Law and Order

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• Increase the range of options available to judges in criminal court cases.
• Increase funding and support for restorative justice approaches throughout the criminal justice system, in a variety of cultural and geographical settings, including after sentencing, particularly in prisons.
• Establish an Independent Prison Inspectorate.
• Make private ownership of fully functional semi-automatic weapons illegal. (more here)

• Repeal National's recent TICS and GCSB legislation to protect New Zealanders from being subject to mass surveillance when they're going about their lawful business.
• Ensure the Pike River miners’ families receive their rightful court-ordered compensation. We will work with Pike River Coal shareholders and government entities ACC and NZ Super Fund, to require them to fulfil their moral duty.
• Create a crime of corporate manslaughter to apply in cases of workplace deaths that are caused by failures at the board and senior management level.
• Maintain the lower blood alcohol limit while driving, that we campaigned for and achieved this Parliamentary term. (more here)

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• Meet our new target of reducing total crime rate, from 2011 levels, by 20 per cent by 2017.
• Better protect victims of violent and sexual offences with new ‘non-contact orders’ – reducing risk of unwanted contact between offenders and victims.
• Continue 24 hour GPS monitoring for the highest risk offenders out on release in the community.
• Tackle cyber bullying and its devastating impact with new measures including a civil enforcement regime, a new agency, and new offences.
• Keep communities safer by allowing the High Court to order that the highest-risk offenders stay behind bars with Public Protection Orders. (more here)

• Reintroduce the chargeable offence of being intoxicated and disorderly in public, to include intoxication from the use of drugs whether legal or illicit.
• Introduce legislation to ban all criminal gangs, in line with those of several Australian States.
• Institute a Castle Doctrine law, empowering New Zealanders to defend themselves and protect their homes and families with all necessary force.
• Introduce cumulative sentencing for offenders convicted of more than one crime.
• Introduce cumulative sentencing for offenders convicted of more than one crime. (more here)

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