Two new cops for Tairawhiti force,Police college wing’s top graduate assigned to Wairoa

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

THE top student from the latest wing to graduate from the Royal New Zealand Police College is to work in Wairoa.

Of the 78 new police officers to graduate from Wing 326, two are coming to this region.

Constable Aaron Harris will start work in Wairoa in a week’s time. He received the Minister’s Award for the top student at the Thursday graduation ceremony.

“Being a constable has always been a dream of mine and I’m keen to put what I have learnt at the college into practice,” he said. “It was hard work throughout training. The volume of information you have to learn is challenging.”

Six of the new officers were posted to the Eastern police district.

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The other new officer coming to the Wairoa-Gisborne district will take up duties in the lower northern sector of the region. Police have yet to specify where.

The latest graduation brings to 831 the number of officers who graduated in the year July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019 — the highest number of new cops to join the force in a year in New Zealand police history.