The Work of WA Police's Sex Crimes Division
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Hamish Mckenzie is the Detective Superintendent of the Western Australia Sex Crimes Division. That means he's the boss.
As you're about to hear, Sex Crimes is a very challenging area of policing, and Western Australia is the largest single policing jurisdiction in the world.
Policing, like everything else, is done differently in WA. But according to Hamish McKenzie, child sexual assault is the one area of law enforcement where egos really do take a backseat to results.
He joins us on Australian True Crime, which serving officers rarely do. So we're very grateful to talk about his work and how we can continue to work together in child protection.
Click here to visit WA Police's anonymous online reporting portal.
You can visit the WA Police's website by clicking here.
For Support:
Lifeline on 13 11 14
13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)
1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
CREDITS:
Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Dr Hamish Mckenzie
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | I was walking to work one day from the train station about 10 minutes to walk from the office and on my way to work just in |
| 1:15.2 | front of me there was a mother and a little child she must have been about five years old and |
| 1:19.8 | it was a nice spring day I remember looking at the child and thing, isn't that a beautiful |
| 1:24.8 | side, a mother and a daughter? They were holding hands. And I still remember the little girl to this day, |
| 1:29.3 | she had a yellow dress on, was carrying a teddy bear that was sort of almost trailing along the footpath |
| 1:35.0 | as she walked down. |
| 1:36.0 | And as I walked in front of me, |
| 1:38.0 | they were about 100 meters from my office. |
| 1:41.0 | And I remember my heart started beating really fast and I thought |
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