Three Month Review: Background and Methodology
Background
- On 22 June 2007, the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act (the Amendment) came into force, amending section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961.
Business Crime Prevention Advice
This has been designed for retailers, small business operators and their staff to assist them to identify opportunities to prevent crime, and to identify criminal activity and offenders. Losses from criminal offending can be prevented or minimised. This booklet provides information about how to protect your business and staff from crime and what to do if you are a victim.
Keep this handy as a ready reference. It provides crime prevention and safety advice as well as trespass and witness forms.
Police Prosecution Service statement of policy and practice - Police Manual chapter
The Police Prosecution Service (PPS) statement of policy and practice is designed to ensure the principles Police apply when carrying out our work are transparent to all and help to treat victims, witnesses and defendants fairly, while prosecuting cases effectively.
Timaru licensed premises fact sheet
There is significant international evidence of a link between alcohol and violent crime. Previous New Zealand surveys have indicated that, over a one year period, eight percent of men and five percent of women are physically assaulted by someone who had been drinking.
Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Act 2009
This fact sheet summarises key enforcement findings from the first nine months of the bylaw prohibiting the wearing of gang insignia in Whanganui, and the views of Whanganui Police about the impact of the bylaw.
7th Review: Comparison and Cases
Parent Call Centre
A recommendation from the Review of New Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family Policies and Procedures relating to the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act was the development of child safety pamphlets, to be distributed when police attend an incident involving child safety. The pamphlet provides a number for a parent call centre which is able to answer any questions around a police visit or about child safety and services available.
7th Review: Methodology and Outcomes
Methodology
The number of child assault events identified in each review period does not reflect the total number of child assault events attended by police during this time. The events are those most likely to identify incidents which might involve 'smacking', as 'smacking' in itself is not a separate offence.
Nine different offence codes were examined to identify such incidents.
The rationale used to allocate each event to a category of 'smacking', 'minor act of physical discipline', 'other child assault' involved consideration of the:
7th Review: Background and Summary
Background
This report details results from the 7th review of relevant Police activity since enactment of the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007. This review covers the period 23 December 2009 to 22 June 2010.
Monitoring initially took place for a two year period since enactment on 22nd June, 2007.
New Zealand Police Pursuits: The Case for Change
This review was commissioned in late July 2003 by the Deputy Commissioner Operations. DC Long sought an authoritative study to assess the quality and adequacy of current pursuits policy and practice in the wake of considerable media and public concern over two pursuits in 2003 that ended with three fatalities. These deaths occurred in a short space of time, and contrasted with just six pursuit related deaths in the previous seven years.