Work and Income Security Incidents

In the 2016 Calendar Year

Serious and Critical incidents: 468

Serious incidents only: 443

Critical Incidents only: 25

Moderate Incidents: 3447

Total security incidents: 4002

Threats* against staff members: 242
*Threats include bomb threats, threaten to harm or kill, threat of stalking, threat of burglary, threat with harmful substances and threat to self-harm

Assaults* against staff members (2016): 12
* Assaults include attempted injury, minor/ moderate/ serious injury/ spitting.

Number of trespass orders issued: 303

Warning letters issued: 1345

Police involvement: 792.

All security incidents, by severity levels: Calendar years 2012-2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Grand Total
Minor	368	372	57	116	87	1000
Moderate	1723	1920	3260	3710	3447	14060
Serious	103	120	553	784	443	2003
Critical	7	3	16	27	25	78
Grand Total	2201	2415	3886	4637	4002	17141

All security incidents, by regions: Calendar years 2012-2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Grand Total
Auckland	602	648	1172	1443	1233	5098
Bay of Plenty	173	189	275	299	268	1204
Canterbury	225	341	430	517	375	1888
Central	159	190	232	323	255	1159
East Coast	161	133	241	215	195	945
National Office	14	12	30	15	23	94
Nelson	105	88	197	176	140	706
Northland	150	120	185	192	219	866
Southern	131	111	194	247	263	946
Taranaki	103	158	170	205	230	866
Waikato	175	192	443	582	394	1786
Wellington	203	233	317	423	407	1583
Grand Total	2201	2415	3886	4637	4002	17141

All security incidents, by ‘Serious and Critical’ incidents only: Calendar years 2012-2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Grand Total
Auckland	35	37	147	255	150	624
Bay of Plenty	5	2	38	43	18	106
Canterbury	13	23	72	110	52	270
Central	5	6	33	39	23	106
East Coast	2	8	31	27	21	89
National Office	5	1	2	1	1	10
Nelson	6	1	32	32	14	85
Northland	3	3	10	14	12	42
Southern	12	5	32	38	37	124
Taranaki	5	9	17	29	19	79
Waikato	8	15	69	100	35	227
Wellington	11	13	86	123	86	319
Grand Total	110	123	569	811	468	2081

Threats against staff by calendar years

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Grand Total
Auckland	29	24	70	100	75	298
Auckland Regional Operations				1		1
Bay of Plenty	7	5	12	11	9	44
Canterbury	18	21	28	34	19	120
Central	6	7	13	15	15	56
East Coast	4	9	10	8	8	39
National Office	1		1		2	4
Nelson	5	1	9	6	9	30
Northland	9	5	4	10	8	36
Southern	11	9	17	14	28	79
Taranaki	2	8	13	9	14	46
Waikato	8	17	39	49	28	141
Wellington	9	16	21	22	27	95
Grand Total	109	122	237	279	242	989

Assaults against staff by calendar years

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Grand Total
Auckland	6	4	3	9	4	26
Bay of Plenty	3	1	1	1	1	7
Canterbury		2	6*	2	1	8
Central	2	2	1	2	1	8
East Coast	2	2		1	1	6
Northland		1		1		2
Southern	3					3
Taranaki			1		1	2
Waikato	2		2		1	5
Wellington	1			3	2	6
Grand Total	19	12	14	19	12	73

* 3 incidents of assaults for 2014 refer to Ashburton tragedy.

In the 2016 Calendar Year

All security incidents, by severity levels: Calendar years 2012-2016

All security incidents, by regions: Calendar years 2012-2016

All security incidents, by ‘Serious and Critical’ incidents only: Calendar years 2012-2016

Threats against staff by calendar years

Assaults against staff by calendar years

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