One of Wagga’s leading warriors in the fight against domestic violence, is taking his mission to the great white north.
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White Ribbon ambassador Detective Sergeant Phil Malligan will next week venture to Canada, where he will learn from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and work with the nation’s indigenous elders.
The highly sought after, two-week course deals specifically with issued faced across indigenous communities and covers a range of initiatives to successfully work within them.
Sergeant Malligan said domestic and family abuse was a serious problem, especially among the Australian Indigenous population, with high rates of incidences across the region and the state. He said it was an issue mirrored in Canada.
Sergeant Malligan said he hoped to pass on to future police recruits, the skills he learned overseas.
It comes after the Wagga policeman and army reservist last year received a prestigious Prince of Wales Award that put his mission to curb domestic violence on the map.
“Wagga has been hit with come extremely horrific events related to family and domestic violence,” Sergeant Malligan said.
“If there are new initiatives we can implement to curtail (these incidences), we should jump at them.”
As an act of good will, Sergeant Malligan said he would share the work of Wagga Indigenous artist Tyron Lane with the elders of the indigenous peoples in Canada.