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Planning, programming and funding manual

Published: 25 08 2008

The Planning, programming and funding manual sets out the NZTA's policies, procedures and guidance for the planning and management of land transport activities that can be funded from the national land transport fund.

This manual will guide the 2009/10–2011/12 regional land transport programmes (RLTPs) and the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) – the first three-year transport programmes. It sets out policy and procedures for developing and managing the RLTPs and NLTP during those cycles.

The manual was also used to manage the 2008/09 NLTP.

The procedures described in this manual have been developed to assist approved organisations to prepare and plan projects and activities for which they seek funding from the NZTA, within the framework of the NZTA’s overall funding allocation process.

The Planning, programming and funding manual is also available in PDF, either as the whole document or in parts. The PDF version is the master document.

Note: The online version and PDF section for the Planning, programming and funding manual now incorporate the changes from Amendment 1 and is effective from 1 July 2009.

Chapter D1 Police activities

D1.5 Recommendations and approval of police activities

Recommendations for funding of police activities

Recommendations on police activities, and combinations of activities, detail the amount of NZ Police resources to be spent on strategic road policing and other operational and management road policing activities nationally.

To optimise the level of safety gains achievable within allocation and budget constraints, road policing resources are allocated to the areas where the resources are required and where most safety benefits will be achieved.

Road policing resource is optimised between the 74 territorial authorities for:

  • speed control
  • drink or drugged driving control
  • restraint use control
  • other road use control (visible road safety enforcement).

Changes in road policing activity levels in an area have implications for training and assignment of NZ Police resources. This needs to be taken into account when considering any changes to road policing output allocations.

Like road maintenance, the application of road policing activities within an area is determined by detailed assessment of risk locations, times, etc. Each territorial authority or cluster annually prepares for this purpose by developing RSAPs (for detail, see section F2.4).

Assessment of police activities

Police activities are assessed as described in Chapter G11 Assessment of police activities.

Monitoring and reporting on police activities

Refer to section E5.16 for monitoring and reporting on police activities.