Porirua City Council TEL: (04) 237 5089 16 Cobham Court FAX: (04) 237 6384 PO Box 50 218 EMAIL: [email protected] Porirua 5240 WEB: www.pcc.govt.nz ISBN No: Front page photographs: Top left: Porirua Guardian Eddie Wallace (front) with senior constable Peer Nielsen and senior constable Rob Gregory. Right: The WAG women work their magic: Elizabeth Tanirau, Faithful Strickland, ‘Dylan’ and Jay Marsan (Absent team member Karina Ratana). Bottom left: Soon after it began, 30 students (10% of the roll) were already taking advantage of Papakowhai School’s walking bus. Contents Message from the Mayor ................................................................... 5 Case Studies: Porirua Strong Pacific Families Week ................................................... 51 Introduction ......................................................................................... 7 Street Makeover ................................................................................. 54 About our city....................................................................................... 8 Safekids Porirua .................................................................................. 56 What makes the Porirua approach special? ........................................ 11 North City Vikings Rugby League Club Road Safety Programme ......... 59 Walking School Bus ............................................................................. 61 Criteria for Accreditation as a World Health Organization Waihora Playground ........................................................................... 65 Safe Community - Porirua ................................................................ 16 Porirua Family Violence prevention Network ....................................... 68 Criterion 1: Streets Ahead 237 .............................................................................. 70 An infrastructure based on partnership and collaboration governed by a cross- Criterion 4: sectoral group that is responsible for safety promotion in the community ...... 16 Programmes that document the frequency and causes of injuries ................. 73 Criterion 2: Criterion 5: Evaluation measures to assess programmes, processes Long-term, sustainable programmes covering both genders and all ages, and effects of changes ............................................................................ 78 environments and situations .................................................................... 18 Porirua Safety Profiles.......................................................................... 83 Case Studies: Criterion 6: Ongoing participation in national and international safe Porirua Community Guardians ............................................................ 22 communities networks. .......................................................................... 91 Community Renewal, HNZC ............................................................... 25 Village Planning .................................................................................. 28 Priority areas for 2008-2010 ............................................................... 93 Pacific Peoples’ Safety and Wellbeing .................................................. 33 References .......................................................................................... 99 Porirua College Drive Force ................................................................. 37 Appendix: Porirua City Council Workplace Safety ................................................ 39 Memorandum of Understanding ...................................................... 100 Criterion 3: Statement of Undertaking ................................................................. 103 Programmes that target high-risk groups and environments and programmes Letters of Support ............................................................................. 104 that promote safety for vulnerable groups ................................................. 48 Key to symbols Crime Prevention (CP) Road Safety (RS) Injury Prevention (IP) Message from the Mayor Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Kia Orana, Malo Lelei, I am very proud of the way the Council and community works together Bula Vinaka, Taloha Ni, Fakaalofa Lahi Atu and in Porirua City. The Council has a culture of working collaboratively Greetings with the wide range of community organisations, government services and the wider community. This application embodies that Porirua City Council has formally endorsed spirit of collaboration. It also demonstrates the spirit and passion of its commitment to apply for World Health this community as reflected in the many safety programmes that are Organization accreditation. In doing so, the incorporated within the application to make this a safe community. Council is committed to working closely with the wide range of community organisations that As Mayor, I am proud to support this application and to advise you of contribute to this being a safer community. Porirua City Council’s absolute commitment to supporting Porirua as a safe city. Porirua City Council and its residents are very proud of our city. We all want Porirua City to be a safe city for our children, families and whanau, and visitors. Jenny Brash, Mayor The late Mama Sara Turepu, The Hon Winnie Luamanuvao Laban and Mayor Jenny Brash at the Strong Pacific Families event. 5 Introduction Porirua City - A journey to a safe community graffiti, vandalism and environmental degradation. While the energy and attention spent improving the situation in the sectors of education, Porirua City has always been perceived as a poor and unsafe place to health and employment had excellent outcomes, issues of community visit and live. This is largely fuelled by elements such as a highly diverse safety tended to go unnoticed except by some key agencies. population, manufacturing industries and their decline, concentrations of state housing, gang activity and an historical legacy of the psychiatric The growing realisation of the importance of this issue resulted in the hospital. Residents and many people who work and visit, on the other Porirua Community Guardians, the Porirua Healthy Safer City Trust, hand, do not share this view. Despite areas of deprivation, statistics also Housing New Zealand Community Renewal and Porirua City Council do not bear out this negative portrayal and paint a far more optimistic joining together to improve community safety. They spearheaded view of the city. Porirua’s crime statistics in recent years have remained initiatives such as street makeovers, promotion of safe design, graffiti relatively stable, as has people’s sense of safety. management and community patrols. This led to a strong push to join seemingly disparate threads of safety into a coherent framework, and the Recent audits and surveys, however, have shown that safety was Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Regional Public Health, the becoming an issue, particularly regarding injuries in the home, fear of Police and Road Safety also became key members. crime and geographic disparities in feelings of safety, family violence, 7 The Safer Porirua Strategic Group was formed in 2005 as a result of this Funding to become a Safe City collaboration. It had the shared goal of achieving international World Health Organization Safe Community Accreditation. A memorandum The funding for the Safer Porirua Project, in true Porirua style, has been of understanding (see appendix 1) was signed by the various parties a collaborative effort, with financial and in-kind support coming from committing them to a process of greater collaboration and sharing. This Porirua Community Guardians, Porirua Healthy Safer City Trust, Porirua process encouraged more and more agencies to engage in dialogue City Council, Accident Compensation Corporation, Housing New rather than just attending meetings with little in the way of tangible Zealand Corporation Community Renewal Project, Tindall Foundation outcomes. and other funding bodies. Other groups that have contributed are Porirua City Taxis, Canopy Connection, Porirua Print, Hoe Mua Designs, Through the drive of the Safer Porirua Strategic Group, the Porirua City Mana Coach Services and Resene Paints. Community Safety Strategy was developed and ratified by Porirua City Council as a city-wide strategy to improve safety in the city. The strategy About Porirua City encompasses and extends all aspects of safety under the goals of: This part of the introduction provides the historical background, our an inclusive city approach to community safety and a demographic profile of the city. a safety designed city The Community Safety Profile (criterion 5) provides additional in-depth information about injury and crime. a crime-free city Porirua City is a medium-sized city with a population of 50,600. It is part a healthy city. of the Wellington Region in the lower North Island of New Zealand, very close to Wellington, the capital city. Extending from Kenepuru Drive in Porirua City Council’s recent review of the city’s community outcomes the south to Pukerua Bay in the north, from Titahi Bay on the west coast identified a groundswell of support for the elevation of community to Judgeford in the east, Porirua is a young city with a reputation for safety as an outcome in its own right. The Safer Porirua Strategic Group energy, creativity, talent and cultural diversity. has been instrumental in acknowledging that community safety, in its broadest sense, is central to the wellbeing of residents