While Australia has enjoyed a love affair with British imports in the NRL, Canowindra now has its own.
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Constable Michael Rodham will be taking up the position at the Canowindra Police Station having come from England via a four-year stint in Sydney.
Constable Rodham said he was looking forward to a return to rural life.
"The reason I ended up in Australia was my dad was an officer in the British Army and he got a lateral transfer into the Australian Defence Force," he said.
"Growing up with the British Army a lot of their bases are in rural areas so you become accustomed to living in small communities, everyone knows everyone and that's my comfort zone and wanted to get back to that.
"Sydney is a wonderful city and has a lot going for it but I don't enjoy living in cities, so when this position came up I jumped on it," he said
He said with his wife originally coming from Cudal, the Canowindra position was perfect for his family.
"We have a small 10-month old boy and we didn't want to raise him in the city, we wanted him to have a better quality of life out here with his cousins," he said.
"Inner-city policing is very isolating, in that you have a transient population. A lot of people will come in for work or a night out and you have the high rise apartments but everyone keeps themselves to themselves. There's not that strong community spirit you find out in rural towns.
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"I really enjoyed working in the city, the city stations have a very good group of people working there and I learnt a lot. I could have stayed a little longer but the opportunity to come out came up and it was as if the stars aligned and we thought let's go for it," he said.
Constable Rodham said it had taken him some time to come to the decision to enter policing.
"I always thought I would join the army but my dad sat me down and said, 'look the army has been great for us but it's not the be-all and end-all. Have a think about what you really want to do'," he said.
"There were a few options I was looking at, medicine, paramedics, police, military and forensics.
"I took a gap year after finishing school went to India for four months and trailed a local doctor around and quickly found out I couldn't be a doctor, it wasn't for me," he said.
He then entered university in a forensic science degree which he completed for a year and a half.
"There were aspects I really enjoyed, the crime scene investigation side, where you don a Tyvek suit and start chucking powder left, right and centre. But the laboratory side and the endless number crunching I was struggling with.
"So I transferred into their police and criminal investigation degree out of the University of Central Lancashire and so found that they still did part of the forensic science side but it then went into English law and gearing you up to join the police and I really enjoyed that.
"That's when I did come to the decision I wanted to be a police officer. There was probably a very slim chance of me getting a full-time job in the police force in the UK at the time with government cutbacks.
"So my dad rang up said 'the Australian Police Forces are recruiting and you don't need to be a citizen to get into a state police force, they are happy with permanent residents'," he said.
Constable Rodham said he was excited to meet as many people in the community as he could.
"If anyone wants to have a chat let me know, I consider myself reasonably approachable," he said.
"I'm not one to through my weight around, a lot of my colleagues back in the city have said I'm too old school.
"But a bit of commonsense is what's necessary, rather than throwing my weight around I'd rather talk things through for a little bit longer because communication is my main tool.
"Already people have been so friendly and welcoming, when I've been off duty they've come up and introduced themselves which has been really nice," he said.
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