Alcohol & Drugs
Positive community engagement reduces crime
Targeting young and frequently inebriated patrons in Night-Time Entertainment Districts –using intervention to increase awareness of how alcohol may be affecting their decision-making.
COVID-19
More places, more often: PSOs on the move
The successful use of Protective Services Officers (PSOs) to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) will have long-lasting effects for community safety in Victoria. That’s the belief of Victoria Police, after regulatory and legislative changes in 2020 enabled broader deployment of PSOs to provide additional support to police.
COVID-19
COVID-19 checkpoints and the community
Compassion and empathy inform effort to contain outbreak.
COVID-19
COVID hazard shipped off
The largest peacetime marine operation ever seen on Sydney Harbour saw the New South Wales Police Force’s Marine Area Command (MAC) remove a significant COVID-19 risk from New South Wales waters.
Community Diversity & Engagement
Te Pae Oranga, the game-changer
Māori principles underpin community partnership approach to offending and harm.
Community Diversity & Engagement
Cross-agency senior leadership
The Logan New Directions Youth Support Program under the Cross Agency Senior Leadership (CASL) Group commenced in the Logan District (Queensland, Australia) in August 2019 as an initiative to reduce youth re-offending and victimisation in the community.
Crime
Influences to joining and leaving OMCGS in Queensland
This research is the first Australian study to examine why adults join and leave OMCGs by conducting interviews with former OMCG members.
Crime
QPS research collaboration with Australian Institute of Criminology
Recent collaboration between the Strategy and Tactics team (Crime and Intelligence Command, CIC, QPS) with the AIC resulted in the addition of addendum questions regarding firearm ownership and theft.
Crime
Measuring policing impact on methamphetamine consumption through wastewater analysis
This study represents an innovative analytical approach to show the impact of policing activities on methylamphetamine consumption in the Queensland context.
Crime
Heavy earthmoving equipment theft in Queensland
Earthmoving equipment presents as a high value, tradable economic commodity, subject to the same commercial and criminal incentives driving broader property crime.
Education & Training
Learning re-imagined
The NSW Police Force has revamped its online education and training capabilities with the introduction of a more efficient, convenient and effective system.
Education & Training
QPS avalanche scenario training
Immersive scenario-based training system that delivers modernised training to enhance critical frontline leadership skills across all ranks within the Service.
Family & Domestic Violence
Project Vigilance
Project Vigilance is a joint initiative trialling the electronic monitoring of ‘high risk’ family violence perpetrators in Tasmania.
Family & Domestic Violence
QPS online Domestic Family Violence (DFV) reporting
Online/SMS options for reporting Domestic and Family Violence during COVID-19.
Family & Domestic Violence
Operation Sierra Alessa disrupting and preventing DFV perpetrators
Applying a focused deterrence strategy to prolific domestic violence perpetrators in Queensland.
Incidents & Emergencies
Country Fire Service, Australian Defence Force & SA Police “Side by Side in Kangaroo Island”
The ADF & SAPOL worked side-by-side to support the CFS and community through the Kangaroo Island bushfires, bringing different skill sets, resources and knowledge to the situations at hand.
Mental Health
From recruit to retirement: AFP SHIELD to deliver high performance health options to the frontline
SHIELD is there to prevent, support, cover, defend and empower AFP members from recruits until retirement.
Mental Health
Psych health screen - using technology for psychological health self-assessment
The Queensland Police Service has recently introduced a web-application to enable frontline police officers and the supporting QPS workforce to undertake a short psychological health self-assessment and access specialist support.
Mental Health
Psych health screen - using technology for psychological health self-assessment
The Queensland Police Service has recently introduced a web-application to enable frontline police officers and the supporting QPS workforce to undertake a short psychological health self-assessment and access specialist support.
Road Safety
Road safety within the MacKay mining communities
QPS and Mining Companies Joint Initiative to promote Road Safety. Moranbah Police joined with mining companies BHP and Anglo American to raise awareness about road safety and in relation to motorists driving whilst fatigued.
Technology
Connecting the largest policing jurisdiction in the world
Digital policing improves officer safety and creates a better informed and more agile police service for the Western Australia community.
Workforce Management
Frontline Safety – by the frontline, for the frontline
When Constable Matt Hunt was shot and killed during a vehicle stop in June last year, issues around safety for frontline New Zealand Police staff came into sharp focus. Staff safety in a changing policing environment required a new lens.
Workforce Management
New Zealand Police take to the streets with Skoda Superb
When New Zealand Police was suddenly faced with having to replace its 2000-plus responder vehicles, it needed to find a car that that could handle the rigors of daily patrol and that was gentle on the environment.
Workforce Management
Service Alignment Program (SAP)
In September 2019, Commissioner Carroll initiated a review of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) to look at current demand, resource allocation and opportunities to ensure the QPS can meet the future demand of the community and government, and better support our people within the QPS.
Futures
ACT Policing Futures Program
To deliver a more sustainable, efficient and effective policing service to meet current and long-term trends of the ACT community.
Futures
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Futures Triangle: futures thinking and innovation intrinsically linked
The futures triangle’s strength comes from the idea that the most plausible scenarios of the future are the ones that balance three things: the push of the present, the weight of history, the pull of the future.
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