Our Business
The key document that focuses us to work towards our shared goals.
Policing by consent
To have the trust and confidence of all
Our Vision (Why we’re here)
For New Zealand to be the safest country
Our Mission (Why we’re here)
To prevent crime and harm
Our Purpose (Why we’re here)
To ensure everybody is safe and feels safe
Our Goals (Why we’re here)
Service
- serve our communities through timely and responsive policing
Safety
- improve public safety and feelings of safety by being visible and accessible
Trust
- Strengthen trust and confidence through connections with our communities
Our Approach (What we do)
We help create safer communities together through community engagement, collaborative problem solving, partnerships, trustees relationship
We prevent crime and harm by enforcing the law, targeting and apprehending offenders, providing priority services to victims
Our Functions (What we do)
Keeping the peace, maintaining public safety, law enforcement, crime prevention, community support and reassurance, national security, participating in policing activities abroad, emergency management
Prevention First (What we do)
Prevention First is the name of New Zealand Police’s operating model and is the way we go about delivering our vision, our purpose and our mission. Prevention first is our way of working to enable the delivery of Our Business. This includes Te Huringa o Te Tai Strategy.
Our Priorities (how we do it)
Visible - Reassuring - Responsive
- Supporting the Frontline
Enforcing the law, prevention, response, investigations, resolutions.
- Leadership
Visible, supportive, accountable
- Fiscal Responsibility
Identifying opportunities to reinvest in frontline
Our Partnership with Māori (Te Huringa o Te Tai) (how we do it)
Pou Mataara - Our people and our mindset
Pou Mataaho - Effective initiatives and improved practice
Pou Hourua - Effective partnerships
Our People (how we do it)
- equipped and empowered, adaptable and versatile, reliable and competent
- we are accountable for our performance and our conduct
Prevention First
- NZ Police’s operating model
Describes
- how we prioritise our effort towards crime and other demand
- how we go about addressing the drivers of crime and demand, including tools and practices that support this
- How we support partner agencies and communities
- How we work with victims, offenders and the community to reduce harm and crime
- how we go about resolving crime, focusing on prevention and high risk/prolific offenders
- roles and responsibilities of key groups in organisation
Explain He Tangata Service Delivery Guide
- provide service that is good value for tax dollars
- be competent
- do what we say we will do
- treat people fairly
- take their individual circumstances into account
- meet their service expectations
Define ACEs
Adverse Childhood Experiences
- stressful, traumatic events during childhood that significantly impact development and wellbeing
What are long term effects of ACEs
Heart disease
Diabetes
Cancer
Poor Mental Health
Poor Academic Achievement
Substance Abuse
Learning disabilities
Crime
What are our drivers of demand?
Youth
Drugs and Alcohol
Family Harm
Gangs
Roads
Mental Health
How do ACEs relate to our drivers of demand?
Studies show ACEs lead to more chance of involvement with drivers of demand.
How does understanding ACEs benefit the community?
It allows police and agencies to work with communities to design programmes aimed at breaking the cycle of adversity and promoting resilience
