Two former Dunedin police officers have been appointed to assistant police commissioner positions.
Nick Perry has been appointed Assistant Commissioner (operations) based at Police National Headquarters in Wellington.
Dave Cliff has been appointed as Assistant Commissioner (South).
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall confirmed the two appointments yesterday.
The assistant commissioner (operations) role is responsible for community policing, youth, communications centres, operations group, prosecutions and road policing.
The assistant commissioner (south) oversees the three police districts in the South Island: Tasman, Canterbury and Southern.
Mr Cliff comes to his new role from his previous position of district commander of Canterbury.
Before that, he was the national manager of road policing.
Based in Dunedin from 2000-05, he was southern district road policing manager, acting district commander for about a year, and then southern district development manager.
His fills one of three new regional assistant commissioner positions announced earlier this year.
Police said the idea was to better balance workloads, streamline reporting lines and allow district commanders, who must report to the new assistant commissioners, to focus on their core business.
Mr Perry has recently been acting district commander of Counties Manukau. Before that, he was NZ Police liaison officer based in London.
He was the Southern police district commander, based in Dunedin, from 2000 until he left in 2004 to be the national crime manager after leading the police investigation of historic rape allegations.
