When police turn up to a property in body armour and wearing face guards they are not usually bearing gifts.
But that's just what they did when Counties Manukau police arrived to surprise an industrious boy at his police-themed fifth birthday party.
When Zachary was master planning his party he had to invite the police to go with the theme, so it was lucky he only had to remember three numbers to get hold of them.
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He had told his mother he wanted to have a police-themed birthday and wanted to invite them to come along but she had no idea he was going to phone through.