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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1198/
- Published: 2025-04-28T18:30:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-28T18:30:18.000Z
- Description: The founder, who once served time after 15 armed robberies, is proud to say he’s now an accredited police vetting agent.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, Crime

> His innovative Bros for Change Timatanga Hou alternative education programme is now in its 10th year of changing the life direction of at-risk rangatahi. In 2020, Ihi Research found Timatanga Hou had had a 82.5% success rate over five years.  
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> Its founder who once **served time after 15 armed robberies is proud to say he’s now an accredited police vetting agent** – “I’ve still got that framed on the wall’’.  
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> “Every time something happens like that, it feels like I’ve gone full circle. **Got a firearms licence – full circle, now I’m on a Firearms Authority \[Māori\] forum.** I told them, you know what I’ve been \[in prison\], and they said ‘yeah, we know, it’s good to have a perspective like that amongst everyone else’. I thought that was pretty cool. **I don’t think anyone else in the firearms forum can talk about armed robberies the way I can**, or firearm safety.  
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