This fact sheet provides some practical advice to the NZ Accommodation Industry when faced with the discovery of a sudden death on their premises.

There is a legal requirement to report a death to Police as soon as practicable when you find a body; or learn of a death where the cause is unknown, the result of a suicide, or is un-natural or violent.

This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by New Zealand Police. It provides an analysis of options to address issues that have arisen in relation to the retention and use of identifying particulars (IP) for youth.

The two enclosed Regulatory Impact Statements (RIS) were prepared by New Zealand Police.

The first dated 11 August 2010 provided an analysis of options to amend the Arms Act 1983 to clarify the definition of “military style semi-automatic firearm” (MSSA) and to introduce import controls on airguns that have the appearance of real pistols.

This environmental scan describes major drivers likely to shape New Zealand over the next five years and beyond. It aims to inform the development of New Zealand Police’s strategies and its performance, assurance, planning and policy activities.

It builds on past environmental scans, and uses narrative to complement the sound sets of hard data New Zealand Police already has. Finally, this document creates a central store of internal and external ‘futures’ materials.

This report includes data about family violence deaths that occurred between 2004 and Sept 2011, where a family violence death review was carried out. It does not include all FV deaths that occurred during the period.

Family violence death victims were almost evenly proportioned across adult female (36%), adult male (31%) and child1 deaths (33%).