Ms Whitiaira Timutimu, of Gisborne, QSM for services to criminal justice programmes and the community
Whitiaira Timutimu is the Māori Responsiveness Advisor for the New Zealand Police and has supported work within the reintegration of former inmates into the community. She has helped to direct the formation of several criminal justice programmes, such as the ATAWHAI Youth Mentoring Programme, which involved an intense fitness training schedule. She has two other youth mentoring programmes, Qmunity Youth, which mentors LGBTQI+ youth, and Tuakana Teina, which is mentoring for youth with a parent in prison. Ms Timutimu has organised Te Pae Oranga (Iwi Panels) and continues to make an impact on the successful rehabilitation of offenders