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Samoa Police and Prisons Institutional Strengthening Project

Commencing in January 2004, the SPS-ISP represents a five year commitment by the Government of Australia to the Government and Police Service of Samoa. With Technical Directorship by Global Justice Solutions Director Dr Rowan Barnsley and Team Leadership by Global Justice Solutions Technical Director Mr Steve Roast, the goal of the SPS-ISP is to create a safe, secure and stable environment in Samoa. With the support of the SPS-ISP, the Samoa Police Service is fundamentally reforming, and in doing so is re-focussing its traditionally reactive efforts onto more collaborative and proactive community facing initiatives. Hallmarks of the SPS-ISP include the ‘Safer Samoa' Campaign (link to case studies); breaking down of fragmented specialist sections to create  the General Policing Division; and streamlining of investigations, case management and prosecutions in partnership with the Attorney General's Department. The SPS-ISP has five technical components. The first three align exactly with the three core objectives of the Samoa Police Service Strategic Plan 2005-2007, whilst the other two provide generic capacity building support:

1. Community Safety and Crime Prevention
2. Protecting Life and Property
3. Crime and Justice
4. Human Resource Management and Development
5. Future Directions, Asset Management and Administration

After decades of stagnation and adherence to practices and procedures inherited from a pre-independence colonial administration, the Samoa Police Service Institutional Strengthening Project is having a profound and sustainable impact on the manner in which the Samoa Police Service is defining and pursuing its core responsibilities. Recruiting and training standards have been raised, fragmented and inefficient sections broken down and replaced with more contemporary, community oriented policing services.