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Police Act Review Update

Please find linked a short update on the Police Act Review. The presentation and .pdf document provide a high-level summary of the Review's progress during 2006, and an indicative time-table for the build-up to the release of a wide-ranging public discussion document in mid-2007 entitled 'Policing Directions in New Zealand for the 21st Century', and an exposure draft of the new Policing Bill at the end of the year.

For those interested in more detail, the following documents are scheduled for release on the www.policeact.govt.nz website in the near future:

- 'Securing the future: Networked policing in New Zealand'. link Proceedings of the policing symposium co-hosted with Victoria University of Wellington (Due to be uploaded to website on 27 February 2007)
- 'Perspective on Policing: Analysis of responses received on the Police Act Review Issues Papers' link (Due to be uploaded to website on 28 February 2007)
- Final report of the UMR led research on New Zealanders expectations of Police (due to be uploaded to website on 30 March 2007)

Police Act Cabinet Paper
Police Act Review Update (this is a large file 1.14MB)
Hon Clayton Cosgrove Media Release
PI SG Act - Targeted Consultation Documents
PI SG Act - Comments