City Honours Commitment to Safety

Wellington City Council has honoured individuals and organisations for their contribution to safety in the city.


Mayor Kerry Prendergast presented the 11 Safety in the City Awards at a function tonight to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of the many agencies and individuals working together to ensure the safety of Wellington, its residents and visitors. It is the third year the Awards ceremony has been held.

The 11 recipients of the Awards this year are:

Adam McLean who rescued two injured people from a burning car at the scene of a crash and, in a separate incident within hours of the first, saved the life of a man knocked off his bike, who had serious head injuries.
Phil Cowley for 32 years service to the WCC Tawa Urban Search and Rescue Team.
Daniel Friar, Christopher Cooper, Joseph Donoghue and Maureen Paul who helped catch two offenders who had set fire to campervans parked outside Te Papa in April this year.
Tim Hill, who pulled an injured man from his burning car which had crashed on State Highway 2 in July this year.
Karyn Laurenson and Scott Lindsay who intervened in a vicious assault on a female in Kilbirnie in July this year.
L J Hooker for their safety campaign promoting road safety and stranger danger.
The Pacific Island Women's Project Aotearoa for their campaign raising awareness of injury prevention in the home and on the roads among the Pacific Island community.
Mayor Prendergast says the calibre of the award recipients this year once again reflects the community effort involved in city safety and the willingness of Wellingtonians to help those in need.

"It takes a community effort to achieve a safe city. That's why these awards are so important – they give recognition to those making an outstanding contribution to safety in the city. It is a privilege to honour them in this way and it's great to know we have people and organisations making such a fantastic contribution to safety in our city," Mayor Prendergast says.

Citations read by Mayor Prendergast (65Kb PDF)

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