Police were victorious in last weekend’s 38th annual George Duckett Memorial Shield match after defeating the ‘the Rest’ 12-11 at Police Field.A quick recycle of the ball saw Renegades scrum-half Tom Healy pop to a charging Connor McGlynn who powered over to open the score- 5-0.Rest standoff Tim Pelow missed the conversion, however, and from the restart the Rest continued their forward dominance and relentless pick and drives had the Police on the back foot.Pelow duly stepped up and knocked over a demoralising three pointer to take the score to 8-0.When police winger Neville Zuill was caught isolated, in a rare run by the mercurial speedster, the Rest made their intentions to win the game clear by knocking over another short range penalty to extend the lead to 11-0.With 15 minutes to go in the game, Police were awarded a penalty in front of the post, and swift thinking by the Police scrumhalf saw a quick free kick tap unleash a rampaging Darren Richardson who crushed a would-be tackler to score a well fought try.Kane’s conversion went wide but the Police were back in the game at 11-5.A scrum was awarded and this time big South African Roedolf van der Westhuizen was not going to be denied as he carried three tacklers over the line to put the Police in front 12-11 after trailing for 75 minutes.Tommy Edward skewed the easy conversion wide right to set the stage for a nervy finale.