Strategic Awareness Flashcards
(18 cards)
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
