This edition highlights changes to lights and livery on marked police vehicles, how these are improving safety for officers and members of the public and also generating significant savings.

A retired New Zealand Police officer has taken up a new role as the new Police Commander of Tonga. Chris Kelly shares his thoughts on his policing career to date.

Operation Valour - the operation that led to the return of war medals stolen from the Waiouru War Museum received national media coverage, this edition of Community News gives an insight into the officers views of this 'Crime against history.'

Operation Viper has resulted in the arrest of more than 70 people in the Wellington District and the seizure of significant quantities of drugs. Read on to discover details of what officers were faced with when they arrived at an Upper Hutt address.

The community policing section highlights a successful Combined Adolescent Challenge Truancy Unit and Support (CACTUS) programme being run at Taita College. This programme sees 25 year 9-13 students encouraged to take responsibility for their actions. Other Community Policing updates include a report on an Asian Community Safety Expo, a story about Amaninder Singh Sandhu, the first Sikh officer to wear the police turban, a police sponsored New Zealand Communities Football Cup and a new interactive website which allows students to report incidents of racial harassment on line.

Anna Woolnough
Editor Ten-One

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 Changes to Livery and lights

Better, safer and more cost-efficient. This is not often a phrase that flows together in modern times – but true of the new livery and light-bar being rolled out in the marked police vehicle fleet.

Forget pink gins and deck chairs

Chris Kelley is waiting for the dust to settle. He has been waiting for a while now. In the last six weeks, Chris left his post as NZ Police Liaison Officer in Canberra, retired from his career of nearly 41 years with New Zealand Police and relocated to Tonga, where he has taken up the role of Police Commander. He is the first ‘palangi’ to hold the position since Tonga Police was founded in 1868.

International recognition for safety campaign analysis

A member of the Road Policing team has received international acknowledgment for analytical work conducted on the impact of the ‘Speed Kills Kids’ campaign.

Operation Valour - 'The return of the Medals'

- A crime against history

- Unique investigation by Op Valour Team

Operation Viper has sting in its tail

More than 70 people have been arrested in the Wellington District and significant quantities of drugs seized during a major operation to disrupt criminal activities.

In the CACTUS at college

Sourcing funding is the only prickly problem for the CACTUS project being developed as a police and community initiative at Taita College.

 Working together to fight crime

The Asian Council on Reducing Crime (ACRC), Manukau City Council and NZ Police put on a great show for the local Asian community at the end of September. An estimated 3000 people attended the Asian Community Safety Expo which was held at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, in Manukau City.

Winning trust through work

A young Sikh man taken off a Qantas flight because fellow passengers were afraid to depart with him on board was the trigger which led Amaninder Singh Sandhu to seek a role within police.

Campaign widens to website for reporting complaints

A new interactive website allows students to report complaints of racial harassment anonymously on a simple, on line form. If it works well in Canterbury, it is hoped the website – www.report-it.org.nz – may go nationwide.

Football festival celebrates diversity

New Zealand Police is sponsoring a new national football festival as a way of enhancing relationships with different communities.