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14. New Zealand Police Cultural Liaison Officers: Their Role in Crime Prevention and Community Policing

Author : Garth den Heyer

Published in: Policing and Minority Communities

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Ethnic Liaison Officers are a part of the Police Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Services, which has staff in each police district, but is managed and coordinated from New Zealand Police National Headquarters. The role of this unit, the advice it gives, and the performance of its Liaison Officers has not been evaluated or examined. This article examines the role of Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Services Liaison Officers, the reasons why these officers choose to enter this specialized area of policing and their understanding of their role. The article begins by describing criminal offending by Maori and then discusses the strategic response of the New Zealand Police to this major social issue. The main strategies used as a response by the police are examined, and the findings of a survey of Maori, Pacific and Ethnic Service officers, which was conducted in early 2016, are presented and discussed.

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Footnotes
1
The New Zealand Police are a national police and are structured into 12 geographical districts.
 
2
Over three-quarters (78%) of Maori are reconvicted within 2 years of their release from prison, a rate around 10% points higher than that for New Zealand European (68%) or Pacific Peoples inmates (66%). At 2 years from release, the reimprisonment rate for Maori is 43%, around 10% higher than New Zealand European (31%) or Pacific Peoples inmates (32%) (Speirs 2002; Nadesu 2009).
 
3
The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty between the Government (originally British and now the New Zealand) and Maori signed in 1840 that established a British Governor of New Zealand, recognized Māori ownership of their lands, forests and other properties, and gave Māori the rights of British subjects
 
4
Iwi is an identifiable Maori community and is often a tribe or part of a tribe.
 
5
The Turning the Tide targets to be achieved by June 2014 were: 15 percent reduction in prosecutions of Maori, 10 percent reduction in Maori repeat offending, a 5 percent reduction in Maori first time offenders, 10 percent reduction in Maori repeat victims and a 10 percent reduction in Maori victims of fatal and serious vehicle crashes. Similar targets are in place for Turning the Tide phase 2, which are to be achieved by June 2018 (New Zealand Police, 2011a, 2011b).
 
6
Whanau is an extended family or community of related families who live together in the same geographical area.
 
7
A marae is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies
 
8
This figure has remained at 77 percent in 2015/16 and 2016/17, but went from 65 percent to 67 percent for Maori over the same period (see New Zealand Police, 2017, p. 36).
 
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Metadata
Title
New Zealand Police Cultural Liaison Officers: Their Role in Crime Prevention and Community Policing
Author
Garth den Heyer
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Policing and Minority Communities

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-19181-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-19182-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19182-5_14