Tracy Phillips

{{Short description|New Zealand high jumper and police officer (born 1968)}}

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| name = Tracy Phillips

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}}

| image = Tracy Phillips MNZM (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Phillips in 2018

| full_name = Tracy Joy Phillips

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|01|08|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lincoln, New Zealand

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| occupation = {{Hlist|Police officer|animal welfare inspector|marine accident investigator}}

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| country = New Zealand

| sport = Track and field

| event = High jump

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| nationals = High jump champion (1993, 1994, 1996)

| show-medals = yes

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics }}

{{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}

{{MedalBronze | 1990 Auckland | High jump }}

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Tracy Joy Phillips {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} (born 8 January 1968) is a former New Zealand high jumper and police officer. She competed for New Zealand at two Commonwealth Games, in 1990 and 1994, winning a bronze medal in the high jump in 1990.{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/tracy-phillips |title=Tracy Phillips |website=Olympic.org.nz |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee}} Phillips joined the New Zealand Police in 1990, rising to the rank of inspector. She is noted for her advocacy for LGBTIQ+-friendly policies within the police, and for her support of the relationship between the New Zealand Police and the LGBTIQ+ community.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/qb2018-mnzm |title=Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit |date=4 June 2018 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=21 November 2024}} Since leaving the New Zealand Police in 2019, Phillips has worked as the inspectorate general manager for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and since 2020 she has been a principal investigator at Maritime New Zealand.{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115113358/expolice-inspector-appointed-spcas-new-inspectorate-general-manager |title=Ex-police inspector appointed SPCA's new inspectorate general manager |first=Kendall |last=Hutt |date=19 August 2019 |work=Stuff |access-date=21 November 2024}}