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Head of the Re­al Po­lice For Po­lice par­ty, Sgt Zane Bain, says there is an ur­gent need to re­store in­ter­est among mem­bers of the TTPS So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over what he de­scribed as a “low turnout” for the as­so­ci­a­tion’s elec­tions on Mon­day.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day, Bain, who con­test­ed the post of as­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, said the TTP­SWA’s elec­tions have in re­cent years strug­gled to at­tract more than 1,500 vot­ers, de­spite a mem­ber­ship of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6,000 of­fi­cers.

He said through­out his cam­paign, he and oth­er of­fi­cers had stressed the im­por­tance of vot­ing and ini­ti­at­ing change to im­prove their qual­i­ty of rep­re­sen­ta­tion. How­ev­er, he be­lieves more must be done to rekin­dle mem­bers’ en­gage­ment.