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Monthly round-up from local emergency services By: Siren March 2021 This month sees a new community police officer on the beat in Ōrewa, and he’s already a familiar face to many. Senior Constable Wiremu Waretini, known to many as Moo, has lived on the Coast with his family since 2000. He’s been in the police for 30 years, having worked first in South Auckland and the central city before transferring to Ōrewa as an intelligence officer five and a half years ago. Now he’s taking to local streets in a more visible role to work with residents, business owners and community groups to build partnerships, run crime prevention programmes and tackle relevant issues at grassroots level. “People will see me around,” he says. “I’ll be out walking the beat. I want people to know they don’t need to be worried that something’s happening when they see a police officer.” The patch he covers goes way beyond Ōrewa and Red Beach, from Waiwera in the north almost to Albany in the