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Safe communities

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Safe communities

By 2016, 24 New Zealand communities or cities had received the designation ‘Safe Communities’. To achieve this status communities (usually through city councils) must demonstrate through their policies and actions that they are committed to achieving a safer environment.

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Source: Safe Communities Foundation

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Carl Walrond, Security and personal safety – Safer cities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/30949/safe-communities (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 April 2011, updated 1 August 2017.