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Cost Recovery for Certain Police Services

Date Published: 
December 2012

This public consultation paper answers questions surrounding the scope, principles and criteria for cost recovery for certain Police services. It details how to make a submission, what happens to your submission if you make one, how the Privacy Act applies and the benefits and potential issues from introducing cost recovery for certain Police services.

 
Views and feedback provided upon completion of submitting this paper shape final proposals for Government consideration. 
 

Climbing 51 floors raises money and heart rates

Two hundred and twenty competitors took part in the recent Sky Tower Challenge that raised over $114,000 for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand.

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Resources for SCS social responsibility programmes

Date Published: 
December 2010

Four social responsibility education programmes for schools from the Police Youth Education Service (YES). They are designed to help young people behave responsibly and obey the law. They learn about policing and ways that they can help prevent crime. These are:

  • Burglary-Free for years 0-8 is designed to increase such awareness and aims to create burglary-free zones around schools and their communities.
  • Doing the Right Thing for years 0-8 aims to promote values that will help children become responsible New Zealanders who respect others and the law.
  • Role of Police for years 0-1 is a set of photographs illustrating the role of police in society, with accompanying notes.
  • Tag Free Kiwi for years 7-10 aims to reduce the incidence and effects of graffiti vandalism. You can get photopacks to go with Tag Free Kiwi from the Police Education Officer at your local police station.

Resources for SCS School Road Safety programmes: Years 9-13

Date Published: 
December 2012

The school road safety programmes from the Police School Community Service (SCS) provide young people with appropriate road safety skills and practices at all levels of their schooling.

  • A Msg in Contxt for years 11-13 is an educational resource aimed at raising students' awareness of the risk factors and conditions that contribute to road crashes, with a particular focus on strategies to avoid texting and driving.
  • Drive Qual for years 11-13 is a series of modules designed to build the knowledge and positive attitudes that young drivers need to keep themselves and others safe while driving on the road.

Other resources to go with these programmes can be got from the Police Education Officer at your local police station.

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Resources for SCS Drug Education programmes

Date Published: 
July 2012

Choice is a drug education programme for Years 5-8 from the Police School Community Service (SCS). It helps young people to make responsible choices and decisions about the use of drugs and gives them the skills to implement these. It is delivered in a partnership between a teacher and a Police School Community Officer.

Reducing the Harm is designed to help secondary schools minimise the harm from illicit drug use. It consists of a seven-step action plan and includes material for teachers, parents and caregivers and students.

Teaching resources to accompany these programmes are available for download and videos for can be obtained from your local Police School Community Officer.

Tēnā Kōwhiria is the Te Reo Māori version of Choice. Teaching resources can be obtained from your local Police School Community Officer.

Resources for SCS Kia Kaha anti-bullying programmes

Date Published: 
December 2012

Kia Kaha is a programme from the Police School Community Service (SCS) that aims to help schools create environments where all members of the community feel safe, respected and valued, and where bullying cannot flourish.

Material has been prepared for students to work through in the classroom, for teachers to use to create environments where bullying won't flourish and for parents and caregivers to use to help their children develop positive social interactions.

Resources are broken down into school year groups. These are:

  • Building a Safe, Happy Classroom   (Years 0-3)
  • A Bully-free Zone   (Years 4-6)
  • Safer Communities Together   (Years 7-8)
  • Our Place   (Years 9-13)

Crimes (Substituted section 59) Amendment Act 2007 - Six Month Review

Date Published: 
June 2008

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.

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.

This review found there was very minor impact on Police activity over this period, and  there were three "smacking" events and 12 "minor acts of physical discipline" events, all of these were determined to be inconsequential and therefore not in the public interest to prosecute, as per the Commissioner's Circular: 2007/03, Crimes (Substituted section 59) Amendment Act 2007 (Commissioner's Circular).

Police noted that six monthly reviews, leading up to the two year review, would serve as an effective risk management tool and enable Police to proactively respond to issues that may arise. This review is the second of four reviews that will be undertaken in the 24 month period following commencement of the Amendment. 

Crimes (Substituted section 59) Amendment Act 2007 - Three Month Review

Date Published: 
December 2007

On 22 June 2007, the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act (the Amendment) came into force, amending section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961. The purpose of the Amendment was "to make better provision for children to live in a state free from violence by abolishing the use of parental force for the purpose of correction".

As outlined in the Justice and Electoral Select Committee Report, "the Amendment removes the defence of using “reasonable force” against a child for the purpose of correction and clarifies that reasonable force may be used for other purposes such as protecting a child from harm, providing normal daily care, and preventing the child doing harm to others".1

Following the Amendment, New Zealand Police (Police) agreed to undertake a three month review (23 June to 28 September 2007) of the impact of the Amendment on Police activity. 

 

1. Justice and Electoral Select Committee, "Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill (271-2) and petition 2005/25 of Barry Thomas and 20,750 others," [2006], 2. 

 

Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007 - 7th Review

Date Published: 
June 2010

This report details results from the 7th review of relevant Police activity since enactment of the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007. This review covers the period 23 December 2009 to 22 June 2010.

Monitoring initially took place for a two year period since enactment on 22nd June, 2007. 

In December 2009, the Prime Minister invited Police to continue monitoring for a further three years. This followed the review into the policies and procedures used by the New Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family. Police was also invited to include data on cases in which a parent or caregiver said the force used on the child was reasonable in the circumstances.