New Zealand - Traffic officers, Ellerslie - Traffic officers of the Transport Department's Mt Wellington district with their vehicles, photographed at the Ellerslie racecourse in 1962. - Penman, Trevor Photographer The Traffic Safety Service - A division of the Ministry of Transport of New Zealand - A uniformed law enforcement agency responsible for enforcing road transport law in New Zealand - Separate from the New Zealand Police - From the late 1920s until 1992, traffic law enforcement in New Zealand was not normally carried out by the New Zealand Police. - Instead, it was carried out by a combination of a central government agency and variouls territorial local bodies, each appointing their own traffic officers. - Government traffic officers had jurisdiction on all roads but in practice tended to patrol only areas not covered by local body traffic officers. - In 1992 the Traffic Safety Service was itself absorbed into the New Zealand Police, which now has responsibility for road traffic enforcement across New Zealand. (Reference: Wikipedia) Image source: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 02246 Photograph reproduced by courtesy of Papatoetoe Historical Society https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/36363/rec/24