List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
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This is a list of New Zealand Police
officers killed in the line of duty. As of 2009, 29 police officers have been killed by criminal act, and about 17 have died from accidental causes, during the execution of duty. There has been one instance of multiple police deaths, when Stanley Graham
gunned down four officers attempting to apprehend him in 1941, and four double fatalities. Most of the homicides have been a result of gunshot wounds
, the accidents mainly due to either drowning or vehicle (car/aircraft) accidents.
A slain officer may receive a police funeral, including an honour guard and flag-draped casket, and be officially mourned in the New Zealand House of Representatives
. At least four officers have received posthumous honours — Sergeant Stewart Guthrie
received the highest Commonwealth civilian decoration, the George Cross
. The Lou Grant Award, created in the memory of the police sergeant who died in the 1993 Eagle helicopter mid-air collision
, is awarded every second year for excellence and contributions to search and rescue
.
The Memorial Wall at The Royal New Zealand Police College lists the names of fallen colleagues, whom the service commemorates annually on Police Remembrance Day. The Police Association together with the New Zealand Police introduced a Police Remembrance Day Pin in 2007, for officers to wear to honour the memory of those slain during the course of duty. The pin combines a Huia
tail feather with a police chevron; the Huia bird was sacred in Māori culture
, wearing of its feathers restricted to people of high status.
In addition to the human officers, 23 police dog
s have died in the line of duty; notably the drowning of Enzo in 2007, and Gage, a six-year-old German Shepherd, in 2010.
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| ||Constable||Charles Williams|| || ||||Drowned attempting to save a woman who fell from the Hamilton Railway Bridge||Waikato River
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| ||Constable||W J Watt ||||||||Car went off Elephant Hill bridge, returning to a shooting investigation, Constable Black seriously injured||Waimate
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| ||Constable||Alan Robert Liddell ||22||||||Drowned while conducting an investigaton with two colleagues, into a drowning on the river 17 days earlier||Grey River||
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| ||Constable||Greg Rowe ||23||||||Drowned after leg became entangled in a rope and fell overboard from Lady Elizabeth II||Palliser Bay
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| ||Senior Sergeant ||Phillip William "Phil" Ward ||39||||rowspan=2|||rowspan=2|Drowned when police launch Lady Elizabeth II capsized during a storm, two other officers rescued by Peter Button
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| ||Constable ||Glen Hughes ||28||
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| ||Detective ||Anthony Raymond "Tony" Harrod ||43||||||Fell from helicopter sling during cannabis recovery operation||Waitotara Valley, Taranaki||
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| ||Sergeant||Lindsay Eion "Lou" Grant||39||||rowspan=2|||rowspan=2|Police helicopter Eagle collided mid-air
with a Piper Archer traffic spotting aircraft. Two civilians also died.||rowspan=2|Auckland City
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| ||Constable||Alastair Alan Sampson ||27||
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| ||Senior Constable ||Phillip Anthony "Piripi" Wipatene||55||||||Patrol car collided with another car on the Oakura Bridge||New Plymouth
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| ||Detective ||Travis Hughes ||37||||||Cessna 172
aircraft crashed while on cannabis reconnaissance, civilian pilot also died||Gibbston Valley, Central Otago
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| ||Police Employee ||Pamela (Pam) Brien ||54||||||Killed in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Pamela Brien was at a work-related meeting related to her job in the child protection unit of the Christchurch detachment when the earthquake hit resulting in the CTV Building
she was in collapsing. || Christchurch
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New Zealand Police
The New Zealand Police is the national police force of New Zealand, responsible for enforcing criminal law, enhancing public safety, maintaining order and keeping the peace throughout New Zealand...
officers killed in the line of duty. As of 2009, 29 police officers have been killed by criminal act, and about 17 have died from accidental causes, during the execution of duty. There has been one instance of multiple police deaths, when Stanley Graham
Stanley Graham
Eric Stanley George Graham was a New Zealand mass murderer who killed seven people.-Early life:Graham was born and raised in Longford, Kokatahi, New Zealand. He then moved to Kowhitirangi, an agricultural district 12 miles from Hokitika in the South Island where he worked as a farmer and where he...
gunned down four officers attempting to apprehend him in 1941, and four double fatalities. Most of the homicides have been a result of gunshot wounds
Ballistic trauma
The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...
, the accidents mainly due to either drowning or vehicle (car/aircraft) accidents.
A slain officer may receive a police funeral, including an honour guard and flag-draped casket, and be officially mourned in the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand House of Representatives
The New Zealand House of Representatives is the sole chamber of the legislature of New Zealand. The House and the Queen of New Zealand form the New Zealand Parliament....
. At least four officers have received posthumous honours — Sergeant Stewart Guthrie
Stewart Graeme Guthrie
Stewart Graeme Guthrie, GC of New Zealand is the most recent civilian recipient of the George Cross, the highest award for conspicuous gallantry not in the face of an enemy awarded in certain Commonwealth countries...
received the highest Commonwealth civilian decoration, the George Cross
George Cross
The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...
. The Lou Grant Award, created in the memory of the police sergeant who died in the 1993 Eagle helicopter mid-air collision
1993 Auckland mid-air collision
The 1993 Auckland mid-air collision was an aircraft accident in New Zealand. It occurred on 26 November 1993, when an Aérospatiale TwinStar helicopter and a Piper Archer airplane collided and crashed in central Auckland, killing all four occupants — both civilian pilots and two police officers...
, is awarded every second year for excellence and contributions to search and rescue
Search and rescue
Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...
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The Memorial Wall at The Royal New Zealand Police College lists the names of fallen colleagues, whom the service commemorates annually on Police Remembrance Day. The Police Association together with the New Zealand Police introduced a Police Remembrance Day Pin in 2007, for officers to wear to honour the memory of those slain during the course of duty. The pin combines a Huia
Huia
The Huia was the largest species of New Zealand wattlebird and was endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. Its extinction in the early 20th century had two primary causes. The first was rampant overhunting to procure Huia skins for mounted specimens, which were in worldwide demand by...
tail feather with a police chevron; the Huia bird was sacred in Māori culture
Maori culture
Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, an Eastern Polynesian people, and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. Within the Māori community, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori...
, wearing of its feathers restricted to people of high status.
In addition to the human officers, 23 police dog
Police dog
A police dog, often referred to as a "K-9 dog" in some areas , is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and other law-enforcement personnel in their work...
s have died in the line of duty; notably the drowning of Enzo in 2007, and Gage, a six-year-old German Shepherd, in 2010.
Officers
Killed by criminal act
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| 91 | Constable | Neil McLeod Neil McLeod (police officer) Neil McLeod was a Constable of the New Zealand Police. He was shot dead while aboard the steamer Minnie Casey at Mangawhare Wharf by gum-digger Henry Funcke.... |
44 | Gumdigger Henry Funcke was removed from a steamer and had his rifle confiscated. He became angry and drew a concealed pistol, firing several shots at the departing ship, one of which stuck McLeod in the chest | Dargaville Dargaville Dargaville is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River in the Northland region. The town is located 55 kilometres southwest of Whangarei.... (Mangawhare Wharf) |
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| 674 | Sergeant | John Patrick Hackett McGuire | 42 | Shot in the stomach during a manhunt, and died four days later. John Joseph Powelka was acquitted of murder but received 21 cumulative years for seven charges of burglary | Palmerston North Palmerston North Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of and is the country's seventh largest city and eighth largest urban area. Palmerston North is located in the eastern Manawatu Plains near the north bank... |
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| 963 | Constable | John Doyle | 35 | Died in hospital two days after being assaulted by two men in the Albion Hotel | Shannon Shannon, New Zealand Shannon is a small town in the Horowhenua District of New Zealand's North Island. it is located 28 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North and 15 kilometres northeast of Levin. The town's population at the 2006 census was 1506.... |
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| 2030 | Constable | Vivian Dudding | 32 | Attending a domestic dispute, he was shot in the head and died an hour later | Thorndon Thorndon Thorndon is an inner suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It combines residential accommodation and the home of government, and is located at the northern end of the Central Business District... , Wellington Wellington Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range... |
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| 1764 | Constable | James Dorgan | 37 | Shot investigating a break-in, the killer was never found | Timaru Timaru TimaruUrban AreaPopulation:27,200Extent:Former Timaru City CouncilTerritorial AuthorityName:Timaru District CouncilPopulation:42,867 Land area:2,736.54 km² Mayor:Janie AnnearWebsite:... |
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| 1582 | Constable | Thomas Heeps | 50 | Died in Waikato Hospital after being shot twice by Henare Hona, the subject of a manhunt | Otorohanga Otorohanga Otorohanga is a north King Country town at the southern end of the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 53 kilometres south of Hamilton and 18 kilometres north of Te Kuiti, on the Waipa River... (nearby) |
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| 2209 | Sergeant | William Cooper | 43 | Shot by farmer Stanley Graham Stanley Graham Eric Stanley George Graham was a New Zealand mass murderer who killed seven people.-Early life:Graham was born and raised in Longford, Kokatahi, New Zealand. He then moved to Kowhitirangi, an agricultural district 12 miles from Hokitika in the South Island where he worked as a farmer and where he... , who they were attempting to apprehend after he refused to surrender firearms |
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| 3526 | Constable | Frederick William Jordan | 26 | | | ||||
| 3039 | Constable | Percy Campbell Tulloch | 35 | | | ||||
| 2364 | Constable | Edward Mark Best | 42 | | | ||||
| 36 | Traffic Officer | John Kehoe | 24 | Shot several times by Richard Angus McGill, who he had stopped for speeding with his motorcycle | Whakatane Whakatane Whakatane is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region, in the North Island of New Zealand, and is the seat of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Whakatane is 90 km east of Tauranga and 89 km north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatane River.The town has a population of , with... |
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| 2691 | Sergeant | William Shore Hughes | 48 | Shot dead during a domestic dispute by Noema Raana Rika | Otaki Otaki, New Zealand Otaki is a town in the Kapiti Coast District of the North Island of New Zealand, situated half way between the capital city Wellington, 70 kilometres to the southwest, and Palmerston North, 70 kilometres to the northeast. It marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region. The town's... |
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| Detective Inspector | Wallace Chalmers | 46 | QPM Queen's Police Medal The Queen's Police Medal is awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service. Recipients may use the post-nominal letters "QPM", although the right to use these was only granted officially on 20 July 1969... |
Shot dead by Victor George Wasmuth while attending a shooting | Waitakere Ranges Waitakere Ranges The Waitakere Ranges are a chain of hills in the Auckland metropolitan area, generally running approximately 25 km from north to south, 25 km west of central Auckland, New Zealand. The maximum elevation within the ranges is 474 m... |
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| 2839 | Detective Sergeant | Neville Wilson Power | 25 | QPM Queen's Police Medal The Queen's Police Medal is awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service. Recipients may use the post-nominal letters "QPM", although the right to use these was only granted officially on 20 July 1969... |
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| 4321 | Constable | James Thomas Richardson | 24 | Both shot while sitting in police car, after responding to a domestic dispute | Lower Hutt Lower Hutt Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the... |
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| 3809 | Constable | Brian Leslie Schultz | 21 | | | ||||
| 4699 | Constable | Donald Richard Stokes | 23 | Beaten by escaping prisoners at Dunedin police station, died later in hospital | Dunedin Dunedin Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until... |
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| 2950 | Sergeant | Gilbert Peter Arcus | 44 | Assaulted by a mentally disturbed woman he was trying to placate, fell and struck his head on the ground, dying from the injury an hour later | Tauranga Tauranga Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963... |
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| 5052 | Constable | Peter William Murphy | 21 | Shot attending a break-in at a sports shop | Invercargill Invercargill Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the heart of the wide expanse of the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff,... |
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| 1395 | Traffic Officer | Barry Yorston Gibson | 32 | Assaulted by a motorist and died in hospital from head injuries | New Plymouth New Plymouth New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated.... |
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| 1351 | Traffic Officer | Robin James Dudding | 44 | GM George Medal The George Medal is the second level civil decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.The GM was instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. At this time, during the height of The Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage... |
Taken hostage and later shot dead by Ross Kameta | Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty Lake Rotoiti is a lake in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. It is the northwesternmost in a chain of lakes formed within the Okataina caldera. The lake is close to the northern shore of its more famous neighbour, Lake Rotorua, and is connected to it via the Ohau Channel. It drains to the... |
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| 4601 | Senior Constable | Peter Morris Umbers | 35 | GM George Medal The George Medal is the second level civil decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.The GM was instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. At this time, during the height of The Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage... |
Bashed to death with his own baton by Richard Thomas Lakich, who he had stopped | Ranfurly Ranfurly, New Zealand Ranfurly is the largest settlement in the Maniototo district of Otago, New Zealand. Located 110 kilometres north of Dunedin, it lies in dry rough country at a moderately high altitude close to a small tributary of the Taieri River. It is a service town for the local farming community... (nearby) |
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| 5024 | Sergeant | Stewart Graeme Guthrie Stewart Graeme Guthrie Stewart Graeme Guthrie, GC of New Zealand is the most recent civilian recipient of the George Cross, the highest award for conspicuous gallantry not in the face of an enemy awarded in certain Commonwealth countries... |
41 | GC George Cross The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations... |
Shot in the head after encountering and firing a warning shot at spree killer David Gray during the Aramoana massacre Aramoana massacre The Aramoana massacre was a mass murder that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, New Zealand. Resident David Gray, a 33-year-old unemployed man, began indiscriminately shooting people in the township with a scoped semi-automatic rifle, after a verbal dispute with... |
Aramoana Aramoana Aramoana, also known as "The Spit" to locals, is a small coastal settlement, 27 kilometres north of Dunedin city, in the South Island of New Zealand. The settlement's permanent population in 2001 Census was 261. Supplementing this are seasonal visitors from the city who occupy cribs... |
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| D717 | Constable | Glenn Arthur McKibben | 25 | Shot standing beside his police car by former soldier Terence Thompson, who was later shot dead by police. | Flaxmere Flaxmere Flaxmere is a suburb in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island.It is located North-west to the town of Hastings City, and is regarded as a suburb of its larger neighbor. It had a population of 10,400 according to the Hastings Council.... , Hastings Hastings, New Zealand The city of Hastings is a major urban settlement in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, and it is the largest settlement by population in Hawke's Bay. Hastings city is the administrative centre of the Hastings District... |
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| G083 | Constable | Lester Murray Stretch | 38 | Bashed to death by Carlos Namana, a burglar he had followed from a break-in | Mangakino Mangakino Mangakino is a small town on the banks of the Waikato River in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located close to the hydroelectric power station at Lake Maraetai, southeast of Hamilton. Its population in 2001 was 1257... |
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| F272 | Detective Constable | Duncan Taylor | 39 | NZBM | Died instantly after being shot by teenager Daniel Luff, his partner escaped wounded | Rongotea, Manawatu | ||
| G092 | Sergeant | Derek Wootton | 52 | Struck by vehicle fleeing police while laying road spikes | Titahi Bay Titahi Bay Titahi Bay is a suburb of Porirua in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the foot of a short peninsula along the west coast of the Porirua Harbour, to the north of Porirua city centre. The suburb's population in 2006 was 7,527... |
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| Sergeant | Don Wilkinson | 47 | Disturbed while attempting to secretly fix a tracking device to a car, received several shots from a .22 air rifle, one fatally through the chest | Mangere Mangere Māngere is one of the larger suburbs in South Auckland, in northern New Zealand.The suburb is located on flat land at the northeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of the centre of Manukau city and 15 kilometres south of Auckland city centre... |
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| Senior Constable | Leonard Snee | 53 | Shot executing a cannabis search warrant by former territorial soldier Jan Molenaar 2009 Napier shootings Jan Molenaar, 51, was born of Ngāti Kahungunu extraction grew up in Napier where he went to Nelson Park Primary School, Napier Intermediate School and William Colenso College. In the 1980s he spent six years in the territorial armoured corps of the Hawke's Bay and Wellington Regiment... , other officers and a member of the public received gunshot wounds |
Napier Napier, New Zealand Napier is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island. The population of Napier is about About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings. These two neighboring cities are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"... |
Killed by accident
| Badge | Rank | Name | Age | Honours | Date | | Circumstance | Location | | Notes |
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| Constable | Fitzgerald | Drowned when a boat making for the Lady Nugent capsized | Lyttelton Harbour Lyttelton Harbour Lyttelton Harbour is one of two major inlets in Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand. The other is Akaroa Harbour.Approximately 15 km in length from its mouth to Teddington, the harbour was formed from a series of ancient volcanic eruptions that created a caldera, the... |
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| Sergeant-Major | Edward John Garvey | 30 | Légion d'honneur Légion d'honneur The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802... |
Died in a snowstorm on his way to inspect mine diggings near Naseby | Kakanui Range Kakanui Range The Kakanui Range is a range of high hills located inland from Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The range forms a boundary between the valley of the Waitaki River to the north and the high plateau known as the Maniototo to the southwest. The highest point in the Kakanuis is Mt... |
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| Constable | John Duncan | Drowned travelling in a punt to investigate a burglary | Kaniere Kaniere Kaniere is a locality in the Westland District of the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. Hokitika lies to the north-west, and the Hokitika River flows past to the south-west.... (nearby) |
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| Constable | James Robinson | Fell and struck head on iron bar at police station | Westport Westport, New Zealand -Economy:Economic activity is based around fishing, coal mining and dairy farming. Historically, gold mining was a major industry, and coal mining was much more extensive than today . However, the region still is home to New Zealand's largest opencast mining operation in Stockton... |
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| Constable | A J Dillon | c. 32 | Drowned with nurse Regan who he was attempting to save | West Coast West Coast, New Zealand The West Coast is one of the administrative regions of New Zealand, located on the west coast of the South Island, and is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country. It is made up of three districts: Buller, Grey and Westland... |
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| Constable | Adam George Begg | 26 | Killed by a passing train while searching the Parnell Tunnel Parnell Tunnel The Parnell Tunnel is a railway tunnel under Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. It is long, and allows the Western and Southern lines coming from Newmarket Train Station to Britomart Transport Centre to pass under the Parnell Ridge before the line drops to harbour level... for an escaped prisoner. |
Parnell Parnell, New Zealand Parnell is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is often billed as Auckland's "oldest suburb" since it dates from the earliest days of the European settlement of Auckland in 1841... , Auckland |
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Rotorua Express
The Rotorua Express was a passenger express train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department between Auckland and Rotorua. It operated from 1894 until 1959 and was known as the Rotorua Limited between 1930 and 1937....
at a railway crossing||Huntly
Huntly, New Zealand
Huntly is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is on State Highway 1, 93 kilometres south of Auckland and 35 kilometres north of Hamilton. It is situated on the North Island Main Trunk Railway and straddles the Waikato River.Huntly was called Rahui Pokeka when...
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Waikato River
The Waikato River is the longest river in New Zealand. In the North Island, it runs for 425 kilometres from the eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu, joining the Tongariro River system and emptying into Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake. It drains Taupo at the lake's northeastern edge, creates the...
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Waimate
WaimateUrban AreaPopulation:2,835 Extent:Territorial AuthorityName:Waimate District CouncilPopulation:7,206 Land area:3,582.19 km² Mayor:John ColesWebsite:...
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Palliser Bay
Palliser Bay is located at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, to the southeast of Wellington. It runs for 40 kilometres along the Cook Strait coast from Turakirae Head at the southern end of the Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Palliser, the North Island's southernmost point.Inland from...
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Peter Button
Peter Thomas Button OBE was a pioneering rescue helicopter pilot in Wellington, New Zealand. Button established the firm Capital Helicopters in 1975 and made his aircraft available for use in emergencies...
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Wellington Harbour
Wellington Harbour is the large natural harbour at the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island. New Zealand's capital, Wellington, is on the western side of Wellington Harbour. The harbour was officially named Port Nicholson until it assumed its current name in the 1980s.In Māori the harbour is...
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1993 Auckland mid-air collision
The 1993 Auckland mid-air collision was an aircraft accident in New Zealand. It occurred on 26 November 1993, when an Aérospatiale TwinStar helicopter and a Piper Archer airplane collided and crashed in central Auckland, killing all four occupants — both civilian pilots and two police officers...
with a Piper Archer traffic spotting aircraft. Two civilians also died.||rowspan=2|Auckland City
Auckland City
Auckland City was the city and local authority covering the Auckland isthmus and most of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, in the North Island of New Zealand. On 1 November 2010 it was amalgamated into the wider Auckland Region under the authority of the new Auckland Council...
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New Plymouth
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated....
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Cessna 172
The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing fixed-wing aircraft. First flown in 1955 and still in production, more Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft.-Design and development:...
aircraft crashed while on cannabis reconnaissance, civilian pilot also died||Gibbston Valley, Central Otago
Central Otago
Central Otago is the inland part of the New Zealand region of Otago in the South Island. The area commonly known as Central Otago includes both the Central Otago District and the Queenstown-Lakes District to the west....
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CTV Building
The CTV Building was the headquarters of Canterbury Television and other companies. Located in the Christchurch Central City on the corner of Cashel and Madras Streets, it became one of the symbols of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake...
she was in collapsing. || Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
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