At the March Main Meeting this coming Thursday 27 March, Mark Foster ZL1VMF will speak on his involvement with the Fire Police. Mark served as a Volunteer Fire Policeman within the New Zealand Fire Service for the last 5 years, in both Auckland and Wellington, and currently serves with the Hutt Valley Volunteer Fire Police Unit.
Fire Police are a support component of the Fire Service and are called out to provide assistance to both the Fire Service and occaisionally the Police, for duties such as crowd and traffic control, scene protection and other ancillary tasks that free up operational firefighters and police to other duties.
Through the Fire Police Mark has attended several significant events. He will talk about his experience within the Fire Police to date and the role that Fire Police play in the greater emergency services arena. He will also be bringing along one of their vehicles to show. For more information the Unit has a website: www.hvfp.org.nz.
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