WAITEMATA DISTRICT STRATEGIC ETHNIC ADVISORY BOARD
"STRATEGY, IMPLEMENTATION, OUTCOMES"
MINUTES
Thursday 04 July 2019, Henderson Police Station
Attendees:
Superintendent Naila Hassan
Waitemata District Commander
Tamaki Makarau Jessica Phuang
TM Ethnic Responsiveness Manager
Raymong Wong
Ethnic Liaison Officer
Constable Sang Ho Byun
Ethnic Liaison Officer
Venkat Raman
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Naveen Prakash
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Baljit Singh
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Joanna Jensen
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Susan Zhu
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Pravin Kumar
Ethnic Advisory Board member
Apologies: Inspector Stefan McIntyre,
Insp.Shannan Gray, Insp John Sutton, Insp.Sundip Patel, Insp.Mark
Fergus, Insp. Stefan Sagar, Lincoln Tan; Shivneel Kumar
Responsibility Time
Duration
1 Prayer
Insp Stefan
McIntyre
2 Minutes
Responsibility
2.1 DC Naila Hassan welcomed the Board.
DC Hassan
2.2 Apologies from the other District Leadership Team who
DC Hassan
could not attend.
2.3 Baljit Singh also expressed her appreciation to the Police
Baljit
for how Police responded and supported the Muslim
communities. She offered to disseminate good job done by
Police on her Community post.
2.4 DC Hassan responded to the Ethnic Advisory Board
DC Hassan
members for this heartfelt acknowledgement and the
concerns raised.
3 Performance Brief
3.1 DC Hassan went through a statistic figures on Victimisation DC Hassan
data for African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian and
Latin/Hispanic, MELAA in Waitemata District.
3.2 DC Hassan gave a comprehensive rundown of the each
DC Hassan
slide including Theft / Acts Intended to Cause Injury /
Robbery, Extortion and Related Offences / Burglary.
3.3 DC Hassan advised that Police recruitment is over the
DC Hassan
target.
4 Update from the 3 Waitemata Areas
4.1 NZ Police have created 20 positions for ethnic communities DC Hassan
national y including MPES. 7 Ethnic positions were created
in Tamaki Makarau- 2 in Waitemata District, 4 in Counties
District and 1 in Auckland Central District.
4.2 Family Violence reporting has increased by 9%.
DC Hassan
4.3 Police invested $115,000 on 3 Police vehicle to be
DC Hassan
equipped with ANPR.
4.4 DC Hassan explained about MPES structure. There wil be
DC Hassan
a job opportunity for a Senior Sergeant position in Ethnic
Services Team in a few months.
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5 Ethnic Advisory Board members
5.1 Venkat expressed his concern of hate speech toward the
Venkat
Muslim communities.
5.2 Susan suggested making Victim Support known to the
Susan
ethnic community via media.
5.3 Baljit said that there is only one African Constable in New
Baljit
Zealand hence there needs more recruitment from African
communities.
5.4 DC Hassan mentioned a refresh of the EAB, members
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should reflect the ethnic communities in the District and
EAB members should be selected to align with what we as
a board agree we need to achieve for our communities.
5.5 Older generation in ethnic communities have gained more
Naveen
trust and confidence in Police however, younger
generations think less. Hence more engagement with
younger generation is needed.
5.6 Gandhi Nivas need to be known and there are challenges
Venkat
running this shelter.
5.7 DC Hassan advised the EAB members that the next
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Workshop was
meeting would have a mind mapping session where they
cancelled due to
will work together to identify key issues in the ethnic
DC Hassan
communities and formulate plans to resolve the issues.
assigned to Haj
and followed by
the consideration
to consult a ToR
for a TM EAB
5.8 Since the introduction of Whangaia, CNSST started
Joanna
receiving more referral from Police.
5.9 Susan expressed her concern of a case where Police is not Susan
proceeding with prosecution even when there is sufficient
evidence. She said she would follow up with this case.
5.10 Naveen expressed his concern about multiple cameras
Naveen
instal ed in Henderson which are not monitored.
5.11 Baljit said there are homeless people in Ranui sniffing glue
Naveen
and they are usual y in Ranui in the afternoon. Al
preventative actions were taken such as instal ing lights
however, they were unsuccessful.
5.12 Naveen said that there are still issues with children
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controlling their parent’s bank account and parents are not
taking any action.
6 Next Meeting
6.1 Next meeting is yet to be scheduled.
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