Released 2005
Summary
Effective Youth interventions at the educational, preventative and justice levels will reduce crime within districts. Taking young offenders out of the cycle of offending and victimisation will reduce volume crime. However those interventions are not provided by Youth Services staff alone, but with a whole of District approach to Youth Policing. The whole of District approach arises when everyone knows their roles, knows how the law operates to hold young offenders accountable or protect them from continued victimisation, knows how to access services available and provides the right information between work groups to get the job done.
Youth Education, Youth Aid and Youth Development all feature within the National Youth Policing Plan. Youth Education is at the start point for Youth Policing, empowering young people to make the right choices about behavior and preventing them from becoming victims by assisting them to make sensible life choices, and in certain cases to disclose any abuse. Youth Aid provides the Youth Justice and Care & Protection services, while Youth Development provides prevention interventions with high risk families and offenders.
The NYPP is essentially the implementation plan for the Police related recommendations arising from Government’s Youth Offending Strategy 2002. However, in order to implement those recommendations, some organisational processes need to be enhanced to facilitate successful implementation.
Central to implementation is raising the profi le of Youth Policing to become core policing at the forefront of district crime reduction strategies rather than being considered as support functions. Districts and Areas are required to accept ownership of their Youth Policing resources and structurally align them with the overall strategy of crime and crash reduction within each district, subject to their Youth Policing role. District Intel Offi ces must set up a local monitoring framework of Youth Policing trends to inform staff and managers. In order to provide intel data, NIA must be used as the prime information management tool. At the same time as the structure and process alignment work is taking place, the NYPP provides a national focus on staff development to enhance the whole of police approach to Youth Policing.
Contents
Message from the Minister of Police
Foreword
Executive Summary
Purpose
How This Plan Works
PART A: THE REQUIREMENT FOR A PLAN
Introduction
Linking the Police Strategic Plan, The Statement of Intent and the National Youth Policing Plan
Responsiveness to Youth
National Youth Policing Plan Principles
Outcomes Sought
Achievement Measures
Impact Measures
Defining the Youth Area
The Law
Government Youth Offending Strategy
Police Response
New Zealand Police Youth Services Group
Mission Statement
Roles of the Work Groups
Youth Education Service
Youth Development
Youth Aid Section
Child Abuse Teams
Key Features of Service Delivery
Resource Requirements
Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Community Responsiveness
New Zealand Crime and Crash Reduction Model
New Zealand Crime Reduction Model
Applying the Crime Reduction Model to Youth Policing
Intelligence-Led Policing
Risk Assessments - Making the Right Choices
Youth Aid Assessments
Youth Aid Risk Screening Model
Youth Development Assessments
Data Collection and Technology
Implementation
Evaluation
PART B: THE ACTION PLAN
What Police will do
Role Responsibility Key
1. Partnership Building and Community Development
2. Prevention and Education
3. Enforcement
4. Capability Building
5. Leadership and Commitment
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