Police Commissioner Richard Chambers will spend New Year’s Eve on frontline duty in Nelson, working alongside local officers and commemorating a year since the death of colleague Lyn Fleming.
Chambers said being in Nelson was important to support staff who worked with Fleming and to mark the anniversary of her killing. Later in December, he will also assist with policing at the Rhythm and Vines festival near Gisborne, alongside Eastern District Commander Jeanette Park, who is set to move into an Assistant Commissioner role.
Chambers said spending time on the frontline is a ‘personal priority’ and a leadership expectation. He has recently introduced a requirement for all senior sworn staff, regardless of rank or location, to regularly support frontline policing to ensure leaders remain visible and connected.
Under the new Frontline Service Model, about 600 Level 2 responders who usually work in office-based roles will be deployed over the next year, contributing more than 25,000 additional hours of frontline support. Their duties will include road policing, event security, reassurance patrols and beat work, helping free up frontline officers during busy periods and major investigations.
Deputy Commissioner Mike Pannett will also undertake frontline duties in Auckland over the New Year period, while acting Deputy Commissioner Tusha Penny will be on duty in Wellington.
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You said
what would 25000 hours of police work transpire as to police numbers
Copilot said
Here’s a clear way to think about your question — essentially you’re asking:
“If there are 25,000 hours of police work to be done, how many officers does that represent?”
To answer that, we need a baseline for how many hours a typical full‑time police officer works.
📘 Standard police work hours
Search results show that full‑time police officers are typically scheduled for about 40 hours per week
That equals roughly:
40 hours/week × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours per year
(This is the standard full‑time workload used in most workforce calculations.)
📊 Converting 25,000 hours into officer equivalents
Using the standard 2,080 hours per officer per year:
Officer equivalents=25,000 divided by 2,080≈12.02
So 25,000 hours of police work equals roughly 12 full‑time officers for one year.
🧩 Key assumptions (and why they matter)
This uses contracted hours, not actual hours worked.
Police often work more due to overtime, shift extensions, and call outs
It assumes one year of work.
If you want the number over a shorter period (e.g., 6 months), the calculation changes.
🔍 Summary table
Workload Officer‑equivalent (annual)
25,000 hours of police work ≈ 12 full‑time officers
So it could even be less
I am yet to find a reasonable explanation why police officer Lyn Fleming was killed on patrol.
No normal person intentionally drives over police.
I would like to know who turned Hayden Tasker Into that person. Why Hayden Tasker had so much hate for police.
Yes, seems to be we hear only one side.
This may be a similar sort of situation
https://notthebee.com/article/man-stabs-woman-to-death-at-florida-barnes–noble
And the girl who was murdered on the train in the US
I had read about another condition where someone does not want to hurt a particular person but has to resist the urge and temptation to do so
The New Zealand Police’s deep-state surveillance network | Does it still exist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyJDmr37sY
They are the politicians eyes and ears on the ground, surely?
Just a bloody politicised nuisance, who most of us would rather not see or have anything to do with……