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NZ Police Association congratulates Bravery Award 2025 recipients

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The New Zealand Police Association, Te Aka Hāpai, today awarded two officers with the association’s Bravery Award.

NZ Police Association welcomes new president

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Delegates elected Steve Watt as president of the New Zealand Police Association today during the organisation’s 90th annual conference in Wellington.

NZ Police Association Conference 2025: President's speech

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Welcome to the 90th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Police Association.

Police Association: Canterbury restructure "robbing Peter to pay Paul"

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The New Zealand Police Association acknowledges the Police proposal for significant strategic realignment of policing resources across the Canterbury…

Police Association highly critical of coronial findings in death of Shargin Stephens

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The New Zealand Police Association rejects most of the coroner’s findings into the 2016 death of Shargin Stephens in Rotorua.