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Inspector Sam Aberahama has been the commander of the TairÄ ?? area. whiti for the past 10 years.
It turns out that police officers who have worked in the force as long as Sam Aberahama and seen it all can still be surprised.
The Gisborne Tairāwhiti area commander said he was “overwhelmed” to hear that he had been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to the New Zealand Police and the community.
“I was absorbed with all this, I take it on behalf of this community. There are a lot of people behind me who took on the success of Tairāwhiti in many different ways, and I am just one of a team. “
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Working in the police force since 1988, Aberahama has been the commander of the Gisborne Tairāwhiti area for the past 11 years.
Upon joining the force, Aberahama worked in South Auckland for 10 years as a police officer. He was then promoted to sergeant and moved to Auckland City working as a detective sergeant for a year.
In 1998, he moved to his hometown, Hastings, and continued to police there for a further 10 years.
“I did a lot of work in the criminal investigation branch and then I was promoted to sergeant major and detective inspector,” he said. “I was very lucky to have a very good career in my career at Hawke’s Bay, then the area commander emerged in Gisborne 11 years ago. I put my name in and I got it, and I’ve been here ever since. “
Aberahama helped establish the Cook Islands Internal Support Network in the New Zealand Police in 2016.
He was President of Safe Tairāwhiti Community Trust from 1994 to 2017, when Manaaki Tairāwhiti joined Safe Tairāwhiti, Violence Free Tairāwhiti, and Prisoner Reintegration Network.
In 2013, he helped establish the Ngā Ara Pai mentor program in Gisborne to help at-risk youth obtain their driver’s licenses, which has had an 80 percent pass rate.
In 2016, he helped establish “Te Hahi,” a partnership between the police and local churches with a focus on family harm. Since then it has expanded to Rotorua and Hawke’s Bay.
Aberahama was instrumental in a number of successful community projects, including providing a safe network for families, suicide prevention, home security for the elderly, and road safety.
“It has been an incredible journey. It has been incredible to lead a team of passionate police officers, ”he said. “It’s about connecting with our people, showing them that we really care.”
Aberahama said that methamphetamine continued to affect the broader Tairāwhiti region and that drug education was vital.
“We were never going to stop to get off the meth and the problems it causes. So we have looked at many ways of education and prevention to provide support to whānau who need it, so that they can change direction, with support to get off the drug.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said that Aberahama had been awarded a Queen’s Service Medal. In fact, he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
