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Speaker 1: Hey, they're doing something right in Aukland, though, aren't they.

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Speaker 1: Business is happy. The police are moving back into the CBD.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a new police station on Federal Street,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy meters from the old police station,

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Speaker 1: which was closed a few years ago. Vivbs with Heart

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Speaker 1: of the City. Viv good morning, you're happy.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, very happy. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm get news, great news, But what about the detail.

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Speaker 1: How many police officers are going in here? How many

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Speaker 1: extra on the beat? Do you know?

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Speaker 2: Well, the goal at the moment is these fifty one,

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Speaker 2: and I think we've got another eight to bring that

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Speaker 2: up to fifty one. We are noticing the difference from that.

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Speaker 2: But we have said all along that with the CRL

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Speaker 2: coming on board, we are going to need more because

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Speaker 2: at the moment we've got about a million people counted

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Speaker 2: walking around in the core central to the area every week.

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Speaker 2: But we've got people working, studying, visiting, you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's FORCUS to grow. So we are going to need more.

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Speaker 2: But I think, you know, one step at a time.

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Speaker 2: This is a piece of the safety solution we've been after.

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Speaker 2: It's a visibility presence right in the downtown area. And

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Speaker 2: actually that location is good because that station is expected

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Speaker 2: to be the busiest one in New Zealand. It's a

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Speaker 2: central location to get up to K Road downtown.

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Speaker 1: How many people will you get through that station? Do

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Speaker 1: you know?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I mean the plans originally we're talking

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Speaker 2: about fifty four thousand an hour. That's when all those

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Speaker 2: extra crossings and things that they're talking about are up

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Speaker 2: and running and ranking optimally, So that'll take a little while,

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Speaker 2: but that is going to be a really busy area.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you probably weren't. I was a young

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Speaker 2: person in New York in the eighties when the set

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Speaker 2: when the underground was very very unsafe, only for being

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Speaker 2: there with my parents. We've got to get this safe,

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Speaker 2: and so having police in that location and having enough

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Speaker 2: of them is going to be important to actually get

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Speaker 2: the safety right right from the start.

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Speaker 1: Your hope that would be because you said there's about

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Speaker 1: eight more offices coming on the beach for this shop,

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Speaker 1: so you'd be hoping to actually increase that even further

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Speaker 1: once the station.

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Speaker 2: Over time, and we've raised that with police because we're

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Speaker 2: basically getting a terranean operation going there and it's important

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Speaker 2: that it starts off on the right footing. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, having that location I think

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Speaker 2: is a great start. It will be and the New

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Speaker 2: Continent has seen himself. There will be an ongoing focus

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Speaker 2: in central safety safety and they're talking about other areas

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Speaker 2: as well. But you know, from our perspective, we want

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Speaker 2: to be a vibrant, safe, twenty four to seven international

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Speaker 2: city and you need enough police to create that safety.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your views this morning. Always appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Vive Beck with Heart of the City of the Chief Executive.

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Speaker 1: They are twenty three minutes after five. My question and

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Speaker 1: I'll answer my own question next, hopefully you can help me,

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Speaker 1: is where do all the crazies go once you kick

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Speaker 1: them out of the CBD For

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