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Speaker 1: So police hoping a new training facility in Auckland. Currently, everyone,

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Speaker 1: of course, spends twenty weeks at the college in Pari Rue.

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Speaker 1: The Police Commissioner Richard Chambers with us on this good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you, Good morning the mine.

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Speaker 1: I can't work out why they didn't do this years ago.

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Speaker 1: It makes perfect sense, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it does, Mike. I mean we have been

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Speaker 2: able to manage with the Porrieruh College, but you know,

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Speaker 2: we have got a huge, ambitious target of five hundred

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Speaker 2: by the end of the year and we're working really hard.

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Speaker 2: And what we realize with the Auckland facility is two

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Speaker 2: things really. The first thing is that there's a bunch

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Speaker 2: of people who want to join our organization. They want

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Speaker 2: to be police officers, and going to the college for

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Speaker 2: twenty weeks for a number of them is actually quite challenging.

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Speaker 2: And the other reason is we want to increase capacity

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Speaker 2: because right now we've got over three hundred troops at

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Speaker 2: the college in porri Ruh and we're full and that's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So we want to create a bit of extra capacity.

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Speaker 1: And so they'll be able to stay at home if

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Speaker 1: you're from Auckland and then go to the College EA today.

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Speaker 1: Is that how it works?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the option we're giving them. You know, we

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Speaker 2: want the best to the best, so we don't want

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Speaker 2: to miss out on anyone who can't come to the

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Speaker 2: PROI or facility just because it's hard for them to

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Speaker 2: leave home for twenty weeks. We want them to give

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Speaker 2: them options. We want the best of the best, so

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Speaker 2: we're happy that they go home in the evenings be

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Speaker 2: with their stamilers. So long as they train, they pass

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Speaker 2: and they've come to the police officer.

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Speaker 1: So I note over the weekend you're spreaking this, but

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Speaker 1: we seem to be in this angsty debate. You've still

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Speaker 1: got nine months to go or eight months or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is to get to your five hundred. Are we

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Speaker 1: getting a little tripped up on this? I mean, what

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Speaker 1: you're doing and how you do it surely is more

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Speaker 1: important than whether you get four ninety nine or five

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Speaker 1: oh one or you know, this has got politics written

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Speaker 1: all over it, hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike, The thing is, it's an ambitious target to

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Speaker 2: have a five hundred extra police staff by the end

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Speaker 2: of November this year, but I'm confident we will get there.

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Speaker 2: We are working really really hard, and it's not just

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Speaker 2: about those that we're recruiting for the first time into

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Pala. So I had the privilege just a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago being in Australia, book a moment

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Speaker 2: to go and catch up with some of my former

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Speaker 2: colleagues who are over now, and was delighted when a

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Speaker 2: number of them said to me, actually, what you know what,

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Speaker 2: I want to come home. I missed my country, I

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Speaker 2: missed my home and on miss New Zealand Police. So

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Speaker 2: whether it's new recruits coming into our organization or you know,

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Speaker 2: former Muzeland police officers who want to come home, I'm

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Speaker 2: open to all opportunities to make sure we hit that

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Speaker 2: target body.

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Speaker 1: This yeah good. Every time we talk about this, I

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Speaker 1: get a lot of texts on churn. Do you have

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Speaker 1: high churn? And if you do, what's the reason behind it?

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Speaker 2: Ye might look comparatively, Police has had a low attrition

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Speaker 2: rate sitting at the moment around five point five percent,

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Speaker 2: which is low, but we have had some spikes and

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Speaker 2: attrition over the years. You know. Obviously there was the

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Speaker 2: Australian Australians came over and took some of our people,

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Speaker 2: which I wasn't particularly happy about, but you know, they

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Speaker 2: want to come home. So we have had spikes such

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Speaker 2: as that. We also had a small gap where we

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Speaker 2: transition to twenty weeks training, so we slowed down. So

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Speaker 2: things go up and down, you know, on the market.

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Speaker 2: But at the moment, look, we in the sixth month

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Speaker 2: to the end of December last year we had out

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Speaker 2: the four thousand applications to join New Zealand Police. So

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Speaker 2: we're having we're you know, we're in a very positive

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Speaker 2: trajectory at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Good to hear Richard James, Police commission Ate.

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