Story: Police

More links and websites

• IPCA – Independent Police Conduct Authority

  The Independent Police Conduct Authority is an independent body that considers complaints against New Zealand Police and oversees their conduct.

• New Zealand Police

  The website of the New Zealand Police.

• New Zealand Police Association

  The Police Association is a voluntary service organisation that represents police officers.

• New Zealand Police Museum

  The Police Museum collects and displays historical objects and original evidence.

More suggestions and sources

• Butterworth, Susan. More than law and order: policing a changing society, 1945–1992. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2005.

• Dunstall, Graeme. A policeman’s paradise? Policing a stable society, 1918–1945. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1999.

• Hill, Richard S. Policing the colonial frontier: the theory and practice of coercive social and racial control in New Zealand, 1767–1867. 2 vols. Wellington: Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1986.

• Hill, Richard S. The colonial frontier tamed: New Zealand policing in transition, 1867–1886. Wellington: Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1989.

• Hill, Richard S. The iron hand in the velvet glove : the modernisation of policing in New Zealand, 1886–1917. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press in association with the New Zealand Police and the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1995.

• Redshaw, Valerie P. Tact and tenacity: New Zealand women in policing. Wellington: Grantham House, 2007.