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NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Tributes to a top cop Paul Charman reflects on the life a popular cop who, in a different time, knew a heavy hand wasn’t the answer The funeral of former Te Kūiti-based police and traffic officer Barry Hazelton attracted more than 400 people to the Les Munro Centre last week. Mourners included past and present members of the Te Kūiti Motorcycle Club, which Hazelton helped to establish in the late 1980s. The police, former traffic officers, and the Fire Service were well represented. Both Barry and his wife Thelma, who he is survived by, were active members of the Te Kūiti Volunteer Fire Brigade, with Thelma its first female fire fighter. The Hazeltons – who had six sons – lived in Te Kūiti from about 1988 till 1998, during which time MOT traffic officers merged with the NZ Police. Barry Hazelton served about two years as Te Kūiti’s first community constable. His
police career lasted 38 years – right up to a medical discharge from active service in 2020, at which point he became a firearms officer. This was a role the keen hunter enjoyed according to Barry’s son JJ. JJ said his dad helped establish his town’s motorcycle club and many of the 20-30 bike riders who attended the funeral, received their licences under Barry’s testing. “Dad used to enjoy riding his Kawasaki Z1 1000, but later his ultimate bike later was a 2010 Harley Softail.” The family eventually left Te Kūiti and moved to Whangamatā, where Barry worked in the police for a several years ahead of joining the highway patrol, based out of Paeroa. In this role he covered most of the Hauraki Plains.
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Old MOT patrol cars were lined up at the funeral of ex-traffic officer Barry Hazelton. Pictured from left were Phil Cronin, Cambridge, Wayne Waretini, Huntly and Lou Forhecz, Hamilton.
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Barry Hazelton was a traffic officer and community constable at Te Kūiti between 1988 to 1998.
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