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Commission of Inquiry quarterly report - July to September 2016

Date Published: 
October 2016

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.

Annual Report 2016

Date Published: 
October 2016

In this Annual Report you will read what Police planned to do and what we actually did. Highlights in the year 2015 /16 included:

  • Continuing to transform policing through Policing Excellence: the Future and the four underlying work programmes: Safer Whanau, Service Delivery Model, Evidence Based Policing, and the Police High Performance Framework.
  • Real strides have been made in identifying and embedding solutions to the Commission of Inquiry (COI) recommendations and Police is well on track to deliver the required cultural and other changes identified in the COI report.
  • During the year Police delivered a number of major operations to protect New Zealanders, visitors and the country’s reputation as safe and secure place to visit and conduct business.
  • Police are continuing to put prevention at the forefront , and victims at the heart , of everything we do. We are also maintaining a high level of public trust and confidence.
  • Police continue to work in collaboration with partner agencies and will continue to contribute to a number of cross-government initiatives to improve the lives of New Zealanders.
  • Police has continued to equip its staff with tools and technology that enable them to spend less time behind a desk and more time out in their communities, where they can make the biggest difference in preventing crime.
  • Police also made further progress in ensuring that the demographic profile of its staff reflects that of the communities it polices .

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.