Regular Meeting Venue: We don’t have a regular meeting venue, we move around all of the time and can usually advise of the location about 1 month ahead of time so keep an eye on the web site and we will advise you each time we have a get together scheduled.
Beth Docksey
Secretary
Murray River RFPA Branch
SECRETARY EMAIL ADDRESS: Click to email the Secretary
UPCOMING GET-TOGETHERS
Unless otherwise advised on the event as to who should be contacted please contact the Social Secretary Christine Eddes by email … Click to email the Social Secretary
Luncheon–Dederang Pub, Dederang, VIC
WHEN: Friday, 26th June 2026 at 12md.
WHERE: 4326 Kiewa Valley Highway, Dederang. VIC. Ph.02 6028 9325
“Presentation of 90th Birthday Plaques to John & Margaret Corcoran. “
RSVP: Tue 23rd June 2026 by SMS, Email, or
Facebook
Coffee & Chat –2640 Restaurant &Café, Albury, NSW.
WHEN: Tuesday, 14 th July 2026 at 10am.
WHERE: 550 Kiewa St, Albury, NSW. Ph. 02 6041 2640
RSVP: Fri 10 th April 2026 by SMS, Email, or Facebook event.
Murray River RFPA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
WHEN: Sunday, 19th July 2026 at 11am.
WHERE: Sailors, Soldiers & Airmen’s Club, Albury, NSW – Skylight Lounge, Level 1, 570/582 Olive Street, Albury .
RSVP: 15th July 2026 by SMS, Email, or Facebook event
Lunch will be supplemented by $10 per Member attending.
All members, former officers, partners & friends are invited to attend however only full and associate members can nominate & vote. (If you are not a member and wish to join now is a good time as membership runs in financial years.)
Applications can be found on the Members Hub Tab on retiredpolice.com.au or by contacting the MR Secretary for details.
Or via this direct link https://www.retiredpolice.com.au/forms/
Further details will be sent out in the next week where we will be calling for agenda items, nominations for branch positions, RSVPs for attendees & apologies.
Please RSVP & join us for this event as it is important for our members and friends to be involved in the meeting and have a lovely lunch together.
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Kind Regards
Beth Docksey
Secretary
Murray River RFPA
0412661738
ALBURY – BEYOND THE BADGE CAREER TRANSITION
FACE TO FACE PROGRAM Tuesday 28th – Wednesday 29th July, 2026 at Thurgoona, (suburb of Albury), NSW.
Participants are welcome from any location and any state to come to Thurgoona, Albury,NSW.
A Face-to-Face program has been organised by Beyond the Badge & Murray River RFPA which will be held at the venue of our generous sponsor the Thurgoona Country Club Resort, Thurgoona. The program is open to all Veterans and first responders from all agencies. You may be serving, transitioning, or have already left an agency.
The programs are conducted over two (2) days from 9:30 am – 2:30 pm, with a follow up session on line for day 3.
JULY 28th & 29th, 2026
LOCATION: Thurgoona Country Club and Resort,
Address – 1 Eversham Place, Thurgoona.
Two Day face to face program
Support Material provided.
Catering provided.
If you are interested in this program, please contact Sean Haran, one of the organisers as soon as possible so we can make the required arrangements to get you booked in.
If you want to talk to Sean Haran or Simon Bradstock about it you can click on the Program Bookings link below, fill it in and they will contact you via text to arrange a confidential discussion regarding the program and or support services.
Program Bookings | BTB Website
Do not hesitate to contact Sean Haran if you have any questions on the number below!
Sean Haran | Director
Dip Sec Risk Management | Dip OHS
BEYOND THE BADGE | Supporting our First Responder Community
Correspondence to PO Box 3, Menai Central NSW 2234
W https://beyondthebadge.com.au
Any issues or info you can also contact us at the Murray River Branch of the RFPA by email or phone call.
Kind Regards
Beth
Beth Docksey
Secretary
Murray River Retired & Former Police Association
M.0412 661 738
Email murrayriverrfpa@gmail.com
BOWLS GR8 FOR BRAINS
Come along and have a fun time bowling, chatting, or just having a cuppa. All members, family and friends are welcome. Bowls supplied and if you have never bowled before we have a coach available to show you how to bowl a good, curved ball. Covid procedures are in place.
When: Every Thursday at 9.30am to 11.30am
Where: Bowling Green, first floor, Commercial Club, 618 Dean Street Albury.
Enter via Stanley Street Carpark entries
Hope to see you all there.
MURRAY RIVER RFPA CLOTHING BROCHURE
MURRAY RIVER RFPA BRANCH COMMITTEE
The following members hold Committee Positions at the Murray River Branch July 2025 to July 2026.
Chair Ken Zegiel
Vice Chair Phil Eddes
Secretary Beth Docksey
Treasurer Ken Medway
Assistant Treasurer/Secretary Christine Bentley
Social Secretary Christine Eddes
Committee Member Brian Rosewarne
Committee Member Graeme Stephens
Committee Member Christine Eddes
Committee Member Louise Stephens
Wellbeing Officer Co-ordinator Louise Stephens
Wellbeing Officer Allan Grogan
Wellbeing Officer Martin Stenson
Wellbeing Officer Christine Eddes
Thank you all for taking up the positions in support of our branch and members. Enjoy the 12 months in our wonderful branch.
Beth Docksey
Secretary
Murray River RFPA Branch
SECRETARY EMAIL ADDRESS: Click here to email the Secretary
OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE MURRAY RIVER BRANCH AND ACTIVITIES
Murray River Branch covers an area from the Hume Highway Albury up to Holbrook, halfway to Wagga, including locations about 45 minutes north of the NSW/Victorian border all the way across past Deniliquin stopping short of Mildura. We also cover the whole of Victoria, have had Tasmanian members, and have former members of the NSW Police Force who reside all over this state as our members. Therefore, we have very broad membership coverage with currently 117 paid members & another 80 who we contact via email. We are inclusive not exclusive; however membership has increased by 75% with this mantra in the last 7 years. We have an Executive Committee that meets bi-monthly and manages all issues relating to the branch including the social activities, welfare, membership, etc., with input sought from branch members prior to the meetings and if they wish they can attend. We have welfare officers that support our members in the broad ranging area of our branch.
As a result of our spread of members, we don’t have regular meeting venues, dates, days of the week or times as we move all around the branch area so that it gives all members the opportunity to get together. We also have our get togethers on different days of the week so that this enables our former and retired members who work or look after grandchildren on various days of the week or weekends to attend our get togethers. We always invite partners, friends, family members, some have young children and grandchildren that have attended our functions which has created great friendships with all of these people.
We have travelled to our Deniliquin members about once per year, down into Victoria on a number of occasions, to locations such as Bright, Myrtleford, Yackandandah, Chiltern & Beechworth and our members in those areas host our branch visits in that location. We have had a number of dinners in Melbourne for our members there and generally try to hold one there at least once every 4-6 months. When we travel around we try to include an activity before such as in Bright we went to look at our member Annie’s art works at her house, in Myrtleford, we went to our member John & Margaret’s Open Garden and Antique Firearm collection, & at Beechworth we went to our member ‘Bruiser’s’ Brew house for some home-made ale. We have also been to the ‘Bald Archie’s Exhibition’ when at Corowa and then the Corowa Chocolate factory after to make huge chocolate freckles & drink lots of various flavoured hot chocolates.
We also have Coffee & Chat get togethers about once a month in locations in Albury and other townships within about 30-50 minutes’ drive from Albury. We schedule our get togethers at our meetings and a couple of weeks ahead we notify all members by email, SMS and create an event on our Murray River RFPA Private Facebook Group. We of course require RSVP replies so that we can book adequate seating. We always generally have a minimum of about 20 people attend our coffee and chats & often 30. These get togethers are quite flexible and we always ask that any of our far flung or other branch members who just happen to be coming through the area to please advise us, even at short notice that they are in the area and we have put on a number of coffee & chats with two to three days’ notice to catch up with them whilst they are here. We have had members, and their partners come through for Coffee & Chats from Tasmania, Deniliquin, Sydney, Mudgee and Far South Coast, to name a few. So, if anyone is in the area or passing through, we only need a couple of day’s notice, and we will have a Coffee & Chat for you.
For any of these activities or information contact the Secretary Beth Docksey via email or phone.
Kind Regards
Beth Docksey
Secretary
Murray River Retired & Former Police Association
Click here to email the Secretary