Election 2017 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order - Police
27th May 17, 9:23am
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- Support a dedicated and well-trained victim support unit working with police and other agencies
- Encourage police recruitment from a range of ethnic groups and support the right of police officers to access independent arbitration of their wages and conditions.
- Establish a truly independent police complaints authority; conduct a wide-ranging review into police culture, investigation methods and relationships with communities.
- Introduce a stop/search form, similar to that used by the London Metropolitan Police, to be filled out by police on the occasion of any warrantless search, with a copy for the searchee. This will detail the legal authority and reason for each search and provide information on the rights of citizens in relation to the police.
- Request the tabling in parliament of all government instructions to the Police Commissioner.
- Read more here.
- Fund 1,000 more Police Officers and the resources that they need to make our communities safer.
- Support these additional Police Officers with $180m a year of extra funding.
- Work with Police to tackle the increasing numbers of assaults, sexual assaults, burglaries, robberies, as well as methamphetamine supply. Community policing will be a priority.
- Provide financial support to Community Patrols NZ to deliver twenty new patrol cars each year for three years, and twelve paid volunteer co-ordinators to increase the reach of community patrols on local streets.
- Read more here and here.
- 1125 more Police staff over the next four years, including 880 sworn officers on the frontline – that’s a 10 per cent increase and will take total Police staff to more than 13,000.
- A new nationwide 24/7 phone number for non-emergencies.
- A target of at least 98 per cent of all burglaries will be attended within 48 hours, and more than 90 per cent of 111 emergency calls will be answered within 10 seconds.
- 24/7 capability for the Police Eagle helicopter, with a response time of 10-15 minutes.
- Increase Police powers to stop gang members from committing crimes in the first place, backing up our investment in more Police officers and smarter policing and our tougher sentencing of offenders.
- Read more here and here.
- Recruit 1,800 Sworn Police (920 more than National). Establish a temporary Police Training College at Waiouru in partnership with the New Zealand Army to get these extra officers on the streets within two-years.
- Recruit 256 extra civilian support staff over what National has pledged to free frontline officers from necessary paperwork.
- Review police pay and conditions with the goal of achieving parity with those in Australia.
- Provide proper and adequate resourcing for Community Policing, including Māori Wardens, Pasifika Wardens, Community Patrols and Neighbourhood Watch.
- Institute active engagement by police with our schools and communities to build trust and to help prevent and solve crime.
- Read more here.
- Establish community safety plans with police, local bodies and communities, building off local knowledge and community relationships, and ensure that all households can receive information about local policing issues;
- Ensure that police target and monitor the persistent criminals in our communities, particularly gangs;
- Ensure that police co-ordinate closely with social service and child protection agencies in each community, including automatic referral of any criminal activity that involves children, to improve responses to domestic violence and child abuse;
- Establish a transparent Police staffing formula that ensures a minimum presence in all areas, yet allows for extra police to be re-deployed where the crime rate exceeds the national average;Encourage volunteer and community agencies to take a role in promoting a crime free society.
- Encourage volunteer and community agencies to take a role in promoting a crime free society.
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