Strategic Awareness - Inspectors notes

Question 1

What is our vision?

Answer 1

To be the safest country.

Question 2

What is our purpose?

Answer 2

To ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

Question 3

What is our mission?

Answer 3

To prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing.

Question 4

What are our goals?

Answer 4

Safe homes
Free from crime and victimisation

Safe roads
Preventing death and injury with our partners

Safe communities
People are safe where ever they live, work and visit.

Question 5

What are our functions?
Section 9, Policing Act 2008

Answer 5

Keep the peace
Maintain public safety
Law enforcement
Crime prevention
Community support and reassurance
National security
Policing activities outside New Zealand
Emergency management

Policing Act 2008 mandates the functions of NZ Police.

Question 6

What is our operating model?

Answer 6

Prevention first. It asks our people to be problem-solvers and look for opportunities to prevent further crime and harm, rather than just respond to events - and be proactive.

At its core is our deployment model. We use evidence and insights to maximise the impacts of our collective resources.

Question 7

Te Huringa o Te Tai
Focuses polices effort around three pou. What are they?

Answer 7

Our people and our mindset

Effective initiatives and improved practice

Effective partnerships.

Question 8

What are our priorities?

Answer 8

Be first then do
Strengthen how and who we are as an organisation

Deliver the services New Zealanders expect and deserve
Understanding and providing what the public want from their police.

Focused prevention through partnerships
Focused police effort and working with others to achieve better outcomes

Question 9

Our People

Answer 9

Safety and wellbeing of our staff will always be our top priority.

Our people need to feel valued, have a sense of ownership

Question 10

Our leadership

Answer 10

Leadership is about fostering an environment that brings out everyones best and in a way that they feel valued. PHPF provides tools for discussion.

Question 11

Our culture

Answer 11

Culture to be based on values, which we reflect in our actions and decisions.

Question 12

Our Partners

Answer 12

Police cannot achieve our vision alone. Need effective partnerships to build connections that produce stronger and lasting results, especially when there are complex social problems.

Question 13

What are the key components for the prevention first model?

Answer 13

Deploy to beat demand
Target the drivers of demand
Mindset. Taking every opportunity to prevent harm

The three components are supported through our partnerships.

Question 14

Our Deployment Model

Answer 14

A national framework to enable decision makers to deploy resources to the local environment using a consistent approach.

Aims to ensure equal emphasis is given to dealing urgently with prolific and priority offenders, and to preventing, responding to, investigating and resolving crime.

Question 15

What are the six drivers of demand?

Answer 15

Families
Youth
Alcohol
Roads
Organised crime and drugs
Mental health

Question 16

Mindset

Answer 16

• Taking every opportunity to prevent harm
• Responsibility to victims
• Repeat victimisation
• Offender management
• Locations - targetting repeat locations
• Delivering on our purpose
• To deliver on mindset
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Question 17

How was Te Huringa o Te Tai developed?

Answer 17

The strategy was developed by listening to the voices of the community, staff, Iwi Maori and encourages the enhancement of our organisational values with uara Maori.

It is the pathway to achieve our business and includes delivering responsiveness to Māori or cultural confidence training.

While having a direct impact for Māori it will produce benefits for all New Zealanders through improved service delivery and crime reduction.

Question 18

Pou Mataara
Our people and their mind-set

Answer 18

Applying a Te Ao Maori view, through the alignment uara Maori with Our Values, will ensure culturally responsive initiatives/programmes are developed and implemented.

Question 19

Pou Mataaho - Effective initiatives and improved practice

Answer 19

Focus on whanau ora approach of co-design and joint delivery of initiatives with Iwi Maori. Evidence-based approach to concentrate efforts on programmes that have proved successful for Maori.

Question 20

Pou Hourua
Effective Partnerships

Answer 20

Focus on building relationships that lead to more effective partnerships with iwi, Maori and others. Partnerships to improve long-term wellbeing for Maori.

A whanau-ora centric, Tikanga Maori model. Maori are treaty partners and interventions are co-designed using strength based approach. We will need to share decision making, devolve control, and feel comfortable leading from behind.

Question 21

What are the five frameworks of PHPF?

Answer 21

Strategy
Culture
Leadership
Capability
Performance management

Question 22

What are the core values of New Zealand police?

Answer 22

Professionalism
Respect
Integrity
Commitment to Māori and the treaty
Empathy
Valuing diversity

Question 23

Policing Act 2008
Section 16
Responsibilities and independence of Commissioner

Answer 23

The Commissioner is responsible to the Minister for:
* carrying out the functions of Police:
* Economical management
* Tendering advice to Minister and Crown
* Giving effect to lawful ministerial directions

Commissioner NOT responsible to, and must act independently of an Minister regarding:
* Maintenance of order
* Enforcement of the law
* Investigation and prosecution of offences
* Decisions about individual Police employees.

Question 24

Section 30
Policing Act 2008
Command and Control

Answer 24

Police must obey and be guided by
* General Instructions
* Commissioners circulars and
* Any applicable local orders

Must obey lawful command of a supervisor.
If supervisor not present, next in position or in case of equality, longest serving member.

Question 25

Section 63 of the policing act 2008

Answer 25

When there is a vacancy in a particular role, the commissioner may appoint an employee to temporarily fill a higher level of position than the one person currently holds.

The commissioner may authorise an employee to exercise powers of any level of position higher than their employees own level of position.

Staff must specifically consider whether they have proper authority to exercise of power and not assume the authority is automatically given.

Eg PSO’s May only be issued by a qualified constable therefore an acting sergeant may not be able to authorise a PSO.

Question 26

Section 8
Policing Act 2008
Principles of the policing act.

Answer 26

Principled, effective, and efficient policing services are a cornerstone of a free and democratic society under the rule of law

Effective policing relies on a wide measure of public support and confidence.

Policing services are provided under a national framework but also have a local community focus.

Respect human rights

Are provided independently and impartially

Everyplace employee is required to act professionally, ethically and with integrity