Police education officers are trained to work with teachers to develop additional resources that may be needed for a tailored class programme.

Crime Prevention and Social Responsibility
Programmes included in this theme are designed to encourage children and young people to behave responsibly, assist with crime prevention and help keep communities safe. Topics include stealing, vandalism, search and rescue, shoplifting, being lost, community support, fingerprinting, keeping law and order, the role of the police and police dogs.

DARE
Included in this section is the range of DARE programmes, designed to empower young people to avoid illegal drugs and make sensible choices about their use of alcohol and other legal drugs. Some DARE programmes have been developed for use in school classrooms, including a programme in Maori for classes using Te Reo. Other programmes are for the community (parents/caregivers and young people in trouble), and are managed by the community section of DARE

School Road Safety Education
Programmes and resources in this theme have been designed to enable children and young people to act safely on roads and amongst traffic. The Road Safe series are integrated road safety programmes for years 0-13.

Parents may be interested in Helping Hands [32 page PDF 377 KBytes] a road safety resource for paraents.
Helping Hands in Chinese [36 page PDF 553 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Korean [36 page PDF 449 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Samoan [36 page PDF 353 KBytes]
Helping Hands in Tongan [36 page PDF 382 KBytes]

Violence Prevention
Violence prevention programmes are designed to promote the development of non-violent relationships and to give children and young people skills to manage violence they may encounter. The child abuse prevention programme Keeping Ourselves Safe and the bullying prevention programme Kia Kaha are important in this theme. There are also teaching materials about keeping safe at home, babysitting and dealing with anger.

Other

National Youth Policing Plan 2005-2006