PHPF and Police Core Values and Policing Act 2008 Flashcards
Explain PHPF Strategy
Provides tools for leaders to connect their teams to Our Business - ensure our people are clear on their purpose, roles & how they contribute to NZP - Using SPTs and Group Purpose Statements - quality of the conversations are critical.
Explain PHPF Culture
> Shift in ‘mind-set’ leads to culture where leaders focus - purpose and enabling staff to make a difference.
Builds high performance culture we need to deliver OB.
Move away from prescription to principle based.
Explain PHPF Leadership
Eqiups leaders with tools to help deliver OB.
Explain PHPF Capability
Building cap through our PEOPLE rather than tactics and equipment we use.
>PERSONAL PERFORMANCE using capability conversations form development plans.
Explain PHPF Performance
Designed to:
>Help people get better
>Feel valued, and
>Deliver the outcomes the organisation requires from their role.
Police Core Values - PRIMED
These values inform the way we work, operate and make decisions. Our values reflect what is important to us and the communities we serve.
Explain Empathy
We seek understanding of and consider the experience of those we serve
Explain Valuing Diversity
Recognise the value different perspectives and experiences bring to making us better at what we do.
Policing Act 2008 explain section 8
(a) principled, effective, and efficient policing services cornerstone of a free and democratic society under the rule of law:
(b) effective policing relies on a wide measure of public support and confidence:
(c) POLICING SERVICES ARE PROVIDED UNDER AS NATIONAL FRAMEWORK BUT ALSO HAVE A LOCAL COMMUNITY FOCUS:
(d) policing services are provided in a manner that respects human rights:
(e) policing services are provided independently and impartially:
(f) in providing policing services every Police employee is required to act professionally, ethically, and with integrity.
Policing Act 2008 explain section 9
(a) keep the peace:
(b) maintaining public safety:
(c) law enforcement:
(d) crime prevention:
(e) community support and reassurance:
(f) national security:
(g) participation in policing activities outside New Zealand:
(h) emergency management
Policing Act 2008 explain section 10
important/valuable roles in the performance of the functions of the Police are played by—
(a) public agencies or bodies (for example, certain departments of State, and local authorities); and
(b) the holders of certain statutory offices (for example, Maori wardens); and
(c) parts of the private sector (for example, the private security industry).
(2) It is also acknowledged that it is often appropriate, or necessary, for the Police to perform some of its functions in co-operation with individual citizens, or agencies or bodies other than the Police.
Policing Act 2008 explain section 16
The Commissioner is responsible to the Minister for—
(a) carrying out the functions and duties of the Police; and
(b) the general conduct of the Police; and
(c) the effective, efficient, and economical management of the Police; and
(d) tendering advice to the Minister and other Ministers of the Crown; and
(e) giving effect to any lawful ministerial directions.
(2) The Commissioner is not responsible to, and must act independently of, any Minister of the Crown (including any person acting on the instruction of a Minister of the Crown) regarding—
(a) the maintenance of order in relation to any individual or group of individuals; and
(b) the enforcement of the law in relation to any individual or group of individuals; and
(c) the investigation and prosecution of offences; and
(d) decisions about individual Police employees.
Policing Act 2008 explain section 30
Every Police employee must obey and be guided by—
(a) GIs ; and
(b) the Commissioner’s circulars; and
(c) any applicable local orders.
(2) Every Police employee must obey the lawful commands of a supervisor.
(3) In the absence of a supervisor, the supervisor’s authority and responsibility devolves on—
(a) the Police employee available who is next in level of position; and
(b) in the case of equality, the longest serving Police employee.
(4) No Police employee may, when exercising any power or carrying out any function or duty, act under the direction, command, or control of—
(a) a Minister of the Crown; or
(b) a person who is not authorised by or under this Act or any other enactment or rule of law to direct, command, or control the actions of a Police employee.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to a Police employee outside New Zealand who—
(a) is part of an overseas operation within the meaning of section 86; or
(b) is an employee within the meaning of section 91.
Policing Act 2008 explain section 63
(1) In the case of the absence from duty for any reason of a Police employee or in the case of a vacancy for any reason and from time to time while the absence or vacancy continues, or for any other special purpose, the Commissioner may—
(a) appoint an employee temporarily to any higher level of position; or
(b) authorise an employee to exercise or perform all or any of the powers and duties under this Act or any other enactment, of any level of position higher than that employee’s own level of position.
(2) Any appointment or authority under this section may be given or made before the occasion arises or while it continues.
(3) No appointment or authority under this section, and nothing done by any employee acting pursuant to the appointment or authority, may be questioned in any proceedings on the ground that—
(a) the occasion has not arisen or had ceased; or
(b) the employee had not been appointed to any level of position to which the authority relates.
(4) The Commissioner may at any time revoke any appointment made or authority given under this section.
The Commissioner may also authorise an employee to exercise powers and duties under the Policing Act or another Act, of any level of position higher than that employee’s own level of position (section 63(1)(b)).
For example, a senior sergeant is required to complete a joint certificate to authorise detention of a young person in Police custody for a period exceeding 24 hours and until appearance before the Court (Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989, section 236(1)). If the senior sergeant is absent and a sergeant temporarily stands in as a senior sergeant, they are not legally authorised to complete the joint certificate unless they are specifically authorised to undertake that role under section 63(1)(b) or have been appointed as an acting senior sergeant under section 63(1)(a).
