Albury has a new head of police …         Superintendent Beth Stirton began her new role in charge of the Albury Local Area Command recently. She’s spent most of her 30-year career in stations in and around Sydney, but is a country girl at heart having grown up in Orange. Supt Stirton  joined the NSW Police Force as a trainee in 1982 at the NSW Police Academy in Redfern. She was stationed in Central Sydney in 1983 as a probationary constable and confirmed as a constable in 1984. Supt Stirton served at Sydney district personnel, eastern suburbs personnel, Hornsby, Establishment Control, North region command, Endeavour region and Kuring-gai until 2002 when she was promoted to the rank of inspector (duty officer) at Eastwood. She also served in this role at Parramatta and Kuring-gai before she was promoted last year to her latest rank as superintendent of the Albury local area command … she has been awarded an Australian Police Medal for services to Policing in NSW.   Supt. Stirton gave us an insight into Policing in Albury with particular reference to alcohol related crime and the pleasing report that this has reduced over the last two years. Progress in this area has been assisted with on-going successful negotiations with the various licensed premises in central Albury.