The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued public statements around locations of concern regarding international money laundering and terrorism risks.
The New Zealand Police Strategic Plan 2011 – 2015 determines the role of Youth Education Services (YES) as one of the many New Zealand Police services working within the Police's vision of Safer Communities Together. The mission articulated through the strategy is to direct Police to work in partnership with communities to prevent crime and road trauma, enhance public safety and maintain public order.
The Police Illicit Drug strategy focuses on methamphetamine and cannabis as these are the two illicit drug types that cause the greatest amount of harm. Methamphetamine has a concentrated level of harm to the user and to those around them, with frequent users being more likely to pay for their drug use with criminal activity and more likely to access health services related to their drug use. The prevalence of cannabis combined with the young age of first use contributes to the level of harm it has upon New Zealand communities.
The reduction of family violence is an Australasian policing priority. Family violence has a measurable impact on many individuals, families and communities each day. Policing responses need to be supported and underpinned by interventions at the local, community and government levels.
Despite the wealth of knowledge and tremendous efforts to prevent family violence, more needs to be done to ensure the safety and well being of victims. This includes support through the criminal justice systems.
This report is to review the current New Zealand Police (Police) pursuit policy. Amendments were made to the policy as recently as January 2008. However, given that pursuits are a policing activity of significant risk, ongoing critical evaluations of the policy in light of specific incidents, technological advances and research, are necessary from time to time.
The translation of the Rights Caution for Adults and Children/Young Persons is designed for immediate, urgent use only where interpreters are not available.
The translations cover 51 different languages and outline a person’s rights when either being questioned or arrested by police officers.
The multilingual phrasebook and rights cautions have been developed to assist police staff communicate with diverse communities. This resource can be used as an effective tool to interact with people where there is a language barrier.
The Multilingual Phrase Book outlines the most frequent questions and statements used by police officers when dealing with the public alongside 49 translated languages.
All 13 child assault events involving "smacking" and 65 of the 69 "minor acts of physical discipline" events against children, resulted in a warning or no further Police action.
Of the 69 "minor acts of physical discipline" events against children four were prosecuted as follows:
These prosecutions were spread nationally and not concentrated in any one district.
To date resolutions for the above four prosecutions are as follows:
The period following the enactment of the Amendment has been "business as usual" for Police.
The current review period of 29 September 2007 to 4 April 2008 has shown a slight increase in the total volume of 'child assault' events Police have attended: (288), compared with the initial three month review period (111). This is to be expected due to the current review period being six months in comparison to the initial three month review period.
On 22 June 2007, the Amendment came into force. Following the commencement, Police agreed to undertake a three month review (23 June to 28 September 2007) of the impact of the Amendment on Police activity. A summary of the three month review findings was released on 20 December 2007. This review found:
