He also chaired the Oruaiti School board of trustees while his son was a pupil there, and co-coached the school's future problem solving team that won its category at the international event in the US.
Humbling
Much of Inspector Robilliard's recent career has been devoted to working with the families and victims of some of New Zealand's greatest tragedies, experience she described as humbling.
She was the manager of Victim Services at Police National Headquarters from 2008 until her appointment as Mid/Far North area commander in June last year.
It was a role far removed from the tragedies of Pike River, the Christchurch earthquakes and last year's Wairarapa ballooning disaster.
"In my 25 years of policing this has been the most humbling and rewarding work I have done, because I see it as a privilege to have worked for these families," she said.
"It was gut-wrenching, because you could relate to these families and realised it could have been one of your family members".
She had been "blown away" by her nomination for a Royal honour, "because you do these things not for recognition but because you want to do them,"
She said she could not have done what she had done without the support of her family and friends.
