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Chris Cahill: Police Association President on the delay in training more police officers · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Police officials are warning they might not be able to
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  Speaker 1: meet the government's election promise to train five hundred new
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  Speaker 1: officers by the two year deadline, which is November twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventh next year. The Police Commissioner, Richard Chambers told Parliament's
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  Speaker 1: Justice Select Committee he's refusing to lower the quality of
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  Speaker 1: trade just to meet the target. Chris Carhill is the
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  Speaker 1: Police Association Prison he's with us this morning. Chris, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ryan. How do you feel that to me
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a reasonable response. I won't do this, rush
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  Speaker 1: this and get just any cop on the beat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, at least he's been honest for a change.
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  Speaker 2: We've always said it's going to be an incredibly big ask.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't think they could. You need to recruit five
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  Speaker 2: hundred officers a year just to maintain the status quoe,
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  Speaker 2: just to deal with the numbers that are leading. So
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  Speaker 2: this was going to require seven hundred and fifty a
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  Speaker 2: year to get to that level. We said we couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it. Police said during especially during pay round negotiations,
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  Speaker 2: they could. And so at least he's been honest and
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  Speaker 2: we certainly agree you shouldn't lower the standards.
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  Speaker 1: Does it matter if they miss it by six months.
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  Speaker 2: It does have effect in that they've already moved staff
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  Speaker 2: into new roles such as the beat staff across New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: and they've had to come from other roles that now
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  Speaker 2: aren't getting done. So it does hurt other parts of policing.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd still rather wait for six months they get
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  Speaker 2: low standard and recruits. Yeah, yeah, longer in consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly and undermine all cops. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Some funding apparently has gone to that was meant to
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  Speaker 1: go to the recruitment has gone towards the orkand Central station.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know anything about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one, it shouldn't because one should be recruits, that's
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  Speaker 2: personnal budget. Now there should be capital expenditure. So be
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  Speaker 2: disappointing that that has happened. But if they have funded
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  Speaker 2: some of the new roles so that they could backfill
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  Speaker 2: some of the others, that would be valuable. But look,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of issues with money and police and building,
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  Speaker 2: so I think it's going to take a lot more
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  Speaker 2: than just a few own recruits to fund the building
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  Speaker 2: problems in New Zealand Police.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, thank you very much for your time. I always
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Chris Can'hill Police Association president on News that
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  Speaker 1: the government, well, they may still meet the deadline. Police
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  Speaker 1: they say they are going helpful eather to try and
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  Speaker 1: do that, but there is a probably more substantial chance
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  Speaker 1: they will miss it by at least six months. For
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