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Speaker 1: Some budget issues at Police. They've scrapped crime prevention funds

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Speaker 1: for neighborhood support, community patrols, and burglary prevention develoance the

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Speaker 1: books the mover save seven point eight million dollars. So

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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Andrea Conlin is the Police Police

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Speaker 1: chief operating officer in as with us. Andrea, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning mate. These prevention programs and their value for money.

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Speaker 1: What's your assessment?

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Speaker 2: So just to kind of clarify, the neighborhood support and

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Speaker 2: community watch programs have their funding is continuing. So the

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Speaker 2: funding and the other the burglary prevention areas for around

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Speaker 2: the seven million perennum is the area that has been seized.

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Speaker 2: This is you know, as part of kind of the

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Speaker 2: border reinvestment. We receive a lot of funding through from

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Speaker 2: government and part of that is seeking those areas where

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Speaker 2: we can find savings to reinvest into that new funding.

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Speaker 2: And this was the one area for budget twenty five

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Speaker 2: where the funding was reinvested into the frontline.

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Speaker 1: Except what exactly is burglary prevention other than I mean,

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Speaker 1: what did you do? Did you get a pamphlet, did

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Speaker 1: you have some people telling people not the burgle or

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Speaker 1: how did it work?

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Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah, These were sort of a specific small initiatives

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Speaker 2: that were run in some areas around the country. So

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Speaker 2: there were was a smaller initiative in Palmerston North. There

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Speaker 2: was also a lock light Lines of Sight was the

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Speaker 2: name of the initiative run in some other areas around

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Speaker 2: the country. So I guess see the areas in one

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Speaker 2: of these programs had actually already ceased as were identified

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Speaker 2: through the budget process, So they're kind of small initiatives. Overall,

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Speaker 2: As we've said, prevention is a key aspect of our

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Speaker 2: overall policing and a key aspect of all roles across

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Speaker 2: the organization. So this isn't about sort of overall reducing

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Speaker 2: our effort or our focus into prevention. It was around

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Speaker 2: these specific initiatives being identified as options for taking that

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Speaker 2: money and reinvesting it the other areas of funding.

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Speaker 1: We did receive seven point eight million. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know it's a lot of money for you and I

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Speaker 1: but I mean for the police budget, it's it sounds

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Speaker 1: like money you found in the back of the couch.

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Speaker 1: I mean these are small programs.

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Speaker 2: Yes they were, Yes, and you're right, I mean seven

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Speaker 2: million in the context of you know, where we're sort

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Speaker 2: of around the five hundred million marks for our total

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Speaker 2: budget twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so just for clarification, because we might have got

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Speaker 1: this wrong. Neighborhood support, continuous community patrols continue. It's the

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Speaker 1: burglary prevention that's been cut.

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Speaker 2: Yes, correct, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, I appreciate it. Andrea, who got that wrong?

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Speaker 1: Let's name let's name some names here, Hey, who got

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Speaker 1: that wrong? I'm in an efficiency and professionalism drive at

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