Area Policing Plan 2004 / 2005 - New Zealand Police

Organisational Development
Palmerston North City will use the Policing Excellence framework as a guide to achieve organisational
improvement across the seven categories of business excellence 8 .
Year 1
Leadership
Develop Individual Professional Development Plans as part of the performance appraisal process
Provide training for unit/squad 2I/C's to provide leadership depth across our organisation
(Succession planning)
Develop Field Training Officer's to provide mentoring opportunities for all trainee staff.
Develop a permissive leadership style that encourages innovation and ownership of community
safety initiatives.
Strategic Planning
Develop policing plans that provide a practical framework to improve public safety throughout our
community
Widely use action planning as a means of managing operations and initiatives. Action plans are to
specify ownership of actions, timelines and review dates
Formally review our performance at 6 monthly intervals.
Customer and Market Focus
Clearly identify key partners and service providers
Develop strong relationships with the Palmerston North City Council and in particular City Future
to ensure a strong alignment of community safety strategy
Build relationships with local Iwi to align collective community safety initiatives
Information and Analysis
Develop benchmarking practises to include seasonal variations
Develop Area reporting mechanisms that provide a weekly summary of performance against
strategic crime categories and include other offence categories that impact upon total crime rates
Develop strategic analysis capability with the Intelligence Group - through continuous improvement
process
Consistently communicate to all staff the practical application and implications of the resolutions
process and guidelines
8 Using the Baldridge criteria
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