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Officers recognised in honours list
Six police officers were named in the New Year Honours List 2005, in
recognition of their services to police.
TO BE Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM):
Superintendent Tony Annandale who has been a principal contributor to
New Zealand’s Pacific Policing Assistance Programme. He was team leader
for the Bougainville Community Project for two years and in 2003 he was the
Manager Overseas Assistance Programmes. In 2003/04 Tony was contingent commander
of the 35 NZ Police deployed with RAMSI in the Solomon Islands. As Chief of
Operations Support, he managed a multi-national work force, earning high praise
from his Australian commanding officer, and from Pacific police officers.
Superintendent Neville Matthews took up the post of the NZ Police Liaison
Officer in Washington during 2004. From 1993 until that time he was NZ Police’s
Manager of Operations, and at the same time was National Commander of the
Special Tactics Group. He deployed five police contingents to East Timor,
four International Peace Monitoring Team contingents to the Solomon Islands,
and the first four rotations of police personnel to RAMSI. From 2002 until
his recent overseas posting, he was Colonel Commandant of the Corps of the
Royal Military Police in New Zealand.
The Queen’s Service Medal for Public Service (QSM)
Inspector Janet Hope was heavily engaged in police planning for the
1990 Commonwealth Games and for the 2000 millennium celebrations. She has
been a court prosecutor, operations manager for the Bay of Plenty District,
and has extensively managed an extensive pan-Auckland policing operation on
alcohol and crime victimisation. She is currently Area Commander for Rodney.
Inspector Leo Tooman has been a traffic management professional for
41 years in the Ministry of Transport, Traffic Safety Service and NZ Police.
For more than 20 years he has been the Chief Traffic Officer in Hamilton,
and is now the Waikato Road Policing Manager.
Senior Sergeant Murray Morrissey has served 35 of his 38 years with
police in dog sections. He currently leads the largest section, Auckland,
a position he has held since 1985. The NZ Police Dog Section has developed
an international profile for excellence in the training and development of
police dogs, and Murray has played a significant leadership role in this achievement.
Constable Annelise Nygaard was a member of the Participating Police
Force that was part of RAMSI in the Solomon Islands from August 2003
to February 2004. For the majority of her deployment she worked in Honiara,
in close daily
contact with the Royal Solomon Islands Police. Annelise was also sent
to police posts in Turuana in Guadalcanal and Gizo in the Western Province
where she
was responsible for managing the outpost and working with an Australian
infantry platoon to implement police and military roles to return law and
order.
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