Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming leads the organisation’s Strategy & Service portfolio which includes Strategy & Transformation, Service & Resolutions, Media & Communications, Risk and Assurance and the Firearms Regulation & Reform Transition Unit. Jevon with his team, is responsible for setting our strategic direction and leading transformation across the business, ensuring we delivery services New Zealanders deserve and expect, and driving our business to deliver our priorities. Prior to his current role Jevon was Assistant Commissioner: Service leading our service delivery transformation including the establishment of the Single Non-Emergency Number (105) and other channels for New Zealanders to engage with our services. Jevon also had responsibility for Police’s major enabling assets, being ICT, Property and Fleet. Before that Jevon was Police’s Chief Information Officer where he managed ICT Services and mobility. Jevon joined Police in 1996 after completing his studies in 1995. Starting his career in Auckland which included front-line policing, communications and maritime roles before shifting to the far South, where he met a range of challenges as a rural and provincial sole charge officer. An opportunity to rewrite rural officers’ work terms and conditions led to a move to Wellington. Jevon then transferred to The Royal New Zealand Police College to run the promotion courses for Sergeant and Senior Sergeant ranks. Then, as Deployment Manager for Wellington District, Jevon and his team played a key role in the model and process design for the New Zealand Police Prevention First Strategy. Jevon has since led substantial change management in large and complex parts of the business and has delivered transformational results in programme delivery and system’s enhancement across Police to maximize the benefit to the frontline, the services we deliver and the safety of all New Zealanders. During his time as a member of the Executive, Jevon has also led the Next Generation Critical Communications Programme, on behalf of the Commissioner and Police, who is the lead agency for this work on behalf the Emergency Services Sector.

Hamish is co-Director of Mackie Research and has 24 years of research and consultancy experience in various areas of human factors, research, trials, and evaluation, with the past 18 years specialising in road safety, active travel, health and safety, and other areas of life where designing for people is important. Often supporting project and programme delivery teams, Hamish brings specialist expertise in how people perceive their world, behave, and operate within systems, and he focusses on how to make transport and other safety systems intuitive, user-friendly, and safe. Volunteer roles include committee member (and past Chairperson) of the Human Factors and ergonomic Society NZ (HFESNZ), Governance Group member of the Health and Safety Association of NZ (HASANZ), committee member of the NZ Chapter of the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS), and committee member of the Cycling and Walking Australia and NZ Innovations working group (CWANZ).