By 1994, Tom had risen to the rank of sergeant and was in charge of the station at Mount Thomas, as well as a small one-man station in the nearby town of Widgeree. He oversaw a team made up of traffic officer Nick Schultz (William McInnes), detective P. J. Hasham (Martin Sacks) and wet-behind-the-ears youngsters Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) and Wayne Patterson (Grant Bowler), later joined by a third young officer in Adam Cooper (Damian Walshe-Howling).
