‘Steve Irwin gene’: slain veteran cop’s bravery saluted
A retired police who idolized and fascinated for the “Steve Irwin Gene” was ultimately greeted for the brutal courage who robbed him from his life.
Family, friends, colleagues and political leaders were an estimated 3000 people who said goodbye to Detective Senior Senior Constable Neal Thompson at the Victoria Police Academy on Monday.
The 59 -year -old was one of the two officers who were killed on 26 August, and presented an order to Diszi Freeman on a property in Porpunkah, about 300 km northeast of Melbourne.
His partner Sergeant Lisa Thompson left with love while led the tribute for the man known as “Thommo ..
After coming to the Wangarata Police Station as an officer, he met Det Sen Const Thompson, a crazy fisherman, Atıcı and Essendon supporter in 2016.
SGT Thompson said to the packaged crowd in the chapel, “We worked a shift together and changed the course of my life.”
“I’ve never laughed at someone I just met.”
They are “opponents in every way” but together “cannot be stopped”.
Det Sen Const Thompson has established a close connection with his children and greeted them every day with “hey dwarf pushs”.
The last weekend of the couple was spent to work on their farms before eating stars and stars and looking at the stars, and he did not leave anything unstable.
SGT Thompson said he taught how to be loved without fear and how to be brave when he was scared.
“Honey, I’m very grateful for doing because I’m scared,” he said.
“I don’t want to live my life without you and I don’t want to end our dreams on my own. But I will, I promise.”
Det Sen Const Thompson’s photographs were exhibited in a chapel with four medals, including the Victoria police star given after his death.
Talking about his will, he said he didn’t need someone because he would never die.
“If it were just right,” his sister Lois Kirk said with tears.
“You were the golden boy, adventurous, protector.”
Det Sen Const Thompson joined the police in 1987, and in 2007, before shifting to Wangaratta to join the Crime Investigation Unit, he moved towards the detective in the great fraud and the state criminal team.
My colleague Paul Campbell said he had previously shot, stabbed, rolled cars and beaten cancer, and said he thought he was “insaturated”.
“There were also 16 police collisions, in fact 17 – this was a few weeks ago,” he said.
Det Sen Const Thompson would run his last shift on September 5, and he said in front of his retirement, he would “miss these things.”
The chief commissioner Mike Bush said that his 38 -year career veteran was öyle robbed from a retirement he deserves very much ”.
The leading Constable Timothy Doyle said that if the Stalwart detective had to take something in a scam or something in a raid for his speech, the man officers went.
“First you passed the door and I owe you my life for it,” he said.
Speaking on behalf of Fisheries, Hunting, Football, Rock Climbing and Farming friends, Jason Williams said that “Steve Irwin Gene”.
This was shown that 20 years ago on a journey to the upper end of the couple.
“From the blue, a king began to walk naked in long grass after a brown snake, dragged his six -meter sharks to a 12 -meter boat or deep horses to the waters of the crocodiles,” he said.
Police in the uniform set up an Honor guard dating back hundreds of meters for the funeral of the officer’s coffin.
The stage reflected the service on Friday for Waart-Hotartt, the senior officer Vadim, who died in the same incident.
The 34 -year -old Belgian parents joined the service on Monday and with the third wounded officer who escaped by Freeman escaped.
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