POLICE APPROACH TO FAMILY HARM
Police attend a
5F Family Harm Investigation. Family Harm
Multi Agency partners get
takes a comprehensive view of the issues occurring within
faster access to better quality
families and aims to address the underlying harm in
Family Harm Investigations to
partnership with other relevant agencies.
inform decision making.
Frontline Safety Plans created
With
5F we keep an
Eyes Wide Open focus at initial
by Police provide the
attendance to capture the wider context of Family Harm. We foundations for Multi Agency
determine the Total Concern for Safety and create a Frontline
Teams to build longer term
Safety Plan to take appropriate action with the perpetrator
safety plans for victims,
and to improve the safety of people at risk and tamariki for
tamariki and perpetrators.
at least 72 hours following initial attendance.
5F FAMILY HARM INVESTIGATION
The
Static Assessment of Family Violence Recidivism
How predictive is SAFVR? Statisticians looked
1
(SAFVR)risk measure is a predictive statistical
at a range of variables and determined, through
measure which calculates the likelihood a person
regression analysis, which ones were the most
will commit a family violence offence in the next
predictive for people in New Zealand. Two
two years given Police are attending a family harm
years worth of real data was used to test the
FAMILY SAFETY
investigation
today (at the time it is calculated):
statistical model to ascertain its predictive
SYSTEM
the statistical model results in a high,
ONDUTY
values; this is why the measure holds true for
two years. SAFVR was designed by New Zealand
moderate or low risk. This statistical
CARD
APP
Police for the New Zealand environment.
model is made up of data Police has
FRONT
FSS
access to and includes variables
COUNTER
such as: a Family Violence (FV)
index offence / incident codes,
REPORT
I
NG
OFFICER AND TEAM
INTEGRATED SAFETY
age at time of Index offence /
incident; offence as an
A
C
TION
QUALITY FAMILY
RESPONSE (ISR)
aggressor; count of previous
FV occurrences in the past
HAR
M
INVESTIGATION
year; a count of previous
offences; Ministry of Justice
6
conviction record; gender; 1
5
sentences of more than 30 days
SAFVR
Complete Frontline
+
2
Dynamic questions risk
EYES WIDE OPEN
Safety Plan
2
FAMILY VIOLENCE
Ask Dynamic
measure – the questions
CO-ORDINATORS +
questions
3
4
asked as part of the Family
Family Harm
OTHERS
Harm Investigation. The
= Total Concern
Graduated
for Safety
ORANGA
questions are well researched
Response Model
TAMARIKI
and strong indicators of family
(cc’d to the
violence risk or lethality. When
Child Protection
answered positively these questions
Team)
indicate the likelihood of the person
SUPERVISOR
posing risk (usually suspect,
Monitoring (Realtime)
Review and
predominant aggressor) harming the person at
Approve
MULTI-AGENCY
risk (usually victim, primary victim) and tamariki
ASSESSMENT AND
is heightened. There are 10 questions for all
RESPONSE
family harm episodes, two additional questions
FVIARS and Whāngaia Ngā Pā
Harakeke
for intimate partner violence and four
The
Family Harm Graduated Response Model indicates a range
4
questions if children reside with the primary
of safety actions to consider for the perpetrator, victim and
parties involved.
tamariki based off the Total Concern for Safety.
6 Multi agency partners
review risk and needs
The SAFVR measure is combined with the
The selected safety actions from the Family Harm GRM, and any other
3
5
and engage with the
results of the dynamic assessment questions
safety actions you decide upon become the
Frontline Safety Plan. The
family to undertake
to give a
Total Concern for Safety.
safety actions Police take will improve the safety of the person at risk
any ongoing safety
and tamariki for at least 72 hours post initial attendance.
actions / support.
IN SUMMARY
Informs
Early
Enables
Leads to
Total Level
Interventions
of Concern
Police action a
by agencies
Reduction
Safer
quality Family Harm
+
in re-offending
+
Investigation
+ re-victimisation
Whanau
-
Frontline
Safety Plan