In June 2010, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) released its Second Monitoring Report about how well Police are responding to the Commission of Inquiry (COI) recommendations1. The OAG found that Police had fully implemented seven of the 47 recommendations and had made progress in implementing all of the remaining recommendations.
In this quarter progress has been made in:
Police continue to build on the feedback provided in the second monitoring report of the Office of the Auditor General, (OAG), and the third monitoring report of State Services Commission. A team has been established within the Human Resource Group to co-ordinate and support this process.
Current work is focused on determining key measures for each work stream and the necessary processes to monitor progress towards high-level outcomes under each work stream.
In response to the recommendations from the second monitoring report of the OAG and the third monitoring report of SSC, Police held a high-level workshop in March to identify key themes for Police to focus on in order to ensure the 'intention' of the COI and the subsequent SSC and OAG reports are achieved.
New Zealand Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NZ-ADAM) is a programme which seeks to measure drug and alcohol use among people who have recently been apprehended by police.
NZ Police obtained funding for a one-year initial pilot of NZ-ADAM at four sites (Whangarei, Henderson, Hamilton and Dunedin) to be followed by a three-year extension should the pilot prove to be successful and useful. Health Outcomes International (HOI) was contracted by NZ Police to conduct the pilot.
New Zealand Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NZ-ADAM) is a programme which seeks to measure drug and alcohol use among people who have recently been apprehended by police.
The programme operates at four sites (Whangarei, Henderson, Hamilton and Dunedin), and is conducted by Health Outcomes International (HOI) under contract to NZ Police.
The aim of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring (NZ‐ADUM) to measure the level of alcohol and drug use by police detainees and investigate the role alcohol and drug use plays in criminal offending.
NZADUM also monitors trends in drug use and drug markets; documents alcohol and drug related harm; measures the demand for alcohol and drug treatment among detainees; and seeks to identify underlying drivers of drug use and offending among detainees.
The aim of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring (NZ‐ADUM) is to monitor trends in alcohol and drug use among police detainees and investigate the role alcohol and drug use plays in criminal offending. The 2011 NZ‐ADUM interviewed 828 police detainees at Whangarei, Auckland Central, Wellington Central and Christchurch Central police watch houses about their drug use and criminal offending.
Annual reviews of the change management process were established to give effect to recommendation 37 and 59 of the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct (COI). Recommendations 37 and 59 direct Police to work with the State Services Commission on various aspects of COI implementation. The first four reviews where conducted by or on behalf of the State Services Commission. In 2011/2012 the State Service Commission and Police agreed to change this process, establishing baseline measures and 2017 targets, against which Police would assess its own progress.
This review has been undertaken for New Zealand Police. Its purpose is to provide an overview of the international academic research and best practice literature on family violence risk assessment from about the last ten years, in order to inform improvements that the New Zealand Police may wish to make to its own family violence risk assessment processes.
