This issue features:

• Commissioner's plans for his final months.
• Police presence on Twitter.
• Boxing star inspires youth.
• New Assistant Commissioner for Auckland.
• Partnership with Tuhoe to reduce youth offending.
• Safety orders launched to protect families.
• Officer wins Deaf Aotearoa Award.
• Officers learn sign language to communicate with Deaf people.
• Diversity liaison officers attend Christchurch Pride.
• New Zealand joins international group fighting online child exploitation.
• Police marks Māori Language Week.
• Project teaches young drivers new skills.
• Joint emergency services win award.
• Police, Fire and Ambulance link helps save baby.
• Community patrols grow.
• Museum celebrates Volunteer Awareness Week.
• Long-serving officer retires.
• Kiwi battlers to be recognised.
• Beanies for school patrols.

Read Commissioner Howard Broad's latest blog about current issues affecting policing.

Anna Woolnough
Editor Ten-One

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Commissioner's 'to do' list finalised

Howard Broad, Commissioner of Police, is heading toward the end of his term in the top job.

Official Police Twitter presence

New Zealand Police now has an official presence on Twitter.

Police Safety Orders now operational

Police Safety Orders (PSOs) became operational on 1 July. Police can now require any person who represents a threat to their family to leave the premises for up to five days.

Award delights emergency services project team

Months of hard work was recognised last month when a joint emergency services entry won a top public service award.

InterCAD in action

The value of InterCAD was demonstrated during a recent incident in Wellington involving a sick baby.

Fighting online child exploitation

New Zealand Police has signed up to the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an international group that fights online child exploitation.

Super City policing for new AC

Policing the Auckland Super City will be at the heart of Allan Boreham’s new role as the recently announced Assistant Police Commissioner for Auckland.

Officer retires after half a century

The Police workforce is ageing significantly faster than the general population.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, says Fletcher Clague-Christian, who retired last month after 53 years continuous police service.

Partnership addresses Māori youth offending

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Eastern Bay of Plenty Police and Tuhoe Hauora – the social agency arm of Tuhoe – to implement an intervention programme to prevent Māori youth offending.

Boxing star inspires youth

Hollywood doesn't often come to Huntly, so when boxing and television star Sugar Ray Leonard dropped by, police were among the thousands who welcomed him.

Young drivers better equipped for roads

Sixty Upper Hutt teenagers spent part of their school holidays upskilling themselves when it comes to getting behind the wheel.

Beanies are winter warmers

School patrol can get a bit chilly down in Southland, where winter temperatures frequently fall below zero.

Big Pride in the Garden City

Two of Canterbury's Diversity Liaison Officers (DLOs), Constables Don Munro and Laura Mills joined Christchurch in celebrating a bigger and better Pride Week than ever before.

Signing constable wins award

Constable Debi Leahy from Henderson won the Public Service Award at the recent Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand Sign Language Week in Action Awards.

Spreading the word

Constable Debi Leahy, who recently won Deaf Aotearoa's Public Service Award, has now turned her attention to helping others in the emergency services learn New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL).

Police celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Police staff are getting involved in Māori Language Week (26 July – 1 August).

Police helps recognise kiwi battlers

Police are working with the Morgan Foundation to help recognise and reward the "kiwi battlers" in our communities.

Community patrols growing

Community Patrols of New Zealand (CPNZ) marked their 10th anniversary at the end of June with a training seminar in Taupō, where the national movement first began.

Volunteers’ choice 'fascinating'

In recognition of New Zealand Volunteer Awareness Week in late June, some of the most fascinating pieces of the Police Museum collection have been brought out of storage for temporary display.