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Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on the Government's quarter 3 plans for law and order · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The government have set the stage for their Q three
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  Speaker 1: plan to focus on restoring law and order, public gam
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  Speaker 1: packed ban of course, alongside giving police more power to
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  Speaker 1: get guns out of hands with criminals. Among the changes
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Mark Mitchell is the Police Minister and
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  Speaker 1: he is with us Mark morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey youpling Mike.
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  Speaker 1: How much of what you're wanting to do is about
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  Speaker 1: passing a new law versus just having a word with
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  Speaker 1: the police to say get on and do this.
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  Speaker 2: It's a combination of both. So obviously my leader expectation
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  Speaker 2: was delivered and due to he's immediately in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how the police are policing the gangs, the game convoys,
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  Speaker 2: their tonguies, how we get on top of the boy races.
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  Speaker 2: So those are things operationally can happen immediately. Obviously, a
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  Speaker 2: big part of the public safety program we've got is
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  Speaker 2: around the legislation, and a lot of that legislation as
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  Speaker 2: part as making its way through Parliament, but it'll be
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  Speaker 2: out in this in the third quarter. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I feel that we're starting to see some change. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I've got some stats later on that shows that
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  Speaker 1: the ram raids are down and and that sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing you saw the cars over the weekend. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't argue with that. There's clearly a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work to do, but it's starting clearly to have an impact.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Absolutely, And the thing that I've been really pleased
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  Speaker 2: about is there's been a lot of nassas out there
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  Speaker 2: and the narrative has been looking police have lost the
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  Speaker 2: ability to police the gangs and they're too strong. I
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  Speaker 2: think in the last six months, have police has shown
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  Speaker 2: clearly that they are one of the best most professional
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  Speaker 2: police forces we have or there is in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and they have been very, very effective. And yes, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: without a doubt, I'm starting to see change. There's a
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  Speaker 2: long way to go. We're not there yet, and we
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  Speaker 2: just focused and making sure that we continued roly at
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  Speaker 2: our public safety program. Legislation's part of that. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you, we are starting to see change.
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  Speaker 1: Have they been hamstrung? Have they been wanting to do
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  Speaker 1: this but under a previous government, previous ideology they were
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  Speaker 1: just held back from it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. I mean I've I always said we were
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  Speaker 2: in an opposition that the police are trying to do
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  Speaker 2: their job with one hand tied behind their back. They
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been supported proper by the rest of the justice system,
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  Speaker 2: and those changes are still happening, but you know, they
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  Speaker 2: got frustrated because of that. They're very effective. They identify
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  Speaker 2: the offenders, they'll arrest of them, I charge them, they'll
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  Speaker 2: opposed bail and then we then seeing two hours often
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  Speaker 2: the backup offending. We just got to fixed that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh and then and and that's the problem, which
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  Speaker 1: is to a degree beyond your control. Parcel the laws
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  Speaker 1: be as prescriptive as you want. Do you think the
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  Speaker 1: court and the judges get it and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do something about it.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're starting to. The system still isn't for me.
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  Speaker 2: As the police minister, I'm starting to see change without
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  Speaker 2: a doubt. At a minister in the government level, I've
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  Speaker 2: certainly been very clear, have been backed up by the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister that these youth offenders, these these violent youth
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  Speaker 2: you know, the worst violent youth offenders, retail youth offenders,
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  Speaker 2: they can't put back in the community. We actually have
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  Speaker 2: to get them into a residence and we have to
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  Speaker 2: start investing in them to try and make any good
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  Speaker 2: decisions in their lives. But these, yeah, the residius violent
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  Speaker 2: youth offenders. You know they are often involved in multiple
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  Speaker 2: aggravated broberies or retail crime. And to get the community
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  Speaker 2: immediately safe, to look after our shop keepers who turned
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  Speaker 2: up each day and work hard, we've actually just got
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  Speaker 2: to get them off the straights. And so I rang
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  Speaker 2: a tumrick. You're starting to respond, the system is starting
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  Speaker 2: to respond. We're not there yet, but we're definitely moving
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  Speaker 2: in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're too busy to watch the Prime minister's
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  Speaker 1: postcamp press conference yesterday, but yet again he was peopled
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  Speaker 1: with questions around the whole boot camp thing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: called a boot camp. It's called an academy. You called
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  Speaker 1: it academy. It's not a boot camp. That people still
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get it, do they?
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't. And look, you've got that there's people
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  Speaker 2: out there that just want to shoot it down. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm a huge believer in I've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work into this policy. I've been involved in the Limited
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  Speaker 2: Service volunteer program that's been highly successful with young people
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  Speaker 2: seventeen plus who've gone off the rails a bit. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them even have been in jail. So we're sort
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  Speaker 2: of taking pieces of that and we're putting a program
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  Speaker 2: together that we believe that we need to invest in
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  Speaker 2: these young people. Up until now has not been working.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that this program is going to be
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  Speaker 2: very successful and it's going to give them the best opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: in the best chance to start making good decisions in
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  Speaker 2: their lives and not bad ones.
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  Speaker 1: That's absolutely okay. We'll catch up tomorrow, mate, appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: very much. Make Metell police minister back with the politics win.
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