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GROUP BRAVERY CITATION, METROPOLITAN REMAND CENTRE – (LONG BAY) RIOT AND HOSTAGE – 23 OCTOBER, 1986 – Stefan D’Silva awarded an Australian Bravery Group Citation   33 YEARS LATER. On 31 March 2020, I was a recipient as part of a ‘Group Bravery Citation’ that had been approved by the Governor-General David Hurley via the Australian Bravery Decorations Council. I am humbly honoured to have received this award, however, I am more pleased for the eleven members of the then Corrective Services NSW ‘Hostage Response Group and Malabar Emergency Unit’ that have been finally recognised for their heroic actions in rescuing my two colleagues and I during a riot at Long Bay Prison complex in the mid eighties. The eleven Assault Team officers had placed themselves at serious personal risk, going into a situation without any trepidation, but with one aim, to rescue the three of us that had been taken ...