AUSPOL - Police Welfare Foundation
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AUSPOL - Police Welfare Foundation
AUSPOL – Police Welfare Foundation (PWF) is Australia's National Police charity, assisting serving and former law enforcement officers and employees, and their families and dependants..It was established in 1999 and is an Australian Taxation Office authorised Deductible Gift Recipient.Appeal
The PWF launched its online donations appeal in 2008 in a partnership with Charities Aid FoundationCharities Aid Foundation
The Charities Aid Foundation is a registered UK charity. Its Head Office is located in the King's Hill business park, West Malling, Kent with a second office in London on St Andrew Street, EC4A 3AY...
(CAF) Australia. This included the launch of the single 'St Michael's Day' by the band 'Federal as Anything' which includes prominent Police Officers Australian Federal Police
Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. Although the AFP was created by the amalgamation in 1979 of three Commonwealth law enforcement agencies, it traces its history from Commonwealth law enforcement agencies dating back to the federation of...
Former Commissioner Mick Keelty
Mick Keelty
Michael Joseph "Mick" Keelty AO APM , Australian police officer, was the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police from 2001 to 2009...
and the current Commissioner Tony Negus. All proceeds from the sale of the single on the iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
music store go towards the PWF.
In the wake of the Victorian Bushfires, the PWF assisted members of the Victorian Police that had been badly affected.
Affiliates
The AUSPOL – Police Welfare Foundation is affiliated with the United Kingdom's Police Dependants' TrustPolice Dependants' Trust
The Police Dependants' Trust is a body which looks after the interest and welfare of the families of British police officers who have died or been killed while on duty....
.
The PWF has largely been modelled on the successful Police Dependants' Trust
Police Dependants' Trust
The Police Dependants' Trust is a body which looks after the interest and welfare of the families of British police officers who have died or been killed while on duty....
which has Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as its patron.
Governance
The trustee of the Police Welfare Foundation is the Australian Law and Justice Association Ltd. (ALAJA). Its directors are:- Mr Jon Hunt-Sharman
- Mr Jim Torr
- Mr Jason Parkinson
- Mr Rick Wigglesworth
Applications for assistance are considered by the Benefits Assignment Committee, which comprises two directors of ALAJA (one of whom chairs the Committee) and one community representative who is connected to ALAJA. Members of the Benefits Assignment Committee are appointed by the trustees for a term of 12 months.