Special project: Senior Detective Marcia Caulfield
Policewoman to Tackle Terrorism
By Maurice Hawken
A Victorain policewoman will leave for the United States and Canada in May this Year to become the first Australian to be trained in the Prevention of hi-jacking and terrorism.
She is Senior Detective Policewoman, Marcia Caulfield, who has been sponsored by the Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale and the Rotary Foundation to undertake the special course. The unique study tour will cover law enforcement courses at specialised training centres in both the United States and Canada.
Sen. Det. Caulfield will be trained in the latest techniques developed to prevent hi-jacking and the taking of hostages.
The study program will take three months. It will include two weeks with the Los Angeles Police Department, four weeks full time course at the National Crime Prevention Institute at the University of Kentucky studying crime prevention theory practice and management, a study course on executive kidnap procedures held at the First National Bank Tulsa, a course on alarm systems and bullet proof equipment in Chicago and an intensive program at the Royal Canadian Police Academy attending a Negotiators’ course dealing with hostage and barricaded persons.
Sen. Det. Caulfield will visit every major security agency in the United States and those in Toronto, Canada.
She will pay a special courtesy call to R.I. Headquarters in Evanston, Chicago to personally thank the trustees of The Rotary Foundation for helping to provided finance for the study tour.
On her way back to Australia she will spend some time at the F.B.I. headquarters inWashington, D.C.
President Alf Diggerson of the Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale presented Sen. Det. Caulfield with a cheque, a memento leather letter holder, and club banners to be presented to her hosts in America and Canada, during a club meeting late last year.
Sen. Dt. Caulfield works with the Crime Prevention Bureau of the C.I.B. in the Victoria Police Force. She was dux of the Detective training course and since joining the force in 1972 has worked in the women’s police division, the observation squad, independent patrol group, special crime squad, and the drug squad.
Reference: Rotary Down Under Magazine, April 1979, page 7