About Us

Overview

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for reducing crime and enhancing community safety.

Police provide services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We operate from more than 400 community-based police stations.
We have over 10,300 staff.
We operate by land, sea and air.
Police respond to more than 600,000 111 calls each year.
Police are involved in crime prevention as well as responding to crime.

Safer Communities

We aim to work in partnerships to build safer communities by:

Empowering communities to deal with issues of community safety and creating more effective community partnerships.
Reducing the fear of crime by reducing actual crime.
Helping to support and rehabilitate victims.
Maintaining order and keeping the peace.
Keeping people free from intimidation, civil disturbance and unreasonable annoyance.
Helping to keep traffic flowing easily.
Increasing people's personal safety.
Reducing the risk of property theft, loss or damage.

Our Structure

The New Zealand Police is a de-centralised organisation divided into 12 districts, a National Headquarters and service centres.

Each district has a central station from which subsidiary and suburban stations are managed.

You can find out more about our structure and the people in our organisation.

Our Vision

Safer communities together

Our Mission

To be a world class Police service working in partnership with citizens and communities to prevent crime and road trauma, enhance public safety and maintain law and order.

Crime statistics summary

Overall recorded offences per 10,000 population:

Overall resolution rate (% of recorded offences that are resolved):

Statistics New Zealand provide the ability to query the New Zealand Police Statistics in detail - allowing you to gather crime information about your area since 1994. This service compliments the pre-formatted reports provided below.

In the global context New Zealand (along with Finland and Iceland) is ranked the least corrupt country in the world by Transparency Interntional.