#1 STRATEGIC AWARENESS - Preventing Crime and Harm Flashcards
What are the three layers of opportunity to Prevent crime?
1) Operational (daily) decision-making of frontline staff, supported by DDC’s.
2) Tactical - (1-3 Months) realised through area and District T&C
3) Strategic - (3 months +) realised through the national tasking and coordination process working
collaboratively with districts and other stakeholders
Triangle - Offenders
Opportunity to prevent crime and harm by dealing effectively with repeat offenders.
By rapidly linking crimes and identifying prolific offenders early and intervening, we can prevent many offences from
occurring.
For first-time offenders and lower-harm offending, there is strong evidence of the effectiveness of resolutions other than through the formal criminal justice system
Triangle - Victim
As with offending, victimisation is not evenly distributed. For example, in the 2022 New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey just over two percent of adults experienced 39% of all victimisations.
We also know that many who are offenders one day may present as victims the next. This demonstrates the opportunity to intervene with repeat victims in order to
reduce crime.
A key focus for reducing repeat victimisation is in family harm, where we
work with agency and community partners to ensure there are appropriate
supports and interventions in place
Triangle - Locations
Some locations are crime hotspots, which may benefit from increased police presence (or other guardians) at particular times, or the application of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) principles to make it harder for offenders to operate in that place.
As more crime moves online we also need to consider how we make it harder for criminals to operate in the digital world. Police must continue to build new capability to support online investigations and partner with platform
providers and others to support the prevention of online crime
Prioritising our effort. Our deployment model.
5 key inputs:
1) Our goals and priorities
2) Intel
3) Demand
4) performance
5) Our available resources
What is the intelligence function within Police
for informing and influencing decision-makers
to respond to the greatest opportunities to prevent crime and harm.
How do we manage demand?
Focused prevention through partnerships.
This is the idea that we should focus our effort on the things most requiring
police attention whilst working in partnership for everything else.
Community Policing model
Strategy - M, P, E strategies.
Structure - Liaison officers and growing diversity
Partnerships - relationships with community groups. Advisory boards
Partnerships - A new paradigm
Cyber / technology. Police don;t need to be top of hierarchy.
Tech, network providers and Corporates need to take greater responsibility
Resolutions
In all circumstances, we aspire to bring about the resolution that will lead to
the best outcomes overall. An important aspect of this is ensuring that
justice is done in the eyes of victims.
How do we measure performance?
1) The absence of Crime and Harm
2) Separating the impact of policing in an environment where social
and other factors are changing is very difficult
3) 75% of crime is not reported.
Annual Crime and Victims Survey provides best gauge on what is happening with crime.
4) The appropriateness (quality) of the tactics applied in each situation is much more important than the quantity. Assessing the quality of tactics applied requires case-by-case insight.
5) Police effectiveness is judged differently across communities.
6) There is a balance to be struck between actual safety and perceptions of safety
