Narrative of the month - boarding school buses and crossing roads
October 2016
This month’s featured narrative is about a school-wide intervention with a rural primary school to address the safety of students when boarding school buses and crossing roads.
Police Act Review
Date Published:
October 2016
This Publication record compiles the documents related to the Police Act Review.
International information sharing agency-to-agency agreements and directions
Date Published:
November 2024
The Directions and Delegations document outlines authorised employees who may disclose information under section 95B of the Policing Act 2008:
- under an international disclosure instrument; or
- in accordance with the Commissioner’s directions.
Who abuses children?
September 2016
Only occasionally is the abuser someone the child doesn’t know. More often it is someone the child, or the child’s family, knows and trusts. However the myth of ‘stranger danger’ continues.
'Stranger danger' is an outdated, discredited and potentially dangerous concept that the New Zealand Police has steered away from since the late 1980s.
Children need to know how to identify and tell a trusted person if anyone is behaving towards them in a way that makes them feel unsafe. Normalising the term ‘stranger danger’ goes against this.
Safety camera photograph request form
Date Published:
January 2025
Complete this form with your details to request the Police Infringement Bureau to send you a copy of the speed camera photograph relating to the infringement notice issued to your name.
Only the person named on the original notice or an authorised representative of a company or incorporated body can request a safety camera photograph.
Please complete a separate form for each notice holder.
Print this form and send to the address provided on the form or you can also complete the Safety camera photograph request form online.
Sample 'alcohol & other drugs' intervention
September 2016
We’ve just posted a new sample schoolwide intervention plan addressing alcohol and other drugs (AoD) on the Partnerships in Practice page of the School Portal: