbase about volunteering to help with the
Games and to get involved as competitors.
'Volunteer Now' were seeking enthusiastic and
motivated people, aged 16 and over, to get
involved in a variety of roles both on and off the
field of play at the Games.
Opportunities for volunteers to be a member of
Team 2013 include roles within transport,
registration, translation, sports venue branding,
media, warehousing and many more exciting
roles. The Region also started to collate a list of
Region 2 members happy to host.
To coincide with the date for registering to
compete in the Games (1 November, 2012), IPA
was informed that it had been granted the
naming rights to Lawn Bowls. It was also good
news to hear that IPA member Leslie Busby from
2 Region Golf Society had been nominated as
'Administrator' for the Golf event taking place at
Belvoir. I hope IPA members will support both
events as competitors and volunteers.
Meanwhile, other members of the Committee
selected the venue for an evening function
which will unite IPA members attending Games.
Committee members Pete Connolly, Mandy
Kernohan and Andy Spence visited three
potential venues in the Belfast area. The venue
details are being kept under wraps for now - the
event will be exclusive to IPA members and by
ticket only. The Committee is confident that the
proprietor will provide everything required to
make the evening a memorable one.
At the time of writing, IPA-WPFG items of
supplies are being finalised and sourced. An IPA-
WPFG t-shirt and a special edition IPA-WPFG pin
badge being the first two of many items to come.
Personally, I feel very lucky as the Section UK
Vice President given the ‘social’ portfolio. (Each
Vice President is given a role to match the
International Vice Presidents – see page 5 for
the role of IVP’s).
The International Social commission has been
led by Gal Sharon from Israel over the last 4
years and although her commission is based in
the Mediterranean area it covers all IPA member
countries. It has a responsibility to ensure
maximum publicity for IPA at the World Police
and Fire games. I would ask all Section UK
members to share news about IPA’s involvement
in the Games. We want to hear from volunteers,
competitors and hosts.
For an extended version of the news items
referred to above, including contact information,
visit:
Mark Kernohan
Vice President Mark Kernohan reports that the final months of 2012
were busy ones for the IPA-WPFG Bronze Partner committee.
IPA House News
As well as representing Section UK in ‘sport’,
Mark’s portfolio also involves IPA Houses. A
bi-annual world house managers’
meeting
took place in Holland in 2012 and the
International Social Commission (ISC) is in
the process of drafting a new directive on
the management of IPA Houses. Each year
Mark is responsible for submitting Section
UK’s report to the ISC which outlines
different types of events that have occurred in
the Section. This helps share ideas and good
practice internationally.
Care of Police Survivors (COPS) has
been our nominated national
charity for the past two years.
Earlier this year the NEC
considered three suggestions
for our charity for 2013. The
charities considered were
COPS, the Police Treatment
Centres and the National
Police Memorial Day
(NPMD): all worthy causes.
I am delighted to announce
that for 2013 our chosen
charity will be the
National
Police Memorial Day
(NPMD)
.
As part of our NEC meeting in late September at
York, the NEC joined the 3,000 strong
congregation at the annual service at York
Minster. At the conclusion of the service we met
briefly with Inspector Joe Holness, the founder
and current chair of the NPMD, and were able to
officially announce to him that IPA is adopting his
charity during this coming year.
IPA was proud to be associated with COPS during
2011 and 2012, and will continue to be formally
represented by our colleagues from 5 Region at
the annual remembrance event at the National
Arboretum. I am sure that you will agree that
it is also a privilege to be associated with the
NPMD charity and that where the opportunity
arises members will lend support to
fundraising activities in support of
this, the only national event that
recognises and sustains the
memory of every fallen colleague
over the generations.
For more information visit:
uk.org/Section-UKs-Nominated-Charity
Tom Crozier
, President
Charity
Ball
at The Royal York Hotel
Saturday 6 July, 2013.
All proceeds to go to
The National Police Memorial Day.
Contact:
Tickets
£50
per person
£25 deposit
with Comedian
Mick Miller
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