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Constable Tess is top of the cops

Constable Tess is top of the cops

Being a star nothing new for top recruit

SHELLEY NAHR
Last updated 05:00 07/10/2011








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Success is nothing new for Tess Kai Fong, 18, who has again risen to the top, beating 268 police recruits to take top spot at their graduation.
Constable Kai Fong received the Minister's Prize from Police Minister Judith Collins at Porirua yesterday for being top of her wing, as well as the Ericsson Practical Prize for overall winner in practical assessments, skills files and fingerprinting.
The Auckland-born-and-bred teenager, who was deputy head girl and deputy dux at Rangitoto College, was given the chance last year to visit Harvard University.
But she is certain her future career is back home with the police, saying it was officers who inspired her. "To be honest, it was every police officer I talked to said it was the best job. You become a well-respected part of the community."
With the full support of her family, she applied for police college while still in high school and was recruited to start training in May.
She said the 19-week training had been intensive and it was different coming from school into a police environment. "You come into a predominantly adult environment. You have to be mature: you can't get anywhere, otherwise."
She was looking forward to learning the various aspects of the job, but said there would be areas that would be challenging.
"Probably the hardest for a younger person to understand is domestic violence, and we have an astonishingly high rate of domestic violence."
She will start work on the North Shore but hopes one day to become a detective.
- © Fairfax NZ News

Sandra Kai Fong

 Sandra is currently serving her second term as a trustee of the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust. She also served eight years as a Rotorua trustee on BayTrust, from 2002 to 2010. She was Chair of the Investments Committee for most of that period and also chaired the organising committee when BayTrust hosted the 2004 Community Trusts Annual conference at Taupo.
Sandra spent 26 years as a lawyer, specialising in civil and commercial litigation. She was a partner in the law firm McKechnie Quirke and Lewis for 22 years.
She has also been involved in several business initiatives to promote economic growth in Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, and was the regional Business Club Co-ordinator for NZ2011 during the Rugby World Cup. She was director of the Forest Industries Expo in 2011, and is currently director for the SICS Sports Health and Lifestyle Expo at the 50th Rotorua Marathon 2014.
She also runs an e-commerce company selling merino fabric around the world.

Sandra Kai Fong

Trustee

Local solicitor, Sandra Kai Fong, was elected to the Rotorua Trust in November 2010.
Well-known and respected in the local business community, Sandra practised law in Rotorua for 26 years. Specialising in civil litigation, she retired from practice in October last year. A member of the Bay of Connections Governance Group, which is responsible for the Bay of Plenty regional economic development strategy, Sandra represented Rotorua on the BayTrust from 2002 – 2010 and was an inaugural member of Rotorua’s Bright Economy Board.
Born and raised in Rotorua, she was educated at Rotorua Girls’ High School and Otago University, where she studied law and economics.
Sandra is married to Tim Rigter and they have two teenage children.

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Get behind chopper

Jeff Kai Fong of Orewa is among those urging holidaymakers heading north to spare a thought for the Northland Electricity rescue helicopter as it celebrates its 25th year in operation.
He spent a week in a coma after his quad bike crashed into a pine tree on Christmas Eve while holidaying in Pipiwai, Northland, in 2000.
The speedy rescue by the service saw him airlifted off steep rural land and likely saved his life. He's one of the faces of a new campaign encouraging donations.
Virtually every helicopter rescue carried out at the Mangawhai Surf Club is for an Aucklander, with Aucklanders making up a big chunk of property owners in the coastal village.
The Northland population swells by around 35 per cent with the tourist influx over summer, most from Auckland.
The Northland Electricity rescue helicopter and Auckland Westpac rescue helicopter service operations regularly overlap, with the northern helicopters attending car smashes and other emergencies in Rodney and the broader Auckland area.
But the funding options for the northern service are limited and it is a constant challenge to raise funds from northern businesses and individuals to cover an area nearly three times that of the Auckland region but with just a 10th of the population.
"So this year, I would dearly love to see visitors to Northland donating money to this very worthwhile cause," trust spokesman Steve MacMillan says.
People can donate at any Northland ASB Branch, or make an internet banking donation to ERH Appeal: ASB - 12 3106 0046000 00.
Those who donate $5 or more can be in to win one of 60 rides in a Northland Electricity rescue helicopter.
See facebook.com/north land.rescuehelicopter. © Fairfax NZ News

Get behind chopper

DELWYN DICKEY
Last updated 05:00 24/10/2013