Media are invited to the 392 Raelene Castle recruit wing graduation.
What: Graduation of the New Zealand Police 392 Recruit Wing.
Who: For families and friends to celebrate with the 89 newly attested police officers.
Why: Completion and graduation from their initial training course.
Where: Te Rauparaha Arena, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua.
When: Thursday 5 December at 10am - media will need to be in place by 9.45am.
How: RSVP the Police Media Centre if you’re attending: media@police.govt.nz
Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Pannett will attend the ceremony along with members of the Police executive and Wing Patron, Raelene Castle – Ngāpuhi, ONZM.
The 392 Wing Patron:
Raelene Castle, Ngāpuhi, is the Group Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand and High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ). She joined HPSNZ in December 2020 and was appointed Group Chief Executive in April 2022. Before this, she spent seven years working in Australia as Chief Executive of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and then Chief Executive of Rugby Australia. She was previously Chief Executive of Netball New Zealand from 2007 to 2013.
Before beginning her career in sports administration, Raelene built a successful corporate career in communications, sales and marketing. This included general management and other senior roles at Telecom New Zealand (now Spark), Bank of New Zealand and Fuji Xerox.
Raelene has held several governance roles in sport, previously serving as a board director of the ANZ Championship Netball, International Federations of Netball Associations, SANZAAR Rugby and the World Rugby Council.
She also has a rich sporting background as a former representative-level netball, tennis and lawn bowls player.
Raelene was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2015 for services to business and sport.
More details about statistics, prize winners and other recruits will be shared after graduation on Thursday and a follow up Ten One story will be published later this month.
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Issued by Police Media Centre