Module 7 - Strategic Awareness and Staff Management (Feb 2015) Flashcards
What is the Commissioner’s overview and the strategic direction of Police in the NZ Police Statement of Intent 2014/15 - 2017/18?
This Statement of Intent identifies how Police will contribute to Government’s goals, and drive real change in the areas that matter. Our contributions to strategic goals centre on four priorities for the next three years:
- Protected communities
- Improved road safety
- Less crime
- More valued services.
Each of these priorities, and the work Police does to achieve them, makes a tangible difference in the lives of New Zealanders and people who visit New Zealand. We have made significant progress in these areas, but there is still more to do.
Prevention First will continue to drive operational effort to proactively stop harmful incidents before they occur, meaning, for example, there will be fewer road-related deaths and injuries and victims of crime. This will be balanced by our response to emergency events, investigations and resolution of incidents that inevitably occur.
Police officers will remain more visible in our communities through initiatives such as Neighbourhood Policing Teams, greater use of mobile technology to allow officers to spend more time on the front line, smarter rostering and the use of specialist file management centres and other support services to lessen the administrative burden on operational staff
Iwi and Police will continue to work together to implement The Turning of the Tide – a Whanau Ora Crime and Crash Prevention Strategy. This innovative, Māori-led strategy will support further reductions in victimisation, offending and road trauma among Māori.
Organisationally we will continue efforts to improve the way we deliver services.
We will implement the final recommendations from the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct and look for opportunities to continuously improve so we can be even more efficient and effective at what we do.
All Police members have a part to play in realising our organisation’s aspirations.
What is NZ Police vision and mission?
What Police seeks to do
This means that New Zealanders can both be safe and feel safe; and that New Zealand is a secure place in which to live, visit and conduct business. In doing so, Police will inspire the trust and confidence of all.
This vision is well known, having endured for the past two decades. It is consistently cited by many staff as being one of the main things which makes Police a great place to work.
For this reason Safer Communities Together is more than an aspirational vision, Police actions are bringing this vision to life every day, within our communities. We have targeted effort to reduce the likelihood of harm occurring across every town and city, and we are seeing results – since 2009/10, there have been 1,500 fewer serious assaults resulting in injury and 15,000 fewer repeat victimisations; the crime rate is at the lowest level in 30 years; and the road toll remains close to its lowest level since official records began, so less people are dying on our roads.
Through to 2017/18 Police will remain focused on the things that are important to New Zealanders, and will maintain its efforts to:
- Reduce repeat victimisations
- Reduce fatalities from road crashes
- Reduce recorded crime
- Build on the public’s trust and confidence, by improving trust and confidence of Maori and youth.
Police mission
Police will act on this vision through the delivery of its core functions and by working in partnership with communities and other stakeholders to prevent harmful incidents before they occur; and to respond, investigate, and resolve issues which are already causing harm.
What is Priority One for NZ Police?
Protected Communities
Why this matters
Repeat victimisation, and the fear and distress it causes needs to be reduced. Since 2008/09, the level of repeat victimisations has reduced by 15%, but there are still close to 100,000 repeat victimisations occurring each year. New Zealanders should be able to live free of the fear of harm; and in emergency situations people should have confidence that someone will help them – and most of us do, with only 25% of New Zealanders indicating concern about their personal safety in the short-term. But we can do better to make more people be and feel safe.
Police plays a valuable role in protecting communities so that people are safe and secure.
Safety and security requires a multifaceted response. Police partnerships with government and non-government agencies, at the local level, are crucial to addressing a wide range of issues that can emerge in communities. For example, Police works with other social sector agencies through the Social Sector Trials and Children’s Action Plan, to develop joint initiatives that further contribute to this impact.
Our primary role includes providing advice to people and businesses about keeping themselves and their property safe and secure. Police also shares information with other agencies to ensure New Zealand is a safe place to conduct business.
What difference we want to make
In the longer term, by 2017/18, our aim is to reduce the level of repeat victims by 10% and repeat victimisations by 18%. This will mean that our interventions are supporting the most vulnerable to be safe, and to increase the resilience of New Zealand.
What is Priority Two for NZ Police?
Improved road safety
Why this matters
Road trauma is a source of great community distress (and presents significant social and economic cost). Whilst road fatalities have reduced by 21% over the last five years, road trauma continues to present a serious challenge for New Zealand communities. Speed; drink driving; and distraction whilst driving remain key issues of concern, especially for young and inexperienced drivers.
By policing the roads, Police contributes to the safe and efficient movement of people and goods around New Zealand’s transport networks, and contributes to
Government objectives for building a more competitive and productive economy.
The focus of the Road Policing Programme is on preventing harm, saving lives, targeting repeat and high-risk offenders, and working with Police’s partners to protect the people in our communities from death and serious injury.
What difference we want to make
The significance of harm created by road trauma means that reducing it is the lead measure for this priority, as well as the main impact sought by Police. By 2017/18, we aim to reduce road fatalities to ensure that there are no more than 230 per annum. This will be an interim step in completely eliminating fatalities on New Zealand roads.
What is Priority Three for NZ Police?
Less Crime
Why this matters
The absence of crime is an important aspect of safety. Crime, and fear of crime, can cause profound harm and distress to victims and to the families of victims and offenders. For example, we know that 6% of New Zealanders experience 54% of all crime. Stopping crime before it happens will reduce this impact. For this reason, prevention is at the forefront of all that Police does – and we are seeing results from doing so, with fewer people offending for the first time and fewer crimes occurring in the same location.
Police is targeting its action to the drivers of crime: youth, alcohol, organised crime, dysfunctional families, and high-risk driving behaviours. We are working with the social sector, through the Social Sector Trials and Youth Action Plan in particular, to prevent offending and address underlying issues. Over the longer-term, these actions are expected to support further reductions in crime.
Over the last five years, since 2008/09, the crime rate has reduced by 18%. Police has the opportunity to build on this success through to 2017.
What difference we want to make
In the longer term, by 2017/18, we aim to reduce crime by 15%; violent crime by 20%; and youth crime by 25%. By delivering sustained reductions in crime, Police makes an important contribution to reduce the crime rate in communities, and its associated social and economic harm.
What is Priority Four for NZ Police?
More valued services
Why this matters
Public trust and confidence is of particular importance to Police, as it is the basis of policing by consent. Without the trust and confidence of communities Police could not fulfil its functions – witnesses would not come forward, people would not pass on information, justice would be denied and enforcing the law would be more difficult.
More broadly, government-funded services must address the most pressing needs of people within communities; provide a benefit to wider society; and be delivered in efficient and effective way.
Police has been working hard to build up the trust and confidence of the communities it serves - establishing feedback mechanisms to understand what is important to New Zealanders; ensuring that when someone is not happy with Police services that they can raise their concerns; and that such concerns are investigated. As a result, over the last five years the public’s trust and confidence in Police has increased by 10% to reach an all time high of 79% in 2012/13.
The value of policing services therefore has several components including public trust and confidence, and satisfaction.
What difference we want to make
The longer term focus for Police will be to build on the public’s trust and confidence in Police by increasing the levels for Maori and youth, who currently have lower levels of trust and confidence in Police than other groups within the community.
How do Police contribute towards the Governemnts goals?
The Government has four priorities for its current term, and Police continues to make valuable contributions to these priorities. These priorities and contributions are outlined below.
- Responsibly managing the Government’s finances
Police is delivering excellent outcomes and managing within current funding levels, and will look for ways to continue to do so through to 2017/18.
- Building a more competitive and productive economy
Police maintains the rule of law; prevents corruption, fraud, organised crime and money laundering; and keeps the New Zealand road network safe and flowing freely.
- Delivering better public services within tight financial constraints Police will contribute to Government’s Better Public Services goals to (in particular) reduce crime - including violent, youth, and total crime levels – through more targeted, mobile and flexible services, and working purposefully with other public sector agencies to deliver results for New Zealand.
- Rebuilding Christchurch
Police continues to work with the community and other agencies to maintain safety in Christchurch as it is rebuilt, and is a key partner in building the new justice sector precinct which will create a public safety hub in Christchurch.
What are NZ Polices main contributions across Government?
Social: Reduce family violence, identify and support at-risk people (especially children and young people)
Police works alongside other social sector agencies to target family violence, reduce youth offending, and keep vulnerable people safe. Government has set several goals for the social sector through to 2017, including reducing the numbers of children experiencing physical abuse by 5%. This is an ambitious, but not unachievable, goal.
Police staff are frequently first responders to situations where vulnerable people in the community need help. Police contributes to the outcomes of the social sector by identifying vulnerable people (particularly children) and ensuring that appropriate referrals are made to other support services, so that people receive the right service at the right time. For example, Police staff work closely with communities through Neighbourhood Policing Teams, youth aid, and youth education in schools.
The chief executives of the Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, Police, Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment, and Te Puni Kōkiri are jointly accountable for achieving results for vulnerable children through the Joint Venture Board and Vulnerable Children’s Board.
The key focus over the coming years will be on action for children through more joined up services, changing the law to make children safer, and will encompass community action to ensure that children are safe in their own homes. Initiatives will be coordinated through the Children’s Action Plan, Youth Crime Action Plan, and Social Sector Trials.
Transport: Road safety
Police works with other transport sector agencies to reduce harm from road trauma. The Government’s road safety strategy to 2020, Safer Journeys, seeks to improve safety by working across all elements of the road system – roads, speed, vehicles and road use. The strategy’s vision is a safe road system increasingly free of death and serious injury.
The Police Road Policing Programme, and its contribution to Safer Journeys, is targeted to support achievement of these sector goals through activities that will protect the community and target high-risk road users.
Police makes an essential contribution to the outcomes of the transport sector through prevention of harm, law enforcement, and first response to road crashes. For example, Police conducts targeted breath-testing. Police also works with agencies such as the
Ministry of Transport, New Zealand Transport Agency and Accident Compensation Corporation to improve road conditions (through environmental design), and ensure road users follow the rules and drive safely.
Justice: Reduce crime and its harm, hold offenders to account
Police works with justice sector agencies (and, at times, social sector agencies) to enforce the law and prevent crime. Government has set goals to: reduce total crime by 15%, violent crime by 20%, the youth crime by 25%, and reoffending by 25%. Police efforts to reduce crime will also reduce the social and economic costs of crime, and the impact of crime on its victims.
Police has a vital justice sector role. Police contributions include prevention, first response, and resolving crime. For example, Neighbourhood Policing Teams are now working in high-risk communities to prevent crime, and the Police Criminal Investigation Branch provides investigations to resolve crime. These efforts prevent and disrupt crime (including organised crime), and uphold and enforce the law, meaning there is less crime and fewer victims in communities.
What is Prevention First?
Prevention First is the operating strategy for New Zealand Police that places prevention at the forefront of our organisation and people at the very centre.
Prevention First is the responsibility of all employees of Police
Police have a major role to play in responding, investigating and resolving crime and these remain important. At the same time, Prevention First requires all staff to seek out prevention opportunities as part of their existing day-to-day work. This requires looking beyond single issues associated with individual cases, and for all staff to:
- Be aware of and leverage off community services and networks to protect vulnerable people, particularly repeat victims;
- Act with urgency against priority and prolific offenders; and
- Develop innovative and sustainable, practical solutions using problem solving approaches to manage crime hotspots and Priority Locations.
In order to achieve real outcomes for our communities and meet the aims of Prevention First we will develop specific actions that will enable us to:
- Deploy to beat demand;
- Understand and respond to the drivers of crime; and
- Foster a change in our mindset that puts prevention and the needs of victims at the forefront of policing.
What is Deploying to beat demand?
Deployment is a crucial component of Prevention First and is about being prepared and flexible so we can mobilise resources pre-emptively and quickly to stay on top of demand.
It provides a structured and disciplined framework for using resources in an informed and well-directed manner in order to achieve and maintain demand reductions.
The four components to the model are Critical Command Information, Tasking and Coordination, Workforce Management and Operational Delivery (Execution).
What is Understanding and responding to the drivers of crime?
Police will work with other agencies, service providers and the community, particularly Maori, Pacific and ethnic groups, to address the underlying causes of offending and victimisation.
We will concentrate our efforts on the following priority areas:
Families
To support and protect vulnerable and dysfunctional families, lift the veil of secrecy around family violence, child abuse and expose familial organised crime groups we will:
• Improve our response to women and children subjected to family violence by engaging more effectively internally; between Family Violence coordinators, Child Protection Teams and pacific, Ethnic and Iwi liaison officers;
• In partnership with Child, Youth and Family, respond to reports of child abuse and neglect in accordance with the agreed Child Protection Protocols;
• Make better use of the intelligence gleaned from our engagement with Maori, Pacific and ethnic communities to target family violence and abuse within these communities; and
• Target crime families.
Youth
To keep vulnerable children and young people safe and decrease the number of young people represented in the criminal justice system we will:
• Prioritise our response to children subjected or exposed to family violence, child abuse and neglect;
• Ensure at-risk youth are identified early and prioritised for intervention and development programmes;
• Ensure youth offenders are responded to and dealt with swiftly;
• Encourage the use of alternative actions;
• Support interventions targeted particularly at reducing offending and victimisation involving young Maori and Pacific peoples;
• Promote and increase the safety of young drivers aged 15 – 24; and
• Work with school and community groups to educate and work with at-risk youth in relation to the dangers of abusing alcohol and drugs.
Alcohol
To foster a culture of responsible drinking, reduce incidents of alcohol-related offending and victimisation we will:
- Develop, implement and embed District-level collection plans specific to alcohol offending:
- Improve entry and analysis of Alco-Link data;
- Undertake quality licensed premises compliance checks in high risk locations, including focusing on sales of alcohol to minors; and
- Apply tactics to target public place drinking, including employing high visibility patrols at risk times and location.
Road Policing
To reduce death and serious injury on our roads we will:
• Work with the neighbourhoods to deliver locally-led prevention programmes on road safety matters;
• Work with our established partners to deliver road safety education, improve environmental design and the safety of vehicles; and
• Implement measures, as appropriate to Police, adopted under the Government’s Safer Journeys strategy.
Organised crime and drugs
To reduce the social impact of gangs and drugs we will:
• Enhance the national picture of organised crime to better inform operational priorities and whole-of-Police decision making;
• Use a suite of interventions and tools targeting priority offenders;
• Improve the Tasking and Coordination of National and District operational resources to maximise our impact against the highest priority organised crime problems;
• Intensify our targeting of assets derived from criminal activity through the proactive use of financial information, intelligence and enforcement; and
• Generate greater understanding of the nature and scale of youth gang activity and identify opportunities to intervene and prevent recruitment of young people to adult gangs.
What is Changing the mindset of our people?
Prevention First will foster a change in the mindset of our people which puts prevention and the needs of victims at the forefront of policing.
Leadership
Changing the organisational mindset requires strong leadership at every level. Through strong and clear leadership Prevention First aims to take control of the criminal environment rather than just react or respond to it. Leaders will also role-model intelligence-led decision making and emphasise prevention activities and thinking at all levels and by all work groups
Victim focus
Prevention First requires a shift from being mainly focused on offenders to better recognising our responsibilities to victims. This requires improving the overall quality of the service we provide to victims, especially those at the highest risk of victimisation. This means being attuned to victims’ particular needs and vulnerabilities and responding accordingly.
What are Polices Core Values?
Core values Our values are the fundamental principles of behaviour and attitude that guide the way we do things.
The core values are the key things that this organisation says are important. They describe the behaviours associated with these values.
Our Values
Integrity - We are committed and loyal to the vision, values and goals of our organisation. We inspire trust and behave honestly and ethically.
Professionalism - We are aware of the impact of our behaviour at all times. We maintain self-control, are resilient and present a professional image. We uphold the rule of law and maintain the guidelines, standards, policies and procedures set by our organisation.
Respect - Our role is to acknowledge and respond to a diverse society and serve with dignity. In doing so we recognise the rights, values and freedoms of all people.
Commitment to Mäori and Treaty - We are committed to being responsive to Mäori as tangata whenua, recognising the Treaty of Waitangi as New Zealand’s founding document. By working with Mäori we will enhance safety and security.
Please note: There are two new core values, ‘Empathy’ and ‘Valuing Diversity’. The details of these are not yet available therefore you will only be examined on the four core values, as below.
What is Section 8, Policing Act 2008?
Principles
This Act is based on the following principles:
(a) principled, effective, and efficient policing services are a cornerstone of a free and democratic society under the rule of law:
(b) effective policing relies on a wide measure of public support and confidence:
(c) policing services are provided under a national framework but also have a local community focus:
(d) policing services are provided in a manner that respects human rights:
(e) policing services are provided independently and impartially:
(f) in providing policing services every Police employee is required to act professionally, ethically, and with integrity.
What is Section 9, Policing Act 2008?
Functions of
Police
The functions of the Police include—
(a) keeping the peace:
(b) maintaining public safety:
(c) law enforcement:
(d) crime prevention:
(e) community support and reassurance
(f) national security:
(g) participation in policing activities outside New Zealand:
(h) emergency management
Note
The Police discharge a wide range of functions, duties and responsibilities. Initially, the substance of a constable’s duties and responsibilities was largely developed through the common law. Many have now been codified in the Policing Act 2008 with only a small residue remaining in the common law. Other significant areas of policing, such as maintaining road safety and prosecuting offences, derive from broadly drawn statutory provisions. Additionally, a growing number of powers, duties and responsibilities can be attributed to provisions in other statutes.
What is Section 10, Policing Act 2008?
Roles of others acknowledged
(1) It is acknowledged that important and valuable roles in the performance of the functions of the Police are played by—
(a) public agencies or bodies (for example, certain departments of State, and local authorities); and
(b) the holders of certain statutory offices (for example, Maori wardens); and
(c) parts of the private sector (for example, the private security industry).
(2) It is also acknowledged that it is often appropriate, or necessary, for the Police to perform some of its functions in co-operation with individual citizens, or agencies or bodies other than the Police.
What is Section 20, Policing Act 2008?
Code of conduct
(1) The Commissioner must prescribe a code of conduct for Police employees, stating the standards of behaviour expected from Police employees.
(2) It is the duty of every Police employee to conduct himself or herself in accordance with the code of conduct.
Note
The code of conduct governs the professional and personal conduct of all Police employees. The code marks a departure from a long tradition of a highly prescriptive approach to discipline, the cornerstone of which was a list of misconduct offences that were dealt with by an adversarial process drawing heavily on criminal procedure. The code sets out the obligations of the Police Commissioner as employer, and the values and principles that underpin and guide the actions of Police employees in discharging the duties and obligations of their office or role, and their conduct outside of the workplace. It also governs the conduct of Police employees engaged in overseas operations and in United Nations activities. A departure from the code’s ethical and professional standards that constitutes misconduct, or serious misconduct, attracts a sanction commensurate with the breach. The personal grievance procedures applicable under general employment law provide a review or appeal procedure in respect of any sanction imposed for misconduct.( Policing Act 2008, s 56, under which the provisions of the Employment Relations Act 2000 apply to the Police) The provisions of the Policing Act 2008 complete a 20-year process of aligning police discipline procedures with mainstream employment law and practice (Creedy v Commissioner of Police [2008] NZSC 31, [2008] 3 NZLR 7.)
What is Section 30, Policing Act 2008?
Command and Control
(1) Every Police employee must obey and be guided by—
(a) general instructions; and
(b) the Commissioner’s circulars; and
(c) any applicable local orders.
(2) Every Police employee must obey the lawful commands of a supervisor.
(3) In the absence of a supervisor, the supervisor’s authority and responsibility devolves on—
(a) the Police employee available who is next in level of position; and
(b) in the case of equality, the longest serving Police employee.
(4) No Police employee may, when exercising any power or carrying out any function or duty, act under the direction, command, or control of—
(a) a Minister of the Crown; or
(b) a person who is not authorised by or under this Act or any other enactment or rule of law to direct, command, or control the actions of a Police employee.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to a Police employee outside New Zealand who—
(a) is part of an overseas operation within the meaning of section 86; or
(b) is an employee within the meaning of section 91.
What is Section 63, Policing Act 2008?
Acting appointments
(1) In the case of the absence from duty for any reason of a Police employee or in the case of a vacancy for any reason and from time to time while the absence or vacancy continues, or for any other special purpose, the Commissioner may—
(a) appoint an employee temporarily to any higher level of position; or
(b) authorise an employee to exercise or perform all or any of the powers and duties under this Act or any other enactment, of any level of position higher than that employee’s own level of position.
(2) Any appointment or authority under this section may be given or made before the occasion arises or while it continues.
(3) No appointment or authority under this section, and nothing done by any employee acting pursuant to the appointment or authority, may be questioned in any proceedings on the ground that—
(a) the occasion has not arisen or had ceased; or
(b) the employee had not been appointed to any level of position to which the authority relates.
(4) The Commissioner may at any time revoke any appointment made or authority given under this section
FURTHER:
Where there is an absence or a vacancy in a particular role (or for any other special purpose) the Commissioner may appoint an employee to temporarily fill a higher level of position than the one that person currently holds (Policing Act 2008, section 63(1)(a)).
The Commissioner may also authorise an employee to exercise powers and duties under the Policing Act or another Act, of any level of position higher than that employee’s own level of position (section 63(1)(b)).
For example, a senior sergeant is required to complete a joint certificate to authorise detention of a young person in Police custody for a period exceeding 24 hours and until appearance before the Court (Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989, section 236(1)). If the senior sergeant is absent and a sergeant temporarily stands in as a senior sergeant, they are not legally authorised to complete the joint certificate unless they are specifically authorised to undertake that role under section 63(1)(b) or have been appointed as an acting senior sergeant under section 63(1)(a).
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Another example is found under section 72 of the Arms Act 1983. There the Commissioner may ‘from time to time, by writing under his hand’ delegate to members of Police of a level not less than inspector ‘as he thinks fit, all or any of his powers under this Act’. A delegation under section 72 may be made to a specified member of the Police or to members of the Police of a specified level of position or class, or may be made to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or class of offices.
The new Police Safety Orders … may only be issued by an officer under the level of sergeant if that officer is specifically authorised to issue that order by a ‘qualified constable’. A ‘qualified constable’ is defined as a constable who is of or above the level of position of sergeant. Therefore, before an acting sergeant could authorise a Police Safety Order, they would need to be specifically appointed under section 63(1)(a) of the Policing Act..
What is Section 96, Policing Act 2008?
Evidence of Police identity and authority
(1) The Commissioner must provide every Police employee with evidence of the employee’s identity and authority.
(2) The evidence must state all prescribed information and,—
(a) if the Police employee to whom it relates is a constable, must state that he or she has the policing powers of a constable; and
(b) if the Police employee to whom it relates is authorised to perform one or more particular policing roles set out in Schedule 1, must state (by reference to the name of the role or roles concerned) that he or she has the policing powers of an authorised officer.
(3) The evidence—
(a) must bear all prescribed things:
(b) may state, bear, or otherwise contain (for example, by having a microchip embedded in it) any additional information or thing the Commissioner thinks appropriate:
(c) may be in any form the Commissioner thinks appropriate.
(4) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Commissioner from providing (in addition to the evidence required by that subsection to be provided) supplementary forms of evidence of identity, authority, or both, for particular Police employees, Police employees of a particular description, or all Police employees; and any form of evidence provided—
(a) may state any information (whether or not required by subsection (1), or prescribed):
(b) may contain (for example, by having a microchip embedded in it) any information:
(c) may state information in a language other than English:
(d) may bear any things (whether or not prescribed).
(5) A Police employee must surrender all evidence of identity, authority, or both supplied to him or her by the Commissioner if the employee—
(a) goes on leave of any kind for a period longer than 12 months; or
(b) resigns or retires; or
(c) is suspended or removed.
(6) Despite subsections (1) and (2), if any question arises as to the right of any constable to hold or execute his or her office,—
(a) common reputation is evidence of that right; and
(b) it is not necessary to produce evidence of the constable’s identity and authority.
What is Section 97, Policing Act 2008?
When policing powers cease
(1) All powers and authorities vested in a Police employee by virtue of holding office as constable cease immediately when the Police employee—
(a) is suspended; or
(b) ceases to hold the office of constable.
(2) All powers and authorities vested in a Police employee cease immediately when the employee is suspended or ceases to be a Police employee.
What is Service Excellence?
“Service Excellence – making every contact count” is a strategy in the NZ Police 2011-2015 strategic plan under the Police Model. It contributes to the People and Victim Focus.
Service Excellence aims to establish a citizen-centred policing focus and improve the delivery of police services.
What is the ‘citizen -centred’ approach
Police can improve levels of satisfaction by understanding community needs and expectations and aligning our service delivery to those expectations. This is called a ‘citizen-centred’ approach to Police service delivery. In practice, a citizen-centred approach means:
- knowing who uses Police services and what is important to them;
- providing services that are responsive to these needs;
- seeking feedback from recipients of Police services about their levels of satisfaction and dissatisfaction; and
- using this information to realign and improve services.
Ultimately, Police want to make every contact with a member of the public count towards improved trust and confidence in Police.
What are the six drivers of satisfaction?
State Services Commission’s ‘New Zealanders’ Experience’ research programme has identified the six most important aspects of service that people expect from the public sector. These are called the ‘Drivers of Satisfaction’. Police aims to address the six drivers of satisfaction as a fundamental commitment to providing excellent service.
The six drivers of satisfaction are:
- the service experience met your expectations
- staff were competent
- you were treated fairly
- staff kept their promises
- your individual circumstances were taken into account
- it’s an example of good value for tax dollars spent.
