Cook Islands Police Service

Cook Islands Police Service
Agency overview
Employees 107[1]

The Cook Islands Police Service is the uniformed component of the Cook Islands Ministry of Police, whose other two components are the Meteorological Branch and Disaster Management.[2]

The Commissioner of Police, Maara Tetava, was appointed in 2009.[3]

Operations

On March 23, 2017, the Pacific Island Report reported that the Police Force was poorly equipped.[4] The report pointed to the Police response to a triple shooting on Raratonga in October 2016.

Radio New Zealand reported, on May 16, 2017, that twenty percent of the Police Force had resigned, over the last year, over concerns that they were the most poorly paid government workers.[5] New officers earn $14,000 New Zealand Dollars.

Maritime patrols

Among the Police Service's mandate is exercising sovereignty over the nation's 200 kilometre Exclusive Economic Zone. When the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Seas extended maritime nations' economic zones Australia provided patrol boats to the Cook Islands and 11 other fellow members of the Pacific Forum. The Cook Islands' first Pacific Forum patrol boat was the CIPPB Te Kukupa, commissioned in May 1989. Australia is currently building a larger and more capable Guardian class patrol boats to replace the Te Kukupa and sister ships.

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the Cook Islands Police Commissioner". Enjoycookislands.com. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  2. ↑ Cook Islands (2005). State Party Report on CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Government of the Cook Islands. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Alastair Blount (2018-06-22). "A chat with the Cook Islands Police Commissioner". Enjoy Cook Islands. Retrieved 2018-06-22. During his tenure, Commissioner Tetava has also forged strong working relationships with the New Zealand Police, Australian Federal Police and Pacific Policing services, which have resulted in their ongoing support to the Cook Islands Police Service.
  4. ↑ "Cook Islands Police 'Urgently Need' Equipment, Training". Pacific Island Report. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  5. ↑ "Cooks Islands police force loses officers". Radio New Zealand. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2018-06-22. In the most recent case six officers left in April and while Commissioner, Ma'ara Tetava, told the Cook Islands News it is sad to lose this experience, he says the force will be able to cope.

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