Lethal Risks and New Zealand Police / Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa

Lethal Risks and New Zealand Police / Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa
Author: Richard S. Shortt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-12-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031455312

This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tracks lethal risk volume and type across 134 years of the New Zealand Police/Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa’s 137-year existence. Using data gathered from public records, official government reporting, and comparative studies, it reveals the current situation with regards to lethal risks from 1886 to 2019. The book identifies and presents two lethal risk hierarchies, the first for the period 1886-1999 and the second for the period 2000-2019. The hierarchies establish that the lethal risks faced come from: • Firearms • Assaults • And, potentially, Cutting/Stabbing attacks It determines that the nature of lethal risk has not changed, but rather the volume has reduced, meaning today’s officers are less likely to be harmed by lethal risk encounters than their predecessors were. This volume is an ideal starting point for researchers and practitioners interested in developing further scholarly research on lethal force and lethal risks faced by law enforcement officers and the organization they belong to.

Different Paths to Curbing Corruption

Different Paths to Curbing Corruption
Author: Jon S. T. Quah
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781781907306

The purpose of this book is to explain why a number of countries have succeeded in combating corruption; and to identify the lessons which other countries can learn from these five countries' successful experiences in curbing corruption.

Tu Mai Te Rangi! Report on the Crown and Disproportionate Reoffending Rates (WAI 2540)

Tu Mai Te Rangi! Report on the Crown and Disproportionate Reoffending Rates (WAI 2540)
Author: New Zealand. Waitangi Tribunal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2017
Genre: Crime and race
ISBN: 9781869563233

Tu Mai te Rangi! Report on the Crown and Disproportionate Reoffending Rates is the outcome of an urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into a claim brought by retired senior probation officer, Tom Hemopo, concerning Crown actions and policies in reducing the high and disproportionate rate of Maori reoffending. The report examines allegations that the Crown failed to make a long-term commitment to reducing the high rate of Maori reoffending relative to non-Maori and that, through the Department of Corrections, it acted inconsistently with Treaty principles by having no Maori-specific target, strategy, or budget to reduce Maori reoffending rates.

MethHelp

MethHelp
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: Methamphetamine abuse
ISBN: 9780473405953

"This booklet is most helpful for people who have recently started using meth, or who use meth casually. The content aims to reduce harm, encourage mindfulness about the habit-forming potential of meth, and offers a range of suggestions to help people reduce or stop using meth"--About this booklet.

Lethal Force and New Zealand Police

Lethal Force and New Zealand Police
Author: Richard S. Shortt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031052692

This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand. This book provides a brief history of the Police from its beginnings to the present day with a specific focus on its relationship with firearms, which contextualize the law that justifies use of lethal force in a country that has abolished the death penalty. It examines police policies, procedures, training and structures governing deployment and use of firearms in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the independent oversight that now applies to fatal and non-fatal shootings by Police. Using 43 publicly released oversight agency reports and data directly related to police shootings, such as who is being shot, this book investigates how the police are using lethal force, who is being affected, and what this might mean for the service with regards to the operational deployment of firearms and the potential for use of lethal force within the community into the future.