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New Zealand Police Pasifika Strategy - O Le Taeao Fou: Dawn of a New Day

Date Published: 
August 2024

Responsiveness talks to both what New Zealand Police (Police) do or need to do to reduce Pasifika peoples' offending, re-offending, victimisation and road trauma, and how well positioned Police are to do those things.

To this end the New Zealand Police Pasifika Strategy ensures that policing initiatives and activities work towards reducing Pasifika peoples' offending, re-offending, victimisation and road trauma, and that the Police organisation is capable of delivering responsive outcomes for and with Pasifika peoples.

Outcome Evaluation of Police Youth at Risk Programmes - July 1997 to June 2000

Date Published: 
August 2002

The Government’s 1994 crime prevention strategy identified seven goals, one of which specified the establishment of preventative programmes targeted at “youth at risk” of offending. As a result, the 1997 Crime Prevention Youth at Risk (CPYAR) package, dedicated to the three fiscal years beginning July 1997, invested $8.7 million in Youth at Risk strategies, with funding allocated to 14 programmes throughout New Zealand.

This outcome evaluation of the 14 Police Youth at Risk programmes is based on data from the period July 1997 to June 2000, and aims to assess the extent to which each programme met the Police objectives, and overall effectiveness of each programme.

Communication Service Centre Customer Satisfaction Survey 2003-2004

Date Published: 
July 2004
The Communications Centre Service (CCS), also known as “Comms” within the New Zealand Police, receive all 111 calls and other calls which are routed to the police. Comms logs jobs and events, entering details as provided by the caller, to assist the officers who are despatched to the scene.
 
New Zealand Police has contracted ACNielsen to conduct a customer satisfaction survey of recent callers to the three Communication Centres (Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch) administered by the CCS. Results from the survey will be used to determine satisfaction with the service performance of the CCS and to inform service improvements.
 
The broad objectives of this research are two-fold:  to ascertain the level of satisfaction from the public of the service provided by the Communication Centres, for internal analysis and identification of improvements; and to fulfil a parliamentary performance measurement, whereby the level of satisfaction of external callers is recorded in the NZ Police annual Statement of Intent.
 

The Socio-Economic Impact of Amphetamine Type Stimulants in New Zealand

Date Published: 
September 2004
This report presents the findings of research on the socio-economic impact of Amphetamine Type Stimulants (ATS) in New Zealand. ATS are a group of synthetic illicit drug types which include methamphetamine, ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine (known as ‘ice’). The work presented draws on a number of innovative research approaches and methodologies, many of which were tried for the first time in New Zealand during the project. 
 
The central aim of the research was to inform the policy response, best practice and strategic planning by New Zealand Police and other relevant government agencies with regard to the recent rise in the use and manufacture of ATS drugs. However because many agencies other than the Police deal with drug problems, the findings reported here have relevance for any organisations responding to ATS problems. 
 
 

Investigative Interviewing - The Literature

Date Published: 
September 2005
This review provides an overview of investigative interviewing within policing. It may also be of interest to anyone who uses this type of interviewing on the job including insurance fraud investigators, lawyers, and government departments.
 
The review outlines the efforts made by police and psychologists in recent decades to: convey the importance of investigative interviewing; understand what happens in an investigative Interview; use psychological theories and research to find out what makes a successful interview; examine the effectiveness of various skills and Techniques; find a basic framework and rationale to underlie investigative interviews; and to produce guidelines on how to conduct interviews.
 

Perceptions of Public Safety in the Auckland CBD

Date Published: 
October 2005
Earlier this year, the Institute of Public Policy at AUT University carried out a customer satisfaction survey for the Auckland City District Police. One of the aims of the survey was to examine perceptions of public safety in the Auckland city?s central business district (CBD). In particular the survey investigated (1) public use of the CBD; (2) people?s perceptions of public safety within the CBD; and (3) whether people?s views on safety within that area had changed over the last five years.
 
In this article, Casey and Crothers firstly review the research which has been undertaken on behalf of Auckland City and which has addressed the issue of public safety in the CBD. They also examine the strategies council has developed which may have a bearing on the issue of CBD safety.
 
The authors then discuss the findings of the Auckland City District Police customer satisfaction survey 2005 which canvassed the usage and perceptions of safety in the Auckland CBD among three discrete population samples:- 820 random householders; 209 senior college students and 117 international tertiary students.
 
Finally, the authors discuss the implications of the survey results for the various joint police/council initiatives to improve CBD safety and make a number of suggestions for actions which might impact positively on future perceptions of safety in the Auckland CBD.

Report of the Hon Sir David Tompkins QC concerning the Counties Manukau Police District

Date Published: 
September 2005

In February 2005 charges of assault laid against Senior Sergeant Solomona were heard in the District Court at Manukau. During the hearing, evidence was given of certain photographs said to have been in the possession of the Senior Sergeant.

As a consequence of these references and evidence given concerning them, the District Court Judge, in his judgment delivered on 2 March 2005, referred to the practice of taking photographs of suspects or offenders of a demeaning kind and recorded his impression from the evidence that this practice maybe widespread, especially in the South Auckland area.
 
Referring to evidence that this was regarded by the police as a joke, he observed that "the culture is as sick as the joke".
 
These observations, and the widespread media publicity they attracted, caused the Commissioner of Police to set up an internal police inquiry that was named Operation Reason. On 4 March 2005, the Hon Sir David Tompkins QC was asked to oversee the inquiry and to report his findings to the Commissioner. This report describes the investigations that were carried out and his findings resulting from them.

The Impact of Enforcement on Intoxication and Alcohol Related Harm

Date Published: 
November 2005

The enforcement of liquor licensing laws by police and regulatory officials is intended to keep drinking environments safe, contribute to the reduction of liquor abuse, prevent excessive consumption of alcohol, and prevent the sale of alcohol to minors.

In Wellington, the enforcement of licensing laws involves regular visits to licensed premises by police and regulatory officials. The present study sought to test the effectiveness of these visits to licensed premises, by using an interrupted time series quasi-experimental approach.
 
Police formed a specialist Liquor Policing Unit (LPU) of six staff to achieve the heightened levels of enforcement. The impact of these interventions was compared to the impact of “normal” enforcement activity during the month preceding the first intervention, the intervening two months between interventions and during the month following the second intervention.
 

Risk Assessment and Intervention for Family Violence - NZS 8006: 2006

Date Published: 
May 2006

The purpose of this document is to provide an appropriate Standard, which establishes the minimum requirements that should be met by individuals and agencies/services involved in working with families living with family violence, child abuse or neglect. It provides a common language for these agencies/services to screen for this behaviour, assess risk relating to these situations, and provide for safety planning interventions.

A family is a place where everyone should be safe, yet violence, abuse and neglect within the family are major problems in New Zealand. In 2005, New Zealand Police recorded over 60,000 offences and non-offence incidents involving family violence, at which over 62,000 children and young people under 17 were present or involved in some capacity.
 
In the face of this challenge, it is vital to support and co-ordinate the efforts of those agencies and services working to help people affected by family violence, abuse and neglect within the family. This Standard aims to provide a consistent set of guidelines for those at the forefront of dealing with the results of family violence, abuse and neglect including teachers, police, medical personnel, midwives, nurses, social workers and others. It is hoped that this will help to enable a coherent response to incidents and symptoms of family violence, abuse and neglect.

Clandestine Drug Laboratory Report - 2006

Date Published: 
July 2007

 

This report provides an overview of information related to the dismantling of clan labs by New Zealand Police during the 2006 calendar year. 
'Official' clan lab recording began in 1996. A single clan lab was dismantled in that year. Since then, clan lab numbers have increased significantly with around 200 labs being located each year since 2003.
 
February 2006 saw the detection of New Zealand's 1000th clan lab. Perhaps indicative of the overall clan lab situation, this lab was located in a vehicle during a routine traffic stop and while most equipment, materials and substances were present it was relatively small and clearly quite mobile.
 
A total of 211 clan labs were dismantled by New Zealand Police in 2006, predominantly aimed at the manufacture of methamphetamine. This represents a 3.43% increase over 2005 and is also the highest number of labs detected in any calendar year.