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Alf Filipaina: Auckland Councillor wants Police presence at Auckland's new City Rail Link · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: An organ councilor wants comps stationed at the City Rail
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  Speaker 1: Link long term. Currently, officers are going to be deployed
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  Speaker 1: on the trains when it opens we think September to
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  Speaker 1: make passengers feel safer, but not permanently.
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  Speaker 2: Elf.
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  Speaker 1: Philipina is with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Elf, how are you run? Very well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? What exactly are you worried about? Elf? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen to people on
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  Speaker 1: these trains?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think firstly it's the safety issue around, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the CRL, especially with the tunnel. I just sort
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  Speaker 2: of worry about the safety of the community and our
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  Speaker 2: discussion needs to happen with the government in regards and
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  Speaker 2: obviously the Police Commissioner, with transport officers dedicated to the
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  Speaker 2: safety and now on our transport system. That's my concern.
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  Speaker 2: We need to have a conversation. Organ Transport have traffic officers.
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  Speaker 2: They obviously don't have the authority to at least locked up.
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  Speaker 2: Arrest is not about arresting, but it's just about having officers.
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  Speaker 1: There so that Counsel Council has transport officers, right ALF.
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  Speaker 1: So if someone goes and bashes someone over the head,
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  Speaker 1: can a transport officer hold them down and detain them
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  Speaker 1: until police arrive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, and again that courses problems when you end
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  Speaker 2: up sort of holding them, but from problems well, if
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  Speaker 2: they end up sort of getting assaulted, if they don't
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  Speaker 2: end up doing it, if they can't restrain them with
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  Speaker 2: the handcuffs, if they can't at least ensure if there's
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  Speaker 2: not the numbers there. Look, I don't even transport officers
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  Speaker 2: don't have the ability if they end up having numbers
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  Speaker 2: against them. I just think a conversation needs to happen
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  Speaker 2: because the safety of our passengers are our public is paramount.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, But the problem is you can't have cops everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying that you think these stations are going
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  Speaker 1: to be more dangerous than Queen Street for example, any
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  Speaker 1: old spot?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a conversation needs to happen where we
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  Speaker 2: are working together with the police. I know that's happening.
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  Speaker 2: But I know that when I ended up being the
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  Speaker 2: transport chair way back in the day with Munico going
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  Speaker 2: over to Australia for some of the states there having
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  Speaker 2: dedicated transport police. Actually in the States, like in Sydney,
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  Speaker 2: in Brisbane, having the dedicated police officers.
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  Speaker 1: There with tastes and guns. They need something to look
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: That the tases and guns. I think for me having
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  Speaker 2: dedicated police officers. Again, it's about the uniform and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that people will realize. It's like when we amalgamated
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two with the Ministry of Transport right
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  Speaker 2: first of July nineteen ninety two, when we amalgamated there,
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  Speaker 2: we ended up sort of having the one transport please
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  Speaker 2: under the Ministry of Transport. Under New Zealand Police, the
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  Speaker 2: un don't think the destruction needs to happen, all right.
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  Speaker 1: The uniform might help. ALPHA appreciate your time this morning,
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  Speaker 1: as I always do. Al Philippina Orkland City counselor and
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  Speaker 1: former police officer himself.
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