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Speaker 1: Afternoon, Andrew Costa has resigned as the Police Commissioner. He

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Speaker 1: will finish up with the Police in November and then

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Speaker 1: take up a new role as the boss of the

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Speaker 1: new Social Investment Agency. Now Mark Mitchell is the Police Minister. Mitch, Hello, Hi, Heather,

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Speaker 1: is this what it looks like?

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Speaker 2: You know what it looks It looks like, it looks like.

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Speaker 3: It looks like you guys have done a deal with

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Speaker 3: him to quit. Found him a nice job to replace

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Speaker 3: the job you want him out of.

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. I mean, obviously Nicholas is forming

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Speaker 2: the Social Investment Agency because that's a critical that's a

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Speaker 2: cornerstone for us. Us actually is in government is to

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Speaker 2: start to deal with all these really difficult intergenerational social

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Speaker 2: issues that we need to deal with as a country.

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Speaker 2: The Social Investment Agency has got a big role to

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Speaker 2: play and I think that Andy Costa, when you look

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Speaker 2: at his background and his experience, he's the perfect fit

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Speaker 2: for that role.

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Speaker 3: Look, I know you're not going to agree with me,

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Speaker 3: because you can't. But he wasn't that good as the

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Speaker 3: Police commissioner, so why would he be good at this job?

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Speaker 2: Well, he was, look, in all fairness to the commissioner

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Speaker 2: is a change with a changing Obviously, in opposition, we

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Speaker 2: felt like labor had completely taken us in the wrong

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Speaker 2: direction in terms of public safety, and they had, without

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Speaker 2: a doubt. We've gone backwards on every measure. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of work to do. We're slowly starting to turn

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Speaker 2: that around. However, in all fairness to the Commissioner, he

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Speaker 2: has to serve the government of the day as the

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Speaker 2: incoming national government, as the incoming minister. I sent out

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Speaker 2: a leader of expectation. I released that publicly. It was

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Speaker 2: very clear in terms of what I wanted done, and

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Speaker 2: he has responded to that. So, in all fairness, there's

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Speaker 2: been a real change in the way that gang convoys

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Speaker 2: or police. We haven't had any of our provincial or

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Speaker 2: rural towns taken over by gangs. They've been hammering and

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Speaker 2: doing running operations against the boy racers. We're really getting

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Speaker 2: stuck into the retail crime. There's been a big increase

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Speaker 2: in police presence through beat patrols. You know, every single

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Speaker 2: commonchero in the country's got currently facing charges. So he

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Speaker 2: has actually responded well to that letter of expectation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of feel like this is more of

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Speaker 3: his wheelhouse like the way that he approaches crime. This

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Speaker 3: is where he needs to be. He might act him

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Speaker 3: quite good at this Listen.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you entirely, and I think that when

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Speaker 2: you you know, I worked with him when he was

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Speaker 2: Deputy CEO at Justice and I was the Associate Minister

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Speaker 2: of Justice in the last National government. Very good in

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Speaker 2: that role. You know. I've enjoyed working with him in

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Speaker 2: my role as Police Minister, and I enjoy and I'll

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Speaker 2: enjoy working with him this role. But I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: I think that he's got the strategic sort of oversight

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Speaker 2: in terms of what we need to do, but he's

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Speaker 2: also very much in tune with the operational stuff and

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Speaker 2: the stuff, you know, the front line stuff, and an

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Speaker 2: understanding of where we need to target our resources and

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Speaker 2: efforts in terms of getting stuck in and starting to

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Speaker 2: deal with some of the intergenerational arm that we see

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Speaker 2: in this country.

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Speaker 3: So who are you going to pick? Jevin mcskimming or

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Speaker 3: Richard Chambers.

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Speaker 2: I will that'll be interesting to see who puts their

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Speaker 2: name forward. But you know, we were all obviously the

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Speaker 2: Public Services Commission runs the process. It'll be a fear

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Speaker 2: process and U and we'll see who emerges from that.

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Speaker 3: Mitch, thank you really appreciate your time this Marke much

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Speaker 3: all the police minister. For more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive,

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