Back row left to right: Zane Berghuis (Tauhara College), Tony Jeurissen (Police), Hellmuth Hartung (Taupo District Council), Gloria Eves (Violence Intervention Network), Stu Cradock (Fire Service)
Bottom row left to right: Dana Thomson (Toi Te Ora, Public Health), Lauren James (Lakes District Health Board), Louise Kirk (ACC), Joy Johnson (Neighbourhood support)
Goals
To support the development of injury and crime prevention and promote safety throughout the community.
To help achieve this over-all goal the following issues have been named as the priorities to be worked on for 2014 and 2015.
- Injury; suicide and self-harm prevention
- Alcohol related harm; and its contribution to all injury fields
- Crime Prevention; continue to support programmes which successfully address and reduce crime in the community
- Road Safety; continue to support programmes which successfully address and reduce road accidents in the community.
Who is involved?
Taupo Safe District is an inter-agency working group that is made up from representatives of the groups listed below.
- New Zealand Police
- Safe Turangi
- Tuwharetoa Maori Trust Board
- Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
- Lakes District Health Board
- New Zealand Fire Service
- Neighbourhood Support
- Violence Intervention Network
This is a district wide initiative and encompasses Turangi, Taupo and Mangakino townships and rural areas.
Strategic Plan
The Taupo Safe District Strategic Plan offers the framework to provide a co-ordinated community and agency response to crime prevention, injury prevention, and road safety.
Taupo Safe District Project Plan
Safe Communities New Zealand Annual Report
This report is a compiled from Safe Communities New Zealand on the initiatives and projects local safe communities are implementing in their districts.
Safe Communities New Zealand 2012 Annual report
Safe Communities New Zealand 2013 Annual report
