AC Bruce O’Brien (NZ), AC Tusha Penny (NZ), Dr Jess Dent (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.