This brochure serves to provide a summary of the full version of the New Zealand Police Annual Report 2014/15.
The Annual Summary provides an easily digestible summary of key highlights from the past year for our staff, partners and members of the community.
This chapter offers guidance around what to do in response to an offer of a gift, discount, or hospitality from someone outside Police. It also sets out the requirements for recording offers of gifts or hospitality in a consistent manner, and the level of approval required for different values and categories of gifts and hospitality.
The Register is maintained by the Chief Assurance Officer and is subject to periodic scrutiny by District Commanders, Directors, members of the Executive and Police’s independent Assurance and Risk Committee. Submissions to the Gifts, Discounts and Hospitality Register are audited on a regular basis by PNHQ’s Assurance Group. Submitters and their supervisors may be contacted if follow-up is required.
The New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring (NZ-ADUM) study monitors levels of alcohol and other drug use, and related criminal offending, among police detainees in Whangarei, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch central city police stations (see Wilkins et al., 2010b). NZ-ADUM tracks key drugs of concern, including methamphetamine, cannabis, opioids, pharmaceutical medicines and new psychoactive substances (NPS) (so called ‘legal highs’), as well as the emergence of entirely new drugs. NZ-ADUM also documents levels of alcohol and drug related harm, demand for drug treatment services, and changes in key illegal drug market indicators, such as availability and price.
This report presents the findings from the 2014 NZ-ADUM and compares them with the findings from the previous four years of the study.
Important change to the Mail Order process (S. 43A, Arms Act 1983)
Mail Order Sales:
From 22 October 2015, NZ Police will supply the verification (endorsement) of a mail order sale direct to the seller rather than to the purchaser (applicant for the verification) as has been the case.
This change in process will:
In the 1914-18 war, civilian society in New Zealand had to turn itself into a militarised society. The population of New Zealand at the beginning of the Great War was a little over one million, of that number 100,000 were eligible to serve. Persuading those eligible to join up did not happen ‘naturally’: it required coercion on a grand scale. Throughout WWI New Zealand Police were the invisible military machine.
The New Zealand Police Museum have researched and written seven essays that explain the role of New Zealand Police during WWI, Please feel free to read and share but don’t forget to reference the source.
This report is an update on the progress made in implementing the Police-related recommendations from the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct (COI). Police is responsible for implementing 47 of the COI’s 60 recommendations. In line with Cabinet requirements, an update on COI progress is provided every three months.
The report categorises Police’s progress depending upon whether recommendations have been actioned, solutions implemented (with ongoing monitoring), or fully completed. The intention is to ensure each of the Police-related recommendations are fully embedded, and are having the desired effect, by March 2017.
In this Annual Report you will read what Police planned to do and what we actually did. Highlights in the year 2014/15 included: