The Briefing to the Incoming Minister 2002 outlines the key benefits, challenges and future areas of policing in New Zealand. The briefing is written by the Commissioner of Police and is presented to the incoming Minister of Police.

This briefing provides information about how New Zealand Police strives to achieve "Safer Communities Together" and put community safety and crime reduction centre-stage. It focuses on working together, policing priorities, emerging issues, legislation and policy, strategy and key priorities for 2002/03.

While the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct was released this year, the quarterly summary for December looks at two recommendations that will take effect in early 2008, and three recommendations that have been progressed significantly.

A major element of this progress will be the implementation of a Police Code of Conduct covering all staff, sworn and non-sworn. The new Code of Conduct is being introduced with revised Police Regulations and sets clear standards of behaviour expected of all Police employees, with breaches of these standards being dealt with under a new disciplinary system.

This summary also includes the progress on four of the recommendations made in regards to the Ministry of Justice and the Independent Police Conduct Authority. This falls underneath a key achievement, the passage of the Independent Police Conduct Authority Amendment Act 2007.

The Commissioner of Police discloses travel and credit card expenses annually, in line with the Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission’s guidance, to provide transparency and accountability. To further align with the disclosure regime for mainstream public service departments, gifts and hospitality received by the Commissioner of Police are able to be viewed in the wider summary report published annually from the New Zealand Police gift and hospitality register.

The documents below detail the credit card transaction summaries for the Commissioner of Police from 1 July 2013 - 30 June 2015.

Entries from July 2015 onwards detail both credit card expenses and travel expenses.

This report responds to a request by New Zealand Police to produce two literature reviews on the barriers to the recruitment of (i) women, and (ii) Māori, Pacific and ethnic groups. It has been prepared by the Crime and Justice Research Centre (CJRC) in collaboration with the Institute of Criminology.

The purpose of the literature reviews is to provide a fuller picture from the literature of recruitment issues both in New Zealand and internationally, and initiatives that have been implemented to address and/or mitigate these barriers. The reviews are to help New Zealand Police to identify good or innovative practice that might inform local approaches to recruitment.

In particular, NZ Police are interested in identifying: the most effective strategies to encourage people to join the Police; ways in which NZ Police can encourage growth in diversity without compromising standards; and the barriers to recruitment, and ways to remove them.