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20 Wednesday March 6 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi SELWYN TIMES Our People ‘Helping people still gives me a Police often get criticsed, is it unfair? Yes, very much so [unfair]. Look, sometimes we miss the opportunity to tell people why we do what we do. There’s often a lack of understanding about how things came about or why they came about which leads people to draw their own conclusions about how or why things happened. Social media has probably made it worse because people fire off and come up with conclusions that you wouldn’t logically come up with if you sat down and looked at everything. But I’ve always said to people, if you want to know why or how something has happened, just ask me, I’m happy to tell you. You mentioned social media, has that thrown a whole new dynamic into policing? Hugely, both positive and negative. Younger staff nowadays who are way more IT savvy than some of us older staff, use social media in inquiries and get very good results very quickly. The negative side is urban myths and legends seem to start on social media and grow out of control and it’s often based on inaccurate information. When did you join the police? I joined in October 1982 on the 84th recruit wing. We graduated DIFFICULTIES: One of the most high profile cases Senior Sergeant Stills worked on was the murder of Doug Gardner by his wife Gay Oakes (left). Another issue he has strongly campaigned on is road safety. in late March 1983. And why did you join the police? It’s something I had always wanted to do. I inquired about joining when I was in high school but I was told to get a bit of life experience and come back. I had a friend in the police who made the job sound exciting and I just sort of felt that it would give me an opportunity to be community-spirited and force me to be a good role model and lead a life with a good example to others. What did you do before the police? I was a grain and seed representative with Dalgety New Zealand at Darfield for six and a half years. I did that straight out of school, so from school I was a stock and station cadet and did the cadetship with Dalgety. Did you grow up in Christchurch? I grew up in Somerfield and Hoon Hay. If you stacked up the rewarding and challenging aspects of policing what would they be? The rewarding aspects are helping people make positive changes in their lives. Or to help people move on successfully from a negative experience. Helping people still gives me a real good buzz. If I leave work really happy it’s after I feel that I’ve really done something that has helped somebody. The negative aspect is death, particularly children. The worst thing we do is when we go and tell somebody that a member or loved one has been killed or seriously injured. Particularly when young people are involved, it makes it very, very difficult. And it’s something that I’ve never fully been able to deal with, without getting involved in the emotion of it all myself a bit. All Blacks coach Steve Hansen made a really good comment when he was interviewed once, prior to one of the World Cups. He was asked what it was like telling players they’ve missed out on the final squad for the World Cup. And he said to the interviewer he used to be in the police and had to tell people their children had been killed, and telling a player he’s missed a tournament is easy. You often campaign on road safety, why is road safety such an important part of policing? It’s our biggest risk in Selwyn. Selwyn is over represented nationally in terms of serious injury crashes and fatalities. So we put a huge resource into try and turn that around. It’s a major thing that kills people in this part of the country. We try to change behaviours because we’re trying to reduce the crashes. We have a goal of no serious injury or death crashes. People say we’ll never get there, but if we don’t try we won’t achieve. So we’re out there trying to change behaviour, and we’re doing that through enforcement and education and through engineering changes to the roads. 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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Wednesday March 6 2019 21 real good buzz’ From when you walked into the job for the first time, how has policing changed today and has it changed for the better? I don’t know if I could always say for the better. There’s certainly change, change is constant. Some things have improved. Technology means that everybody is watching everything now, everyone films things, records things. Has there been a lot of culture change? Yes, there has been. I guess the two big culture changes we saw in the police is the disappearance of the heavy drinking culture which was certainly a thing in the early 1980s. I think the Springbok Tour [1981] probably started some changes in terms of a lot of cops not being able to be deployed into the frontline. The other big culture change is the move to have a fitter force than we once had. High levels of fitness standards were introduced in the 1980s with regular fitness and health testing and a requirement to maintain an acceptable level of fitness. We’re happy with that because it’s really the only measure that the public have that police are physically fit enough to do the job that we’re required to do. If I had it my way the fitness testing would be more frequent. Outside of police work, do you have any hobbies? I spend as much time with my family as I can, and I like to try and keep myself fit. So I do that nowadays by riding mountain bikes cross-country. I’m the masters club captain at Halswell United Football Club. I played football until I had two knee replacements recently. Nowadays my involvement is limited to managing the team, administering and refereeing. Is football your main sport? I’m a rugby nut. Massive Crusaders and All Blacks fan. My background is in rugby union so that’s the sport that takes most of my interest in terms of following it. I played football from the days I couldn’t play rugby anymore and been involved with Halswell United since 1986. Tell me a bit about your family? FRONTLINE: After the 1981 Springbok Tour, police went through culture changes. I’ve been married [to Yvonne] since 1983, I have three grown up daughters and three grandchildren. I met Yvonne working together at Dalgety. When we actually started going out she moved to a rival company Pyne Gould Guinness. I think I met her at the company Christmas do from memory. There’s a big drive for new police recruits right now, for anyone thinking about joining the police, what would you say to them? It’s an extremely rewarding, the work is varied and you do something different every day. You’ll have times where you feel really sad but there are lots of times where you feel really glad. It keeps you on your toes in terms of ensuring your own behaviours are without reproach. 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