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Senior Constable Mark Patterson is the kind of country cop colleagues adore and small towns desperately cling to.

Once, determined to apprehend a bloke he wanted a word with, Patterson chased the would-be absconder into the waters of Blowering Dam, one of NSW’s biggest. Back on dry land, Patterson proudly told his boss he’d nabbed the suspect. His gun, though, had gotten a touch wet.

For more than a decade, Patterson’s focus has been protecting the town of Tumut in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains; following in…

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