NCJ Number
146696
Journal
Law and Order Volume: 41 Issue: 12 Dated: (December 1993) Pages: 51-54
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
A 5-year strategic crime reduction plan of the New Zealand Police is featured.
Abstract
A central part of the campaign is the Strategic Plan Implementation Committee (SPICES), which entails a bottom-up consultative process for devising localized strategies. In Waikanae, volunteer night patrols have cut burglaries and car thefts in half. In Palmerston North, a property squad made 50 arrests in its first two months of operation. In north Canterbury, police introduced an adopt-a-pub program to curb disorderly conduct in bars. In Tokoroa, a 10-day, community-backed program entailed not only cracking down on drunk drivers, but rewarding designated drivers and taxi riders. In Southland, police published the locations of speed radar sites, aiming not so much to catch speeders, but to make the roads safer. In Waitangirua, a staff crackdown on truancy resulted in a 75-percent decrease in daytime burglaries. In Auckland's eastern and western districts, a 12-officer burglary squad arrested 104 offenders on 256 charges, and recovered $140,000 worth of stolen property.