WA Police	/ WA Rangers
“Working in Cooperation for Community Service & Safety”

WA Rangers Association wish to sincerely thank our WA Police Service for the outstanding support, assistance and cooperation we receive in serving our local communities!

WA Rangers enjoy an excellent working relationship with our WA Police Service. Many Police Officers refer to Rangers as a second set of eyes and ears because Rangers are always out and about in the local community and often notice suspicious people or activities and locate stolen / abandoned vehicles.

Police and Rangers will join forces when necessary to deal with a local problem. On occasions, Police have needed to gain entry to houses due to a sick or injured person inside. Where dogs are guarding the premises, Rangers are called to assist so as to effect safe entry without harm to the officers or animals.

Other incidents may involve a search for missing persons or being on the lookout for offenders known to be in the area.

 

Law Enforcement Working Groups

A number of local police and rangers are discovering the real benefit of working together on local issues. Bassendean, Subiaco and Cambridge rangers have been working with police for some time.

WARA encourages rangers in all areas to contact local police with a view to working on mutual aid and cooperation strategies.

 

 

Kiara Police & Bassendean Rangers

Another area of outstanding cooperation between police & rangers has been at Town of Bassendean.

Ranger Manager Samantha Tarling & Kiara Police Sergeant Jim Clarysse have been working closely for a number of years.

 

 

 

Ranger Sam & Sgt Jim

Sharing time with a visiting celebrity. In this case it’s one of Perth’s favourite sons Rolf Harris, visiting his home town.

 

 

In March 2000, a highly successful strategic partnership was formed between the Town of Bassendean and the Kiara Police Station. The partnership is primarily actioned by the officers of the Kiara Police Station and the rangers of the Town of Bassendean.

 A Memorandum of Understanding was drawn up and this provided the guidelines for police officers and rangers to follow when working together.

Some of the successes since the inception of the partnership are as follows:

• Apprehension of burglars by rangers;
• Apprehension of graffiti vandals by rangers;
• Information intelligence passed on to police;
• Town hotspots identified by rangers and passed on to police;
• Customer satisfaction when police/ranger attend to their complaint;
• Police become more observant to council law breaches with relevant information passed on to rangers i.e. disused vehicles, rubbish and dog problems;
• A greater presence of police/rangers throughout the Town of Bassendean;
• Networking with each agency sections by liaison officers to maintain a good rapport;
• Customer satisfaction with the ease and efficiency of reporting when disputes occur; and
• Enhanced feeling of safety for the community through the high visibility of the partnership.

As both sections of the agencies are law enforcement it is easier to promote this partnership as both agencies have the same goal.

• Customer service and delivery
• Crime reduction, both criminal and Local Law
• Higher agency presence within the Town of Bassendean.

This partnership promotes a very good networking initiative between each agency and other departments within the agencies.

The liaison officers of the Partnership, Sgt Jim Clarysse APM and Manager Ranger Services, Samantha Tarling met regularly throughout each week to discuss and attend to issues pertaining to the Partnership.

The following points promote the cohesiveness of the inter-agency collaboration:

a) The partnership has resulted in a patrol with a police officer and a ranger every fortnight in the ranger’s marked vehicle. This is a fact finding and intelligence gathering exercise by police officers and rangers and an opportunity for each party to have a mutual understanding of the respective roles carried out in the community. The partnership fosters excellent relations between the two agencies.

b) The joint management of public events – i.e. combined patrols outside and around the ground at events such as the Big Day Out and Rolf Harris concerts – saw officers dealing with traffic control and anti-social behaviour problems. Further, breaches of local law and crowd control were attended inside the ground i.e. Rolf Harris concert.

c) In an attempt to resolve neighbour disputes, either under the laws that govern local government or the police service, resources have been pooled to bring about satisfactory resolutions to these disputes. This overall approach is very effective in resolving neighbour disputes that can tie-up the resources of both agencies when continually getting called to the same properties. The number of re-occurring neighbour disputes has reduced in the Town due to the joint approach taken by the partnership.

Working on traffic control at large events such as AFL Football, International Rugby, Skyshows and Christmas Pageants.