Strategic Awareness Flashcards
What is our vision?
New Zealand is the safest county.
What is our purpose?
Ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe
What is our mission ?
To prevent Crime and Harm
What are our outcomes?
Safe communities, homes and roads
What is safe communities
Each community has different challenges.
A focus on
- Gang violence and crime
- organised crime
- youth crime
- drug harm
- alcohol related harm
What are our priorities?
- Enabling the frontline
- Community reassurance
- Focus on core policing
What are the 3 “pou” in the strategy and priorities
- Pou Mataara - Be first then do
- Pou Mataaho - delivering the services New Zealanders deserve and expect
- Pou Hourua - focused prevention through partnerships
What are our 8 functions
- Keeping the peace
- Maintaining public safety
- Law enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Community support and re assurance
- National security
- Participation in policing activities outside NZ
- Emergency management
Describe the crime triangle
Offender, victim and location on the outside of the triangle
Crime and harm in the middle of the triangle
Deployment model - what are the key inputs to decision making?
- Our goals and priorities
- Intelligence
- Demand
- Performance
- Our available resources
Deployment model - What are the layers of opportunity?
- operational - daily workload
- tactical - 1-3 months (district t&c)
- strategic - 3+ months (national t&c)
Policing Act - what is the rule of law?
People be treated equally before the law and individual liberties should be preserved.
“ should be governed by law and should be free from arbitrary government “ McDowell v Webb 2002
Why is the rule of law important for NZP?
It affects how we police
- apply the law evenly to all people
- we work in a justice system that is free from corruption
- must not accept bribes
- we protect the right of offenders ( interactions must be lawful)
- protect rights if victims
s10 Policing Act - roles of others acknowledged
Important roles played by
- public agencies
- holders of statutory offices (Māori wardens)
- private sector (private security)
s10 Policing Act - roles of others acknowledged
Important roles played by
- public agencies
- holders of statutory offices (Māori wardens)
- private sector (private security)
s20 Policing Act - code of conduct
Commissioner must have a code of conduct
Police employee must conduct themselves in accordance with that code of conduct
s30 Policing Act - command and control
Must obey and be guided by
- GI’s
- Commissioners circulars
- Local orders
Must obey lawful commands of supervisor or representative
Must not act under the direction, command, control of a
-minister or someone not authorised in the act
s63 Policing Act - acting appointments
Commissioner may
- appoint an employee temporarily to a higher level position
or
- authorise an employee to exercise or perform all or any of the duties under this at at a higher level
