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Child Sex Offender Register launched
From 14 October, the Child Sex Offender Register gives Police another tool to help protect some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. Action for safer whanau The feedback from frontline staff was resounding – 30 percent of ideas received during the first phase of Policing Excellence: the Future were about family violence and the need for better tools and processes. Safer Olympics together Police’s Olympics mission was a success, with out-of-competition dramas averted and Kiwi athletes making headlines only for the right reasons. The one-woman band They thought she wouldn’t last a year as sole-charge officer in Middlemarch, Central Otago – but Senior Constable Helen Fincham-Putter proved them wrong. Gone but never lost To the young they may be names from family stories. To the less-young they are James, Heke and Bernie; cousin, father, husband, brother, uncle; loved ones lost too soon but never lost to memory. Dog days (and months) 2017 will be the year of the police dog as our four-legged crimefighters get their very own calendar. | 