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Working Safely in Community Night Patrol
The Working Safely in Community Night Patrol eLearning program aims to provide Community Night Patrollers with information on how to work safely and manage risks and concerns. This course hopes to make patrollers feel more confident to keep themselves, their team and their community safe.
The majority of the night patrol workforce are local Aboriginal men and women who retain connection with country, family, language, lore and custom, allowing them to maintain respect and cultural authority within their own communities.
They are often first-responders to accidents, injuries, fights and deaths within the community, defuse volatile situations and manage many of their own family and community disputes without police intervention.
The Working Safely in Community Night Patrol eLearning program aims to provide Community Night Patrollers with information on how to work safely and manage risks and concerns. This course hopes to make patrollers feel more confident to keep themselves, their team and their community safe.
Project History
In 2017, CRANAplus was contracted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to develop a communications strategy and safety package to increase the safety of the Community Night Patrol (CNP) Workforce.
This included undertaking consultations and capturing the safety concerns of the workforce from 81 Night Patrols operating within the Northern Territory and six communities in the South Australian Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands.