Election 2020 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order
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Justice, Law and Order
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- Add burglary to the three strikes regime, meaning someone convicted of a third burglary offence gets three years in prison.
- Reward prisoners who complete literacy programs and driver licensing tests with reduced sentences. Do the same for prisoners who volunteer to teach in these programs.
- Scrap red tape that stops ordinary New Zealanders from volunteering in prison education and rehabilitation programs.
- Read more here.
- The first priority of the justice system should be to heal the harm caused by a crime.
- Funding for restorative justice and victim support should be increased.
- No new prisons should be built, except to replace old prisons.
- Funding for literacy and work skills training, mental health services, and addiction services should be increased, both within prisons and in the community.
- Marae-based justice programmes should be expanded and supported.
- Court proceedings should be conducted in plain language.
- Read more here and here.
- Roll out meth treatment programme to 4,000 more people.
- Establish an Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court in Hawke’s Bay.
- Expand Māori Pathways prison rehabilitation programme to wāhine Māori.
- Strengthen the Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Services Group within Police.
- Read more here.
- Implement Social Investment Approach across the justice system by setting clear targets to reduce offending and address the areas of most need.
- Significantly expand mental health facilities in policing such as the Watch House Nurse Programme and the Mental Health Co-response initiative.
- Change the Victim Notification Register to make it opt-out rather than opt-in.
- Tighten border controls through increased searching of containers and mail to prevent drugs coming into the country.
- Expand the use of specialist courts, such as drug and alcohol courts, which help offenders deal with their addiction issues.
- Institute a range of policies to target gangs and the harm they cause in communities.
- Introduce the Clean Start policy to help newly-released prisoners move to a new community.
- Read more here.
- Prioritise the principles of the Sentencing Act to focus on the needs of the victim, then the community, and lastly the offender
- Adopt New Zealand First’s Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill as a Government Bill
- Introduce harsher penalties for fleeing drivers
- Increase the use of mandatory minimum sentences for serious violent and sexual offenders
- Introduce a degrees of murder regime that utilises ‘life for life’ for 1st Degree Murder
- Review and work to increase the fines for lower level crimes such as texting while driving and shoplifting
- Introduce an enforcement law for dangerous littering
- Implement a ‘Youth Justice Demerits’ system to provide accountability and certainty of support for youth offenders, youth aid officers and law enforcement
- Introduce a greater range of non-custodial sentences such as the confiscation of specific property, larger and long term reparation payments and fines.
- Remove concurrent sentences for those who commit offences while on parole, on bail, or whilst in custody
- Investigate the applicability of operational funding to equip corrections officers with body cameras and appropriate protective equipment
- Provide consistency in legislation and replace the term ‘prison officer’ and ‘prison guard’ with ‘corrections officer’
- Provide a minimum mandatory cumulative prison term for assaulting Corrections Officers
- Read more here.
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