Namibia trip
Ohakune Police Constable Wayne Mills has been selected, from 300 applicants, to serve in the 32 member New Zealand peace keeping team going to Namibia.
He is scheduled to leave New Zealand early May and stay for 12 months. Mr Mills spent a week at Porirua police college training before the final selection. The unit will be part of a United Nations "Transition Assistance" group, which aims to oversee the first elections of an independent government of the
country, which is presently under South African rule. Wayne told the Bulletin the trip won't be a holiday. 'They said it'll be the hardest work we've ever done," he said. Accommodation will be "Spartan to say the least", he said. The units will carry out 4-5 day patrols in anti-land mine vehicles in the
desert country. Their task is to observe, in an unbiased fashion, the local police handling their affairs. The unit will initially be based at the capital, Windhoek, which is on the south west coast of the country. Namibia has a population of 1.2 million in an area of about 800,000 square kilometres, with South Africa bordering to the south and south east and Angola bordering to the north.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 284, 25 April 1989, Page 1
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