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VOLUME 45 | NUMBER 10 | november 2012
plus: Blue light camps
cannabis book review
the collectors
Contents
A policeman’s lot
A policeman’s lot, as we are told, is not
always a happy one, and sometimes
the copper on the beat may feel that
all the world is against him, which
seemed to be the theme of this tie,
worn by Police Association director Jug
Price at last month’s Police Association
Annual Conference. It features a
seagull conferring the ultimate insult
on a bobby’s helmet. For conference
highlights and photos, see pages
251-261.
Police News is the magazine of the New
Zealand Police Association, originally
the New Zealand Police Journal, first
published in 1937.
November 2012, Vol. 45, No.10
ISSN 1175-9445
Deadline for next issue:
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Regulars
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Home Loan Package News
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Iam Keen
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Holiday Homes Availability Chart
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Most Wanted
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On October 23, Acting Police
Commissioner Viv Rickard unveiled a
memorial at Franz Josef in honour of
three policemen killed in a helicopter
crash 26 years ago. Inspector Tony
Lynch, 38, and Senior Constable Bob
Krom, 48, both of Christchurch, and
Constable Doug Dowie, 40, of Dunedin,
died when the helicopter they were
travelling in crashed near Lake Wombat
while returning from a scenic flight
over Franz Josef Glacier. Former Franz
Josef constable Paul Gurney organised
the memorial, jointly funded by Police
and the Police Association, with former
police officer Vince Nolan, who was an
organiser of the 1986 charity run the
officers had been taking part in before
the crash. For Police Remembrance
Day stories, see page 272.
Flashback269
Brain Teaser
269
Keen on Wine
270
Copper’s Crossword
270
Sport271
Letters273
Memorial Wall
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News/views
Unfairly judged
When police come under attack for alleged
botch ups or operational failures, the barbs
are directed at the organisation as a whole,
meaning we all wear the criticism. However,
as we all know, it is the individuals involved
who will feel the blowtorch on their nether
regions as their actions are dissected.
That is why we, as an Association, take
a very proactive stance where we believe
those individuals are being maligned
unjustly, and this often involves attempting
to get the true facts out not only to the
public but also to our members who
generally have to rely on the media for their
information, and can be influenced by that.
Because we don’t write the editorials or
decide who is interviewed, or get to select
which sound bite is used, it can be difficult
to get the facts across.
The recent High Court decision to stay
proceedings against 21 gang members
because detectives, with the permission
of the Chief District Court Judge, put an
agent through the court system, is a very
good example.
The High Court judge disagreed with
what happened, as is his prerogative.
However, instead of criticising the judge,
now deceased, who authorised the action,
he criticised the police officers for not
giving him enough information.
What the public, and many police
observers, were not told was that the
senior officers who briefed the judge were
prepared to give him any information
he required, in any form, but he did not
require any more.
So whether the actions were justified or
not, the point we struggled to get across
was that the criticism should have been
directed at the judge for not requesting
more information, not the police for not
providing it.
Perhaps it was a case of it being much
easier to criticise police than your own
colleague, especially one who had since
died. I wonder whether untimely death
would have spared any of the police officers
from criticism?
The outcome is another beating, largely
unjustified, of several of our colleagues
who were simply doing a difficult and
challenging job
the best way they
could. And, as with
Operation Eight,
the rules have been
changed, mid-game,
by the judiciary and
police take the flack.
The commentators, mostly members
of the legal profession, climbed over each
other to get more outraged at, as Justice
France continually mentioned in his
judgment, the discourteous way the courts
were treated.
Sounds like they all got a little huffy to
me! The real losers are the public of Nelson
who, due to the totally disproportionate
response in staying the charges, now
have an even cockier group of criminals
in their town extending their sphere of
intimidation.
And it has just got a whole lot harder to
infiltrate criminal groups.
president@policeassn.org.nz
A fitting gift: Police Association President Greg O’Connor accepts a framed, official South African Policing Union shirt from the union’s general secretary, Oscar
Skommere, at the end of the Association’s 77th Annual Conference last month. The four-man South African delegation, led by union president Mpho Kwinika, lived
up to their reputation for breaking into song at a moment’s notice and delighted the conference with a rousing African chant during the presentation. See page 261.
new zealand police aSSOCIATION
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Police success depends on ‘investment first’
“Crime and crash
reduction”, “community
policing”, “Policing 2000’,
or “Prevention First” – the
success of any Police
strategy depends on
“investment first”.
That was the message Police Association
President Greg O’Connor delivered to
delegates as he introduced the theme of the
77th Annual Conference in Wellington last
month.
Mr O’Connor stressed that the
Association backed the current Police
strategy of Prevention First one hundred
per cent, but he warned that it would
be increasingly difficult to deliver the
prevention results demanded, on top
of “business as usual” response and
investigative policing, at a time of
shrinking budgets and staff cuts.
Police districts have had budget cuts of
5 per cent and 4 per cent over the past two
years, and will face more as Police try to
find another $200 million in savings over
the next two years.
Ominously, Mr O’Connor told
delegates, “we are seeing the stripping of
Police support staff positions [which] are
all essential to keeping the organisation
functioning efficiently. But the reality is
these jobs can be removed without political
damage, and hence are vulnerable... 170
jobs to date, and growing. And that doesn’t
take into account the impact of removing
individuals from stations where their
duties were far broader than those in the
job description.”
With crucial support staff being stripped
because of budget pressures, there is a
serious danger of history repeating itself,
Mr O’Connor warned. “It’s not that long
ago we saw the same thing happen. Police
focused narrowly on getting the stats
down... unfortunately, it meant that while
we were focused on the most visible and
politically expedient part of the business,
a lot of ‘business as usual’ policing became
underfunded.”
“The Police Association does not have
to consult a crystal ball to predict the
outcome of the significant cuts facing
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“ The Police
Association
does not have
to consult a
crystal ball to
predict the
outcome of
the significant
cuts facing
Police trying to
work within a
budget frozen
for at least five
years.”
– GREG O’CONNOR
Police trying to work within a budget
frozen for at least five years,” Mr O’Connor
reminded the conference. “The same
thing happened in the 1990s, and the
consequences were felt throughout the
following decade.”
Mr O’Connor highlighted as examples
the crisis in Comms Centres, which
came to a head following the tragic
disappearance of Iraena Asher, a backlog of
un-investigated child abuse complaints and
failure to respond quickly enough to an
emerging methamphetamine problem.
Mr O’Connor contrasted the current
Police budget and staff cuts with the
expansion strategy currently being
undertaken by organised crime groups
such as the Head Hunters. The gang had
dramatically increased its numbers recently,
and its new “fight club”, in Upper Hutt,
was “designed to attract potential recruits”.
The gang’s capital investment was backed
by a media campaign that featured a
patched member “speaking articulately and
credibly about how it’s all about harnessing
the energy of troubled youth into the
positive environment of cage fighting”, Mr
O’Connor said.
Overseas gangs, such as the Rebels
and Bandidos, were also expanding into
New Zealand and Police recruiters had
identified numerous gang associates
attempting to join Police – part of what Mr
O’Connor described as a clear infiltration
strategy. Centralisation of Police recruiting,
designed to save money, raised the risk of
undesirable applicants slipping through.
Addressing the Minister of Police ahead
of her opening speech, Mr O’Connor said
Police today was in better shape than it
had been for years, thanks to significant
government investment between 2005 and
2011. The public was seeing the benefit of
that investment in falling crime, and rising
satisfaction with the service that police
were able to deliver. These were precarious
gains, he warned, which would quickly
be eroded if investment in Police was not
maintained. Whatever Police’s strategy, he
reminded the minister, “underpinning
all, and essential to success, must be
‘investment first’.”
INVESTMENT
FIRST
Minister focuses on crime figures
Despite a zero budget, Police Minister
Anne Tolley has set Police a target of
reducing crime by 15 per cent within the
next five years.
Reducing violent crime by 20 per
cent and youth crime (youth appearing
to court) by 5 per cent were two other
goals over the next five years, measures
the minister addressed in her opening
speech at the Police Association Annual
Conference last month.
She described such targets as “ambitious”
but “achievable” and said she had every
confidence in Police to deliver, as not only
was the public’s confidence in Police at an
all-time high, but the crime rate was at a
30-year low.
Statistics for the beginning of October
2012 showed the recorded crime rate was
down by 5.9 per cent, which translated to
22,000 fewer crimes. And results from a
Gravitas survey of 9706 people showed 77
per cent of New Zealanders continued to
have high levels of trust in police – up from
72 per cent in 2008/2009.
“ The right people, in the right places,
at the right time, with the right tools
and skills to do this job.” – ANNE TOLLEY
To continue those trends, Ms Tolley said
it was all about having “the right people, in
the right places, at the right time, with the
right tools and skills to do this job”.
Neighbourhood policing teams were one
way in which higher police visibility was
being achieved, whereas the introduction
of new technology, such as smartphones,
laptops and tablets, meant there was
less double-handing of police data, and
information was able to be shared in real
time, freeing officers up to reinvest time
back into fuelling the frontline.
Despite there being no extra money
available, Ms Tolley said she believed the
crime statistics were already showing that
the new methods were working and were
a direct result of the Prevention First and
Policing Excellence models.
She said the Policing Excellence model
would be fully implemented by the end
of the year, along with the national
rollout of the Victim Focus Framework.
File management centres, criminal
justice support units and investigation
support units were also making a
difference, with completion of the
national rollout of the Crime Reporting
Line in the pipeline.
Ms Tolley told the conference that
change was good because it gave Police
the chance to find ways to work smarter
and better. This in turn allowed Police to
provide the best public service to taxpayers.
Resourcing and prevention
Opposition Leader David Shearer made
a promise to “properly resource” Police
if Labour won the next election, but he
stopped short of making any “funding
commitments” given the country’s current
financial woes.
Speaking on the last day of the annual
conference, Mr Shearer said he understood
law and order was feeling the pinch in
the current financial environment and he
realised tough decisions had to be made.
However, he was keen to steer clear of a
repeat of the Police budget cuts of the late
90s during which the P epidemic began,
Iraena Asher disappeared and there was a
backlog of uninvestigated files.
“You’re doing the best with what you
have,” he told delegates. “But sooner
or later things will start to look a little
threadbare, pressure will come on the
frontline and crime will start rising again.”
He said the Government was not helping
by downgrading its investment in Police.
“In the last two years, you have experienced
4 per cent and 5 per cent cuts and you’re
looking at big cuts again next year in the
midst of inflationary pressures of $24
million.”
“ To anyone who says they can’t afford
it, I say we can’t afford not to. The
consequences of that are just too great.
– DAVID SHEARER
To show Labour’s commitment to the
cause, he said that if his party were back
in power after the next election the Police
budget would reflect the support the
party had for what Police do. “To anyone
who says they can’t afford it, I say we can’t
afford not to. The consequences of that are
just too great.”
Mr Shearer said he wanted to work
together with Police to keep offending
rates down. Labour would work on driving
down the causes of crime to prevent it
occurring in the first place.
“It is an acknowledgement that multiple
adversities like childhood abuse, neglect,
family difficulties and violence, poverty,
inequality and a lack of community
support have a strong association with
future offending.”
”
To curb this Mr Shearer said Labour
would be investing in children by making
sure they had the best start in life.
Three ways they were hoping to do this
was by putting the nation’s most vulnerable
in childhood education by 18 months,
providing food to low-decile schools and
putting measures in place to ensure every
under-20 year old was either earning or
learning.
He said Labour was also keen to look
at innovative ways of dealing with crime,
including the Police Prevention First model,
something which offered opportunities to
drive crime down even further.
“Labour doesn’t just want a great police
force. Our real goal is for New Zealand to
be the safest, least corrupt country in the
world. “
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The new reality
A fundamental shift in the way the public sector is financed and run is presenting challenges
to employee organisations not just in New Zealand but around the world. Those attending
this year’s Police Association Annual Conference heard the same message – austerity,
budget cuts and, worryingly, a trend towards painting unions as part of the problem.
V
ince Kelly, president of the
Police Federation of Australia,
which has 56,000 members, told
the Police Association Annual
Conference: “The reality is that we
are entering a different reality.”
He warned delegates that though
Australia was perceived as having
a “miracle” economy there was
no doubt that it too was entering
a tighter fiscal environment and
it would be naïve to think that
governments would not make cuts
to police. It was already happening
in some states. “Don’t make the
mistake that the government is
going to back us just because we
are cops,” he said.
“There has been a definite
realigning of public and political
opinion, driven by shallow political
leadership and non-existent policy
discussion.”
His message came after a
sobering address from Council of
Trade Unions chief Helen Kelly
who cited a new and powerful
“ideology of austerity” that was
leading to a direct attack on the
public sector and the undermining
of its workers.
“Public services and government
spending are being depicted as
the cause of the global financial
crisis. The collapse of the financial
institutions and the housing
markets has been forgotten and the
attack on public services is on,” she
warned the delegates.
And it wouldn’t be a one-hit
wonder, or short-term pain, she
said. Austerity was here for at least
the next 20 to 30 years.
Ms Kelly acknowledged that New
Zealand Police employees were
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Vince Kelly: “Don’t make
the mistake that the
government is going to
back us just because we
are cops.”
“Few people
will be
aware of the
implications
until police
start slipping
up through
lack of
funding and
take the
blame.”
– HELEN KELLY
Helen Kelly: The CTU recognises the value of a “decent, hard-working and
well-resourced police force”.
very effectively represented by the
Police Association, but she said the
reality now for many other public
sector workers was that union
membership was a risk rather than
a right.
Governments worldwide were
actively undermining public sector
unions in the public eye. “They
are depicting public sector wages
and conditions as sitting outside
the norm... They categorise public
sector workers as backroom
bureaucrats... They paint you as
overpaid and as not working hard
enough.”
Union membership generally
had declined by 2.1 per cent in
2010 and only 21 per cent of
workers in New Zealand currently
benefited directly from union
membership.
Ms Kelly said the public sector
unions were the last bastions of
strong, organised labour. “They
not only fight to protect the terms
and conditions of service for their
members, but also speak up about
INVESTMENT
FIRST
In harm’s way
the value to the community of the
services they provide.”
Ms Kelly said the CTU
recognised the value of a decent,
hardworking and well-resourced
police force. “We also recognise that
you are working men and women
earning a living doing work that is
not easy... We all have an interest
in preserving public services and
making sure that workers like you
are not portrayed as a cost, but are
seen as an investment.”
The effective freeze of funding
for Police was a scandal. “How,
when costs are rising is the police
service meant to continue to offer
even the services it has now, let
alone to innovate or modernise.
It’s wrong, it’s under the radar
and very few people will be aware
of its implications until police
start slipping up through lack of
funding and take the blame.”
There was also an inherent
danger in increasing forms of
casualised and insecure work and
the “growing degradation” of the
work experience that was being
felt around the world. “It has crept
up with the deregulation of the
labour market in the 1990s and the
treatment of employment as simply
a commercial transaction.”
Those who had retained decent
working conditions were now seen
as “privileged, as dreaming, as
unrealistic”.
Ms Kelly warned that changes
on the horizon to employment
law were aimed at undermining
public sector bargaining and
union membership. “While these
changes are not going to target
the police bargaining provisions
directly, it sets the framework and
benchmarks against which your
conditions will be measured.” In
Britain, many police duties were
being carved out and given to
the private sector and there had
even been talk of privatising the
police force.
Police had done the “most wonderful and hard job”
of finding and arresting a suspect in the murder
of Charanpreet Dhaliwal, the 21-year-old Indian
security worker (pictured) who was killed on the
first night of a casual shift at a building site, CTU
president Helen Kelly told conference delegates.
She related the sad story
of a young Sikh man who
had arrived in New Zealand,
with backing from his family,
to study computing.
After completing his
course and while looking
for IT work, Charan, as he
was called, did security shifts
for the 2011 World Cup.
On November 18, 2011, he
called the owner of a small
security firm to ask about
work. None was available
then, but later in the day a
guard asked for the night off
and Charan was contacted
and offered a trial at a
Fulton Hogan building site
in Henderson, Auckland.
Charan was told to bring
his own torch and meet the
employer and the guard he
was filling in for at the site
at 10.30pm. He was given
a 10-minute tour of the site
and left to it. By 4am he was
dead.
Ms Kelly told delegates
that prior to starting
the shift, there had been
no discussion about an
employment agreement and
Charan was not told that
the site had recently been
burgled.
Ms Kelly said there were
several aspects of the case
that were troubling from
an employment perspective.
The company, contracted by
Fulton Hogan, that took on
“Each group think they might be
immune until they are not,” Ms Kelly
said, foreshadowing Vince Kelly’s
warning from across the Tasman.
Voice for the military
Ms Kelly also made a plea on
behalf of the members of New
Zealand’s military who are unable
to negotiate “and, without a union
voice, service men and women
have seen a serious deterioration
in the terms and conditions that
they work under the last four
years. Benefits such as housing and
transport have been reduced and
basic pay has not been increased”.
Ms Kelly suggested that the
Association might consider acting
a voice for the workers in the
military. “They can’t join you as
members, but maybe if they just
had a credible organisation making
comments and demanding better
treatment, these workers will feel
more supported.”
Charan that night is being
prosecuted for health and
safety breaches. The work
that put Charan in harm’s
way – the contracting out
of labour – was a growing
form of employment, along
with casualisation, that was
marginalising workers, Ms
Kelly said.
The CTU is representing
Charan’s family. Ms Kelly
said it was hard to talk to
them about the failings of
the employers, of ACC and
the Department of Labour,
but she was proud to tell the
family about the work of the
New Zealand police force
who “relentlessly” worked
on resolving the case.
Praise for
police pay deal
Council of Trade Unions president
Helen Kelly has congratulated the
Police Association on its recent
pay settlement.
Speaking at the annual conference, she said she
knew it was tough to take a minimal pay increase.
“But for those of us that understand the current
environment and the bigger plans the government
has for public sector wages –in particular to reduce
salary components other than basic salary – the
deal you got is extremely important to the long term
sustainability of the force and your members.”
She said it was particularly important that the
Association had fought successfully to retain servicerelated pay.
“Every bargain has its moment and its context and
I think your union read the current one very well.”
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IN BRIEF
All shook up
Conference delegates had a moving
experience at 12.42pm on Wednesday,
October 17, as a magnitude 5.5 earthquake
near Taupo jolted the 16th floor of the
James Cook Grand Chancellor Hotel in
Wellington. They were in the middle of
important discussions too: changes to
insurance premiums on properties in
Christchurch as a result of the Canterbury
earthquakes. Nervous laughter all round.
Action point
Police Association director Wayne Aberhart
gets 10 out of 10 for effectiveness. During
a Q&A session with Police Minister Anne
Tolley on the first day of the conference,
Wayne fired off a gripe to the minister
about CIB officers who take home cars
when they are on call. Officers are told
that unless they take home a liveried car,
Police will be stung with a fringe benefit
tax. As Mr Aberhart pointed out, that
was a bit tough – they weren’t using them
to go shopping. Ms Tolley agreed and
immediately instructed her assistant to
make a note to look into the issue. Now
that’s an efficient system.
C O NF E R E NC E
Latta day preacher
Profiling at its scariest
Conference delegates and
Police Association staff were
entertained by after-dinner
speaker TV psychologist
Nigel Latta of Beyond the
Darklands fame. Tongue-incheek, but with his finger
firmly on the pulse of Police sensibilities,
Latta delivered a wry commentary on how
he would change the Police Act. Suffice it
to say, his amendments probably wouldn’t
make it too far, but his audience was in
stitches over his suggestion of using a
Section 36 power to bring down the full
force of the law on anyone he, or the Police,
didn’t like, especially if they were being
“stupid” or “really annoying”.
When social
media specialist
Tom Reidy told
the conference
how personal
information on
Facebook can being
used by companies
to profile and
target specific
demographic
audiences, he chose
as an example a
“45-year-old male
from Invercargill, who likes Jim Beam and
Holden Commodores”. He had unwittingly
profiled delegate Sergeant Grant Gerken
(pictured), also known for his snappy suits,
who raised his hand and confessed, “That’s
me!” The next day, Grant introduced
himself as, “Grant Gerken, 45-year-old
male and soon-to-be non-Facebook user
from Invercargill...”.
Kelly laughs
The Kellys were out in force at the
conference, with New South Wales Police
Association president Vince Kelly taking
to the podium after New Zealand Council
of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly. He
noted that she had an excellent surname
and then went completely off topic by
showing delegates a compilation video of
people – and one or two dogs – falling off
treadmills. Watching others take a tumble
is shockingly funny (the Germans probably
have a word for it), which provided some
light relief from the more serious business
of the day. Thanks, Vince.
A spot of
bother
In global economic terms New Zealand
is a “pimple on the world’s bum” or a
“rounding error in the world’s GDP
account”, to paraphrase economist John
Yeabsley, but we still have a part to play in
the world money-go-round and if it starts
moving again, that will make it easier for
New Zealand to follow.
Although our current high dollar
is causing problems for exporters and
de-leveraging (paying off debt instead
of spending) has “created holy hell with
retailing”, the man from the New Zealand
Institute of Economic Research did offer
a speck of hope to delegates at the Police
Association’s annual conference.
Mr Yeabsley said the institute – among
the most consistently accurate of
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Economist John Yeabsley
forecasters, he reminded the conference
– believed there was “room for a gentle
recovery in part driven by Christchurch
spending” as it rebuilt after the
earthquakes. He said Christchurch hotels
International dialogue
Association President Greg O’Connor is
no stranger to doing back-to-back media
interviews, but he said even he was left
feeling a little inadequate when he learned
on the final day of the conference that his
South African counterpart, Mpho Kwinika,
had overnight done five phone interviews...
in five different languages. Impressive.
were consistently full as workers poured
in to help recreate the city.
However, the gloom of recession
still blankets the public service as the
Government considers how to keep
services going without spending more
money.
Mr Yeabsley said that carrying out such
budgeting was incredibly challenging
in the public sector because it consisted
mainly of monopoly suppliers with
no other like services to measure them
against. “What’s the value for money?
How do we measure it? There’s nothing
to compare it to. The task is to cut out the
stuff that’s going to reduce outputs the
least.”
In terms of Police, Mr Yeabsley said
better policing needed smart people, but
inevitably they would be more expensive
to retain in the future. “Finding those
people is always going to be hard and if
you don’t find them, standards are going
to slip,” he warned.
INVESTMENT
FIRST
Adding value in tough times
The crime stats are looking good, but
people don’t join Police because of figures,
they want to work for Police because they
believe in something, Acting Commissioner
Viv Rickard told the Police Association
annual conference. They join for
excitement, the variety and being part of a
team that makes a difference.
The 2010 PriceWaterhouseCoopers
report had slammed the culture of the
organisation and that hurt, he said. From
his perspective, Police culture was worthy
and positive, but there were areas were
Police could improve aspects around
actions and behaviours. And Police still
needed to get better at recruiting and
retaining women.
Meanwhile, looking after each other was
a good place to start, he said.
It was important that when people went
to work, they felt that they were adding
value. Police offered an excellent service to
the public, Mr Rickard said, but it was also
important “how we treat each other”.
In terms of staff engagement, Mr
Rickard said surveys indicated that
the biggest influence on staff was their
“ She’s tough times for all
government agencies.”
– VIV RICKARD
direct supervisor – “the people in the
room” – rather than section heads. Mr
Rickard said he was enormously proud of
Police, who were the second most trusted
organisation in the country (just pipped
by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
Authority) and its community policing and
crime prevention were second to none.
The New Zealand Police Force was small,
relatively, but it was one of the best in the
world. “We don’t have a big jurisdiction,
but we do some stunning things and do
them with humility,” he said, referring in
particular to police deployments in the
Pacific over recent years.
However, there were always new
challenges and Police had to stay relevant
and stay ahead of the game. Initiatives such
as the mobility project were ensuring that
technology was used in a smarter way and
meant more police officers on the street,
where the public wanted to see them.
Neighbourhood policing teams were a
development that was reaping rewards.
It was a tough gig, but it was solving
problems, he said.
When asked about the economy, Mr
Rickard told the conference: “I’m not Alan
Bollard [former head of the Reserve Bank].”
He also had a familiar message: “The
reality is the economy is not in the greatest
place. She’s tough times for all government
agencies.”
He acknowledged that cutting costs alone
was not the best way to get the best out
of staff, but said it helped to have skilled
people leading the charge.
Police Minister Anne Tolley with members of the South African Policing Union.
Delegates at the conference, which was held at the James Cook Grand
Chancellor Hotel in Wellington.
Police College Kaiwawao Kim Ratapu leads the kapa haka group at a powhiri
to welcome international guests to the conference.
Police Association President Greg O’Connor and Vice-President Stuart Mills
hongi with international visitors at the official powhiri.
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2012
Signalling changes at the IPCA
Newly appointed this
year, IPCA head Sir David
Carruthers is looking at ways
to improve the Independent
Police Conduct Authority,
ensuring that New Zealand
Police continues to uphold
its reputation as a “worldclass police force”.
Sir David told the Police Association’s
annual conference that police should be
proud of the wonderful work they were
doing, reflected in recent crime statistics
which were at a 30-year low, while public
confidence in police was up.
His only worry was that those advances
not be compromised in the current
financial environment – a scenario he
said had played out in the 1990s with
subsequent erosion in public confidence in
the Police.
Sir David said he was committed to
working with Police to provide fair, honest
and competent policing. A key component
of that was removing the inability, or
perhaps an unwillingness, to make the
work of the IPCA more transparent. “So,
instead of hitting the headlines only when
we criticise the actions of police, when
reports show that a complaint was upheld
or there is evidence of misconduct, we need
to make sure this is balanced with positive
The first stop
Police are ready to trial
a programme of “early
intervention” with the aim of
keeping staff out of trouble,
on or off the frontline.
The Early Intervention (EI) initiative,
unveiled to the Police Association
conference last month by its newly
appointed manager, Inspector Garth Bryan,
and Bridget Le Fort will begin by the end
of the year, heralded with a rugby-inspired
slogan: Stop, Pause, Engage.
The conference was told that such
programmes have been running in the
United States since the 1970s, and more
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Association President Greg O’Connor welcomes Sir David Carruthers to the conference.
comments when investigations show only
good policing or acts of bravery.”
Making sure all complaints were
attended to in a timely manner was also
important, he said. “We are in the process
of rethinking how we will do this with
Police. We know there are some cases that
don’t need a full investigation or a report,
so we need to instigate measures that allow
us to process these in a more robust way,
so we can avoid being cruel and unfair to
those people whose lives are put on hold
until things are completed.”
Recruitment, training and development
measures were also under review in an
effort to ensure the IPCA was the “best
organisation it could be”.
However, Sir David said he did not
believe the IPCA would benefit from any
coercive powers. “Anything that created
that would change the nature of discussion
and interactions the IPCA has with Police
and ruin all the good co-operation with
Police at all levels.”
Sir David was previously chairman of the
New Zealand Parole Board and throughout
his judicial career has been a Family Court
judge, Youth Court judge, Principal Youth
Court judge and Chief District Court
judge. He was made a Distinguished
Companion of the New Zealand Order of
Merit in 2005 for his services to the district
courts and was knighted in 2009.
recently Australia, so there was plenty of
overseas experience to draw on.
Mr Bryan said that when a constable, for
example, finds him or herself in trouble,
possibly with a proposal to dismiss, the
questions often arise of “why did we not
pick up on this sooner, or do something to
stop it happening”. The EI is hoping to be
that “something” – a system that can spot
the warning signs and nip any problems in
the bud.
“We want referrals. We want to prevent
a good cop from having a bad day one too
many times,” he said.
The key to that is identifying warning
signs and potential triggers. That may
include things such as excessive internet
use, traffic infringements, problems with
the PCT, accruing Toil or excessive file
loads.
The format for EI is non-disciplinary,
voluntary and confidential. “It’s not Big
Brother,” Mr Bryan said. Rather, it is an
informal approach using conversation,
collaboration and assistance. “Sometimes a
chat may be all that is needed. Sometimes
just bringing matters to an officer’s
attention can cause them to reflect on their
behaviour,” he said.
Assistance to an employee might involve
strategies such as extra training, mentoring
or financial planning advice. The idea
is to bring EI into play well before any
misconduct or performance issues arise.
Liz Gooch, the Police Association’s senior
legal officer, told the conference that the
Association believed such informal talks
were a positive strategy for members.
The Association would be watching
implementation of EI with interest.
INVESTMENT
FIRST
Social media minefield
According to statistics, 2.2 million New Zealanders
now use Facebook, with most users checking their
page up to four times a day. This makes Facebook
by far the most popular social media site in New
Zealand, followed by LinkedIn and Twitter.
As social media use grows, so too do the
number of cases, here and overseas, where
employees who post negative comments
about their employers may find themselves
without a job.
Peter Cullen, an employment lawyer,
and Tom Reidy, CEO of Social Media
and Creative Engagement at Catalyst90,
addressed the annual conference offering
cautionary tales and tips on how police
can keep themselves safe when using the
internet and avoid any conflict of interest
with their jobs.
1.Make sure you always keep any personal
profile details you upload on social
media sites as locked down as possible –
make sure all information is secure.
2.Be aware that all information you
view at work can be tracked by your
employer and all information on social
media sites can be accessed by, and is
owned by, social media sites that can
then pass on the details to advertisers.
3.Don’t post anything on the internet
that you don’t want people to know
about because it is impossible to delete
it. This includes making any comments
that compromise the employment
relationship of trust and confidence
between you and your employer.
Mr Cullen also told the delegates
the story of the serving British police
officer who secretly ran a popular,
award-winning, anonymous blog called
NightJack, which detailed his police work
and his personal views on social and
political issues.
“We were told that a tech-savvy
journalist worked out who NightJack was
and was going to expose his identity,” Mr
Cullen said. “NightJack wasn’t very happy
with that, so he sought an injunction
in the High Court to stop it. It became
apparent that he wanted to stop it because
if his employer got to know who he was,
there could be consequences for him... he
thought it was in the public interest that
justice was spoken about and that his right
to privacy was protected.”
However, the High Court refused to
grant the injunction and ruled it was
in the public interest to know who was
blogging about police operational matters.
That was the end of NightJack’s
blogging career and the end of police
employment for one Detective Richard
Horton.
Mr Cullen added: “Would he be sacked
here? Highly likely.”
In a fittingly post-modern postscript,
it turns out that the reporter who exposed
Horton had used computer hacking to
establish his identity. Horton threatened
to sue The Times for damages and has just
settled for £42,500 (about NZ$83,000).
Former Police Association Southern
director and recently retired field
officer Dave Steel, a quiet achiever
of the Association, was nominated
for life membership at the annual
conference. His years of service and
dedication to the Association will
be officially recognised with the
awarding of life membership at next
year’s conference.
Renewed call
for general
arming
The issue of general arming of all
constabulary police officers was
once again debated at the annual
conference. Delegates discussed
whether or not recent changes to
firearms availability, such as the
placing of firearms in frontline
vehicles, had been sufficient to make
full general arming unnecessary.
Delegates were concerned that,
while in some areas access to
firearms had improved, in others the
redistribution of weapons meant
staff in some stations and work
groups now had virtually no firearms
available. This included CIB, who
rely on AOS or armed GDB staff for
support when executing warrants,
and specialist groups such as Team
Policing – a member of which was
recently shot at, at point blank range,
in Auckland.
The reduction in firearms and
Taser training availability was also
of great concern to delegates, with
a considerable number of staff now
likely to be deployed to frontline
duties with little or no firearms or
Taser training.
Following the discussion, delegates
from Counties-Manukau proposed
a series of motions reiterating the
Police Association’s support for full
general arming of all constabulary
police officers. The motions were
adopted unanimously by the
conference.
A full list of conference motions will
be available in the December issue.
At this year’s conference, Napierbased Senior Sergeant Luke
Shadbolt was re-elected as vicepresident of the Association, with
no other nominations received, to
continue working alongside his
co-vice-president Stuart Mills and
President Greg O’Connor.
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Police Home Loan Package News
The new ANZ – the same great
benefits plus even more!
Both ANZ and The National Bank
offer special packages for Police
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exclusive discounts and benefits.
And as you’ve probably heard, The National Bank and ANZ
are coming together under one brand to create the new
ANZ – so you may be wondering what this means for your
Police Home Loan banking package.
The good news is, you will continue to enjoy all the same
great benefits, such as discounts on home loan interest
rates and savings on account fees. The package will be
exactly the same – the only change is that we’re bringing it
all under the ANZ brand.
On a day-to-day basis, you won’t notice much change.
Over time we’ll be re-branding National Bank branches as
ANZ, so the colour will be different – but you’ll be served
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got twice as much choice about where to bank, because
you can do your banking at any ANZ or National Bank
branch.
If you’d like to know more about why we’re making this
change and what it means for you, visit anz.co.nz/more.
And if you’re a Police Welfare Fund member and want to
find out about the anz@work Police Home Loan Package
benefits, simply call our dedicated anz@work team on
0800 722 524 or visit any of our branches.
The package will be called anz@work Police Home Loan
Package and if you are a Police Welfare Fund member you
can apply for it. To find out more about anz@work Police
Home Loan Package please visit: www.policeassn.org.nz/
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The view
from abroad
International guests at the
conference addressed the
delegates. Here is a round-up
of their main points.
AUSTRALIA
It’s not all beer and skittles
over the Tasman. Scott
Weber, president of the
New South Wales Police
Association, said there had
been attacks on members’
sick leave, promotion reviews, bail reviews
and restructuring and metropolitan police
stations had faced staff cuts of 11 per cent.
Although the police were not getting
the “full-frontal assaults” of 2011, when
they lost many of their death and disability
scheme benefits, it was clear that big pay
rises were becoming a thing of the past.
However, one strategy that seemed to be
working in the association’s favour was to
have conversations with the government
behind closed doors away from the media
spotlight.
In relation to police pursuits, Mr Weber
said that, much like New Zealand, it was
an on-going issue in every jurisdiction in
Australia. The way New South Wales had
dealt with the problem was to put the focus
firmly on the offender.
“If you fail to stop for a police officer, it’s
a mandatory dangerous driving charge.”
That can mean three years in prison
and the state can confiscate the offender’s
vehicle.
That also applies to doing “burn outs” or
any racing; the car can be held in storage
for up to two years at the owner’s expense.
SOUTH AFRICA
Mpho Kwinika, president
of the South African
Policing Union, addressed
the conference on the
extreme difficulties of
policing in his country
where “labour and wage disputes hardly
ever occur without lawlessness, violence or
intimidation”.
He spoke of the unrest at the Marikana
mine earlier this year, where 34 mine
workers and two police officers were killed.
Mr Kwinika said that perhaps the most
surprising aspect of the tragedy was
that “everyone was so surprised it had
happened”. “We were rightly shocked,
but should have expected such an event
for a long time...We have to put up with
lawlessness, violence and intimidation to
such an extent that they have become part
of the culture in which we address our
differences in public.”
Violent protests, where illegal weapons
were carried, occurred frequently.
There had also been strikes by health
workers and municipal officials. During a
strike by security guards, 60 people were
thrown to their deaths from a train. “No
one was prosecuted and there is scarcely
any political leadership to put a stop to
violence as a means of bargaining in our
democracy,” Mr Kwinika said.
He lamented the “ease with which police
officers are considered fair game” and the
lack of support for officers. During the
seven days he had been in New Zealand,
four police officers had been killed in
South Africa. “We can look for reasons for
this from the apartheid policing era, 20 or
more years ago, but it does not serve as a
justification.
“If police officers order protestors to
make way or to not cross a picket line, the
order must be obeyed. That distinguishes a
democracy from anarchy.”
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However, Mr Kwinika observed that, in
the present political climate, he believed it
was impossible to achieve labour peace in
South Africa.
TONGA
Fiela Faeamani is an
executive member of
Tonga’s fledgling police
association, formed in
March 2011. He explained
to the conference how
the association came into being following
dissatisfaction among police staff, of which
there are 400 in Tonga, over opportunities
for promotion.
About half the staff were involved in
a petition to the prime minister, which
was unsuccessful. By the time a second
submission was made to the Speaker, Mr
Faeamani said police were ready to go on
strike.
The Tonga Public Service Association
(TPSA) stepped in and met with the former
Tongan Police commissioner, who agreed,
firstly, not to discipline staff who had
signed the petition and, secondly, that an
association could be formed, affiliated to
the TPSA.
Since then, however, they had faced many
challenges, Mr Faeamani said, including low
membership, discrimination from senior
police staff and continuing unfairness in the
promotion process.
The association was also pushing for fairer
wages and looked to the New Zealand Police
Association for inspiration and advice.
New Zealand Police Association
President Greg O’Connor said it was
admirable that the Tongan police had had
the courage to start a new association. “We
in New Zealand have had the benefit of
those who have gone before to establish
what we have today.” He wished Mr
Faeamani good luck and said the New
Zealand association would be keen to help
in any way it could.
South African Policing Union delegates Tumi Mogodiseng, Kgaogel Magagula and Oscar Skommere singing at the conference.
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Feature
Lighting
After almost three decades of charity
work, the Blue Light organisation
is this month due to sign a new
memorandum of understanding with
the body that it works most closely
with – Police. Ellen Brook reports.
P
olice and Blue Light are set to
reinforce their long-standing
relationship with a new
memorandum of understanding (MOU)
that will promote and strengthen their ties.
Blue Light CEO Rod Bell says the
MOU being signed this month is part of
promoting the work of the charity and
acknowledging the on-going commitment
from Police in allowing officers to take part
in its events and activities.
He’s also keen to shine a light on
the often unsung heroes of Blue Light
projects – the police officers who quietly
get involved in the organisation’s work
with young people. The Blue Light Life
Skills and Leadership camps have become
one of the organisation’s most successful
strategies for helping disadvantaged young
people and breaking down barriers between
“at-risk” youth and police. Mr Bell says
the police officers who join the camps do a
fantastic job at that grassroots level.
Constable Hamish Adie, a youth aid
officer in Pahiatua, is gaining a reputation
as a bit of a life skills guru after attending
Taking part in a leaderless task – in this case,
figuring out how to making a path over a creek.
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nine of the one-week camps. Like other
police officers involved with Blue Light,
part of his role is to identify young people
aged between 14 and 17 who might benefit
from the camps. Good news spreads fast
and now he has kids asking him to take
them along, and not just the “at-risk” ones.
Hamish says the camps often end up
being a revelation to the kids – after
they get through the first day. That’s
when the rules and boundaries are laid
down, including no cigarettes, caffeine or
alcohol and, for some, toughest of all, no
cellphones. However, Hamish says, they
never miss the phones and have usually
almost forgotten about them by the end of
the week.
They’re too busy making new friends,
learning new skills, being challenged and
having fun.
There were 19 camps this year, organised
by Blue Light in conjunction with the New
Zealand Defence Force, the Police, the NZ
Air Force and the NZ Navy. They take place
at Trentham (24 places) in Upper Hutt,
Hobsonville (40 places) in Auckland and
Burnham (20 places) in Christchurch.
The costs of the course – $1000 per child
– are funded by Blue Light, with a family
donation of $150, if they can manage it.
The Defence Force provides a facilitator and
three police officers take part in each camp.
Wayne Roycroft, the Blue Light youth
programme mentor, from Auckland,
says many of the kids that attend the
camps have not done well at school – “the
academic world has made them feel like
The coming year is going to be a
significant one for the New Zealand Blue
Light team. The organisation is marking
30 years of charity work and has also
been selected to host the International
Blue Light conference and Youth Event
for 2013. More than 100 international
guests, including many police officers
from Britain, Australia and the Pacific
region, will attend. NZ Blue Light is also
due to launch the Blue Light Foundation
in 2013, which will be dedicated to
raising money to fund its work, done
in conjunction with Police, helping
vulnerable and underprivileged children.
failures” – and are actually “kinesthetic”
learners (ie, they learn by doing) who
benefit from a more physical classroom.
On the Blue Light camps that includes
taking part in paintball, bush craft,
confidence courses, swimming and
camping. At the more mundane, but no less
valuable, end of the spectrum, it also means
simply getting up in the morning, getting
dressed, making your bed and cleaning
your room.
They are also given “leaderless” tasks
that involve practical problem solving and
competing among each other to complete a
challenge.
The Trentham camps take place under
the experienced eye of Youth Life Skills
Platoon Commander Neil Norman and
the police referees are with them every step
of the way, taking part in all the activities.
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Constable Marc Kiely, of Lower
Hutt road police, who joined in last
month’s Trentham camp, says: “You
can’t ask them to do things if you’re
not prepared to do them, too.”
The beauty of the police
participation is that by the end of
the week, the kids don’t see them as
“cops”, but as ordinary people, part
of the group. “They find out they
are human beings,” says Neil.
Hamish says that how much a
young person gets out the course
is up to the individual, but all
the participants take something
positive away with them. From his
point of view, they are certainly
easier to talk to afterwards.
As for quantifying the outcomes,
it’s mostly anecdotal, but Hamish
cites the case of one 16 year old he
referred to the course who went on
to become head boy at his school.
Programme mentor Wayne says it
“unequivocally makes a difference
– police officers on the ground can
see that”. One of the key factors is to
extend the contact built up during
the camps. The officers are expected
to keep in touch with the kids and
their families through phone calls
and visits.
It’s a one-shot chance for the
kids, with only one camp offered
per child, but, as a testament to the
camps’ success, there are repeated
requests to come back.
Senior Constable Warren Sloss,
from Napier, who is on the Blue
Light national executive, attended
his first camp last month. He
said it was obvious that young
people responded well to having
boundaries and that the camps
fitted in well with the Police
Prevention First model.
Such matters would have been
far from the minds of the three
boys from the Trentham camp
who padded over, dripping wet,
after a session in the Police College
swimming pool, to tell Police News
what they thought of the camp on
day two.
They all agreed that the first day
was hard – another boy had even
packed it in because he found it
too much – and the two-minute
showers were tough, too, but no
one could argue with “learning”
time in the pool. That included
swimming skills, life-saving and
inflating a pair of trousers to act as
a buoyancy aid.
Jordan, 14, said he thought the
camp would help him get a better
attitude. Caleb, 13, admitted that
sometimes he did need a bit of
discipline. Pearce, 14, smiled a lot.
And one way to a lad’s heart that
seemed to be hitting the spot was
the food – they all agreed it was
fantastic. At the formal ceremony to
mark the end of the camp, the boys
Senior Constable
Warren Sloss, top, with
the group, and above,
giving top student
Dmitry Wright his
certificate at the end of
the camp. Photos: NEIL
NORMAN
wore T-shirts with the slogan, “I
survived the Blue Light experience.”
For one in particular, Junior Leti,
16, from Porirua College, who was
named as “most improved”, the day
brought special reward when some
of his college mates turned up to
see him complete the course. Junior
said he’d learnt that you have to
get to know people, especially cops,
before you judge them.
For more information
on Blue Light and its life
skills courses for 2013,
visit the website,
www.bluelight.co.nz.
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efore the cycling started, Graham
and his group of nine Kiwis and
three Swiss soothed their jetlag
by spending some time at the renowned
Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara
where they got close to lions, cheetahs,
elephants, hippos and rhinos.
Graham is an outdoors type of bloke,
but he also likes the finer things in life, so
he made sure that once the cross-country
cycling tour got under way it included a few
luxury stopovers for saddle-weary riders.
Although some of the terrain was pretty
rugged, the support vehicles (a 20-seater
bus and four-wheel drive Land Cruiser
with a crew of five) that went on ahead
and prepared lunch and dinner, and
comfortable accommodation at the end of
the day, certainly eased the way.
The route from the town of Arusha in
the west to Pangani on the coast involved
500 kilometres of cycling and a 250km bus
journey.
The first day’s riding was tough, says
Graham. Although it was only 12kms,
much of it was on gravel mixed with lots of
boulders. “It felt like a power plate session,”
Graham says. Gradually, the road ran into
firm desert sand, which made the going
easier and the group was distracted by
camels along the way to a Masi camp, where
a full-size tent with beds and an ensuite
awaited. The Masi tribesmen had a fire
going to heat water with which they filled
a roof tank to provide much-appreciated
hot-water showers for their guests.
The second day’s cycling was 40km
through desert tracks. “We saw very few
people. It was like riding off to nowhere,”
Graham says. But the riding was fantastic,
he says, topped off by luxury lodge
accommodation at the end of the day.
The third day’s travel took the group to
higher ground, through a landscape of red
dust, heading to the small settlement of
Kamwanga. Graham says the locals were
amazed to see them. “I guess they don’t
see too many white people, let along geeks
dressed in Lycra and all different colours
and with sunglasses.”
No lodges at this stop. Pup tents were put
up in the grounds of the school.
Cycling past locals going about their daily activities.
The facilities extended to two long-drop
toilets and a tiny room with a 20-litre
bucket of dirty warm water to wash with.
“It was basic at its best,” says Graham, “but
what a truly memorable experience. The
kids sang to us and were so interested in us
and us in them. It was very humbling.”
The next day produced some brilliant
mountain-biking with a 90km trip taking
in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro, through
savannah forests, a banana plantation and
“through someone’s back yard, just avoiding
their washing”, ending up at Lake Chala. The
pup tents were up again, but this time in a
beautiful camp that is home to 300 elephants.
Then it was on to a hotel stopover in
Maranga before travelling 250km by bus to
the Usambara Mountains and its cliff-top
accommodation. The cycling moved up a
gear as the group headed even higher towards
Muller’s Lodge, 97km away, accompanied
along the way by children crying “jambo”, a
Swahili greeting.
What goes up must come down and the
next day the riders got to freewheel for about
30kms over single tracks, across creeks and
through a green belt before ending up at
a mission house, hosted by nuns... with
cold beer.
The last day was a speedy run over dirt
roads to the coast to the comforting warmth
of the Indian Ocean and a camp with a
swimming pool on the beach. Bliss.
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Feature
Memories are made of these
Many police employees collect official memorabilia.
Graham Morrell, who runs the 111 Club, has a special
reason to continue his hobby, he tells Deb Stringer.
O
f all the items Sergeant Graham
Morrell has collected over the
years, a police teddy that belonged
to his late son Ian remains front and centre
of his police insignia collection.
Graham has been building his impressive
collection for 33 years and although it
includes more than 5000 badges, patches,
hats and teddies from around the world,
Sergeant Ted Moriarty will always be his
most prized possession.
“My boy Ian who died when he was 14
was really into collecting like me, so we
thought it was fitting to deck out his ted
with a custom-made police uniform and
add a miniature long-service leave badge
and give him his own QID [Ian’s date of
birth] to pay homage to him.”
These days Ted Moriarty spends a lot of
time in the Napier forensic photographer’s
office, a job Graham has held for 32 of the
37 years he has been with Police.
Ted Moriarty does venture out on
occasional field trips, including to the
annual Police 111 Club’s Swap Meet held
in Taupo. Graham has been running the
club since the mid-90s and membership is
open to all emergency service enthusiasts
throughout Australasia, with its annual
meeting giving its 31 members the
chance to display their latest and greatest
collections.
A shield in memory of Graham’s son
is awarded each year to the person who
is voted as having the most impressive
collection.
“It’s really nice to have the shield because
it’s just another way to keep my boy’s
memory alive. It is one of the central
reasons why I continue my commitment to
the club,” Graham says.
Graham’s memorabilia includes British
badges, K9, Air Support and Police
Ted Moriarty belonged to Graham’s son Ian, also a
keen collector, who died when he was 14.
Graham Morrell says internet sites such as TradeMe and eBay have killed off some of the trading aspects
of his hobby, which may be a problem with a silver lining, as he’s running out of space for his collection.
A defunct badge for
Nyasaland, now Malawi.
Academy displays along with his most
recent collection – badges from countries
that no longer exist or have changed their
names, such as Nyasaland (now Malawi),
New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea and
Irian Jaya) and Yugoslavia (now divided
into several regions).
Getting insignia is not always easy, says
Graham. “These days, websites like TradeMe
and eBay have killed off the trading aspect
of the hobby, which is a shame because now
everyone expects something from their tatty
old patch or badge,” he says.
Composing handwritten letters to
build-up international contacts is another
aspect of the hobby that had died out since
the introduction of technology. “I would
have written hundreds of letters over the
years and although I still get to make some
contacts via email and have made life-long
friends, it’s not quite the same and a couple
of years back I was thinking I may have to
stop collecting because I was finding it very
hard to access the things that were missing
in my collection.”
That feeling subsided though and
Graham is now on the hunt for a helmet
from the City of London Police to fill a gap
in his collection.
“Even though I don’t actively collect hats,
this collection has grown to over 100 with
the most recent addition being a helmet
from the Isle of Man.”
Another stand-out in his hat collection is
an Italian feathered Lucerna, traditionally
worn by the Italian police, which he picked
up eight years ago.
Although there are many items out there
that Graham would love to have in his
collection, he says he is unsure how long he
will continue to collect simply because he
is fast running out of room to store all his
treasures.
“It has definitely been a hobby which I
feel has enriched my life and I guess I will
continue to do it as long as it makes me
happy,” Graham says.
Another hobby of Graham’s is restoring
old photographs. He is interested in
hearing from anyone who wishes to have
old police photos restored. Graham can
be contacted at graham.morrell@police.
govt.nz.
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View from the bottom
BY CONSTABLE IAM KEEN
This column is written by a frontline police officer. It does not represent the views or policies of the Police Association
Where’s
everyone
gone?
I once tried my hand at tertiary
studies. For a boffin who went
to school to eat lunch and have
a smoke behind the bike sheds,
this was very new territory.
It wasn’t all wasted, though,
and I’ve used bits of it over the
years.
Something that really stuck
with me from Management
101, and was in almost
every textbook the university
kindly sold to raise funds for
retired academics, was that
organisations should place
their people as close to the
coal face as possible and those
supporting the front end should
be located as close to their
colleagues at the coal face as
possible.
I remembered this as I looked
around at vacant workspaces in
our police station.
“Where’s everyone gone?” I
asked the Senior.
“Centralisation, lad. They’re
down at district headquarters
running the new prevention
machine.”
Now, don’t get me wrong
here, I’m all for this Prevention
First. It’s getting the results, but
I can’t help wondering if it was
necessary to physically shift
so many of our colleagues and
build back room mini-castles
(castlets) to support the new
inspector jobs created seemingly
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at the expense of senior
sergeant positions.
Proximity to the action means
a sense of ownership, pride and
job satisfaction for our support
staff. Information is passed on
first-hand and not through a
series of filters where it can end
up resembling something else.
This maybe the e-era, but you
can’t send a computer to run
an errand and they will never
replace the benefit of interacting
with your colleagues, which,
I recall from the engagement
survey, was the No 1 reason folk
enjoy this job.
I rang the old staff senior
about some repairs needed in
the locker room. He’s now a
“workforce manager” down at
DHQ. He told me that repairs
were not his job anymore.
“Who gets stuff fixed for us
now?” I asked.
“The O/C station will have to
do that,” he replied.
I was about to say that
the O/C station’s position
had disappeared, when I
realised those last bastions
of grandfatherly support are a
bygone era and I’d be left behind
if I didn’t get with it.
I still miss all my buddies from
Intel, etc. Many staff still in our
station have new bosses at DHQ
who send them off doing other
stuff and not what we once all
did as a team.
There’s a silver lining,
however; I now have my own car
park in the back yard.
Te Puna Reo
the spring of language
In the first of our new regular feature promoting te reo
for police employees, Sergeant Paddy Whiu, of the
Police Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Services team, explains
some basic greetings that would be used in everyday
interactions with family and members of the public.
1. Tena koe
Greetings to you (singular)
2. Tena korua
Greetings to you both (plural)
3. Tena koutou
Greetings to you all (three or more)
If you are talking to someone alone, the first phrase is
used (tena koe).
When there are two people you would like to greet, in the
street or when you have the opportunity when speaking
to a motorist where there is the driver and passenger, the
second phrases is appropriate (tena korua).
The third phrase is used when you are talking to three or
more people (tena koutou).
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Notebook
Weed killers
Cannabis: New Zealand Police
Drug Enforcement
By Rex McDowall
Published by WilsonScott
Publishing
Reviewed by Ellen Brook
N
ew Zealand
Police have been
battling cannabis
growers and dealers on
the ground, at sea and
from the air for more than
50 years, enforcing the
laws of the land.
Former drug squad detective Rex
McDowall, in his recently released book
Cannabis: New Zealand Police Drug
Enforcement, has compiled an insider’s view
of the on-going campaigns. While he notes
that it’s a war that will never be won by
Police, he describes it as an “unforgettable
experience” for the officers involved. His
enthusiasm for the work comes across in his
illuminating and often exciting collection of
stories and photos.
To put the police response in context,
McDowall provides a clear history of how
marijuana use and cultivation developed
in New Zealand, from its incarnation as a
medicinal herb to its popularity in the 30s
and 40s among bohemian musicians and
artists. Reported offences involving cannabis
were virtually unknown then, but that began
to change in the 1960s, as New Zealand
opened up to the rest of the world and drug
smuggling started in earnest.
The government’s reaction was to set up
police drug squads in the main cities, although,
as McDowall writes, most officers were at
a disadvantage as they had no idea what a
cannabis plant looked like or smelled like.
They soon became familiar with it,
writes McDowall, as the number of people
experimenting with it and using it regularly
grew. “Between 1955 and 1963, the number
of people charged with any drug offence
never rose above 40 but in 1972 alone, 700
people were charged with drug offences.”
Some cannabis was being grown in New
Zealand, but intermittent harvests meant it
couldn’t meet demand. More enterprising
dealers looked to Bangkok, where the drug
was freely available and cheap enough to
guarantee a profit back in New Zealand.
In the late 1970s, the majority of cannabis
in New Zealand was from Thailand, but
The crew unload the helicopter after a successful trip to Whatamango Bay,
near Port Underwood, in the Marlborough Sounds, in 2009.
McDowall says local
growers were quietly
cultivating and developing
their own product
in isolated areas of Coromandel and
Northland.
As Thai authorities eventually clamped
down on drug smuggling and Police and
Customs also kept the pressure on at home,
the importation of cannabis became riskier
and tailed off to some extent.
What hadn’t changed, however, writes
McDowall, was the demand for cannabis by
the youth of New Zealand. “While one trade
door was closing, another one, home-grown
cannabis, was opening.”
Resourceful growers were hybridising
their crops, raised from imported seeds, to
produce strong, healthy and potent plants.
There were plots throughout the country,
but the most popular growing spots were in
Coromandel, Northland and the East Coast.
McDowall writes that plantations ranged
from thousands of plants hidden in deep
bush down to “cheekies”, small plots of up to
10 plants grown close to the side of roads for
easy access.
He says the early ventures were the work
of otherwise honest and law-abiding citizens
and “much of the trade was carried on
peacefully and in an almost gentlemanly
fashion”. But, “slowly and surely, the career
criminals came on board and over time they
came to dominate the trade at all levels”.
The scale of the dope-growing operations
triggered a full-on battle between growers
and police, with all the attendant ruses and
undercover (literally, in the case of the dope
plots) tactics on both sides.
When the drug squads realised they
couldn’t successfully find and destroy
all cannabis plantations on foot, they
took to the air. By the mid-70s, they were
experimenting with using aircraft to seek
out crops hidden in bush and sometimes in
corn fields. Police officers were lowered by
rope to hack down the plants and transport
enormous bundles of dope back to a field to
be burnt.
McDowall, who joined Police in 1978
and was posted to Hamilton, became
a drug squad detective working on the
Coromandel Peninsula. He draws on many
of his own bird’s-eye view experiences of
being choppered in to remote cannabis
plantations, hauling away hundreds of
plants and the close calls with angry
growers deprived of their cash crops.
He describes in detail the successful
and not-so-successful operations; the
near misses and fatal accidents; the
struggles with Police bureaucracy, budgets
and government legislation; and the
technological developments and No 8 wire
strategies that often kept officers one step
ahead of their adversaries.
It makes for a stirring story – a sort of
Kiwi green “Underbelly” – including an
eye-opening account of the dysfunctional
Patrick and Jennifer Norton-Bennett and
their gruesome rampages.
McDowall takes a measured and
sometimes wry view of the cannabis
industry. He notes that, whatever the
rights and wrongs of cannabis, it’s not the
lowly plant per se that is the problem, “but
the murders, beatings, thefts of firearms,
money laundering and other crimes”
associated with it that are the target of
those involved in the on-going cannabis
eradication programmes.
Cannabis: New Zealand Police Drug
Enforcement, by Rex McDowall,
WillsonScott Publishing, will retail
for $65 in bookshops, but Police
Association members can buy the
book direct from Rex for $50 plus post
and packaging ($5). You can contact
Rex on nelfish@xtra.co.nz.
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most wanted
Building up your apps
Luther, the prequel
There are heaps of “couch
to 5km” running apps
available these days. Most
are based on interval
training – a mix of highand low-intensity periods
that aim to build your
cardiovascular fitness.
Police Association industrial officer – and
our unofficial running app tester – Alice
O’Connor started with the Heavy Duty
Apps free 5K Runner programme, which
includes the first four workouts. Alice liked
the clear and easy-to-follow format so
much that she bought the full 5K Runner
app, which covers eight weeks with three
workouts each week. It starts at 25 minutes,
building to 45 minutes. The sessions
include a warm up and cool down, plus
links to stretching videos. A voice tells you
when to “start running” or “slow down
and walk”. Alice says: “The programme
pushed me but is totally achievable. What
surprised me the most was how quickly I
increased my fitness; I actually look forward
to heading out for a run now.” Heavy Duty
Apps also sells a 10K Runner and 21K
Runner app. www.heavydutyapps.com
Wellington-based author and screenwriter
Neil Cross has been awarded the Ngaio
Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel 2012
for his prequel to his award-winning BBC
TV crime thriller Luther. Judges said the
“unflinching, brutal and brilliant” Luther:
The Calling was a “magnificent tale”. DCI
John Luther, played onscreen by Idris Elba,
(who also plays Stringer Bell in The Wire)
is a compelling character to watch, but
the judges said the book added even more
layers and
intrigue to
the hulking,
volatile
policeman.
The final
events in
the book
mirror those
portrayed at
the start of the
TV series. So,
if you missed
the show, this
book could
be a good place to start; then move on to a
boxed DVD set to watch over the summer.
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Fish out of water
Thursday Night Live at the Auckland
Fish Market combines seafood, wine
and live jazz music. If you like any one
of those, you’ll probably enjoy a visit
to the Auckland waterfront where the
market is located in Jellicoe St. It’s a
busy place, kicking off at 6am with the
wholesale seafood auction, which is open
to the public, then the retail section
opens up – boutique food and wine
stalls, fishmongers, restaurants, cafes
and a cooking school – followed by the
night market. You can wine and dine on
dishes such as seafood paella or prawns
gremolata, or just window shop at the live
tanks and whole wet fish stalls. And, there
are lots of free tastings.
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Notebook
flashback
Tall
tales
When Senior Sergeant Barrett
Rutledge succumbed to an
internal illness at only 51 years
of age, it was a terrible shock
to his family and colleagues.
No one could believe that
the imposing and seemingly
indestructible Barrett Rutledge
would no longer be seen around
Auckland.
He had served as a police
officer for 32 years, in postings
throughout New Zealand, and
was enormously popular.
Newspaper reports at the
time remarked on the universal
respect given to Barrett by his
colleagues and each report
emphasised his size and “manly”
qualities: he was “a big, strong
man”; he had a “magnificent
physical stature”; he possessed
“thorough manliness”.
He was also blessed with
good humour, geniality and a
“willingness at all times to help
a brother officer”.
At 6ft 6in (2 metres), he
held the distinction of being
probably the biggest man in the
New Zealand Police Force at
that time. He might have been
a gentle giant to his friends, but
he was also the scourge of “slygrog” sellers from Wellington
to Auckland among whom he
no doubt used his size to great
advantage.
When he was posted in
Wellington, he was at the Mt
Cook Station, at that time
considered an area that “needed
strong, firm methods”, which
Barrett was able to provide.
He was renowned for his
ability to sniff out unlicensed
hotels or liquor stores. A photo
of him posing with some of the
results of his sorties shows his
more irreverent side.
When Barrett made his
untimely exit from life, he left
behind a wife and four children.
One of his sons, also named
Barrett, but nicknamed Big Ben
because he too was well over six
foot, went on to become a traffic
officer in Devonport, where he
cut a striking figure on point
duty on Marine Parade. He
also died relatively young, aged
54, from the same illness that
plagued his father – a duodenal
ulcer.
Today, a Rutledge descendant,
Anna Gibb, works in the
Police Association accounts
department. She says she grew
up hearing stories about her
famously tall, almost mythical,
great-great grandfather and his
son. Her grandmother, Dorothy
Miranda (daughter of Big Ben’s
brother, Richard), supplied the
photographs and information
for this story.
– ELLEN BROOK
1. Which Beatles song
features the names
Vera, Chuck and
Dave?
2. What are you
supposed to give/
get for 40 years of
marriage?
3. What type of cloud is
normally associated
with thunderstorms?
4. What does a
lepidopterist collect?
5. In which British
cathedral is the
Whispering Gallery?
6. What side of a coin
is obverse, heads or
tails?
7. Cascade, horsetail,
plunge and tiered
are all types of what?
8. Which colour ball is
worth three points in
snooker?
9. Frigophobia is the
fear of what?
10.Which 1980s pop
group were named
after a 1960 film
starring Robert
Wagner, Natalie
Wood and Pearl
Bailey?
Answers:
1. When I’m 64
2. Ruby
3. Cumulonimbus
4. Butterflies
5. St Paul’s
6. Heads
7. Waterfalls
8. Green
9. Being cold
10. Fine Young
Cannibals
Barrett Rutledge in uniform and posing with the results of a sly grog raid.
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Notebook
Keen on wine
by Ricky Collins
Ngatarawa Wines
Ngatarawa Wines are based at
Bridge Pa on the western edge of
Hawke’s Bay’s Heretaunga Plains.
Two families, the Corbans and the
Glazebrooks, got together in 1981
and converted old racing stables
located there into one of New
Zealand’s first boutique wineries.
Eighteen years later, Alwyn and
Brian Corban took over complete
ownership of the business and have
continued to produce a wide range
of excellent wines. Ngatarawa have
entry wines listed under the Stables
name. Their Silks range is a step up
in quality from the Stables, while the
Glazebrook range highlights distinct
regional flavours. Finally, the Alwyn
is their flagship label of premium red
and white wines produced only in
good vintages.
I recently went along to a tasting
delivered by well-known wine
distributor Norman Chan and
tried a selection of the Ngatarawa
Glazebrook and Alwyn wines. Here
are my thoughts on my picks from
that tasting.
2012 Ngatarawa Glazebrook
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
– RRP $19
This wine was only just released
and is bursting with delicious
fruit flavours. While this is actually a
Marlborough sauvignon blanc it sits
distinctly in the tropical fruit flavour
spectrum that is more typical of
Hawke’s Bay fruit, with just a hint of
herbaceousness on the finish. There
is definite acidity there, but it’s not
overpowering like many Marlborough
sauvignon blancs are. Overall, I
found it a very drinkable, enjoyable
and well-balanced sauvignon blanc.
2010 Ngatarawa Glazebrook Black
Label Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay
– RRP $29
I really enjoy chardonnays that aren’t
too creamy and retain a reasonable
level of acidity, and this Hawke’s Bay
chardonnay does just that. It has
lovely, lifted tropical and stonefruit
aromas that also show on the palate.
There’s also some nuttiness in the
wine’s flavour that gives it some
complexity, and it has very good
length. Overall, this is a quality wine
that is well priced at under $30.
It starts with
blackberry,
plum and
clove
aromas...
There’s a bit going on in this
interesting and inviting wine. It starts
with blackberry, plum and clove
aromas. On the palate there are
concentrated black fruit flavours,
by Constable Cunning
2010 Ngatarawa Alwyn Chardonnay
– RRP $34
For just another $5, the Alwyn
Chardonnay is a step in class from
the Black Label Chardonnay. It
displays pure quality with layers of
different aromas coming through,
followed by a blend of tropical,
citrus and stonefruit flavours with
a slightly nutty edge. The distinct,
long-lasting white peach notes on
the finish makes it stand out as a
classic North Island chardonnay.
This is a delightful example of one
of my favourite white wine varieties.
2010 Ngatarawa Glazebrook Black
Label Hawke’s Bay Syrah – RRP $34
COPPER’S CROSSWORD
complemented by some savoury
notes and a tasty fruitcake finish.
The tannin structure is firm but
fine and there is definite length to
it. It’s a very well made wine that
showcases New Zealand’s real
ability to produce this style of wine.
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1. Someone described as crazed enough to kill? (9)
1. Assists (5)
7. Respite (6)
2. Data; news (abbrev) (4)
9. Meet with (6)
3. Small island (4)
11. Show off? Big head? (5)
4. Lags behind (7)
13. Dish out (5)
5. Goes to hearing after stalemate (11)
14. Spools used in filming? (5)
6. Put own title to (11)
15. Adam had one apparently (3)
8. Revitalises (9)
17. Leaving (5)
10. Watered (9)
18. A transgression (3)
12. Movie add on? (7)
19. Hikes over distances (5)
16. The width of something (7)
20. All up? (5)
21. Travels around (5)
22. Fearful and scary (5)
23. Carve (4)
25. Strangest and weirdest (6)
24. Atom, bit (4)
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26. Smells (6)
27. Scottish prairies? (9)
Across: 1 . Homicidal, 7. Relief, 9. Liaise, 11. Noter, 13. Issue, 14. Reels, 15. Rib, 17. Going, 18. Sin, 19. Treks, 20. Total, 22. Eerie, 25. Oddest, 26. Odours, 27 Highlands.
Down: 1. Helps, 2. Info, 3. Isle, 4. Loiters, 5. Arbitration, 6. Personalise, 8. Energises, 10. Irrigated, 12. Trailer, 16. Breadth, 21. Tours, 23. Etch, 24. Iota
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Phone: (04) 238 3139 Email: info@policesport.org.nz Website: www.policesport.org.nz
Sport
Sevens heaven at first tournament
P
olice Rugby League held its first
sevens tournament in Wellington last
month at the New Zealand Police
College. Teams from around the North
Island took part, including first timers and
seasoned players.
In the over-35s grade (masters), the
Globe Coppers, a combined team from
Waikato/Bay of Plenty, picked up the
trophy against the Auckland Chargers in an
entertaining match. Lafaele Filipo, a former
New Zealand A representative and British
rugby league player showed he still has
some great skills. And Auckland Chargers
captain John Nelson ran around like a 25
year old, not the 50 year old he is.
In the open men’s grade, several players
impressed, especially the Central Cyclones
from Palmerston North. Mainly rugby
union players, they played like seasoned
league players as they took on the league
teams from Auckland – the Counties
Manukau Saints and the Family Pak team
from Avondale. Eventually, the Family Pak
team, coached by Constable Ron Ram from
Avondale, took out first prize. After playing
some entertaining and fast rugby league,
they were deserving winners.
Before the weekend kicked off, players
gathered at the college on the Friday night
for a barbecue dinner and were entertained
by guest speaker Sir Peter Leitch, aka The
Mad Butcher. Tournament organiser Tony
Feasey said it was the first time Sir Peter
had done a speaking engagement where he
talked solely about his experience in rugby
league. He usually also talks about his life
growing up in Wellington and how he came
to be The Mad Butcher. Before he started,
he told his audience: “I don’t mind telling
ya, I’m bloody nervous, mate.”
Tony said Sir Peter had them in raptures
as he recalled his days as the Kiwis manager
and the “Warriors 19th man”. “There is
nothing pretentious about him, he speaks
straight from the heart and tells it like it is,”
Tony said.
As the patron of Wing 295 at the college,
Sir Peter is also a supporter of the Police
and Police Rugby League. As a token
of appreciation, New Zealand Police
Association President Greg O’Connor
presented Sir Peter with the New Zealand
Police colours that had been flown over
Parliament building and a letter from
Prime Minister John Key.
The next day, Tony said, Greg and Sir
From left, head of NZ Police Rugby League Inspector Gary Allcock, Sir Peter Leitch, NZ Police coach
Frank Endacott, Police Association President Greg O’Connor.
Detective Vaughan McAllister and Sergeant John Nelson, of the Auckland Metropolitan Police Fencibles
team, share a moment during the tournament.
Peter were back supporting the teams
as they played in near gale force winds.
Joining them on the sidelines was the head
of New Zealand Police Rugby League,
Inspector Gary Allcock, and current New
Zealand Police coach Frank Endacott,
casting their eyes over potential players
for the New Zealand Police team that will
compete in the Police Rugby League World
Cup in England next year.
Tony said plans were already under way
for the next sevens tournament next year.
“It’s about having fun and participating.
Next year we hope to have three grades
running: masters, men’s open and
women’s.”
He said the organisers wanted to thank
Darryl Bovaird, Bryan Laumatia, Marcus
Chawner, Sam Bennett and Dy Tahiwi
for their help in running the day and Peti
Kiwha and the catering team at the college.
Also, he said “a massive thanks to Detective
Simon Taylor for travelling to Wellington
and refereeing the games”.
“Police Rugby League would like to
thank both the New Zealand Police Council
of Sport and the New Zealand Police
Association for their continuing support.”
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Remembrance Day
The huia pin pledge
The wider police family
gathered on Monday,
October 1, to mark Police
Remembrance Day, which
falls on September 29, with
ceremonies around the
country.
At the Royal New Zealand
Police College in Porirua,
the Governor General,
Sir Jerry Mateparae, and
Police Minister Anne Tolley
attended a wreath-laying at
the college’s Memorial Wall,
which honours all officers
killed in the line of duty.
Sir Jerry made special
mention of the Police
Remembrance Pin,
designed and developed
by the Police Association
and worn proudly by
members and others when
they honour the loss of
precious lives. He said it was
appropriate that the funds
raised from donations for
They also served
Inspector
Steve Greally
at the Nelson
Rememberence
Day service.
Photo: NELSON
MAIL
the pin went to a trust set
up to benefit the families of
those who had died.
At the ceremonies around
New Zealand, a roll of
honour of the names of the
29 serving officers slain on
duty over the past 126 years
was read out, along with the
names of 11 serving staff
who died in the past year.
The names of 67 former
staff who have died in the
past year were also read
aloud.
Police Association
President Greg O’Connor,
who attended the ceremony
at the Police College, said it
was nice not to be focused
on an immediate tragedy,
but rather to be able to
reflect on all the sacrifices
since the first death in 1890.
For more Remembrance
Day photos, see our
website, www.policeassn.
org.nz, and our Facebook
page.
First name on the roll call
Earlier this year, Loma Metherell, the
grand-daughter of the first New Zealand
police officer to be killed on duty, died aged
98 in Hamilton.
Mary Loma Lois McLeod was born in
Auckland on August 15, 1914, the third
child of post office clerk Henry McLeod
and his wife, Mary. Henry was the son of
Neil McLeod (pictured), who is particularly
remembered each year around Police
Remembrance Day (September 29) as the
first name on the roll call of the 29 police
officers killed in action.
He was shot in the heart on July 30, 1890,
by gum digger Henry Funcke, a passenger
on a steamer ship heading from Dargaville
to Auckland. McLeod was travelling
with his family to take up a new posting.
Funcke began behaving aggressively and
brandishing a rifle on the boat. McLeod
and another officer disarmed him and the
boat returned to Dargaville where he was
put off.
On the wharf, in a fit of rage, Funcke
pulled out a hidden pistol and fired several
shots at the departing ship, one of which
struck Constable McLeod in the chest and
killed him. Funcke was later acquitted of
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the crime on the
grounds of insanity.
McLeod’s son
Henry, who fought
in the Boer War, died
during the 1918 flu
epidemic.
Loma met and
married English
accountant Bill Metherell during a visit
to Malaya in 1937. They settled there, but
Japan’s invasion of Malaya meant Bill was
called up to join the British forces.
Along with their baby daughter, Mary
returned to New Zealand and was not
reunited with Bill till four years later. They
settled in Hamilton and had four more
children.
Loma was a supporter of young mothers
and, later, she devoted much of her time to
advocating for people with disabilities. In
1981 she was awarded the Queen’s Service
Medal for service to the community and in
2002 she was given a Hamilton civic award
for outstanding service to the city.
Loma died on September 28. She
is survived by her five children, 18
grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
When police dog Gage was shot dead in
Christchurch in July 2010, he became the
23rd New Zealand police dog to die in the
line of duty.
Gage died at the scene outside a house in
the Christchurch suburb of Phillipstown
after his handler, Senior Constable Bruce
Lamb, had also been injured by the
gunman.
Prior to that, in 2007, police dog Enzo
was drowned during a manhunt in the
Kaimai Ranges in August 2007.
The canine roll call
Gage, killed in Christchurch, July 13, 2010.
Senior Constable B Lamb
Enzo, killed in Tauranga, Aug 9, 2007.
Constable K Cording
Duke, died in Oamaru, senior, Feb 18, 2003.
Constable W Phiskie
Valour, killed in Kawerau, Feb 8, 1998.
Constable B A McLeod
Mal, died in Auckland, Oct 3, 1996. Constable
S Salmond
Jock, shot in Matata, Jul 17, 1994. Constable A
J Staples
Kone, died in an accident in Christchurch, May
18, 1994. Constable A Phillips
Spike, stabbed in Tauranga, May 15, 1994.
Constable J Roff
Rex, died in an accident in Wellington, Oct 20,
1992. Constable G Gwyn
Ryka, shot in Auckland, May 15, 1992.
Constable S Shadbolt
Lance, killed in Dunedin, Oct 18, 1991.
Constable C Edge
Josh, killed in Auckland, Mar 25, 1989.
Constable C Howard
Rada, shot in Hastings, Dec 18, 1989.
Constable G Diver
Ozi, burnt, retired, in Tauranga, Oct 27, 1988.
Constable E Gorrie
Sarge, killed in Auckland, Oct 12, 1984.
Constable E Gorrie
Luke, shot, retired, in Auckland, Oct 28, 1983.
Constable J Donald
Panzer, killed in Auckland, Jul 11, 1983.
Constable G Bradford
Ebba, run over in Auckland, Mar 2, 1983.
Constable E Gorrie
Jon, killed in Christchurch, Nov 3, 1982.
Constable G Stock
Barlow, died in Wellington, Nov 21, 1979.
Constable A G E Rowlands
Thor, run over in New Plymouth, Jul 28, 1977.
Constable D McKibben
Nick, shot in Wellington, Dec 4, 1975.
Constable M Cameron
Nero, died in an accident in Napier, Nov 24,
1972. Constable D Painter BEM
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Several ceremonies were held in Christchurch last month, attended by police officers, colleagues and families,
for the handing out of 3600 Canterbury Earthquake Citation ribbons. Photo: NEW ZEALAND POLICE
Proud to accept ribbon
Commitment, pride and respect make up
the “CPR” that keeps the heart and soul of
Police going. It was those three qualities that
kept the Canterbury Police going during the
response to the February earthquakes. So
it was disappointing to read the letter from
Darryl Sweeny (Police News, October) about
the awarding of a Canterbury Earthquake
Citation ribbon.
Darryl does not speak on behalf of the
other 4999 Cantabs, of which I am one, who
were anything but average in getting through
this event. I don’t want members around
the country to think that all of us here in
Canterbury are ungrateful for the efforts
made by their fellow officers, both from here
and elsewhere, in helping to work through a
very difficult set of circumstances, so please
don’t take Darryl’s response as being that of
the rest of us.
There are still many members here who
are dealing with the aftermath while still
performing their duties. If Darryl wanted to
take the time out to speak with the welfare
officers about their workload, as I do in my
role as a director, he might understand this.
The commitment, pride and respect
shown by all those involved were
outstanding. Many local members had
the stress of coping with their personal
circumstances while still delivering an
exceptional level of commitment to the task,
pride in what they were trying to achieve
and respect for their community that was, as
far as I am concerned, “above and beyond”
the work normally expected of them. That
was right through the organisation, from
non-constabulary members, who stepped up
to do night shifts, handing out equipment
and support, through to the big bosses, who
took on the responsibility and faced public
scrutiny.
It was because of this that the Police
Association sat down afterwards with the
then district commander, Dave Cliff, and
discussed the options for acknowledging
those involved. Police saw the “CPR” that
went into the response and, rightly, sought
a way to reward all, while also including
individual recognition. I applaud Police for,
this time, getting it right.
There are many more members who
deserve individual recognition than those
who will receive it. Many people in service
do not seek such recognition for themselves,
but to belittle the efforts of others because
of one’s own self-effacing feelings is
unacceptable, in my view.
By the time you read this I will have been
standing down the line from Darryl, and will
have received my small piece of collective
recognition. I will wear it with pride. To the
staff of Canterbury, in particular, I say, wear
yours also, don’t hide it away. The “CPR” you
all showed during and since those times has
been outstanding.
CRAIG PRIOR, NZ Police Association
Director Region 6
Change of heart on medals
Darryl Sweeney’s take on medals (Police
News, October) was interesting and I would
like to comment, as I have a different view
on the same issue. I have served overseas
twice, for which I have five medals (Timor
and the Solomons) – two for long service
(TSB and Police), and, finally, one for
bravery.
I must confess that for many years I was
uncomfortable with the ease with which
these medals came along and, for the same
reasons Darryl expressed, they all lived in a
drawer.
Like Darryl, I considered I worked just as
hard here in New Zealand and frequently
got involved in duties just as dangerous (or
more so) than when I was overseas, so I
just felt more at ease if I did not wear them.
Part of the discomfort was down to the five
I got for two deployments, which seemed
a bit over the top. And, yes, the occasional
teasing didn’t help.
So what changed? It was not a single
event, but over recent years I have become
more involved in mentoring younger staff
and, whether I like it or not, that makes
cops like me something of a role model.
I have also come to realise what Police as
a group and myself as an individual are
achieving on the national and international
stage and to accept that, in some way, these
ribbons identify my privileged involvement
in these matters.
As for the teasing... it depends who it is.
For those who have not earned the right to
utter stupid comments, I have a withering
glare that sends an appropriate message.
For the others, I just con them into buying
me another beer.
So, Darryl, if you are uneasy about your
medals and ribbons, pop them in a safe
place, because I am sure there will be a time
when you will change your mind.
MURRAY STAPP
Hamilton
Typists and outsourcing
In relation to Glenda McFarlane’s letter
(Police News, October), referring to a
previous Iam Keen column (Police News,
September), I would like to make a
comment.
Over the years there has been a significant
increase in the number of DVDs/videos
presented for transcribing. Although our
typists work very hard to complete them,
sometimes we are required to outsource the
work. “Management/business planners”
decided it was a better option to outsource
the work, rather than have a local typist
work overtime to complete the jobs. I don’t know the full figures, but I
do know that the person who did the
outsourced work charged a very high rate
– higher than what it would have cost to
have a local typist work overtime. Was logic used here? Is this the right
attitude in the financial environment we are
in? You decide.
POLICE TYPIST
North Island
Arming senior police
I have been approached by and have spoken
to many shift senior sergeants and shift
inspectors who are all worried that the
decision to not allow them to be armed
(and continue to undertake Police firearms
training) places them at personal risk as they
will always press forward and be close to the
action, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing
their job.
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Many of these bosses I have known for a
long time and have trained for many years
– their concern is genuine and I pen this
matter for them, but not on their behalf.
This decision does not allow them to
maintain their firearm and tactical skills, or
revise situational awareness alongside a team
in a training environment. This situation
precludes them from leading a team directly
against the dangerous offender.
In a situation where the offender
cannot be contained and isolated, the
Police response shifts to making “contact.”
Make contact! – a co-ordinated tactical
manoeuvring by a team to bring about the
arrest of the dangerous offender. Command
and control becomes the critical issue and
arguably cannot be done from the rear,
where the operational commander has
no feel for the ground, or the changing
situation, or the need to slow, or up, the
tempo of the police mission.
This would be contrary to the principles
of TENR.
• How can our training and tactics be the
best that can be developed if monetary
constraints limit the number of sworn
staff for firearms training and/or
operational deployment?
• Why are our operational commanders not
training alongside their teams?
• How can the AOS commander have a
Glock pistol on his hip, when, in the
absence of the AOS commander, it falls on
the shift commander to perform the same
task from what might be the same place
on the ground?
If the frozen Police budget is hindering
progress in terms of not enough money for
training and not enough money for buying
more Police firearms, then how about we
buy our own weapons and train in our own
time?
Some of our cops have even said they
would pay for their own ammunition.
I am way out in left field, but there are
always solutions, some not as obvious as
others.
NICK ‘DIEHARD’ HALL
Auckland
Credit to security officers
I am writing about the publicity regarding
the 5 per cent drop in crime reported to
the New Zealand Police as a result of their
“crime prevention programmes” for the
previous year.
Having left Police in 1998 and having
been involved in the training of security
officers as a tutor for the past 12 years, I
would like to acknowledge the thousands of
unsung heroes in the security industry who
are currently involved in public protection
and the prevention of crimes and other
matters related to keeping the peace.
Many security officers, after attending a
fulltime, 21-week, L3 National Certificate
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in Security (an NZQA-accredited course),
are involved in roles of crime prevention
that the past generation of Police members
would be familiar with: mobile patrols; beat
duty; events; public gatherings; guard duty;
criminal courts; hospitals; and shopping
malls.
I think it is appropriate to remember that
the Police do not have a monopoly on crime
prevention; there are many others involved
in the same sphere.
Obviously, I am not passing judgment on
the statistics of 5 per cent mentioned, but
I respectfully suggest that members of the
security industry have contributed to the
good news for the New Zealand public.
MURREY DEARLOVE
Auckland
Don’t mention the killers
As a former member of Police and as
someone with an abiding interest in Police
history, I have for many years been attending
the annual Remembrance Day service at the
Royal New Zealand Police College. I initially
thought the information in the programme
was quite appropriate, but, over latter years
(2009 to be precise), I became concerned
that while this was a day to remember those
killed, the printed programme was, in its
own small way, remembering the killers.
Take, for example, the death of Sergeant
William Cooper – shot and killed at
Koiterangi in October 1941, along with three
of his constables. Cooper’s name appeared
just once in the 2009 Remembrance Day
service programme, but the name of his
killer (who also killed Cooper’s staff)
appeared four times. If I was a relative of
any of those four officers I would have
been offended by the inclusion, especially
a repeated one, of the offender’s name
in a programme that was supposed to
memorialise and remember those murdered,
not the murderer.
I initiated some correspondence with the
Police College, as a result of which, from
2010 onward, the names of the offenders
have been removed from the Remembrance
Day service programme. So it grieves me
to see that Police News persists in printing
the names of those who have killed police
officers, as witness the recent articles relating
to the deaths of Len Snee and Duncan
Taylor. The printing of offenders’ names
only reinforces in the minds of readers
who those killers were and I do not think
it is necessary to sully the good names of
those who have died by incorporating in an
article about them the name of the person
responsible for their death.
It will take a long time – if ever – for
offenders’ names to be removed from the
minds of the public, but the action taken
by the Police College is a small, but notable,
step. Also notable was the recent, and
deliberate, omission by Jim Sutton, host
of Radio New Zealand’s Sounds Historical
programme, of the offenders’ names when
he referred to the anniversaries of the
killings of Constable Vivian Dudding at
Wellington in October 1919 and the killings
at Koiterangi. In my view, those omissions
did not detract from the relevance and
appropriateness of his remarks.
As this is a “police” publication, by all
means let us remember, memorialise and
read about those who have died while in the
lawful execution of their duty, but, please,
let us have no mention of the names of
those who have caused us to have need to
remember.
TREVOR W A MORLEY
Wellington
The NT allure
After 20 years in the New Zealand Police,
close to the top band sergeant wage and
$24,000 as a district councillor, I resigned
and joined the Northern Territory Police.
Yes, it was a big move to leave my comfort
zone, family and cold weather, and I did
enjoy my time in Police and living in New
Zealand, but life is all about new experiences
and challenging oneself.
Yes, we led a comfortable life, but I felt
it was a struggle to get ahead. I was also
concerned with the opportunities for our
kids after they left school, potential low
wages and the cost of living.
I probably would have chosen Western
Australia or Queensland Police, until I saw
Darwin and the lifestyle on offer; then, there
was no contest.
We get free accommodation for as long
as we are employed by NT Police. For
example, $700 a week for a near-new, threeto four-bedroom house (ie, equivalent to
gross earnings of $50,000 before tax). So, if
you add that to our starting salary package
of about A$90,000 (includes 9 per cent
super), one would have to earn A$140,000
(NZ$170,000) in the private sector. Yes,
that’s right, I am looking at effectively a 50
per cent pay rise as a constable in NT. Oh,
and we currently get a 3 per cent annual pay
rise plus competency service increments.
Of course, that does not include the
double time for any overtime (of which
there is plenty on offer; full shifts, too,
including court attendance and triple time
if it’s a public holiday). One sergeant earned
$220,000 last year.
Darwin is a very modern, multicultural
city, with an international airport and ferry
services to the islands. The population is just
120,000, and rush hour is like Palmerston
North – ie, just add five minutes to your trip.
It has loads of markets, and our kids are very
happy at their new school, which is just two
years old.
There is plenty to do at the weekends –
free water parks, restaurants on the wharf
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overlooking the harbour and the Darwin
Viaduct. Less than two hours away there are
“croc-safe” lakes, waterfalls and swimming
holes at Litchfield National Park.
The weather is hot – around 33 degrees
Celsius currently – and it’s sunny every day.
But, after 40-odd years living with six-week
summers, it’s a nice change, I assure you.
The Police culture is similar to New
Zealand and almost paperless, thanks to the
PROMIS system, which is not unlike NIA.
There are only 1100-odd police here. Police
auxiliaries take care of the front counter
and watch-house, leaving police to frontline
work, although there is a bit more computer
work/data entry work here.
Police powers are quite incredible. For
example, with drink drivers, they get
arrested on suspicion, then processed if they
blow over on the evidential instrument,
with no bill of rights and no right to blood.
Offenders have no automatic right to a
lawyer, but can phone a friend and are
afforded the caution only.
The powers of entry and arrest are very
strong here and the increased powers have
amazed me and the 13 other former Kiwi
cops who took part in the accelerated
training course.
NT Police have a low turnover of 4 per
cent, but they are recruiting an additional
120 cops next year. So, if I have whetted your
appetite and you want a new challenge and
to enjoy summer weather, have a look.
STEVE GIBSON
Northern Territory
Old-school Waikato policing
Not a day goes by but somewhere in New
Zealand death or destruction is caused by an
intoxicated motorist.
Over the years, despite the amalgamation
of the Transport Department with Police,
and road pursuits, road blocks, road
screening, new breath and blood test
procedures, when a case gets to court many
weeks have gone by on a “not guilty” plea
with the offender still driving until the case
is proved.
Perhaps we are doing this the wrong way?
I recite this as a constable at the Hamilton
Police Station in 1957. I was seeing Senior
Sergeant Ron Sutherland in his office when
a knock on the door frame showed Stewart
Hardy, stipendiary magistrate. He said, “It’s
near Christmas and there is likely to be a bit
of drinking and driving going on. I want you
to spread the word around that anyone who
comes before me for DIC should bring their
toothbrush with them because they are all
getting 10 days’ imprisonment and loss of
licence with no excuses.”
Word was spread – through the local
newspaper, radio station, probation service
and licensed premises. There wasn’t any
trouble in the Waikato that year, or the year
after.
As a beat constable on the Friday night,
I counted about 20 bicycles outside the
Hamilton Hotel.
BRIAN WALTERS
Papamoa
Keep up the harassment
I read the article “Beginners guide to police
harassment” (Police News, September) at
the recommendation of a friend. I found it
very humorous and well put together. I don’t
think I have ever read a rebuttal that was so
tactful and yet so “take that”. Keep up the
harassment!
Editor’s note: We had a huge response
locally and internationally to this story
submitted by “a North Island police officer”
and posted on our website. The Kiwi cop’s
contribution was a customised version of a
web posting that appears to have originated
in America in 2009 and has been doing the
rounds of police stations there ever since.
Thanks to Police News, it has now spread
even further.
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(027) 268 9407
Waikato, BOP and Eastern Districts
Graeme McKay
(027) 268 9408
Central and Wellington Districts
JJ Taylor
(027) 268 9409
Tasman and Canterbury Districts
Dave McKirdy
(027) 268 9410
SHERYL KELLY
Perth, Western Australia
Our sympathies to all our members’ families for those who
have passed away in recent months. We remember…
30-Dec-11
10-Jan-12
12-May-12
6-Jul-12
9-Jul-12
5-Sep-12
11-Sep-12
16-Sep-12
19-Sep-12
27-Sept-12
5-Oct-12
6-Oct-12
7-Oct-12
19-Oct-12
New Zealand Police Association:
For immediate industrial & legal advice
(on matters that cannot be deferred such
as police shootings, fatal pursuits or
deaths in custody) ring 0800 TEN NINE (0800
836 6463) – 24 hour/seven days service
Police Network
44446
Freephone
0800 500 122
Field Officers
Memorial wall
MASON, Brian David
DAYAL, Nirmala Devi
RARERE, Samuel
KEELAN, Edward
JEFFRIES, Avery
TOWERSEY, Patricia Elizabeth
WILSON, Edward Graham
CAMPLIN, Rhona
PARKER, Frank VINCENT-DUSTOW, Desmond Ronald BROWNE, Kevin Maurice Gerald
FINDLAY, Bruce John
PERCIVAL, William George
TREADWELL, William James
Useful Information and
Contacts
Palmerston North
Manukau
Hastings
Ruatoria
Auckland
Rotorua
Lower Hutt
Kaitaia
Feilding
Wellington
Upper Hutt
Christchurch
Upper Hutt
Wellington
Southern District
Celeste Crawford
(027) 268 9427
Vice-Presidents
Stuart Mills Luke Shadbolt (027) 268 9416
(027) 268 9411
Regional Directors
Region One
Waitemata and Northland Districts
Jug Price
(027) 268 9419
Region Two
Auckland and Counties Manukau Districts
Dave Pizzini (027) 268 9413
Region Three
Waikato and Bay of Plenty Districts
Wayne Aberhart
(027) 268 9414
Region Four
Eastern and Central Districts
Emmet Lynch
(027) 268 9415
Region Five
Wellington District including PNHQ and RNZPC
Craig Tickelpenny
(027) 268 9417
Region Six
Tasman and Canterbury Districts
Craig Prior
(027) 268 9412
Region Seven
Southern District
Brett Roberts
(027) 268 9418
november 2012
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Don’t be stranded
by the roadside
If your motor vehicle has ‘Full Cover’ with Police Fire & General Insurance,
we provide a professional roadside assistance service – free of charge.
Your car could have: a breakdown, a flat battery, a flat tyre, or maybe you’ve just run out of petrol, or locked
the keys in the car – at whatever time – you can call Police Welfare Fund Roadside Assist Plus for help.
The beauty of the service is that cover is attached to the insured vehicle, not the driver, so it doesn’t matter
who is driving your car. If they have a problem, the driver can contact the service.
This premium service includes the provision of a rental vehicle and/or accommodation if your vehicle breaks
down 100 kilometres or more from your home. These are benefits not generally provided by standard roadside
support services.
A full description of services Police Welfare Fund Roadside Assist Plus provides is on the Police Fire &
General Insurance page of our website: www.policeassn.org.nz. Trailers, caravans and vehicles with third
party insurance are excluded from cover.
Getting cover is easy
Insure your vehicle with ‘Full Cover’ Police Fire & General Insurance and you’re
automatically covered. If you would like a quote, Police Welfare Fund members
can call 0800 500 122, or visit the insurances section of our website:

2012-11 - New Zealand Police Association

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