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Speaker 1: Downtown Auckland crime levels dropping first half of the year.

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Speaker 1: We find out serious assaults of down twenty two percent.

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Speaker 1: The Police Association regional director Murray Fenton's with us Murray morning,

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Speaker 1: my own am I okay this morning, very well, indeed,

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Speaker 1: thank you. How much is this simply about an increased presence?

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Speaker 1: You put more cops on the streets? This is what

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Speaker 1: happens versus the coordination that I'm reading about between the

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Speaker 1: various agencies that we're now helping.

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Speaker 2: Out look, I mean, the increased presence has setting made

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Speaker 2: a huge difference and around the streets. I mean the

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Speaker 2: exposure I gets to visitors within New Zealand has been

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Speaker 2: huge international as it has coming into the country, and

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Speaker 2: we've seen some great responses from people that were interacting

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Speaker 2: Muhammad daily basis good.

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Speaker 1: Can you see it and feel it when you're downtown

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Speaker 1: Auckland for people listening to this around the country, can

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Speaker 1: you actually see it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, It's really reassuring to be walking around the street.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually working that beat section at the moment in

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Speaker 2: the city. I'm over there for about six months and

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Speaker 2: it's really refreshing. It's really exciting because to natal as

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Speaker 2: it is coming up to us from were walking around

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Speaker 2: the streets, our local people, at business people, our retailers.

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Speaker 2: We're getting support from so many different types of people,

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Speaker 2: you know, from teenagers right the way through the elderly people,

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Speaker 2: the inner city people at dwelling city, even some of

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Speaker 2: the homeless people are giving us some really good feedback

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Speaker 2: in relation to the way in which our presence has

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Speaker 2: actually termed and realized our own in the way in

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Speaker 2: which we've assisted them in an alternative to the city

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Speaker 2: lifestyles they've had in the past.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, So Win Wilder, Murray appreciate very much. Murray Fenton,

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Speaker 1: who's the Police Association regional director. For more from the

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