Prisons across the State have honoured 12 frontline staff on Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) whose lives were lost in the line of duty.
Current and former staff and their families took part in the CSNSW Remembrance Day Ride last Friday (27 November) with 100 motorbikes travelling from Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy in Eastwood to South Coast Correctional Centre in Nowra.
Commissioner of CSNSW, Peter Severin said the occasion demonstrated how CSNSW was one big family and how each loss of life hit hard.
“It’s a humbling and moving moment when the officers and their loved ones ride single file out of Brush Farm, waved off by their fellow colleagues,” Mr Severin said.
“There is such an outpouring of camaraderie, which is so important on days like this,” he said.
Mr Severin said the Ride honoured the 12 men who lost their lives on duty from fatal attacks by inmates and commemorated the lives of staff who passed away after retiring or died from other causes while still employed.
“Unlike other frontline workers, what our officers deal with is hidden by prison walls, so the public don’t see their ongoing commitment to duty,” the Commissioner said.
“CSNSW is one big family and every loss, every life taken, affects all of us,” he said.
