Your delegates and PSA industrial staff have been busy over the second half of 2025. Here is an update of activities to close out the year.

Additional appointments

Delegates met with management to discuss the concerns our members have around rural enforcement and the dangers posed by some groups within the community who hold particular beliefs around enforcement agencies. The PSA has written to the Attorney General to request an urgent review of equipment and that consideration be given to supplying sheriffs with satellite phones, tasers and firearms. We also pushed for more resources for intelligence gathering and access to intelligence and information databases such as Corrective Services Offender Integrated Management System, JusticeLink and NSW Police Force COPS for regular Sheriff’s Officers.

Discussions with Management will continue.

Forfeited flex hours

The PSA has approached management to consider the amount of flex hours that are forfeited each settlement period and to rectify this by the payment of overtime for any flex hours that are forfeited. The results of the member survey which went out in October showed that over 40 per cent of respondents wanted overtime paid on any leave to be forfeited. The PSA has proposed that the Sheriff’s Award be varied to accommodate the payment of overtime. The PSA will write to management in order to formalise the proposal.

Sheriff’s Office Vocational Branch Advisory Group (SOVBAG) election in March 2026

In early 2026 the election of delegates to the Sheriff’s Office Vocational Branch Advisory Group (SOVBAG) will be due again. The SOVBAG is the union’s elected group of delegates, with each delegate representing different groups of membership within NSW Sheriff’s Office. The group meets quarterly with PSA industrial staff, and then at the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) with NSW Sheriff’s Office management to discuss and progress collective issues.

There are some existing vacancies that will need to be filled. Keep your eye out for the election notice and nominate if you’re interested in working with other sheriffs to improve and maintain conditions. All delegates will receive union training once the Advisory Group has been elected.

The delegates of the Sheriff’s Officer Vocational Branch Advisory Group wish all our members a safe and restful break in the lead up to 2026.

Contacts

Your delegates

Roxanne Lloyd

Glenn Elliott-Rudder

Trudi Peeni

Brian Jackson

Stephen Hancock

William Bell

Murray Crome

Jennifer Horvath

PSA staff

Sharny Chalmers Industrial Officer

Kim Villanti Organiser