Strategic Awareness - Inspectors notes Flashcards
What is our vision?
To be the safest country.
What is our purpose?
To ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.
What is our mission?
To prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing.
What are our goals?
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.
What are our functions?
Section 9, Policing Act 2008
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.
What is our operating model?
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.
Te Huringa o Te Tai
Focuses polices effort around three pou. What are they?
Our people and our mindset
Effective initiatives and improved practice
Effective partnerships.
What are our priorities?
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
Our People
Safety and wellbeing of our staff will always be our top priority.
Our people need to feel valued, have a sense of ownership
Our leadership
Leadership is about fostering an environment that brings out everyones best and in a way that they feel valued. PHPF provides tools for discussion.
Our culture
Culture to be based on values, which we reflect in our actions and decisions.
Our Partners
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.
What are the key components for the prevention first model?
Deploy to beat demand
Target the drivers of demand
Mindset. Taking every opportunity to prevent harm
The three components are supported through our partnerships.
Our Deployment Model
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.
What are the six drivers of demand?
Families
Youth
Alcohol
Roads
Organised crime and drugs
Mental health
Mindset
- 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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How was Te Huringa o Te Tai developed?
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.
Pou Mataara
Our people and their mind-set
Applying a Te Ao Maori view, through the alignment uara Maori with Our Values, will ensure culturally responsive initiatives/programmes are developed and implemented.
Pou Mataaho - Effective initiatives and improved practice
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.
Pou Hourua
Effective Partnerships
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.
What are the five frameworks of PHPF?
Strategy
Culture
Leadership
Capability
Performance management
What are the core values of New Zealand police?
Professionalism
Respect
Integrity
Commitment to Māori and the treaty
Empathy
Valuing diversity
Policing Act 2008
Section 16
Responsibilities and independence of Commissioner
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.
Section 30
Policing Act 2008
Command and Control
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.
Section 63 of the policing act 2008
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.
Section 8
Policing Act 2008
Principles of the policing act.
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