\u2019n Ou bekende by Wellington-polisiekantoor, adjudant-offisier Nico de Villiers, gaan n\u00e1 meer as veertig jaar die polisiediens vaarwel roep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selfs n\u00e1 al die jare se diens is hy pligsgetrou, lojaal, trots op sy werk en \u2019n mentor vir die jonger polisielede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 sy skoolloopbaan in die Paarl by die Ho\u00ebr Handelskool is hy vort na Pretoria vir sy formele polisie-opleiding by die Pretoria Polisie-kollege. N\u00e1 kort dienstydperke in Springs en Devon, is hy in 1979 op Wellington gestasioneer, waar hy altesaam sewe-en-dertig jaar diens gedoen het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nico is gerespekteerd en bekend onder veral die boere, en hy boesem vrees in by die kriminele. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens sy diensjare was daar nie veel skiet- en mesgevegte soos in die flieks nie, maar hy onthou baie duidelik hoe hulle eendag \u2019n verdagte geboei het en hoe die verdagte hom aan die arm gebyt het soos \u2019n hond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel hy nie meer die beweeglikheid van vroe\u00ebre jare het om kriminele agterna te sit nie, het hy vaardighede ontwikkel om hul op \u2019n ander manier vas te keer. Wysheid kom immers met grysheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir hom is daar steeds min dinge wat soveel bevrediging verskaf soos om \u2019n saak suksesvol op te los. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van sy gunsteling-oomblikke was juis om \u2019n vermoorde se familie in kennis te stel dat die moordenaar aangekeer en agter tralies is. Daar was egter ook vele hartseer tye soos moordtonele, jong kinders wat dood is en mense wat vasgekeer is in voertuie n\u00e1 ongelukke. Ongelukkig is dit ook deel van \u2019n polisiebeampte se werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iets wat hom na aan die hart l\u00ea, is die kameraadskap met sy medekollegas. \u2019n Hegte eenheid wat mekaar ondersteun deur goeie en slegte tye. Wat die publiek nie aldag besef nie, is dat die Wellingtonse polisie onderbeman is en dat die lede baie ekstra ure sonder enige vergoeding werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar Nico voel hy laat die Wellingtonse-polisiediens in bekwame hande. \u201cDaar is genoeg ywerige en hardwerkende dienslede om voortaan \u2019n verskil te maak,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir vier dekades was hy \u2019n polisiebeampte in murg en bloed, maar vir eers is dit tyd vir rus, agterstallige werk by die huis voltooi en tyd met sy familie deurbring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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