In this Annual Report, we cover how 2012/13 was a year in which recorded crime fell a further 7.4 percent, year-on-year, with 29,337 fewer recorded offences than the year before. The total of 365,185 recorded offences was the lowest in more than 30 years. The road toll was 317, remaining close to 2011/12 levels which were the lowest since official records began.

In 2012/13 New Zealand Police took stock of the ways we’ve been measuring our performance, and reduced things down to a handful of goals: