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Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on increasing police officers on the beat · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: More moving on the crime front, more coppers on the beat,
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  Speaker 1: just like the good old days. By the end of
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  Speaker 1: next month, Auckland will be having boosted numbers community beat
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  Speaker 1: teams to follow nationwide. Over the next couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: current officers will move into the new teams. New recruits
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  Speaker 1: will be backfilling their positions. Are the Police Minister Mark
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell is with us A very good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Mark, Hey, good morning Mike.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers you announced yesterday are based on what your
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  Speaker 1: assessment of actually making an impact on crime or just
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  Speaker 1: what you can spare or.
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  Speaker 2: What no I mean. Obviously it's an operational decision by
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  Speaker 2: the commissioner. It's based off the fact, yes, we want
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  Speaker 2: to make an impact, you know, focusing on our Auckland CBD.
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  Speaker 2: We can all see the problems here, whether you're a resident,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're a shopkeeper, whether you're a visitor that's arriving
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand. We want to make sure that we've
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  Speaker 2: got the best safest you know a city in not
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  Speaker 2: one's that continually played with sleepers, drug dealers and disorderly behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Good on you for doing it, But how is
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  Speaker 1: it something so simple? Because let's be frank cops on
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  Speaker 1: the beat is not a river illlutionary idea. How is
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  Speaker 1: it they got taken off? What happened? What went wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I just think that over time it was decided that
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  Speaker 2: that was, you know, an old style of policing, and
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  Speaker 2: they sort of moved into other areas. I've always felt
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  Speaker 2: very strong. I know that when I started my policing career,
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  Speaker 2: I started on the beat and I loved it. It's
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  Speaker 2: new pony communication skills. You get to know the shopkeepers,
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  Speaker 2: you get to know who's causing the problems in your area.
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  Speaker 2: You're highly visible. The public like that. It gives them
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  Speaker 2: a sense of safety and reassurance, and of course it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a strong preventative element to it. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going back to that. They've already increased foot in the city,
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  Speaker 2: but now they're increasing the number of dedicated police officers.
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  Speaker 2: It will be out there and highly visible doing their work.
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  Speaker 1: Do you worry about costa? Why didn't Coster think of this?
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't this his idea as opposed to you telling
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  Speaker 1: him what to do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just think that the previous government had different priorities,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, there's a change of government now, and
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  Speaker 2: I was very clear and my lot of intent to
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  Speaker 2: him that I want to see be officers back out,
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  Speaker 2: highly visible present in the community and they are responding
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 1: Quick word on Karen Sure and the other aspect of
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  Speaker 1: that announcement yesterday. Do you think you'll have the judicial
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  Speaker 1: backup when you turn a youth into a criminal? Does
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  Speaker 1: the judiciary back you up?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I hope so because and this is setting a
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  Speaker 2: very clear message in terms of the legislation that we're
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  Speaker 2: passing around the young serious offender. This is for me
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  Speaker 2: as police minister, this is the one piece that's missing.
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  Speaker 2: The police are ree effective and identifying offenders, charging them,
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  Speaker 2: opposing bail in the back. They recycled back out and
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  Speaker 2: they're reoffending again and we've just got to stop that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big it's a big problem for us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I asked for a breakdown at the last of the
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  Speaker 2: aggravated bobbies at wed you know Bennet's experiences as an
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  Speaker 2: Auckland at last twenty four. You know, twelve youth and
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  Speaker 2: juvenile offenders were responsible or involved in that, and we
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  Speaker 2: just got to stop it. We've had another horrific attack
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  Speaker 2: on our jewelers in the last twenty four hours, those
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  Speaker 2: of foods now has to be in custody, There has
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  Speaker 2: to be off the streets to be air. The community
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  Speaker 2: will have be similar, will show and turn them around
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  Speaker 2: and get making good decisions. But right now it's not
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  Speaker 2: fearfare shopkeepers to be caring tho us.
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  Speaker 1: They're right, good man, appreciate it. See Wednesday Policemanister Mark
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell with us nine minutes away from six. So are
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  Speaker 1: we onto something here? The Dairy and Business Owners Group
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  Speaker 1: chair Sunny Kosher's back with a sunny morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Very good morning, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like what you heard yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: This was overdue? Glad that the Police Minister and Police
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  Speaker 3: commissioner that listen an actor, you know it was common
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  Speaker 3: sense and right thing to do. It should have been
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  Speaker 3: done from the last five six years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly do you do you feel confident in the numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Are there enough people on the streets?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's too early to say, but Mike, we need
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  Speaker 3: a great Manchester police supposed to crime. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: need to return to the pre twenty seventeen or retailed
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  Speaker 3: police model, starting with a broken windows approach by investigating
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  Speaker 3: every work. That's what is needed. You know we need
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  Speaker 3: a zero tolerance on this one, you know, otherwise we
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  Speaker 3: would be talking on the same issue as we have
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  Speaker 3: been from the last six years. And also we need
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  Speaker 3: twenty four to seven Oukland CVD Police Station.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. Well, let's hope it works. Sonny appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it very much. Sunny Cashialdiry and business owners.
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