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IPA News

Sean McMahon from Central Belfast Branch is seeking assistance in setting up an Americal Football Club.

In an email to Section UK - IPA HQ, Sean writes, ‘I am a member of the IPA and I am also the club secretary of a newly formed American Football Club within the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

UK Motorcyclists visit Normandy

In early September 2015 a party of thirteen people from Section UK’s Motorcycle Group enjoyed 4 days in Normandy, based at a very comfortable Ibis hotel in Honfleur, a picturesque port just south of Le Havre. The location was selected so that members could visit WW2 invasion sites, including the beaches used in June 1944, museums, cemeteries and the famous Pegasus Bridge in Ranville where the strategically important crossing point was seized by the British occupants of 3 gliders early on the morning of 6 June. Engaging though Honfleur is, the port is too far to the east to be an ideal base from which to explore the Normandy Battlefield area. Caen or Bayeux would be better. However, this minor inconvenience was no barrier to the Group’s enjoyment and we made good progress in fine weather. Time was found to sample the wine and good food available and hopefully the Group’s next major foreign excursion to the Black Forest in summer 2016 will be well supported. Julian Grubb, Chair, Section UK Motorcycle Group 11 Region Calling 11 Region have been experiencing high levels of returned e-mails owing to incorrect addresses. A high proportion of these are Police E-Mail addresses. Please consider changing your police e-mail address to your personal one. At its half yearly meeting last Autumn, Regional delegates agreed that, in future, E-mail addresses which fail more than twice would be deleted from that member’s details. We are mindful that we should not discriminate against those members who do not have access to a computer. Therefore, if there is a family member or friend who is willing to accept mail on their behalf 11 Region will send it to that address. Failing this we would ask members to send to their respective Branch Secretary four self stamped addressed envelopes. The Secretaries would then, on a quarterly basis, send out news of Branch and Region activities. Tom Witney, 11 Region Secretary

Our team is made up of police officers and police staff within the PSNI. American Football has been a growing sport in Ireland however many of our players have never played before. We are reaching out to the wider police family for assistance in setting up our club. We have recently enrolled the team into the Irish American Football Association, a civilian based league, which we hope to compete competitively in, with other Irish teams this year. Could we ask that you circulate this around your members or even post on your forum a message seeking support.’ IPA members can contact Sean direct on southbelfastrazorbacks@ hotmail.com with any offers of support or indications of interest. Good Luck Team Section UK!

Section UK President, Mick Luke, has rallied a team of footballers to compete in an Indoor Football Tournament in Warsaw to represent Section UK and to help Section Poland commemorate the memory of a Polish police officer. The event will take place between 10 - 13 February 2016.

Another good member benefit from the IPA as all accommodation and meals in Poland are provided. Image courtesy IPA Landesgruppe Steiermark Police World– Your Magazine

Police World magazine would not exist without the contributions of material from IPA members – thank you to all those who contribute articles and photos, and sometimes ideas. Keep sending in material and please take into consideration that some photographs may not be suitable for publication in the magazine because of their low resolution. Front cover photos have to be submitted in a high resolution and in A4 portrait orientation. See page 28 for advice on how to produce good quality material for Police World.

POLICE WORLD Vol 61 No. 1, 2016

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