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Policing technology: new police computer system, 1996

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Policing technology: new police computer system, 1996

Constable Evan Wicks clicks on a central Wellington street address to demonstrate the computerised phone and dispatch system installed at Wellington Central Police Station in 1996.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1996/2861

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Richard S. Hill, Police – Modern policing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33867/policing-technology-new-police-computer-system-1996 (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Richard S. Hill, published 8 June 2012.