Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist in maintaining a police presence
- Positive presence maintained in interaction with community
- Cultural identity accepted and used to facilitate interaction with community
- Parameters of action in relation to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities agreed with police partner(s) or senior officers
- All actions consistent with assigned powers and organisational guidelines
- Assist in communication with members of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community
- Advice given on cultural issues affecting police and members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities
- Particular misunderstandings in communication between other police and members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities identified and resolved
- Interpreting assistance provided subject to organisational guidelines
- Advise on possible solutions to problems arising with members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities
- Situations are identified where own intervention as a member of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community is advisable (or ill advised) and senior officers or partners informed accordingly
- Senior officers and colleagues are informed of general cross-cultural issues arising in interaction between police and members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities
- "Win-win" or face-saving solutions are offered when cross-cultural misunderstandings create or aggravate conflict between police and members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities
- Develop trust with members of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities
- Members of the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities are assisted in access to service providers
- Members of the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities are assisted in their relations with police
- Members of the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities are informed of the extent of assistance available
- Undertakings given to members of the culturally specific community are within the power of the officer concerned
- Community leaders, organisations and service providers are accessed and involved, to divert community members from the criminal justice system