Review of Police Motor Vehicle Pursuits

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• Community Policing

Policing Symposium 2008
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• Picture an at risk community in your city
• Think how the police, that community and other
  government, non-government and community groups
  to make a difference
• I will end my presentation with an actual example
  where this is happening effectively

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Introduction

• Background and strategic context
• Reasons for community policing
• Definition, model, principles
• Training and career development for community
  constables
• Example

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History and background

• Long history of community policing in NZ
• Community oriented policing of the 1970s and
  1980s
• Refreshed approach to community policing

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• Differences between community oriented policing
  and the refreshed approach.
• Emphasis on problem solving
• Integrated police approach where all police
  groups and all police staff have a role to play
• Ownership of community problems by Area
  Commanders
• Emphasis on local responses to local problems

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Reasons for community policing

• The NZ public wants and asks for a community
  policing approach by its police
• International trend
• If operated with problem solving it reduces crime
  and road trauma
• It reduces fear of crime
• Tool to improve satisfaction and confidence
  levels
• Counter-terrorism tool
• Improves job satisfaction of individual officers

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Definition

• Community Policing is both a community centred
  philosophy and an approach to dealing with
  community related crime and safety problems.
• It involves problem solving, working with
  government, non-government and community groups
  in a coordinated way to reduce crime and road
  trauma and increased community safety and
  reassurance

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Principles

• Communities are the focus of the NZ policing
  approach
• Community policing reduces crime and road trauma,
  improves safety and reassures the community
• Police are visible, accessible and familiar to
  their community
• Police listen to their community, jointly
  prioritise concerns and keep them informed
• Police provide opportunities for community
  participation

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Principles continued

• Problems are identified and responded to on a
  local level with area, district and national
  support when required
• Police engage other government, non-government
  and community groups in problem solving
  partnerships
• Flexibility with accountability for achieving
  local community outcomes is emphasised
• Community policing requires an integrated
  intelligence-led approach
• Community policing is the responsibility of all
  police irrespective of role or rank

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Example

• Enderley community engagement project
• Applied a problem solving approach.
• Involves other government, non-government and
  community groups
• Enderley Centre provided by council for Police,
  and other agencies to work from
• Council provides a youth worker and a
  neighbourhood advisor to work as part of the team
• Very good results achieved so far

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• Questions