Looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a police car is not so unusual. But seeing a whole police station? That was a distinct possibility in Eastern District last week when the former Nuhaka Police...
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High fives on landing on the ice gave way to “an overwhelming sense of peace” for retired Inspector Stuart Leighton, back in Antarctica for the first time in 40 years to commemorate the crash of Air...
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This is the first of a series of four stories commemorating Operation Overdue, the New Zealand Police response to the crash of Air NZ Flight TE901 in Antarctica on 28 November 1979. These stories...
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They started body recovery at 2am on December 4. Before that Greg, Stu and new arrival Constable Bruce Thompson had to sit out a storm which saw a temperature of -40 degrees with wind chill and had...
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Evidence wasn’t what they were there to look for, but Constable Stu Leighton knew he’d found something significant the moment he picked up the black folder, metres away from the shattered fuselage on...
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The second phase of Operation Overdue - identifying the victims, liaising with families and repatriating remains - involved 10 times as many police as the ice phase and took much longer. And while...
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