On the September 9, the official 2015 Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance – Handing over the Baton Ceremony will take place at the Queensland Police Academy, Oxley Campus.
The Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance celebrates and remembers those officers that have paid the ultimate sacrifice and given their lives on duty – as part of National Police Remembrance commemorations.
Open to serving and retired members (sworn and unsworn) and all other friends, family and proud supporters of policing, the ride is not only a wonderful commemoration of service and sacrifice , but also a fantastic social event for enthusiastic motor cyclists across Australia in celebration of the police family.
For further info, the Wall to Wall website is www.walltowallride.com/ Significance of the Baton
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Police Association of Victoria President, Brian Rix travelled by motorcycle to every Capital city in Australia during July 2011 to deliver a hand-made wooden Wall to Wall Ride Baton to each Police Commissioner.
The Batons have been engraved with each jurisdiction’s Police Service Logo alongside the Wall to Wall Ride Logo and have a hollow centre allowing for the names of any fallen members to be inserted and carried by their Commissioner (or an appointed representative) on the Wall to Wall Ride to Canberra.
These Batons forms an important part of the Wall to Wall Ride Ceremony.
The hollow tube can contain a scroll sealed within with the names of any deceased police officers for that particular calendar year, bearing in mind the best result would be that each baton arrives at the Wall of Remembrance empty.”
A ceremonial ritual will mark the presentation of the batons at the Wall to Wall Ride’s arrival point in Canberra.
The vision is that each year onwards, each police Commissioner from each Australian jurisdiction will keep their perpetual baton safe, to be carried by them each year in the Wall to Wall Ride, and containing within its hollow centre a list of that year’s deceased officers.
And in years to come each Commissioner will also hope, as they reach for the scroll inside to discover an empty page.