News and Events
New President for ACWAP
The Australasian Council of Women and Policing elected its new President at its recent AGM.
Detective Superintendent McGee APM is currently the Commander of Fairfield Local Area Command in NSW with over 220 police in general duties, detectives, highway patrol, intelligence, licensing and crime prevention and proactive response. Her previous roles include Commander of Manly LAC and the Gangs Squad, Commander of the Child Protection and Sex Crimes Squad. Her background is in the investigation and management of major crime.
After joining the New South Wales Police Force in 1980 she quickly moved into criminal investigation and ultimately the Adult Sexual Assault Squad, CIB where she specialised in investigating serial sex offenders. She also worked in Internal Affairs during the NSW Royal Commission into Police Corruption where Superintendent McGee worked at the Premier’s Department assisting with the restructure of the Professional Standards operations of the Police Force.
In 2003 Detective Superintendent McGee was awarded the Australasian Council of Women in Policing Award for Most Outstanding Female Investigator. In 2005 she received the Australian Police Medal for distinguished policing service.
2008 Excellence in Policing Awards
The Australasian Council of Women and Policing presented the 10th Annual Excellence in Policing Awards Presentation Dinner in Sydney on Friday 24th October 2008. Click here for details about the award recpients.
2008 Annual General Meeting
The Council's 2008 AGM will be held prior to the 2008 annual Excellence in Policing Awards Presentation Dinner at the Italian Village, The Rocks, Sydney on Friday 24th October 2008. All ACWAP members and those interested in becoming more involved in the Council are encouraged to join us.
As well as inviting members to nominate for positions on the Committee, we will be considering changes to our rules, primarily in relation to allowing 2 year membership and a clearer definition of what Corporate Membership involved. Any queries, please email inquiry@acwap.com.au and we will send you a copy of the proposed rule changes.
Call for Papers
The Australasian Council of Women and Policing will be holding the Sixth Women and Policing conference at the Duxton Hotel in Perth, Western Australia from Sunday 23 August until Wednesday 26 August 2009.
The theme of the 2009 conference is “Making it Happen!” and will explore practical and innovative solutions to how policing is being improved for women – how police services respond to their female employees and how policing responds to women in the community.
Police, researchers, advocates and practitioners are encouraged to consider contributing a paper to the conference.
This conference is about the practicalities of improving policing for women, and will hear women’s stories, their solutions and their achievements.
The four main themes for the conferences will be:
- Technology: friend and foe - while technological advances provide considerable opportunities for women to influence and improve our society and to flexibly contribute to policing, it is also being used against women, with the rapid growth of and access to increasingly violent pornography, an increase in bullying, harassment, and its role in stalking women.
- Finders Keepers? - finding and recruiting women to policing is difficult but keeping them seems to be even harder.
- Skills Development - skill development workshops will be offered at the operational and the leadership levels on a wide range of topics.
- Partnerships - exploring the practical partnerships that policing needs to make sure it responds to women it the community.
Please forward your 100 word abstract and a short biography to conference@acwap.com.au by 31 December 2008.
April 2008
The Sixth Australasian Women and Policing Conference will be held at the Duxton Hotel in Perth from Sunday 23 August until Wednesday 26 August 2009. The theme of the conference is Making it Happen! and will hear the voices of women in policing and how they have “made it happen”. Join us to find out from women themselves how they have been part of improving policing for women. The Call for Papers will soon be open.
The Australasian Institute of
Policing is a non-industrial, not-for-profit incorporated
association that has been established by police practitioners, for police
practitioners to further the policing profession. Membership to the institute
is now open. Visit its website www.aipol.org.
August 2007
Welcome to our new Committee members
ACWAP's management committee welcomed new members from around Australia .... Committee
Women Leading Change
The fifth Australasian Women and Policing Conference - Women Leading Change was held on 26 -30 August 2007 and marked 10 years of the Council's work improving policing for women in Australia and the region ...Reports and photographs
Excellence Recognised
Excellence in Policing Awards – 2007 winners.....
June 2007
Vale Audrey Fagan
The Council was saddened to hear of the untimely death of the ACT Chief of Police Audrey Fagan. Audrey was a good friend to the Council and made an important contribution to women in policing. She was a compassionate and dedicated police officer who will be remembered as a genuine and generous person. Audrey is sadly missed both by the Canberra community and her policing colleagues around the world.