Doing duty at Auckland’s Covid-19 border checkpoints has ranged from confiscating takeaways to life and death situations, and hours of standing in pouring rain.
Policing is an interesting and rewarding career, but pretty early on we learn it is full of nuances - not always subtle ones - and situations that require practical and workable solutions.
Body-worn cameras for police are touted as a tool for greater transparency and accountability and improved officer and public safety, but recent research shows not all those expectations have been, or even can be, met.
This month, Sergeant Grant Gerken, a senior police prosecutor in Invercargill and former Region 7 director, will be confirmed as one of the Police Association’s two vice-presidents, replacing Marcia Murray who is stepping down after four years.
