The many reviews into the response to Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023 – the most recent at the end of April – have identified plenty of room for improvement. However, few, if any, could fault the actions of police officers at Muriwai the night the cyclone made landfall. CARLA AMOS reports.
I have been watching the recent policy announcement of the New Zealand Government on speed management with increasing alarm. There is a failure to recognise the link between mean travel speeds and road trauma rates.
Retired Auckland sergeant MIKE CORNELL has some sage advice for all Kiwi men regardless of age: Get your prostate checked. Prostate cancer is indiscriminate when it comes to age and it doesn’t always come with symptoms – something that Mike knows only too well.
A group of Police comms staff are lobbying Parliament to amend a law that prevents them accessing ACC cover for work-related mental health trauma in the same way that other frontline staff can.