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Alf Filipaina: Auckland Councillor on the launch of the City Rail Link and whether extra police are needed · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Ribbon has been cut on the CRL.
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  Speaker 2: Two, one, thank you!
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  Speaker 1: National wants a dedicated Auckland Transport Police squad of 50
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  Speaker 1: if re-elected.
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  Speaker 3: No Aucklander should feel unsafe catching a train or a bus,
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  Speaker 3: whether they're heading to work in the morning, travelling home
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  Speaker 3: late at night, or simply moving about the city with
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  Speaker 3: their family.
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  Speaker 1: Auckland Councillor Alf Villapina with me this morning. Alf, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Tata, my dear Ryan, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Very well, thank you. Always good to have you on
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  Speaker 1: at Brighton Early, Alf. Tell me, I was speaking to
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  Speaker 1: someone yesterday who was out and about and one of
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  Speaker 1: the national candidates was doing the round and said that
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  Speaker 1: apparently one of the top three issues for central Aucklanders
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  Speaker 1: is safety on public transport.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the interesting thing is that it's been around a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years, maybe longer, around getting the government involved
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  Speaker 2: to end up establishing the transport police, and there was
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: pushback from them, and now they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think the police association chief executive sort of put
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  Speaker 2: it right when he mentioned that, look, yes, it'll be
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  Speaker 2: good if the 50x do in fact come in in
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  Speaker 2: the 500 and have it. But I personally hope it
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  Speaker 2: does come in because I've been consistent in saying that
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  Speaker 2: we need to protect our community in particular within the
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  Speaker 2: CRL along with the transport officers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, worst thing for a CRL patronage is some sort
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  Speaker 1: of stabbing, I would have thought. Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 1: Have you been on the train yet?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, it did. Sorry, yes, I did. In the morning,
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  Speaker 2: I caught the train from Motahu, and then when we
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  Speaker 2: got to Waitematā, we then got asked to leave because
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  Speaker 2: of the electrical fire. So that was interesting, waiting outside
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  Speaker 2: until everything, when the fans came through to put the
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  Speaker 2: electrical fire out. But it was just so cool to
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  Speaker 2: travel in the first train, through to the town. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely been on there now, so that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Nice one. Al Philip Hiner with us, Auckland Councillor.