A complete review of police legislation in built significantly off the Royal Commission's work. The most significant change in the structure and arrangement for police came after the departure of Commissioner Compton under a cloud of government and public concern over his management of Police in The appointment of a caretaker civilian leader of police, especially titled "Controller General" to recognise his non-operational background, opened the windows on the organisation and allowed a period of positive and constructive development to take place.
In , the Police re-established a specialist road policing branch known as the Highway Patrol. Today the Police are mainly responsible for enforcing traffic law, while local councils can appoint parking wardens, who can enforce traffic rules regarding parking and special vehicle lanes. The Police Act was extensively reviewed starting in , after a two and a half-year consultative process the Policing Act came into effect on 1 October The wiki was open for less than two weeks, but drew international attention.
More recently, the New Zealand Police has been involved in international policing and peacekeeping missions to East Timor and the Solomon Islands , to assist these countries with establishing law and order after civil unrest. They have also been involved in community police training in Bougainville , in conjunction with Australian Federal Police. Other overseas deployments for regional assistance and relief have been to Afghanistan as part of the reconstruction effort , the Kingdom of Tonga , Thailand for the tsunami disaster and Indonesia after terrorist bombings.
New Zealand Police maintains an international policing support network in eight foreign capitals, and has about 80 staff deployed in differing international missions. Although headed by a Commissioner , the New Zealand Police is a decentralised organisation divided into twelve districts. Each district has a central station from which subsidiary and suburban stations are managed. As of March , there are police stations around the country [15] with nearly 12, staff who respond to more than , emergency calls each year.
The Commissioner is in overall charge of the New Zealand Police. Five chief officers in the rank of Assistant Commissioner and the Director of Intelligence report to the Deputy Commissioner-Operations. The Investigations and International Group leads the prevention, investigation, disruption and prosecution of serious and transnational crime. It also leads liaison, overseas deployment and capacity building with international policing partners. Each area is divided into three to five districts.
District Commanders hold the rank of Superintendent , as do sworn National Managers, the road policing manager in the Waitemata District, responsible for the motorway network and traffic alcohol group, and the commandant of the Royal New Zealand Police College. District Section Commanders are typically Senior Sergeants. The New Zealand Police is a member of Interpol and has close relationships with the Australian police forces , at both the state and federal level. Several New Zealand Police representatives are posted overseas in key New Zealand diplomatic missions.
It is acknowledged, by both Police and legislation, that important and valuable roles in the performance of the functions of the Police are played by: public agencies or bodies for example, local authorities and state sectors , persons who hold certain statutory offices for example, Maori Wardens , and parts of the private sector, especially the private security industry. It is also acknowledged that it is often appropriate, or even necessary, for Police to perform some of its functions by working in co-operation with citizens, or other agencies or bodies.
New Zealand Police operate three communications centres that are responsible for receiving emergency calls and general calls for service and dispatching the relevant response. The centres are:. The Police Digital Services Centre, a new digital services and communications centre, opened in Paraparaumu in November A police employee becomes a constable by swearing the oath under section 22 of the New Zealand Policing Act Upon doing so the constable receives certain statutory powers and responsibilities, including the power of arrest.
While constables make up the majority of the workforce, non-sworn staff and volunteers provide a wide range of support services where a constable's statutory powers are not required. Rank insignia are worn on epaulettes. Officers of Inspector rank and higher are commissioned by the Governor-General , but are still promoted from the ranks of non-commissioned officers. A recently graduated constable is considered a Probationary Constable for up to two years, until he or she has passed ten workplace assessment standards.
The completion of the above is known as obtaining permanent appointment. Detective ranks somewhat parallel the street ranks up to Detective Superintendent. Trainee Detectives spend a minimum of six months as a Constable on Trial after completing an intensive Selection and Induction course. During these initial six months they are required to pass four module based exams before progression to Detective Constable.
They are then required to continue studying with another six exam based modules as well as a number of workplace assessments. Once the Detective Constable has completed all of this they are then required to sit a pre-requisite exam based on all of the exam based modules they have previously sat. If they are successful in passing this they attend the Royal New Zealand Police College where they complete their training with the Detective Qualification course before receiving the final designation of Detective.
All of these requirements are expected to be completed within two to three years. The rank of Senior Constable is granted to Constables after 14 years of service and the Commissioner of Police is satisfied with their conduct. Senior Constables are well regarded within the New Zealand Police for their extensive policing experience, and are often used to train and mentor other police officers.
Detective and Detective Constable are considered designations and not specific ranks.
That is, Detectives do not outrank uniformed constables. Nevertheless, a police officer with a Detective designation will generally assume control of a serious crime scene rather than a uniform staff member regardless of rank. New Zealand police uniforms formerly followed the British model closely but, since the s, a number of changes have been implemented. These include the adoption of a medium blue shade in place of dark blue, the abolition of custodian helmets and the substitution of synthetic leather jackets for silver buttoned tunics when on ordinary duty.
The normal headdress is a peaked cap with blue and white Sillitoe Tartan band and silver badge.
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Baseball caps and Akubra wide-brimmed hats are authorised for particular duties or climatic conditions. Stab resistant and high visibility vests are normally worn on duty. The body vests are also marked with Sillitoe Tartan markings. AOS and STG members, when deployed, wear the usual charcoal-coloured clothing used by armed-response and counter-terror units around the world.
In , a survey found strong staff support for the re-introduction of the white custodian helmets worn until , to reinforce the police's professional image. New Zealand Police officers do not routinely carry firearms; officers only carry OC spray pepper spray , batons and tasers. The Diplomatic Protection Squad , Dog section units and Airport officers are the only officers who routinely carry firearms.
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In addition, since , frontline vehicles have had a locked box in the passenger foot-well containing a loaded and holstered Glock 17, and in the rear of the vehicle, there is at least one Bushmaster rifle secured in a case together with ballistic vests. The vehicles are fitted with glass break car alarms. Each officer in the vehicle carries a set of vehicle keys and a set of safe keys.
The Police Association has stated carrying of handguns is inevitable. In January , a Waikato officer was attacked by at least five men after he deployed his OC spray and Taser. His radio was taken from him and his pistol was misplaced during the attack. The Police Association's request for routine carrying of firearms for all officers after this incident was dismissed by the Police Commissioner.
Not all police officers receive regular firearm training nor do their vehicles contain a secured firearm. In July , the Police Commissioner announced that Tasers would be routinely carried by police officers. All officers are trained as Level 3 responders in defensive tactics, handcuffs, OC spray, baton and taser. Of the approximate 8, frontline officers, 5, receive training with the pistol and rifle as Level 1 and 2, receive training with the pistol only as Level 2.
All officers wear a body armour system BAS which is stab-resistant and fitted with hard armour plates protecting the chest and back, this system began replacing the old stab resistant body armour SRBA in late which had been in service for 10 years. In , the police began using drones also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. By , drones had been used only twice; in one case a drone was used in a criminal investigation and led to charges being laid in court.
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Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff said "organisations using drones needed good privacy policies — or possibly a warrant". The The police operate one dedicated air support unit, the Eagle helicopter [45] based in Auckland at Auckland Heliport, Pikes Point, Onehunga. The Holden Commodore is the current generic road vehicle of choice for the police. In the past they have used Ford Falcons and the Nissan Maxima. The police also use unmarked models of the Holden Cruze and Holden Commodore. Since the orange-blue livery is being phased out, and all marked patrol vehicles were expected to have the yellow-blue livery as well as LED light bars by The police use SUV-type vehicles mainly for use in rural New Zealand but can also be used in urban areas mainly in airports.
The vehicles used are the Holden Captiva, the Colorado , and its predecessor the Rodeo. The police and Ministry of Transport see history above have used a wide range of different cars and motorbikes over the years. Police officers communicate with each other via Apple iPhones. For shorter, fast communication, front-line police officers also use radios.
In New Zealand Police began moving from using analogue two-way radios, to trialing digital encrypted radios in the Wellington region. On 8 October , four police officers were killed by South Island farmer Stanley Graham , 40, who fired on them as they attempted to seize arms from his residence in the locality of Kowhitirangi. Graham had earlier threatened a neighbour with a rifle, and Constable Edward Best from Kaniere went to investigate.
Graham allegedly opened a window and displayed two rifles, prompting Constable Best to seek assistance in the neighbouring town of Hokitika. After a short conversation inside his house, Graham shot and wounded Sergeant Cooper and Constable Best after Sergeant Cooper apparently reached to disarm Graham. When the badly wounded Cooper attempted to leave to obtain help, Graham shot him dead on the path in front of the house.
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Best was shot once more after allegedly attempting to plead with him, and died three days later. Graham also fatally wounded a field instructor for the Canterbury education board named George Ridley, who had entered Graham's property to assist any wounded along with an armed local, whom Graham threatened and disarmed. After widespread searches in the district, two policemen and a local civilian saw Graham carrying his rifle and ammunition belts on 20 October.
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He died early the next morning in Westland Hospital , Hokitika. The police investigation into the murders of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in was a turning point in the public's perception of the police.
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A royal commission subsequently found that the police had planted evidence and framed Arthur Allan Thomas for the murder. Writer Keith Hunter believes this introduced "a cynicism in attitudes towards the police that infects us today. During the Springbok tour , the police formed three riot squads known as Red Squad, Blue Squad and White Squad to control anti- apartheid protesters who laid siege to rugby union fields where the touring team was playing.
The rapid arrest was attributed to the high level of public support for the investigation. In October at least 17 people were arrested in a series of raids under the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Arms Act The raids targeted a range of political activists allegedly involved in illegal firearms activity. Much of the surveillance evidence was found to have been gained illegally and charges against all but four defendants were dropped. On 20 January , the police flew in by helicopter and arrested Kim Dotcom and three others in Coatesville , Auckland, in an armed raid on Dotcom's house following United States cybercrime indictments against him for on-line piracy via his internet file sharing company, Megaupload.
According to Dotcom, about 80 police officers were involved in the operation; [70] the New Zealand police claimed it was between 20 and He fired a warning shot near a gunman at Aramoana on 13 November , but was killed by a return shot from the gunman, who also killed twelve others. Seven deaths occurred when police were overly vigorous in the use of restraint.