Media Advisory
OFFICE OF MINISTER OF POLICE
HON. GEORGE HAWKINS
Police Minister To Visit North Shore-Waitakere Police
Police Minister Hon. George Hawkins will visit North Shore-Waitakere police on Friday, January 28.
On Friday, George Hawkins will:
arrive at North Shore-Waitakere police district police station at approximately 9am and from there will visit police
stations in the district as arranged by the district manager Supt Olly Beckett
arrive at Takapuna police station at approximately 1:30pm to meet with Olly Beckett and Northcote MP Anne Hartley on
policing issues
meet with North Shore mayor George Wood at approximately 2:30pm to discuss policing and civil defence matters.
“Over the next few months I intend to travel around the country visiting small police stations, from the Far North to
the Chatham Islands,” George Hawkins says.
“On Friday I will visit police stations in west Auckland and North Shore City.
“It is important that as we rebuild policing in New Zealand, that I as Minister visit police stations and meet with
local communities around the country. While there I will be listening and discussing each region’s grass roots policing
and respective needs,” George Hawkins says.
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Press Secretary contact: Selwyn Manning, 025 270 9131.