His little lady is the unsung hero here. She would be very isolated from people while he interacts with the community. Must be a very strong woman, good on her.
This man is a legend, and his wife is a hero. So many outback people grow up and are used to this life. But for city folk to embrace this life and love it is amazing. Great work to you both.
Spent a few months travelling around the outback in the 90s.. Met some brilliant outback cops who spoke the aboriginal languages fluently and really made an effort to integrate and understand the aboriginal people without the racism that was evident in many of the large cities ( back in that time anyway)
I heard a marvelous story from an outback copper back in late 1969 traveling to Alice Springs from Adelaide and Melbourne. One night a bloke was stopped and told he had no tail lights. He began to rant and rave about and he was told it was bad but not that bad. "It's not the tail lights I'm worried about, it's me trailer. What's happened to me trailer?" I never forgot that as well as the accent of the words. Marvelous trip in the outback for me. Great memories of Australia for this Yank.
Night Sky totally amazing, I did a coach camping trip 1984 Australia Pacfic. Great trip especially Cairns to Darwin, all dirt roads then. Night sky no light pollution, felt like you could grab the stars so bright so close! 😂
As an American, I'm absolutely obsessed with everything Australian. The Digger history fascinates me. I would love to move down to Australia and get into Law Enforcement. Aussies are bad ass.
What a nice story. I am writing to you from Asunción, Paraguay. I am passionate about Australia, and mainly about the Australian Outback. I hope one day to be able to visit that wonderful country, see places and its wonderful people. Greetings from Paraguay!
In 1999 we were having dinner in the 'truckies section' of the Kulgera pub, when blue lights flashing, quick siren call, a police car pulls up out the front. In walks the cop with his family. It's his birthday. And hour or so later, they leave, he, behind the wheel of his cruiser, lights flashing etc. Thing was he was as pissed as a newt. Free 'top shelf' drinks the whole time he was there. And if you've ever been to the Kulgera Pub of an evening, it gets very crowded.
Props to those cops out there. As a person that's been an ''amateur cop'' in a remote area. It's always quite difficult to respond to calls. It can take upwards to 30 minutes to get to some of the towns and most of the time it's nothing serious to call the cops for but you just hope it stays like that. We were responsible for 5 small towns and had 5 head officers only with 2 cars. With us amateurs we had 24 people max but when taking the cars out one of the officers has to come of course. Oh and the paperwork... top 10 worst parts of being a cop.
I love the outback. Lived in Wallgett NSW for a brief period enjoyed it a a lot. Borders closed isn't helping can't wait to come back. Miss downunder really bad.
As a cop that works rural isolated areas on FN communities, i can say it’s an experience like no other. Although we have temperatures of -40 Celsius come days. Anyone can work a big city, but you need to be able to think on your feet and handle everything. Your back up is hours away, and you got no detectives or swat team to pass the buck to. Stay safe.
So many questions: So he is the police officer for multiple "towns"? How do they keep the police officer from not being corrupt? Seems like there would be little oversight. What if he needs back up? What kind of helpers does he have at the police station? Is he always on call? Does he get paid a lot more being a remote officer than an officer in a big city? What are the perks? Is the housing covered? Where does he fuel up? I always assumed police fill up at the station. Does a fuel truck make a special stop at the police station? What are the education services like for children in these remote areas? Are the classes all online?
Yes There's remote supervision Wait a long time Zero Unless he's on leave - yes There's a significant financial incentive Housing is covered - yes. Petrol station Nothing's online. Aboriginals teach their own.
@@04smallmj the us has a decentralized system. Each state is technically its own "country", but is part of the "united states" (federal laws, national defense, immigration, etc.). Within the states the counties and cities are also their own "autonomous provinces" in a way. It can be cumbersome at times but the us is purposely made this way as a "checks and balance" system. Im just a layman in civics but it has to do with slowing down corruption and subversion if and when such a thing was to arise. Dont quote me on it tho
Yopops215 wtf. No wonder the us has massive policing problems. There’d be almost no sense of accountability if it’s that decentralised, so I am not surprised American police get away with so much. That seems like there’d be so much abuse of power, and you could just move bad cops around towns like bad priests to different parishes
@@kingtut7213 I don't think that's the issue. Their just needs to be a system in place so that bad cops can't become a cop at other counties. Here in Australia though we still kind of have counties. Each officer is part of a station and that's who they report to. Also, in some cases in America, the amount of people in one county is the same amount of people in one state in Australia.
We were just in Kulgera a few days ago for a couple nights. The road house is like a rotating door where each day around 20 caravans and trucks overnight stayers come in. The staff are also on a work visa which must make it harder for them to deal with the temporary patrons when an issue arises.
I met luke just can’t remember where ... nice guy congratulations mate I think when we meet your son was just born 🙂 god bless him . Good to see you enjoying life
Cool Area to work.. great job out 4×4 ever day into remote areas and everything supplied and payed for ...Dream job and area to work ... Bet they pick another remote area further north after this contract finishers ..
Luke Galey is the only police officer stationed at Kulgera @5:15 shows 2 coppers with a highway patrol vehicle........... @8:10 shows 2 officers riding up front...........
The more I watch about life in the Australian outback and the people that live there the more I envy them. Australian people have always been sincere and honest from what I know
TSV 1860 are a 3 division football team from Munich...Their fans have an obsession with their club I saw a sticker from " 1860"on the opening credits stuck on the side of a sign...
Correct, putting a half eaten orange in with untouched is a bad habit....Also idolising a bush ranger because of romantic notions of being in the spotlight as one yourself is also an unhealthy habit.
The bad part about this job , which ABC interestingly omitted to mention, Is the compounding self defeating process of interacting with alcohol affected communities/a broken system, day in day out without being able to do anything about it. NT cops are paid a small fortune however, because of this.
Often Backpackers drink and drive because the have a ' we're on holiday ' mentality . They seriously underestimate both the distances involved and the utter remoteness of their routes . So many potential hazards, Kangaroos, cows , Camels , drop bears and Ivan Milat type weirdos .
