Media are invited to the 388 Wally Haumaha - Te Arawa and Ngāti Ngāraranui, ONZM and QSM recruit wing graduation.
What: Graduation of the New Zealand Police 388 Recruit Wing.
Who: For families and friends to celebrate with the newly attested police officers.
Why: Completion and graduation from their initial training course.
Where: Te Rauparaha Arena, 17 Parumoana Street, Porirua.
When: Thursday 9 October at 10am - media will need to be in place by 9.45pm.
How: RSVP the Police Media Centre if you’re attending: media@police.govt.nz
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers will attend the ceremony along with members of the Police executive and Wing Patron, former Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha - Te Arawa and Ngāti Ngāraranui, ONZM and QSM.
Top award winner, Recruit Hayden McNulty says he is proud to be graduating alongside his wing colleagues. The former fitness coach, Hawke’s Bay Rugby strength and conditioning coach and high school athletics coach was also awarded with the Physical Training and Defensive Tactics Prize.
“The biggest takeaway from training in my opinion is the new connections I have made and pieces of advice I have taken from every other member of my wing. There's no way I would have graduated without the expertise and support of each and every one of them,” says Hayden.
Hayden will be deployed to Counties Manukau District following graduation.
The 388 Wing Patron:
Former Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha - Te Arawa, Tainui, Mataatua, ONZM and QSM.
The former teacher spent 40 years in policing and was one of the architects of Police’s transformed relationships with iwi and other communities. It’s a career which has put him ringside – and often in the ring - for many defining events in New Zealand’s recent history. He graduated from Wing 89 and served in Rotorua until 2004, apart from a two-year break to help his family set up a retail business. He worked frontline, CIB, as section supervisor, District Community Relations Coordinator and Māori Responsiveness Advisor – then in 2004 he was seconded to Police National Headquarters at inspector rank as Strategic Māori Advisor. From its creation in 2007, he has helmed Māori Pacific and Ethnic Services (MPES), which became part of the new Iwi and Communities group, with Wally its Deputy Commissioner, in 2020. Wally Haumaha joined OSACO Group as Director Leadership and Innovation in March 2024 after retiring from Police. Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, OSACO is a proudly Māori-led organisation.
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 next month.
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Issued by Police Media Centre
