1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Another crackdown drunk driving or drug driving as well. They're 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: tossing money at an extra couple of hundred thousand breath 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: tests a ye're looking to hit three point three million annually. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Part of the target is to get sixty five percent 5 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: of those tests done at high or extreme times of risk. 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The transportment is to sim and brown with us, good morning. 7 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: Good morning. 8 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: The big query seems to be resourced. Do we have 9 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: enough coppers to do it all? 10 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: If we do, this plan funds the road policing staff 11 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 2: within the police forces at one thousand and seventy police 12 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 2: so are dedicated to road policing and their job is 13 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 2: to enforce the law the two people who are drunk drivers, 14 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: drug drivers, breaking the road laws and making sure that 15 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 2: keeping New Zealand is safe. This funds them to do 16 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: their work, but it also has a very clear targets 17 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: around what we want them to be achieving. 18 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: Are they not doing the job now? 19 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: I think the point I'd make is over the last 20 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 2: ten years, only two of those years have we actually 21 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: seen greater than three million breath tests actually achieved. Some 22 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: years we've seen below one point five million. We know 23 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: that alcohol breast tests have an impact UNTI deteruring alcohol 24 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: drunk drivers on our roads, and so it's really important 25 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: that we have clear targets and we see them meeting 26 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: those targets on a regular basis to keep New Zealanders 27 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: safe on the roads. So this is about having the 28 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: clear targets and making sure we're achieving them on a 29 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: regular basis rather than the volatility we've seen in recent years. 30 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: What's magic about three point three million, Well, I. 31 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 2: Think what we know is that when we get it 32 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 2: as high as possible, particularly above three million, we actually 33 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 2: do start seeing that the deterring effect on our roads. 34 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: That's what the police in the NZTA have negotiated as 35 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: the number that they would like to see and what 36 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: we're doing through this through this fund is basically saying 37 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: we want to have those targets on a regular basis. 38 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 2: Also make sure that sixty five percent are being done 39 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 2: at those high risk times and location. So it's not 40 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: just having breast tests done at any target you know, everywhere, 41 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: or just to get the target reached. We actually want 42 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: to be done at the most impactful times so that 43 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: we can deter drug drivers, drunk drivers, people take those 44 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: sky behaviors on our road so we can keep your 45 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: filinders safe. 46 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: Isn't that ironic that you've got to tell them that? Though? 47 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: Why aren't they doing it anyway? 48 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 2: Well, I think this is why that this goes for 49 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 2: a negotiation from the VTA and police. It's about making 50 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 2: sure that the funds that are made available through the 51 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 2: National Land Transport Fund are achieving the best being for 52 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: the fact for New Zealanders and it's a negotiation between 53 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 2: police and NVITA. So we've identified one of those most 54 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: risky behaviors in this focused place time and reason. 55 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: All right, let's see how it goes. Appreciate it some 56 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: in bround, Transport Minister. 57 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 58 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 59 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.