A year after Cyclone Gabrielle smashed through Hawke's Bay civil defence controller Ian Macdonald talked to RNZ's Hawke's Bay reporter about the biggest emergency response of his career.
Police in cyclone-hit regions have an accurate picture of what is going on in the communities they are patrolling, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says.
Rural residents say they have had intruders or had property videoed; police say there's been a spike in reports of suspicious activity though not in crime figures.