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.

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.

On‐licensed premises ‐ such as bars and nightclubs ‐ represent one setting for drinking that can be implicated in violence, especially in the later evening or early morning. Problems can occur when intoxicated patrons either migrate between venues, or when premises close and patrons disperse onto the street. One response to this issue is to adjust liquor license conditions to require later‐trading bars to close earlier.

Police and local government liquor licensing inspectors in Timaru successfully advocated to regulatory authorities to change the closing times of all of the bars in Timaru’s central business district (CBD), from a range of extended trading hours to a standard closing time of 3:00am.

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.