Blue Hope Foundation

07/10/2026

When a police officer dies by suspected su***de in New Zealand, families can face the Coroner’s Court alone — often without legal support. In his new piece, Allister Rose of Blue Hope Foundation explains who can (and can’t) get help, and why the community is being asked to chip in. Read more: https://wix.to/pzwsOHy

When a police officer dies by suspected su***de, the family can end up facing the Coroner's Court on their own. Allister Rose on where families can and can't get help, and why we're asking Kiwis to chip in.By Allister Rose, Founder, Blue Hope Foundation. Allister spent 15 years with New Zealand Poli...

04/10/2026

A police family has already lost someone they love to su***de.

Now they are heading to the Coroner’s Court, seeking answers about whether their loved one’s police work and experiences on the job contributed to his death.

They deserve the opportunity to be properly represented, to ask the difficult questions, and to have the evidence heard.

Blue Hope Foundation is raising funds to help pay for the family’s legal assistance.

If you can give $10, $20 or more, it all helps. If you can’t donate, please share this.

Donate here:
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-a-police-family-get-the-answers-they-deserve

A healthy emergency service benefits the whole community.

Help us give a bereaved police family a fair chance to be heard at an important coronial inquest.

18/09/2026

Had a phone call this week that made my day.

Two years ago, a guy we look after was on holiday out in the Pacific Islands. Lying there at night, staring up at the rafters, working out how he'd do it.

This week he rang me to say he's heading back out there. Same islands. Completely different bloke.

In between: he got diagnosed, finally acknowledged for what he was carrying, and given the time and support to actually deal with it. Not overnight. Not easy. But it worked.

He's back at work. His family's back together. He told me how different everything feels now compared to two years ago — and you could hear it in his voice.

We get calls like this more than people would think. Not every week, but often enough to keep us going. Guys we served alongside, getting back on their feet, back with their families, back to actually living instead of just surviving.

That's the whole point of what we do.

A healthy emergency service benefits the whole community.

14/09/2026

Blue Hope Foundation supporter Haydn Korach has just launched Behind the Uniform to raise PTSD awareness — more than 20 years on the frontline before he was medically retired in 2023 following a PTSD diagnosis. A great supporter of Blue Hope, and this is exactly why Blue Hope exists.

It's also why what's been happening to us lately matters. While Blue Hope works to stop officer su***des, New Zealand Police bosses have spent months running internal monitoring against us, a comms campaign they deny in writing, and unverified allegations against our founder — all shut down with a Chief People Officer's "no further comment" the moment she's asked to produce the evidence.

We've called this out before. Police bosses love to put officers on the poster — the recruitment ads, the "our people are our priority" lines — while shafting injured cops behind the scenes. We speak to police workers and community every day, and what they tell us is consistent: officers aren't leaving for better pay in Australia. They're leaving because they're not being cared for.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell has known about our concerns since May. Nothing has changed.
With an election coming, New Zealanders deserve to know which side their Police Minister is standing on

Former cop Haydn Korach shares his PTSD recovery through Behind the Uniform.

14/09/2026

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Blue Hope Foundation supporter Haydn Korach has just launched Behind the Uniform to raise PTSD awareness — more than 20 years on the frontline before he was medically retired in 2023 following a PTSD diagnosis. A great supporter of Blue Hope, and this is exactly why Blue Hope exists. It's also why...

30/08/2026

Baby Seal at Otaki beach ! Didn’t expect to see this little guy today,

24/08/2026

There is an old teaching that the wise are not those who react well, but those who see what is coming.

Every police officer leaves policing eventually. Some choose the moment. For most, the moment chooses them. What comes after is rarely instant. Reintegration into ordinary life, after years built around vigilance, incident and rank, takes time. It is its own piece of work, and it deserves preparation, not surprise.

Preparedness is not a loss of nerve. It is the discipline of looking after the person who will still be there when the uniform comes off.

At Blue Hope, we treat that transition as part of the job, not the end of it.

18/08/2026

A healthy emergency service benefits the whole community. That is why Blue Hope Foundation works with police officers, paramedics and their families affected by work-related psychological injury, on prevention, rehabilitation and the systemic change that stops avoidable harm becoming a second injury.

14/08/2026

This wasn’t a case of a stretched system being slow to respond. It was a fully worked answer that shut the door rather than opened it.

If you’re a serving officer, take a moment with that. If your own risk, raised by your own family, gets managed and reviewed entirely inside the same office, with nobody outside that office able to check the work, then what happens to you comes down to how that office handles it. Not to any promise that someone else will look.

If you’re a family member who’s already living this, it’s worse. You’re usually the one who sees it first and says something first. What this shows is that saying something doesn’t come with any right to know what happened next, who dealt with it, or whether it made any difference. You can do everything right, raise it early, raise it clearly, raise it again, and still have no way of knowing if it landed anywhere.

That doesn’t mean it was wasted. Keeping someone safe was never one family’s job alone to finish, and it never should have been. But not being able to finish the job doesn’t mean you stop raising it, and it doesn’t let the systems meant to catch that warning off the hook for showing what they actually did with it.

Blue Hope Foundation isn’t an advocacy group. We’re a coordination and risk containment function, called in when systems stop working safely for people carrying mental injury from their work. Our aim hasn’t changed: zero su***des in New Zealand Police.

06/08/2026

Fundraising at Thorndon New World supermarket