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Speaker 1: So Andrew Costa has resigned his police commission He's got

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Speaker 1: himself a new job. He is going to be running

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Speaker 1: the government's new social investment agency. And I reckon he's

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Speaker 1: actually going to be good at this job. Now. I

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Speaker 1: acknowledge this may not be a popular appointment. I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people will see this for what it

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Speaker 1: probably is, which is that it is a job that's

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Speaker 1: been given to him to get him to leave the

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Speaker 1: police job because the government doesn't want him an there anymore.

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Speaker 1: And also this will reinforce the idea that there's a

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Speaker 1: job Mary go around in Wellington, which is obviously true.

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Speaker 1: And also there will be questions about why on earth

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Speaker 1: you'd reward someone for being pretty bad at their previous job,

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Speaker 1: which Costa definitely wasn't and he was a shocker of

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Speaker 1: a police commissioner, and all of those criticisms, many of

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Speaker 1: which are already in my inbox, are completely valid. But

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Speaker 1: set all of that aside. I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: be good at this job because this is his wheelhouse, right.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Costa never was a crackdown on crime guy. He's

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Speaker 1: a cotton wool guy. He's a believe in people's potential guy,

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Speaker 1: he's a given them another chance. Guy. He believes so

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Speaker 1: much in the fence at the top of the cliff

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Speaker 1: that he forgot that his job was actually to be

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Speaker 1: running the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. But

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Speaker 1: this job that he's just been given is the fence

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Speaker 1: at the top of the cliff job. The point of

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Speaker 1: the Social Investment Agency is to help people before they

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Speaker 1: become criminals, right, put a lot of money and a

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Speaker 1: lot of resource into them to try to stop them

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Speaker 1: going down the path that leads them to criminality. You

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Speaker 1: even start investing in them when they're babies. Now, that

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Speaker 1: is right up Andrew cost as Ali, isn't it. And

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Speaker 1: for all of his failings as a police commissioner, his

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Speaker 1: inability to be tough on gangs, his inability to even

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Speaker 1: do the basics like clear out the parliamentary protest before

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Speaker 1: it got out of hand. Remember how he kept saying

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell your cars no, no, this time, I'm

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Speaker 1: really gonna tell your cars no. Okay, today I'm really

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Speaker 1: going to tell your cars. And it never happened. Remember

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff. For all of that, I actually

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Speaker 1: think he is still a very bright and decent guy.

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Speaker 1: So I just think what this was was a case

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Speaker 1: of the wrong job for the wrong guy. I am

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Speaker 1: very happy he's leaving the police. I hope we never

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Speaker 1: have a comission as Week on Crime as him again.

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Speaker 1: But I think that there is a very very good

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Speaker 1: chance that he's actually going to be very very good

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Speaker 1: at what he does next, and I hope he's good

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Speaker 1: at it, because this is a very important job. For

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