This year marks 30 years since the deaths of Police Air Support Unit officers Sergeant Lindsay “Lou” Eion Grant, 39, and Constable Alastair Alan Sampson, 27, in a mid-air collision over Auckland.
There was a common theme as our chairs reviewed the past year at the Police Association area committee annual meetings from May 31 to June 30, with many asking where the extra 1800 police officers were.