Prevention First Flashcards
Prevention First Now
What is Prevention First Now?
- The Prevention First National Operating Model supports a way of thinking that applies to all New Zealand Police and informs everything we do.
- Prevention First is designed to support and enhance the delivery of our key outcomes. (Be safe. Feel safe.)
Under Prevention First and Our Business, what is the Prevention First MIND-SET?
- “Taking every opportunity to prevent harm”.
PHPF / Working closely with other agencies
Explain “Prevention First puts people at the centre”?
- Prevention First puts people - Victims, Offenders, our staff - at the centre of our model.
What are the 3 CORE components of the Prevention First model?
- Deploy to beat demand
- Target the drivers of demand
- Mindset: taking every opportunity to prevent harm.
What are the 3 Core components supported by?
- The 3 components are supported through OUR PARTNERSHIPS.
Explain EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS?
- Effective partnerships:
. Police is uniquely placed to help other government agencies implement the social investment approach as “facilitators” and “connectors”.
. Maori make up a disproportionate number of both offenders and victims, more than any other ethnicity.
. We MUST make full use of opportunities to enlist the support of our partner agencies, through interagency ‘Tasking and Coordination’, to deploy our combined resources to beat demand.
Explain “Deploy to beat demand”?
- We are prepared and flexible, allowing us to mobilize resources pre-emptively and quickly get on top of demand.
Explain Our Deployment Model?
- Provides a national framework to enable decision makers to deploy resources to the local environment using a consistent approach.
- “Crime triangle”
> Act with urgency against repeat and priority offenders
> Provide support and assistance to those repeatedly victimized.
> Maximise resources to locations that repeatedly suffer disproportionate levels of crime
Explain “Evidence-based Deployment”?
- We use tactics that have been proven to work, and we evaluate the results of our interventions to determine whether we achieved the desired outcome or need to refocus our efforts.
What are the 6 “Drivers of Demand”?
Clue: MAYORF
- Mental Health
- Alcohol
- Youth (Rangatahi)
- Organised crime and drugs
- Roads
- Families (Whanau)
Explanation for “Drivers of Demand”?
- The drivers of demand remain our focus.
- The change from drivers of crime to drivers of demand acknowledges that a large proportion of Police work involves responding to demand that is not necessarily criminal but which frequently offers OPPORTUNITIES FOR PREVENTING CRIME AND WIDER HARM in our communities.
Explanation for Families (Whanau)
- Vulnerable and dysfunctional families take up an increasing amount of Police time and generate significant “service demand” which is not reflected in the crime figures.
. We MUST continue to support and protect these whanau, lifting the veil of secrecy around family harm and child abuse in order to stop it, and exposing familial organized crime groups to prevent intergenerational cycles of harm. - Family harm may be the “foot in the door” for Police.
Explanation for Youth (Rangatahi)
- Youth offenders often come from backgrounds of severe deprivation involving violence, alcohol, drugs and the absence of good role models.
Explanation for Roads
- Governments Safer Journeys strategy
Explanation for Mental Health
- Mental health issues are a significant driver of demand for Police services so Police will work closely with providers of health services to ensure those suffering mental distress are not a danger to themselves or others.