Crime Prevention and Social Responsibility Youth Education Programme New Zealand Police
These programmes are designed to help young people behave responsibly and obey the law. They learn about policing and ways that they can help police prevent crime.
Burglary-Free
Doing the Right Thing
Role of Police
Burglary - Free
Burglary is one of the most feared, most intrusive crimes in New Zealand. Burglary is not just a crime against property, it is a crime against people.
Police are working on prevention and enforcement strategies to lower the burglary rate and increase the number of cases involved.
One effective way of reducing burglary through prevention is to increase awareness among communities, and to encourage people to share the responsibility for making their homes, property and communities safer. Burglary-Free is designed to increase such awareness.
Aim
To create burglary-free zones around schools and their communities, by:
- raising awareness within the school and its community of burglary and its consequences;
- enabling schools and their comunities to develop preventative strategies to keep people and their property safe;
- providing information on what to do when a home has been burgled.
Partnership
A partnership approach is likely to be most effective in reducing the incidence and effects of burglary in communities.
Three key partners are identified has having a role in Burglary-Free. These are the school, community agencies such as Neighbourhood Support and Safer Community Councils, and police.
Police can provide schools with ideas and materials and can make staff, particularly Area Controllers, Police Education Officers and Community Constables available to assist.
Doing the Right Thing
Police are concerned that a number of young people frequently display negative behaviours, such as disrespect for other people and their property, dishonesty, bullying and stealing. Many of them appear unable to distinguish right from wrong, or have a positive set of values on which to base their lives.
Doing the Right Thing is an attempt to help children clarify and develop their own values, which in turn will lead to a change of behaviour.
Aim
To promote values that will assist children to become responsible New Zelanders who respect others and the law.
Themes
- Honesty
- Respect
- Rules and Laws
- Consequences
- Right and Wrong
Lessons for each of the themes are provided for junior, middle and senior primary levels.
Role of Police
Target Audience: School Age Years 0-13.
A set of 30 photographs illustrating the role of police in society, with accompanying notes. The Role of Police photopack aims to present children and young people with visual images that demonstrate the main police functions including:
- Protecting people and their property
- Preventing crime
- Detecting and apprehending offenders
- Maintaining law and order
