Police are to link with forces in New Zealand and Japan, who will face the potential millennium bug chaos a few hours before the SAR, in an effort to establish an early-warning system.
And a team of 'runners' and vehicles will be placed on stand-by to pass information between police stations in the event of a force-wide computer shutdown.
The measures, announced yesterday, are among a raft of Y2K preparations being made by police for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Assistant Commissioner Peter Halliday said the force would exchange computer hardware and software information with police forces from Wellington and Tokyo.
The aim was to obtain an early warning of possible Y2K-related problems.
He said enough runners and vehicles had been reserved to carry messages within the force if communication systems failed.
