![]() Community constables focus on problem solving and crime prevention at a local level. They aim to be visible, accessible and familiar to their community. Here the officer carries out a cycle check while the teacher checks the safety and fitting of cycle helmets.Ĭommunity constables are assigned to a specific community and handle policing matters there. Part of the School Community Officer’s work in schools is road safety education, which includes such things as training school traffic safety teams and teaching young people road safety skills. Here an SCO is working with the teacher and year 3 students. The SCO helps the school plan, teach and assess the effectiveness of the learning programmes. They may support the teaching of some Police programmes such as Keeping Ourselves Safe, Kia Kaha, School Road Safety Education, Choice, and Burglary Free. School Community Officers ( SCO) work with the school to help them find out what they need and help resolve any problems. They are specially trained at the Police College to work in schools with students, teachers and parents. Some police officers decide to work with schools. Police officers use protection equipment in circumstances ranging from public disorder incidents to breaking windows to enter houses. Each officer has to pass a test each year to use the police equipment. Recruits at the Police College receive training in using police protection equipment such as the baton, OC (pepper) spray and handcuffs. Firearms retraining is repeated every six to twelve months. Firearms are issued only in special circumstances. Police officers do not carry firearms all the time. Here recruits, wearing ear and eye protection, practise shooting under supervision. ![]() Recruits do firearms training using the Glock pistol and Bushmaster rifle. They must keep an above-average level of fitness in order to carry out their regular duties. One of these is physical training, designed to help them achieve above-average fitness.Īll front-line police officers must undertake a physical competency test (PCT) every two years to assess their level of fitness. Police recruits at the Royal New Zealand Police College undertake training in a number of different areas. It takes two years to qualify as a Police Constable. Parents and families are invited and it is a very emotional time, as it marks the end of the first stage of a police career. The graduation ceremony is for the whole wing. Each section does all the police training together. Each wing is divided into sections of about 20 recruits from different ethnic backgrounds and genders. A group of recruits (between 60–170 people who come to the College at the same time) is called a wing. Generally six to eight graduation ceremonies are held every year at the Royal New Zealand Police College. Copies of the photo pack are also available from your local School Community Officer Photos The photos included in the resource are listed below or available for download (Word, 82KB). Teachers and police officers select from the photos the ones that best suit the age and maturity of the students and the topic being taught to show how police serve their community. This Photo pack for schools (PDF, 7.4MB) contains a set of photos of Police to show the range of services Police provide. Their work also includes such things as preventing crime, searching for missing persons, dealing with sudden deaths, identifying lost property and helping victims of road crashes. Law enforcement is only a small part of their job. Police officers see the best and the worst of life. It seeks to prevent crime and crashes, improve public safety, detect and bring offenders to account, and maintain law and order. ![]() New Zealand Police is an important part of the community.
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