The group's NZ Police guide Inspector Carey Griffiths, the acting national manager of the national community policing group and former Southern police district road policing manager, said the officers, all from the Jakarta headquarters of the Indonesian National Police, had visited Omarama, Cromwell, Queenstown, Alexandra, Lawrence, Milton and Dunedin stations.
The group was looking at New Zealand's style of community policing and how they might adapt it for Indonesia.
Group leader Senior Superintendent A. Nurda Alansyah said there were many smaller outlying police stations in Indonesia, similar to those they had seen here.
The most valuable thing the group had seen here was how officers in small stations had the autonomy to make decisions, and how much equipment, communications and transport was available to them. In Indonesia, some of the outlying and underdeveloped areas were quite underresourced.
