Senior Sergeant Dave Fraser is Tararua's new police chief, having started in his role last week.
He comes with vast experience in Manawatū rural town policing having served 32 years in the force, 12 of them in Marton, two in Foxton, followed by 12 years in Bulls where he currently resides and the last two in Feilding in charge of the station and responsible for crime prevention.
Dave has served the police overseas for six months in East Timor as part of the UN Peacekeeping Force, which he says he found interesting and challenging, and a further six months in the Chatham Islands.
He has also travelled extensively adventure motorcycling with friends travelling several times through parts of South America and following the western seaboard of North America from Alaska south to Mexico.
The new senior sergeant is an outdoors man with a passion for fly fishing and hunting and says he prefers to be out on the beat and interacting with locals rather than being tied to an office.
