Constable Matthew Hunt was killed in a June 2020 shooting.<\/p>\n
Hunt\u2019s plaque now includes his NZ Bravery Decoration, which was awarded posthumously to him in December 2024.<\/p>\n
Contable Matthew Hunt’s plaque on the Memorial Wall during the Police Remembrance Day ceremony at the Royal NZ Police College in Porirua in 2020. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
The national service will also pay tribute to police in Australia and the Pacific who have been killed by criminal acts while performing their official duties or died as a result of their duties.<\/p>\n
Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers will attend the national service, with Associate Minister of Police Casey Costello.<\/p>\n
Wreaths will be laid at the NZ Police Memorial Wall and recruits will perform a haka to honour those being remembered.<\/p>\n
Recruits performing their haka before the Memorial Wall during the Police Remembrance Day ceremony at the Royal NZ Police College in Porirua. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
The national Remembrance Day service will be livestreamed on the police website, the NZ Police Facebook page and the NZ Police Museum Facebook page from 11am on September 29.<\/p>\n
The livestream will be recorded and will remain available on the Facebook pages and website for viewing after the service.<\/p>\n
On Police Remembrance Day, police staff throughout NZ wear the huia pin, which was developed by the Police Association and the NZ Police.<\/p>\n
The tail plumage of the huia bird, now lost to us, is something rare and special and to wear it is considered by M\u0101ori to be a great honour.<\/p>\n
By incorporating the police chevron into the huia tail feather, the design of the pin symbolises the honouring of someone special, now lost to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A national service will be held at the Royal NZ Police College in Porirua, where rolls of names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4765,5972,1888,36823,42,7568,78,36822,32573,91,43,675,11780,36820,5843,8037,36821,1961,61,40,38,41,39,1533,1339,379,80],"class_list":["post-40732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-annual","tag-day","tag-first","tag-fleming","tag-headlines","tag-honour","tag-in","tag-lyn","tag-mark","tag-nelson","tag-news","tag-police","tag-polices","tag-remembrance","tag-senior","tag-september","tag-sergeant","tag-this","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-will","tag-without","tag-year","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}