Max Mitchell

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2,243 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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And most of us had been up since 4 a.m.

in the morning by the time we got to Christchurch.

Then we had to be inducted.

We all became New Zealand police officers.

So we had to follow, you know, some basic legislation.

To get like sworn in.

Yeah, and get sworn in.

And so he asked me about that.

I said, look, can you just give me five minutes and I'll have an answer for you.

And I turned around, went with my senior officers and spoke to a number of the constables on the ground and said, look, we've been asked to do this.

And there wasn't any pushback at all.

They just said, boss, we'll do what's needed.

So we had police, New South Wales police, on the ground that night doing night work.

That's just huge.

And I have never worked with a greater bunch of police than the ones that went to Christchurch with me.

Yeah.

Part of the aspects that I was so proud of and what the men and women did, and this gives you a really good idea of how they were thinking.

It was like when the military goes into a location and it's about hearts and minds, and that's what we did.

The men and women went out into the suburbs, places where it was like a war zone, Christchurch.

The amount of damage, houses that had sunk into the ground, liquefaction that had come up.

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