Services

2024-25 Workplan

In order to meet our Board's strategic priorities for 2024-25, we will concentrate on the following three areas:



Ongoing Work Program

Strategic and Operational Priorities

  • Digital Innovation
    • Develop a Digital Strategy for police to leverage technologies that enhance effectiveness, efficiencies and capabilities.
    • Develop a police specific Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Framework.
    • Establish the ANZPAA Digital Innovation Hub.
  • Closing the Gap 
    • Address Priority Reforms and Outcomes identified under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap as they relate to policing.
  • Role of Police (Tasmania Police Project) 
    • Investigate the daily realities of frontline officers based in 24/7 stations across Tasmania.
Ongoing Work Program

Practice, Profession & Workforce

  • Family and Sexual Violence
    • Develop the ANZPAA Education and Training Guidelines for Sexual Violence Response.
  • Workforce
    • Review and update the Australia New Zealand Police Workforce Planning Principles.
    • Develop a Australia New Zealand Recruit Survey and a Australia New Zealand Exit Survey to ensure consistent data collection and inform jurisdictional workforce practices.
  • Demand Management
    • Study the effective and efficient strategies for managing police demand and identify opportunities to upskill to meet future demand.
  • Youth Justice
    • Youth justice initiatives stocktake report
  • Mental Health
    • Review and consolidate ANZPAA’s Mental Health Principles and Mental Health Strategic Framework into one document to reflect contemporary practice and priorities to protect member’s mental health and wellbeing.
  • Guidelines
    • Review two Policing Capability Guidelines on tactical policing and counter terrorism and four Education and Training Guidelines for crash investigation, anti-racism and cultural diversity, custody support and tactical flight officers.
  • Missing persons
    • Review the Australia New Zealand Policy for Missing Persons Investigations.
  • Drones 
    • Continue work on achieving regulatory exemptions for police use of drones.
    • Develop guidelines for the use of drones in policing.
Ongoing Work Program

Ongoing Work Program

  • Police Conference 2024
    • Deliver the ANZPAA Police Conference 2024 – Policing Reimagined. 
  • Strategic Foresight
    • Continue the roll out of the ANZPAA Futures Toolkit and deliver strategic foresight products to assist police and generate interest in the use of futures thinking and methodology. 
  • E-Scan
    • Develop regular E-Scans that analyse key issues and trends impacting the policing environment.
  • ANZPAA Networks/Advisory Groups
    • Continue to consult and liaise with ANZPAA Networks, Advisory Groups, and subject matter expert working and focus groups on issues relevant to ANZPAA’s Business Plan.
  • Emerging Issues
    • Provide responsive analysis and advice on current and emerging challenges.
  • Critical Perspective Briefs
    • Develop responsive and timely analysis and advice on current and emerging challenges.
  • Police Horizons Interview series
    • Disseminate short interviews with key law enforcement personnel about current and emerging policing challenges. 
  • Policing Forum Series/Tech Talks
    • Bring together panels of police with subject matter experts and key stakeholders to explore emerging issues and challenges for police-only audiences.
  • Education and Training/VET engagement
    • Continue to work on VET reform, including qualification reform and progressing Police Training Package qualifications.
  • Policing Innovator
    • Share and connect innovations by police across Australia and New Zealand. 
  • Information requests
    • Facilitate requests for cross-jurisdictional information.
  • Workforce Demographics Report