Safer Napier

Safer Napier

Napier City is proud be an accredited international Safe Community that recognises safety as a universal concern and a responsibility for all. First accredited in 2010, Safer Napier aims to make Napier a safe and healthy city through encouraging cooperation and collaboration of key agencies, organisations, community groups, businesses and the wider community who share this common goal.

Napier City Council is the agency responsible for coordinating the programme which is governed by the Safer Napier Strategic Group. Mayor Wise is the ambassador of the programme.

The programme has been extremely successful, winning numerous awards including the ‘2016 World Health Organisation Western Pacific Regional Office Healthy Cities Recognition for Violence and Injury Prevention’.

Safer Napier was reaccredited in 2021 where over 59 agencies, organisations and groups signed a Memorandum of Commitment, reconfirming the commitment to work together to improve community safety in Napier.

Safer Napier Strategic Group

Accident Compensation Corporation
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group
Health Hawke's Bay
Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities
Ministry of Social Development
Napier City Business Inc.
Napier City Council
Napier Neighbourhood Support
New Zealand Automobile Association
New Zealand Police
New Zealand Red Cross
RoadSafe Hawke's Bay
Roopu A Iwi Trust
Te Kupenga Hauora - Ahuriri
Te Puni Kōkiri
Te Rangihaeata Oranga Trust – Gambling Recovery Service
Te Whatu Ora – Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay

There are a range of projects and activities that contribute to Safer Napier. It is an ‘umbrella’ for over 60 initiatives and projects. Safer Napier takes a strengths based approach to support families / whānau and neighbourhoods, and to address safety issues.

Tō tātou Whainga ǀ Our Goals

Safer Napier Focus Areas

Did you know?

10,500 Napier households are members of a Neighbourhood Support Group
16 school zones operate throughout Napier helping to reduce speed around schools
58% of surveyed households in Napier have a household emergency plan
Alcohol Controlled Purchase Operations are conducted throughout the year to monitor if alcohol is being sold to underage people
Community Strength and Balance classes can reduce the number of falls and injuries resulting from falls by between 30 and 50 percent

Safer Napier monitors what difference it is making using a Results Based Accountability (RBA) framework. Guidelines have been developed to help evaluate projects. You can find out more about Safer Napier by reading the Safer Napier Annual Report.

For more details on Safe Communities please visit www.safecommunities.org.nz.