If the couple in Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) T-shirts having coffee with two uniformed ACT Policing officers did not catch the attention of patrons at Café Birrigai overlooking Lake Ginninderra, the dozen or more members of the production team filming them certainly did.

This was just one of the locations around Canberra included in a film shoot that will be used for ACT Policing and AFP brand and recruitment campaigns.

“The film may be used in videos for social media, TV and other media promotions in Canberra and across the country,” explained Jo Hawke, Team Leader Strategic Communications, ACT Policing.

“We will be shooting scenes of ACT Policing engaging with the community.”

NHW ACT’s new Macgregor-Holt Area Coordinator Elias Hallaj and member Lyn Jenkins were so engaged in chatting over coffee with Sergeant Reis and Constable Nugent that they barely noticed the director telling them to “look like you are having a happy conversation.”