This issue features:-

• Police's new leaders
• Drop in recorded offences in 2010
• Police heroes recognised
• Rugby World Cup
• Software aids Christchurch victim identification process
• Christchurch car recovery
• Police help Timor-Leste community with eye care
• Protecting property
• Time of the essence in homicide investigation
• Pacific attitudes to violence changing
• Partnership with Neighbourhood Support brings decrease in crime
• Youth flourish in training programme
• Race Unity Speech Awards promote better race relations

Read Commissioner Peter Marshall's latest blog about current issues affecting policing.

Julie Wilton
Subeditor Ten-One

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New guard steps up

Staff safety and performance were quickly established as focus areas for Police’s new senior leadership team as it settled into Police National Headquarters this month.

Recorded offences drop

A drop in recorded offences shows Police strategy is working at national and districts levels, says Kevin Kelly, Acting General Manager Development.

Strategy keeps focus on meth

A targeted enforcement campaign against methamphetamine offenders is paying off, with 2010 statistics showing an 8.2 percent drop in the possession and use of methamphetamine and amphetamines.

Awards recognise inspiring heroics

Thirteen police officers are recipients of New Zealand Bravery Awards, the country’s highest awards for bravery.

Take your eye off the ball

With just over four months until the Rugby World Cup kicks off, Police staff are being reminded that policing rugby matches is not a game.

Race to set up DVI system

Police acquired new Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) software just months before February’s Christchurch earthquake, but the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) team had to get it running – fast.

Thousands of cars retrieved from red zone

More than 5000 car owners are on the road again, after a five-week operation to retrieve cars from the Christchurch CDB.

Timing critical in investigation

An inquiry into the disappearance of Chinese student Jiayi Li last year developed into a fast-moving homicide investigation. Speed, timing and media relationships turned out to be critical factors.

SNAP to protect property

Police are promoting the online Serial Number Action Partnership (SNAP) to help people keep their property safe.

Kiwi cops play eye spy

While on patrol in Comoro, in Timor-Leste’s capital, Dili, Sergeant Sam Mercer and his team noticed a number of people with obvious vision problems.

Police mentors changing Pacific attitudes

Police work in the Pacific is bringing an “exciting change” in attitudes, say researchers from Wellington’s Victoria University.

Good neighbours help cut stats

Burglary from dwellings in New Plymouth dropped 18 percent in the past two calendar years. One strategy that seems to be paying off is a strong partnership between Police and Neighbourhood Support.

Students thrive in prickly situations

After eight weeks of intensive physical training, 24 students from Western Heights High School in Rotorua have graduated from the inaugural Rotorua Combined Adolescent Challenge Training Unit and Support (CACTUS) course.

Race Unity speeches ‘truly inspirational’

Lepau Feau is the first entrant of Pacific Island descent to win the annual secondary schools Race Unity Speech Awards.