Identity Theft and Misuse Workshop pamphlet

Date Published: 
October 2013

iDCare is holding public workshops for identity theft and misuse victims to better understand the response to this type of crime. These workshops will help to inform organisations about their responses to victims.

iDCare is a joint public-private sector not-for-profit organisation that is looking to shape the support services for victims of identity theft and misuse across Australia and New Zealand.

Statements of cases to renew designated terrorist entities October 2013

Date Published: 
October 2013

The risk of a terrorist attack in New Zealand is low, but Government are determined that New Zealand and New Zealanders be neither the target nor source of terrorist activities.

The designation of terrorist entities is one measure New Zealand takes to contribute to the international campaign against terrorism. The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 (TSA) provides for a list of terrrorist entities to be established and maintained in New Zealand. Police are responsible for coordinating requests to the Prime Minister for designation as a terrorist entity. 

The following documents detail designations that were renewed as terrorist entities on 2 October 2013.

Reports on Alcohol-related Calls and Offences in the South Island 2008-2012

Date Published: 
October 2013

The new Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 states that when developing a draft or provisional Local Alcohol Policy, a Territorial Authority must consider a range of factors set out in the Act, including the nature and severity of the alcohol-related problems arising in the district. To that end, Police (along with Licensing Inspectors and Medical Officers of Health) must make reasonable efforts to give the Territorial Authority any relevant information they may hold.

These South Island reports analyse calls made by the public to police between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2012 and fall into the categories are considered to be alcohol-related. They are presented visually in the attached maps by individual years. The calls do not include those initiated by Police (ie, officer-discovered contact with the Communications Centre) and exclude duplicate calls.

The method by which the calls have been analysed is detailed within the reports.

These reports are being made public in order to fully inform the discussion around Local Alcohol Policies.

Reports on Alcohol-related Calls and Offences in the North Island 2008-2012

Date Published: 
October 2013

The new Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 states that when developing a draft or provisional Local Alcohol Policy, a Territorial Authority must consider a range of factors set out in the Act, including the nature and severity of the alcohol-related problems arising in the district. To that end, Police (along with Licensing Inspectors and Medical Officers of Health) must make reasonable efforts to give the Territorial Authority any relevant information they may hold.

These North Island reports analyse calls made by the public to police between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2012 and fall into the categories are considered to be alcohol-related. They are presented visually in the attached maps by individual years. The calls do not include those initiated by Police (ie, officer-discovered contact with the Communications Centre) and exclude duplicate calls.

The method by which the calls have been analysed is detailed within the reports.

These reports are being made public in order to fully inform the discussion around Local Alcohol Policies.

Reports on the results of the Robin Bain fingerprint tests

Date Published: 
October 2013

Reports on tests carried out by police fingerprint experts and Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) following claims that marks on the hand of Robin Bain were caused by gun powder residue.

Crime Statistics for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2013

Date Published: 
October 2013

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 2013 and cover calendar year ending 30 June 2013.

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).

Commission of Inquiry Quarterly Report - April to June 2013

Date Published: 
June 2013

Police are responsible for implementing 47 of the 60 recommendations. The intention is not only to implement solutions, but to ensure that those solutions have the desired effect (that they are embedded).

Commission of Inquiry Quarterly Report - January to March 2013

Date Published: 
March 2013

Police are responsible for implementing 47 of the 60 recommendations. The intention is not only to implement solutions, but to ensure that those solutions have the desired effect (that they are embedded).