At about 6.00 pm on 4 June the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) in Wellington became aware that an emergency beacon was active in the Rotorua city area.
Counties Manukau Police hosted 50 retired Police Officers at its District Headquarters to demonstrate how policing has developed within the last few decades.
That's the approach behind Operation Roadsafe, an initiative adopted last July by the Tasman Strategic Traffic Unit (STU) with the support from ACC and local councils.
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall says when information came to light about serious criminal activity in the Urewera forest, Police did their job by bringing it to a close.
Bev Short's All Woman exhibition at the NZ Portrait Gallery was always going to include a woman police officer, but the haunting shot of Detective Constable Lesa Eastergaard with a young girl is a