STRATEGIC AWARENESS: Prevention First

Question 1

What is our National Operating Model?

Answer 1

Prevention First.

Question 2

Prevention First is designed to enhance delivery of our key outcomes.

What are our key outcomes? (3)

Answer 2

1. Prevent crime and Victimisation
2. Target and catch offenders
3. Deliver a more responsive Police Service.

Question 3

What is Prevention First and Our Business mindset?

Answer 3

Taking every opportunity to prevent harm.

Question 4

Prevention First puts people (victims, offenders, our staff) at the centre of our model.

What are the core components of our model? (3)

Answer 4

1. Deploy to beat demand
2. Target the drivers of demand
3. Mindset: taking every opportunity to prevent harm.

Question 5

What must we do to have Effective partnerships?

Answer 5

Build strong relationships of Trust and Confidence in each other with Iwi Maori, our communities and our partner agencies so that we can share information and implement collaborative approaches.

Question 6

Police are uniquely placed to help other government agencies implement the social investment approach as ‘facilitators’ and ‘connectors’. Why is this?

Answer 6

More than any other agency, our officers are in homes of those more at risk, collecting information and intelligence that when shared, can improve decision making by all agencies to prevent further harm and ensure social services reach those who need them the most.

Question 7

What does Our Deployment Model provide?

Answer 7

A National Framework to enable decision makers to deploy resources to the local environment using a consistent approach.

Question 8

Our Deployment Model requires Police Districts and other delivering services to the public to focus on the ‘crime triangle’ to do what? (3)

Answer 8

1. Act with urgency against repeat and priority offenders.
2. Provide support and assistance to those repeatedly victimised.
3. Maximise resources to locations that repeatedly suffer disproportionate levels of crime.

Question 9

What is the AIM of our Deployment Model?

Answer 9

Ensure equal emphasis is given to dealing urgently with prolific and priority offender, and to preventing, responding to, investigating and resolving crime.

Question 10

What does Evidence-based deployment mean?

Answer 10

We use tactics that have been proven to work, and we evaluate the results of our interventions to determine the desired outcome or need to refocus our efforts.

Question 11

What are our 6 drivers of demand?

Answer 11

1. Families - whanau
2. Youth - Rangatahi
3. Alcohol
4. Roads
5. Organised Crime and Drugs
6. Mental Health

Question 12

Mindset: taking every opportunity to prevent harm.

List 5 areas of focus/responsibilities?

Answer 12

Victims

Repeat Victimisation

Offender Management

Locations

To deliver on our purpose/mindset

Question 13

What does the Victim Focus Framework do?

Answer 13

Focuses on victims from the first point of contact by providing staff with a Victim History Score to highlight previous victimisation, a Graduated Response Model for proactive intervention with the victim, and an inter agency response for high risk victims.

Question 14

Describe what offender management is? (4)

Answer 14

1. Dealing quickly and appropriately with offenders.
2. Support offenders wanting to make positive change.
3. Enable those whose offending is more serious to get access to support services they need to desist from offending.
4. Alternative resolutions for low level offences andfirst time offenders

Question 15

Why should we focus on preventing harm in repeat locations?

Answer 15

By targeting repeat locations we can prevent harm to victims and reduce repeat offending.

Question 16

What sets the standards by which our interactions will be measured, both within the organisation and by the members of the public that we interact with every day (2)

Answer 16

1. Our Values
2. Code of Conduct

Question 17

To deliver on our purpose/mindset we must take every opportunity to prevent harm.

List 5 ways on how we will deliver on our purpose/mindset?

Answer 17

1. Demonstrate our organisational Values and Code of Conduct in every interaction.
2. Provide a proactive and consistent service to victims and offenders by using the risk assessment process for dealing with offenders and victims.
3. Create useful VIP’s and increase the proportion of VIP’s completed in each area.
4. Always used the agreed offender management approach.
5. Make sure every member of the team knows how their work contributes to our organisational goals, through the PHPF.