Appointment Of District Commander Waikato
New Zealand Police National News Release
9:34am 7 December 2007
The Commissioner of Police, Howard Broad, is pleased to announce the appointment of Superintendent Alan Boreham as
District Commander for Waikato.
Superintendent Boreham is currently the Centre Manager of the Northern Communications Centre in Auckland and previously
Area Commander for the Eastern Waikato Area based in Thames.
Superintendent Boreham has wide experience in policing since joining in 1985 as a Constable in Auckland. He was a member
of the Auckland CIB and Drug Squad before moving to Tokoroa as section Sergeant and then Detective Sergeant. He moved
back to Auckland as head of the Fraud Squad. In 2001 he was promoted to Inspector as Strategic Adviser in Road Policing
at Office of the Commissioner in Wellington and became Road Policing Manager for Wellington District in 2005.
He will take up his new appointment early in the new year.
The Commissioner would like to acknowledge Superintendent Kelvin Powell's very significant contribution to policing in
the Waikato District over the past five years.
A number of alternative roles are being discussed with Superintendent Powell around his next deployment within New
Zealand Police.
ENDS