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Published on: 10/6/2008
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The message on the police radio call had been a cot death, yet more details emerged as the two detectives - Sarah and her sergeant - stood in the airless room, negotiating for the body to be handed across.Evidently the mother, a known drug-user, had been breast-feeding that evening when falling asleep on top of the baby, suffocating the child.
"It was awful," says Sarah.
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First we venture into Sydney's southwest fringe - Sarah Clark's beat - the frontier wilds of Macquarie Fields with the Domestic Violence Investigation Team (DVIT).
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Sitting beside him is team leader, Sarah Clark, the fresh face of proactive policing.
"Once upon a time," she says, "domestic violence was seen as private business, but community attitudes have changed.
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"A lot of victims want the violence to stop but they don't necessarily want their partner charged," says Sarah, a relaxed mother of two.She joined the force in 1997 when she realised her BA degree meant Bugger-All.
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asks Sarah.Rachel nods to her sister's desk.The offender in the downstairs dock, arrested overnight, allegedly stole his estranged partner's car to drive twice over the same estranged partner.
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