Carole Tipler

Detective Carole Tipler served the New Zealand Police for 42 years until her retirement in 2014.

She joined in 1972 and she graduated first in her wing. After graduation she served in Lower Hutt, Auckland and Henderson, before returning to her home region of Taranaki.

Throughout her career with the Police Carole worked in a variety of areas, including crime prevention, records, personnel, Criminal Intelligence Section, traffic and as an Arms Officer. She also worked a Metropolitan Police Officer while living in England. Her ambition was to join the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) but was delayed by the Springbok Tour and becoming a mother. Twenty-five years after completing the induction course, she finally joined the CIB in 2003.

Carole retired from the New Zealand Police in 2014 and has since volunteered in Nepal at Kathmandu’s Pashupati Temple, which helps care for the elderly and helpless, and at a school in the Gorkha District, which was the centre of the earthquake that rocked Nepal in April 2015.