Ten-One Community Edition 289 September 2006

Welcome

Welcome to Ten One Community Edition for September 2006. In this issue we hear how Waikato District police staff worked with each other and partner agencies to manage the thousands of people who flocked to Tūrangawaewae Marae for the week-long tangihanga for the late Māori Queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Ātairangikaahu last month.

We find out more about the progress of the Single Non-Emergency Number being demonstrated in two NZ Police districts later this year, and hear how the replacement for Auckland Police Maritime Unit's launch Deodar II will expand the Unit's capability and inter-operability with NZ Customs Service.

Judith Hamblyn
Editor Ten-One

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Forward planning key to ‘huge task’

NZ Police played a part in the week-long tangihanga for the late Māori Queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Ātairangikaahu at Tūrangawaewae Marae in Waikato last month – both as mourners to her passing, and operationally to assist managing the safety and security of the thousands who converged on the marae to pay their respects.

Great honour’ follows close relationship

Māori Pacific Ethnic Services General Manager Superintendent Pieri Munro helped carry Te Arikinui’s casket between Mahinarangi (meeting house) at Tūrangawaewae Marae to the hearse which carried her to the Waikato River to travel by waka to her burial place on Kūao, beneath Taupiri mountain.

Countdown to SNEN lift-off

With the Single Non-Emergency Number (SNEN) demonstration starting in a couple of months, it’s been ‘all go’.
Recruiting and training call centre staff, developing call handling processes, liaising with districts, and sorting out the IT and accommodation requirements for the new service are all coming together nicely.

SNEN – What is it and why are we doing it?

The Single Non-Emergency Number (SNEN) project will take the non-emergency calls (ie, where the caller has dialled a police station rather than 111) coming in to the Communications Centres’ general queue from the Auckland City and Bay of Plenty Districts.

SNEN Centre Manager appointed

Northern Communications Centre Operations Manager Inspector Karen Wilson is taking on the new role of SNEN Centre Manager.

Greater maritime role for Deodar III

A replacement for the Auckland Police launch Deodar II will be operational by the end of 2007.

Human Rights training for staff

Human Rights training will be delivered to all managers and operational staff in the next year to provide staff with greater awareness of human rights law and to help ensure that the actions of NZ Police comply with the principles of human rights legislation.

Research probes public perceptions of police

Wellington officer Senior Constable Daniel O’Connell is the sixth recipient of the Lou Grant Award for excellence in and contribution to police Search and Rescue (SAR).

Pacific Island dog-handling training programme launched

The NZ Police Dog Training Centre has launched a training programme for Pacific countries to help them increase vigilance at border controls and enhance capability in the detection of illicit drugs.

Kiwis get locals on bikes

Members of the NZ Police contingent to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands have literally helped Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) members get on their bikes.

Perseverance admired by officer

The adventures and spirit of world-famous yachtsman the late Sir Peter Blake awed and inspired Andrew Berry as he was growing up.

Now the Ōtara Senior Sergeant has received a leadership award in his late hero’s name.
Andrew is one of six recipients of the Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leaders Award. The award comes with a $10,000 scholarship which Andrew can use to further his leadership skills.

Kidney disease doesn’t curb passion for job

Senior Sergeant Ken McLeod is a 57-year-old dynamo. The fact that he’s hooked up to a dialysis machine three times a week proves that he’s tougher than the beef steak he’s supposed to be avoiding while on his new diet.