AUSTRALIAS LAST ABORIGINAL POLICE TRACKER RETIRES Sydney - australias last remaining aboriginal police tracker is retiring, ending two centuries of a practice in which inquiries and manhunts relied on hired bushmen who can read the ground like a storybook. Barry port, 71, has been an of ficer in northern Queensland for 33 years, where the local force says he is the reason for its motto you can run, but you cant hide. During his decades of service, port has used his skills to track escaped prisoners, stolen cars and missing teenagers. He learned to track from his father, a stockman who taught him how to find stray cattle and horses. Sgt. Matt Moloney, the officer in charge of the police station in ports hometown of Coen, said he once watched as the tracker arrived at the scene of a car accident and was able to assess immediately the cause of the crash, including the speed of the vehicle and the precise spot where the driver twitched the steering wheel. I am standing at this pile of dust and thinking: How did he come to this conclusion? everything he said was right, Moloney said. he is a legend. We all look at things but very few of us observe things; he observes things. © Copyright (c) London Daily Telegraph
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:34:21 +0000
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