Garth den Heyer
Garth Jacobus den Heyer (born 28 February 1959) is a New Zealand academic and retired New Zealand police officer. He was the first New Zealand Police Departmental Security Officer[1] and held the position of Manager: National Security for the New Zealand Police for more than nine years. He announced his retirement from the New Zealand Police in January 2019.
Early Life and Education
den Heyer was educated at Hastings Boys High School and Massey University. He enrolled at Massey University as an adult student and completed a Bachelor in Business Studies (Economics) in 1997. He also holds an MSc from the University of London in Financial Economics, a Masters in Strategic Studies from Victoria University Wellington and a Doctorate in Public Policy from Charles Sturt University.
Traffic Safety Service and New Zealand Police
Garth den Heyer joined the Traffic Safety Service in January 1981 and served in Wellington and Wanganui. He was promoted to Head Quarters in 1990 as a Sergeant and worked in a Ministerial Policy Unit.
Following the merger between the Traffic Safety Service and the New Zealand Police, he was transferred to a Planning Unit at Police National Headquarters and later worked as a patrol supervisor. He was promoted to Senior Sergeant and worked as Project Officer on Policing 2000 and the organizational restructuring project and the staff safety project.
He later transferred to the Operations Group as the planning officer and eventually planning numerous national operations and VIP, Royal and Ministerial visits.
He was appointed as Inspector: Departmental Security Officer in 2002 and Manager: National Security in 2005. As the Departmental Security Officer, he planned the New Zealand Police response to the 2004 Boxing Day Phuket Tsunami[2].
As Manager: National Security, He was responsible for the research, development and application of national, organizational and border security, counterterrorism, emergency management, and search and rescue and Disaster Victim Identification policies, procedures, plans and responses [3]. He also undertook a number of general policing and security research and reporting projects, coordinated national protective security operations, and delivered national counter-terrorism exercises. Garth was the coordinator and planner for the New Zealand response to the 2004 Boxing Day Phuket Tsunami (New Zealand Police, 2005).
In 2004, he completed a six-month fellowship with the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, where completed a number of consultative and evaluative projects of policing programs.
In 2006-2007, he was deployed for six months to the Solomon Islands as Superintendent: Planning and part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI). He wrote the strategic, corporate and business plans, and developed and implemented a capacity and sustainability planning and performance framework for the Participating Police Force and Solomon Island Police Force. Following this deployment, he was seconded to the Australian Federal Police in 2008 for 12 months to evaluate the RAMSI mission and to design an exit strategy.
Academia
Dr den Heyer has held academic positions at Charles Sturt University and Walden University. He is currently an Instructor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University.
He also holds positions at the at the National Police Foundation in Washington DC and the Scottish Institute of Policing and a number of visiting professor positions at universities in the United Kingdom.
References
- ↑ New Zealand Police (2003). "Security high on the agenda in new role" (243).
- ↑ New Zealand Police (2005). "Staff safety and health imperative". https://www.police.govt.nz/news/ten-one-magazine (269). External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ New Zealand Police (2013). "Be prepared, headquarters staff urged" (374).
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