Jessica Dent

Manager Performance and Research Insights, Evidence Based Policing Centre

Jess is the Manager of Performance and Research Insights within the Evidence Based Policing Centre, New Zealand Police. Jess brings together the fundamentals of two traditionally independent functions to produce richer evidence-based insights for strategic decision makers.

Presentation: Implementing a Tactical Response and Officer Safety System in NZ

The Tactical Response Model (TRM) is NZ Police’s response to increasing safety and feelings of safety amongst frontline whilst remaining a generally unarmed police service. We will discuss why we arrived at the TRM, what the TRM was designed to achieve and how we approached evaluating its impact in a proof-of-concept trial. We will include discussion of how an earlier evaluation of the Armed Response Trials contributed a critical evidence-base to inform improvements to implementation and evaluation of the TRM.

Panel Discussion: Impact of Methamphetamine in the criminal environment