Publications and statistics


Due to the recent firearms laws changes some firearms-related information is under review.

Publications and statistics

A wide range of material for you to download and read including:

  • Corporate documents (eg annual reports, Commission of Inquiry reviews, policies and strategies)
  • Guides and Standards (eg instructional guides, School and Community Services resources and goAML documents)
  • Data and statistics (official statistics and reports – both interactive and PDF).
Document Name Date
Social media policy - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Retention and disposal of Police records - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police information and records management - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Policy permitting destruction of certain paper-based offence reports - Police Manual chapter July 2022
National Wastewater Testing Programme - Quarter 1 2022 July 2022
Information and advice sent to the Minister of Police (1 May - 1 June 2022) July 2022
Tactical and Safety Training: Review of Evidence July 2022
Charging decisions - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Non-violence programmes and prescribed services - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Applying the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004 - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Accident compensation - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police dogs - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Formal warnings - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Trial or adoption of new policing technology - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Child Protection - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police Prosecution Service statement of policy and practice - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) alerts July 2022
Risk management - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Privacy Impact Assessments - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Collection of personal information - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police interagency agreements - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police Instructions - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Police identity cards - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Third party access to the Secure Digital Radio Network - Police manual chapter July 2022
People managers (information security) - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Bail - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Fraud and corruption - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Operation security - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Employee telephone requests for information - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Business continuity management - Police Manual chapter July 2022
Statement of case to designate terrorist entity, June 2022 June 2022
Privacy breach management - Police Manual chapter June 2022
Police investigations of complaints and notifiable incidents - Police Manual chapter June 2022
Firearms forms and guides June 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (June 2022) June 2022
Responding to audit findings from the 2019 firearms buy-back and amnesty June 2022
Children's Flexi Fund June 2022
Professional Conduct Statistics (April 2022) May 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (May 2022) May 2022
Safe Roads Control Strategy May 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (April 2022) April 2022
National Wastewater Testing Programme - Quarter 4 2021 April 2022
National Wastewater Testing Programme - Quarter 3 2021 April 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (September 2021) March 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (May 2020) March 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (December 2018) March 2022
Firearms Official Information Act proactive public releases (March 2022) March 2022
New Zealand Police Shooting Range Manual - Exposure Draft March 2022
Child Protection Protocol - NZ Police and Oranga Tamariki Joint Operating Procedures March 2022
The Likelihood of Early Guilty Pleas Following Digitally Recorded Victim Statements for Family Violence February 2022
New Zealand Police Code of Conduct February 2022
Professional Conduct Statistics (December 2021) February 2022
Use of the NZ Police brand and police uniform items January 2022
Regulatory Impact Statements December 2021
Quarterly Reports on Fleeing Driver Action Plan December 2021
Proactive release of papers relating to Firearms Prohibition Orders December 2021
Firearms Prohibition Orders: Final Design Parameters (Cabinet paper) December 2021
Regulatory Impact assessment: Firearms Prohibition Orders December 2021
Loves-Me-Not December 2021
Keeping Ourselves Safe resources for Middle primary December 2021