Bring extra bedding and a sense of humour. That’s the message from Acting Senior Sergeant Colin Shepherd, one of more than 700 officers manning the NSW border.
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Asked on Monday why no personnel would be on the border checkpoints, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: That s not something the Defence Force is doing any longer.
Speaking on Wednesday morning from a police base camp at Cann River, where about 100 tents have been pitched, Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent acknowledged the logistical operation was significant.
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The border was closed for part of the year by NSW authorities and Mr Nugent said police were working to mirror the checkpoint locations they used. This is quite different, from our perspective, because this is the first time Victoria Police has actually closed the borders, he said.
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About 100 Victoria Police officers are settling in to spend Christmas in small, individual tents in a field outside the border town of Cann River as the Australian Defence Force insists it has more important priorities than patrolling state borders.
Lieutenant-General John Frewen, head of the ADF s COVID-19 taskforce, told
The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald the military s priority list, worked out with the federal government in September, put high-risk weather events, returned Australians in hotel quarantine, counter-terrorism and support to Pacific nations above enforcing state border closures.
Victoria Police Acting Senior Sergeant Colin Shepherd who was deployed from the Bass Coast sits in his tent at Cann River on Wednesday.