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.
The word from my Hawke’s Bay colleagues is that mobsters have been stopped with bottles of urine. I’m picking this isn’t due to a lack of public toilets and is much more likely to do with a…
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,…
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…
The New Zealand Police Association says today’s announcement of a new police tactical response model acknowledges that the proliferation and use of illegal firearms has changed this country’s…
With Covid-19 vaccinations for police officers finally gearing up last month, many members are still scratching their heads over why frontline police were not given priority in Group 2 as first…
