Bay of Plenty servicemen and women are receiving the New Zealand Order of Merit for the New Year 2023 Honours List.

Police deputy commissioner Glenn Dunbier, Paula Werohia-Lloyd and Carlton Paul Bidois are all being honoured for their services.

Police deputy commissioner Glenn Dunbier

Police deputy commissioner Glenn Dunbier is being awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to the New Zealand Police and the community.

Glenn has serviced 37 years with the New Zealand Police. He joined in 1985, serving as a frontline constable and detective in Counties Manukau, before becoming Sergeant in Auckland City.

He then specialised in covert policing for more than a decade, before transferring to Waikato Police District in 1996.

He became Area Commander of Eastern Bay of Plenty in 2006 and then District Commander of Bay of Plenty in 2010, implementing the Policing Excellence change programme and introducing the Prevention First operating model in the area, resulting in the reduction of crime and an increase in workplace engagement.

He became the Deputy Commissioner: Resource Management in 2014, successfully leading the implementation and embedding of the 47 recommendations for Police from the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct.

Following a three-year secondment to the Australian Department of Defence, he became Deputy Commissioner: Operations in early 2020, with responsibility for more than 10,000 New Zealand Police staff.

Deputy Commissioner Dunbier led the Police response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which included the policing of lockdown restrictions, staffing and managing the Managed Isolation and Quarantine facilities across the country, and operating the alert level boundary checkpoints.

Paula Werohia-Lloyd

Paula Werohia-Lloyd (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Arawa, Ngā Puhi,) is also receiving the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Māori and business.

Paula was the first woman elected to the Mangatawa Pāpāmoa Blocks Inc (MPBI) Board, and for over 31 years, she has been responsible for the administration of a diverse portfolio of investments.

This includes kiwifruit and avocado orchards, beef farming, a retirement village, social housing and industrial developments.

Paula was instrumental in 1994 in setting up a native plant nursery at Mangatawa under Taskforce Green, which grew into a successful business supplying plants across New Zealand for recovering native wetlands.

She was instrumental in the 2012 Pacific Coast Retirement Village and the creation of Mangatawa papakainga housing initiative. She has held various governance roles for over 20 years, including as a Trustee of several Māori Boards and as Chair of the Ranginui No. 12 Trust.

She served on the Tauranga Moana Māori Council and is currently on the Board of Te Awanui Huka Pak Ltd, New Zealand's largest Māori kiwifruit and avocado growers collective.

Paula has has contributed to the development of Māori agriculture and horticulture, especially through developing new and expanded export markets in the Pacific and Far East, travelling extensively to promote New Zealand exports, identifying new markets, setting up trials cultivating new export crops, and bringing new thinking and production methods to New Zealand.

Carlton Paul Bidois

Carlton Paul Bidois is also receiving the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to the environment, along with Māori-Crown relations.

Carlton, who is from Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent, has dedicated more than 25 years to Tauranga's environment.

He has been a key driver of engaging with iwi on environmental matters in Tauranga, acknowledging their role as kaitiaki.

He has worked with numerous organisations and government agencies to ensure engagement with iwi occurs across private and public sector interests, including partnering with local councils, the Department of Conservation, Maritime New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries.

He is the environmental representative to several iwi including Ngāti Ranginui and Pirirākau hapū. During the Rena disaster in 2011, he ensured the iwi were involved with the marine emergency response, establishing and leading Manaaki Te Awanui, a Māori environmental research group.

Manaaki Te Awanui continues to support Tauranga Moana marine environments in partnership with Matauranga Māori research. He has been Co-Chair since inception of Tauranga Moana Biosecurity Capital, a multi-industry initiative promoting biosecurity best practice in New Zealand.

Carlton was Co-Chair of Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Forum from inception in 2010 until 2020 and was key to securing funding to continue the improvement and preservation of the Kaimai Mamaku forests and catchments.