Senior Probation Officer and award winning medic Steve Turfrey.
Australasia's top emergency medic is also a senior probation officer.
Steve Turfrey won the title at the Australasian Road Rescue Championships recently and will head to Spain next year to compete with the rest of the world.
“I’ll give it my best shot,” says Steve. “I’m just hoping I won’t let people down.”
The Road Rescue Championships see rescue teams racing the clock and each other to save ‘lives’ in mock car crashes.
As well as his day job at the Community Probation Service in Hamilton, Steve is a volunteer emergency medic and senior fire officer in the Morrinsville Volunteer Fire Brigade.
Steve competed in the Road Rescue Championships at an international level for the first time last year - and was ranked sixth in the world as an emergency medic.
“I’d like to improve on this and make a podium finish next year in Barcelona,” says Steve. “Then New Zealand can say ‘we’ve got the best!’.”
Before becoming a Probation Officer five years ago, Steve studied medicine in Colorado and worked as a medic in Denver.
He says his paid work is not dissimilar to his volunteer work. “Both involve simple crisis management and prioritising all the time, skills you need to have finely tuned in both areas.”
Steve and his team on the scene at a mock road crash.
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