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Maar hy praat geensins van sy beroep in die verlede tyd nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In sy hart sal hy altyd \u2019n polisieman wees. \u2019n Passievolle inwoner wat die gemeenskap dien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk is gebore om \u2019n blou uniform te dra,\u201d s\u00ea Van Rooyen \u2013 die eerste polisiebeampte in sy familie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy frons liggies: \u201cEk neem met \u2019n swaar hart van die polisiediens afskeid. Ek tree af omdat ek vanjaar 60 jaar oud geword het en nie langer in die polisiediens mag werk nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar was nie een dag dat ek my loopbaankeuse in twyfel getrek het nie \u2013 goed of sleg.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Rooyen het in 1976 by die polisie in Ui-tenhage aangesluit voor hy na die polisie opleidingskollege is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Na kollege is hy na Oos-Londen, Queenstown en weer terug na Uitenhage waar hy by die veediefstal-eenheid begin werk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1992 sluit hy by die voertuigdiefstal-eenheid in Humansdorp aan, en twee jaar later by die speurtak in Jeffreysbaai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>N<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Maar nie eers \u2019n hartaanval kon hom van sy werk weghou nie. Nog voor sy siekverlof verby was, was Van Rooyen terug op sy pos. Gereed om die gemeenskap te dien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy lag: \u201cEk is seker die polisieman met die minste siekverlof op sy rekord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoogtepunte?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOm mense te help,\u201d s\u00ea hy. \u201cEn om deel te wees van \u2019n dinamiese span wat help om misdadigers vas te vat en sake suksesvol op te los. Alles met deernis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk s\u00ea altyd vir my kollegas: behandel die publiek soos jy behandel wil word. Jy weet nooit wanneer jy in hulle skoene staan nie \u2013 wanneer misdaad jou tref nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laagtepunte sluit in moord- en selfmoordsake. 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