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Community Policing evaluations

Date Published: 
December 2009

A refreshed national community policing initiative is being implemented by New Zealand Police in accordance with the NZ Police strategic goal of community reassurance. Over the years 2006/7 to 2008/9 250 new positions were allocated to community policing. NZ Police and Government needed to be informed of the effectiveness of this significant new investment and existing Community Policing initiatives were evaluated.

The purpose of the evaluations were to:

  • provide an overview of the operation of the new initiatives;
  • assess progress towards achieving the desired outcomes;
  • outline the strengths and challenges of the initiatives; and
  • determine ways the additional community policing positions contribute to the goals of the national community policing strategy.

Building Diversity: Understanding the Factors that Influence Māori to join the Police

Date Published: 
February 2010

A long established principle is that the police service ought to mirror the ethnic profile of the wider population in order to secure and maintain public confidence and police legitimacy. A key goal for New Zealand Police (NZP) is to achieve equity and diversity in their workforce. This research focuses on exploring factors that influence Mäori to apply to and join Police.

The objectives of the research were to explore factors that influence Māori to apply and join NZ Police; explore the role of Police Māori recruitment initiatives, including Te Haerenga, in attracting Māori to join NZ Police; and to identify improvements to Police initiatives and processes for recruiting Māori.

Youth Offending Risk Screening Tool (YORST) Reports

Date Published: 
November 2011

These reports look into the assessment and validation of the Youth Offending Risk Screening Tool (YORST).

The first report responds to a request by the New Zealand Police to conduct a literature review of risk screening instruments for youth offenders, with a particular focus on the methods used to establish validity and reliability of these tools, including validation across cultures. The purpose of the literature review is to inform a larger project that aims to assess the validity, reliability and predictive capability of the New Zealand Police Youth Offending Risk Screening Tool (YORST).

The second report presents key findings from the last sub-component of Phase II, testing the predictive ability of the existing YORST. This includes the testing of the accuracy of the existing total YORST score to predict recidivism, an analysis of the relative contribution and utility of individual YORST items, and an exploration of whether an alternative combination, formation or transformation of items or additional variables are better able to predict recidivism.

Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2012

Date Published: 
April 2013

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 2 April 2013 and cover calendar year ending 31 December 2012.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for fiscal year ending 30 June 2012

Date Published: 
October 2012

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 October 2012 and cover calendar year ending 30 June 2012.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2011

Date Published: 
April 2012

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 April 2012 and cover calendar year ending 31 December 2011.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for fiscal year ending 30 June 2011

Date Published: 
October 2011

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released on 1 October 2011 and cover the calendar year ending 30 June 2011.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2010

Date Published: 
April 2011

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 April 2011 and cover calendar year ending 31 December 2010.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for fiscal year ending 30 June 2010

Date Published: 
October 2010

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 October 2010 and cover calendar year ending 30 June 2010.

The classification used to publish Police Official Statistics for recorded and resolved offences is changing to align with the direction given by the Justice Sector Information Strategy for the whole Justice sector. Offences will now be grouped according to the Australian Standard Offence Classification (ASOC).

This transition does not change the total number of offences reported; just how they are grouped. For this release, the statistics are presented using ASOC and the old Traffic Precedent and Offence Classification (TPOC).

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).

Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2009

Date Published: 
April 2010

These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 April 2010 and cover calendar year ending 31 December 2009.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

An incident that is reported to or detected by Police where Police believe an offence is likely to have been committed is counted as a Recorded Offence.  A Recorded Offence is considered to be a Resolved Offence by Police when an offender is identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned, prosecuted, etc).