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DANNY MIKATI LOOKS OVER THE CROWDS OUTSIDE LAKEMBA MOSQUE AS THEY GATHER FOR RAMADAN PRAYERS IN 2012. PHOTO: KATE GERAGHTY
Bankstown police officer Danny Mikati called a “Signal 1” – officer down or needing urgent help – only once in his career. A day after the Cronulla riots, rumor had spread that Maroubra’s Bra Boys were going to bomb Lakemba Mosque and 1000 people had turned up to defend it. As Italian-Australians and Greek-Australians flew up from Melbourne to join what had quickly become an “ethnics v Aussies” conflict, the crowd swelled from six people to hundreds. Just one police officer was there, Bankstown’s Senior Constable Mikati.
TY BELLINGHAM, RIGHT, WITH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER AND NEWLY APPOINTED CEO OF BRIGHT EMPLOYMENT DANNY MIKATI WITH MAHSHID KARAMINEDJAD. PICTURE: RENEE NOWYTARGER
Nas on Job Path Thanks to Innovative Bright Employment
Nas Alqaisi, 17, was struggling to find work in hospitality when he joined a game-changing youth employment program.“I did find it hard, I didn’t have much experience,” the Punchbowl teenager said.
Luckily, Nas was picked up by Bright Employment, a social enterprise that provides industry-tailored training and job placement in hospitality and commercial cleaning for people aged 17-25.’
A former NSW police sergeant says the federal government is squandering millions of dollars on “deradicalisation programs” when it should be directed towards spaces such as boxing gyms.
Danny Mikati, who recently retired after almost two decades as a senior constable in southwestern Sydney, said countering violent extremism programs were a “cash cow” that were not targeting Muslim youth at risk of being drawn into Islamic State ideology.
ASPIRE ROLE MODELS BIOGRAPHY – DANNY MIKATI
Biographies for the Role Models participating in the LMA ECG program. Here are some answers from his bio.