After a rollercoaster auction day which saw two houses passed in –one without a single bid – West Australian cops Britt and Taz have won The Block, walking away $520,000 richer.

The couple, who are already back on the beat in Newman (a remote country town 1800km from Perth) say the life changing prize was a bittersweet victory.

“It’s sort of mixed feelings at the moment, but I couldn’t be more proud of Britt, I couldn’t have been more proud of our team,” Taz said.

“We’re not from the glitz and glamor of the high-end cities that we are staying in recently. We’re just small-town country coppers, and now we can just take a bit of a breath and really just look after the kids. That was our whole plan going forward and that’s what we’ve done.”

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