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IPA Mourns Past President Stan Keith IPA IPA mourns Past President Stan Keith QSM International Police Association Winter 2011 New Zealand Section Inc. $6.95 inc. GST FREE TO MEMBERS Winter 2011 Contents Editor 2 IPA Office Holders Ken Brewer – IPA Region 1 Current IPA Members Email: [email protected] Copy-Editor 3 From the Editors Quill Coleen Meyers – IPA Region 1 by Ken Brewer Layout and Design Rainbow Creative Ltd – Porirua Bruce Hutton – IPA Region 4 - Cover 4 President’s Report Introducing our new President 23 A Touch of History Contributors Fingerprinting - A History Stan Keith QSM – IPA Region 1 Merle Keith – Region 1 6 The Secretary General’s Coleen Meyers – IPA Region 1 Desk 26 Member Letters Bruce Hutton QSM – IPA Region 4 By Coleen Meyers IPANZ 2011 William Lawrence – IPA Region 1 Letter of Thanks Michael Lucas – Region 2 Personal Collection Ken Brewer – IPA Region 1 8 International News A Hosting Experience Dave Allen – IPA Region 5 IPA UK News International Secretary General - IPA New Arthur Troop book By Steve Anderton – IPA Region 1 New Ireland Police book 30 Gifts and Souvenirs Russian language site The New Zealand Police UK report on NZ Earthquakes The New Zealand Police Museum IPA International Expanding 31 Membership Application The New Zealand Herald Newspaper Form The Alexander Turnbull Library Thomson Reuters 9 Notice Board Associated Foreign Press Coming Events & Accommodation Henry Orrega Patrick Rucker Louis Rojas Mena 11 Obituaries Jim Forsyth Funeral of Past President Robin Emmott Julian Cardona Thisisexeter 16 Visitor’s, Events and Member’s Travels Publisher Christchurch AGM and NEC meetings Rainbow Creative Ltd – Porirua Hosting the Goldsmiths Ph: 0064 04 232 1000 IPANZ Event [email protected] New IPA Website for NZ Region 1 and 5 committees Copyright - IPA New Zealand - 2011 www.ipa.org.nz 20 Fast Facts Brazilian Robocop Glasses Mexican drug war updates Spy Pen IPA Magazine is Proud to support On The Cover www.ipa.org.nz A view of Mt Taranaki framed by the Te Rewa Rea Bridge www.ipamagazine.co.nz Courtesy of Ian and Nola Goldsmith REGION 2 - Waikato & Bay of Plenty Miscellaneous Posts IPA Office Chairman Brian Husband QSM HOBBIES & PENPALS 39 Keswick Crescent, Huntington. Graeme Newbury Holders Hamilton 3210 Phone: 64 9 353 7060 Ph: 64 07 855 1254 Mobile: 027 437 2266 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] NATIONAL PRESIDENT Paul Visser REGION 3 - Central & Eastern Districts AMATEUR RADIO GROUP Newtons Road Chairman Ron Bonnington Sandy Knoll RD5 Phil Rowe Phone: 64 3 545 0158 Christchurch 7675 20 Rewa Street Call Sign: ZL2AW Ph: 64 3 3478568 Inglewood 4330 Mobile: 027 451 4541 Phone: 64 6 756 8055 Associate Travel Secretaries Email: [email protected] Work: 64 6 756 0900 Email: [email protected] NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT ASIA Ross Pinkham QPM Ross Pinkham QPM REGION 4 - Wellington Police District 5 Cadogan Lane 5 Cadogan Lane Chairman Greenmeadows Greenmeadows Paris Razos Napier 4112 Napier 4112 c/o Royal New Zealand Police College Ph: 06 844 3039 Phone: 64 6 844 3039 Private Bag 50906 Email: [email protected] Mobile: 027 242 8089 Porirua 5022 Email: [email protected] Phone: 64 4 238 3281 AFRICA Mobile: 027 727 4701 Ron Pilbrough PAST PRESIDENT Email: [email protected] Stan Keith QSM Phone: 64 3 377 0106 Email: [email protected] PO Box 225 REGION 5 - Canterbury & Tasman Helensville 0840 Chairman Ph: 64 9 4207569 (evenings) AUSTRALIA Ron PILBROUGH Brett Leask Work; 64 9 820 5740 29 Eversleigh Street Email: [email protected] 25 Kingsbridge Drive St Albans Christchurch SECRETARY GENERAL Christchurch 8014 Phone: 64 3 383 1064 Ph: 64 3 377 0106 Email: [email protected] Coleen Meyers Email: [email protected] PO Box 21061 BELGIUM, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG, Henderson 0650 REGION 6 - Southern District Phone: 64 9 838 0338 SWITZERLAND, ALL OTHER Work: 64 9 820 5732 Chairman FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES Mobile: 027 338 1114 Colin Lind JP Jacques Legros Email: [email protected] 255 Pine Hill Road Email: [email protected] Dunedin 9010 ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL Phone: 64 3 473 7174 CYPRUS, MALTA, GREECE, ISRAEL Michael Lucas Phone: 64 27 733 0066 Steve Anderton 10 Vista Place Email: [email protected] Phone: 64 9 428 2438 Kawaha Point Mobile: 021 051 0746 Rotorua 3010 Regional Secretaries Email: [email protected] Phone: 64 7 346 8353 Mobile: 021 036 1008 REGION 1 - Auckland & Northland EASTERN EUROPE, GERMANY, Email: [email protected] Secretary AUSTRIA Coleen Meyers Kras Bankov NATIONAL TREASURER PO Box 21061 13 Poolburn Street Jillian Craig Henderson 0650 Lake Hayes 53A Glen Road Phone: 64 9 818 7738 Queenstown 9348 Raumati South Mobile: 027 338 1114 Phone: 03 442 2874 Wellington 5032 Email: [email protected] Mobile: 021 182 0851 Mobile: 021 2674414 Fax: 03 442 2871 Email: [email protected] REGION 2 - Waikato & Bay of Plenty Email: [email protected] Secretary NATIONAL TRAVEL SECRETARY Michael Lucas POST SOVIET UNION Marlene Merriman Phone: 64 7 346 8353 Victoria Kirichuk 15 Te Mete Terrace Email: [email protected] PO Box 404 002 Merrilands Puhoi New Plymouth 4312 REGION 3 - Central & Eastern Districts Auckland 0951 Ph/Fax: 64 6 758 4639 Secretary Phone: 64 9 422 0077 Work: 64 6 759 6842 Karen Drysdale Mobile: 021 294 7460 Email: [email protected] Phone: 64 6 759 9486 (work) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR IRELAND Kerry Morrell REGION 4 - Wellington police District Email: [email protected] Dave Allen Mobile: 027 444 0533 Secretary Phone: 64 3 548 0592 Val Redshaw MNZM JP Email: [email protected] MAGAZINE EDITOR 23 St Ives Drive Ken Brewer JP Canborne, Plimmerton SAN MARINO, ITALY 35 Tington Avenue Wellington Georgina McDonald Manurewa 2103 Phone: 64 4 233 8581 Phone: 64 9 838 1946 Phone: 64 9 266 6344 Email: [email protected] Mobile: 027 335 543 Mobile: 021 257 6858 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] REGION 5 - Canterbury & Tasman Secretary SCANDI NAV IA Email: [email protected] Garry Holden Judy & John Pegler 1/11 Tuscany Place, Phone: 64 9 428 1559 Beckenham Email: [email protected] Regional Chairmen Christchurch 8023 Phone: 64 3 331 7631 UNITED KINGDOM REGION 1 - Auckland & Northland Email: [email protected] William Lawrence Chairman Phone: 64 9 820 5700 William Lawrence REGION 6 – Southern District Email: [email protected] 68 Te Wharau Drive Secretary Greenhithe, Brian Benn QSM USA, CANADA, NETHERLANDS Auckland 0632 C/O Dunedin Police Station Paul Visser Ph: 64 9 4139920 Phone: 64 3 488 1009 Phone: 64 3 347 8568 Mobile: 021 210 2570 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 4 IPA Magazine From the Editor’s Quill Greetings, In April I attended the IPA AGM and National Executive meetings in Christchurch and whilst there was able to see at first hand some On Monday 13 June 2011 we lost the of the devastation and heartbreak experienced by that lovely city. Whilst the red zone and the worst affected suburbs receive justified immediate past President of IPA New media attention, there is a lot of residential damage that receives Zealand Section, Stanley Raymond little mention. To our members affected by this tragic series of Henry Keith QSM. Stan was a former events, I extend my best wishes. colleague and loyal friend. In my last editorial I made mention of the closing of the old Otahuhu police station and described some of the legends of policing that had served in that venerable old building over the years. Stan Keith stood high on the list of those legends and his loss will be felt by many. Never an attention seeker, Stan was a quiet, persistent and professional investigator who missed little and achieved great results that also earned him a place in our history. In so called ‘retirement’ he kept busy working for the Police and the Department of Internal Affairs, in addition to taking on some of the demanding executive roles within the IPA. His work for the IPA was always conducted in the best interests of the Association for whom he had a great affection. I was privileged to be given the opportunity by Stan’s family to say a few words during the funeral service and then found myself placed Meanwhile a part of my own history was being reduced to rubble, in the Guard of Honour alongside our current President Paul but this time deliberately. The old 1965 Otahuhu police station Visser. You will be missed Stan. To his family and especially his wife finally fell to the pressure of progress in readiness for construction Merle, also a keen IPA advocate, are extended my sincere sympathies of a new building. Those of us who worked there in its heyday will and best wishes. be a little saddened by its demise as we farewell the old lady and look forward to the next chapter when the new one opens in 2012. Next, my personal thanks are extended to IPA members Stuart and Beverley Paul of Blenheim for their outstanding hospitality in accommodating me over the past Easter weekend. Readers will know I’m a self declared aircraft nut and the Omaka Classic Fighters air show there lived up to its reputation of being the best of its kind in the country. I could not have attended without their help.
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