The nicest man ever

Nov 28, 2023 | Article, This Week's Issue

By Chris Oldfield

BREVET Sergeant Jason Doig – “Doigy” – was a career country cop, a Ducati buff, a technical whizz who liked instructions and, “the nicest man ever”.

Remembering Doigy, last Tuesday with some of SA Police’s top officials, a crowd of 500 mourners overflowed from barriers of orange flags outside Lucindale Police Station/residence, and spread out across Musgrave Ave.
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