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Speaker 1: I've got some community ganngst over proposals to cut more

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Speaker 1: rural police were in Canterbury where consultations underway on restructuring

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Speaker 1: to a more centralized model. So they're looking to favor

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Speaker 1: twenty four seven hubs in places like Rolliston and Rangua,

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Speaker 1: which of course are booming. Begscreen is the president of

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Speaker 1: Fed Farmers North Canterbury and as with.

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Speaker 2: Us bex morning, good morning, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: So we're talking colvid at least in those sort of

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Speaker 1: areas right cret Okay, So do you know what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Because I heard yesterday someone's going, oh my god, they're

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Speaker 1: going to close down Arthur's Path. Arthur's Pass hasn't had

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Speaker 1: a cop in it for two years, so why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you close it down.

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Speaker 2: Look, they're looking at changing or reducing a lot of

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Speaker 2: areas in rural Crane's Canterbury. So for the likes of

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Speaker 2: colvidin we have two police officers there, they will be

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Speaker 2: disestablished and take entering Euroe.

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Speaker 1: The argument is that just because you close a police

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Speaker 1: station doesn't mean you're not going to have someone on

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Speaker 1: the beat. Do you accept that or is that a

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Speaker 1: possibility or no?

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Speaker 2: I absolutely don't accept it. Our police live in our community,

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Speaker 2: They know the people in the understand the community. If

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Speaker 2: you lose that in a rural community, it's a huge impact. Right.

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Speaker 1: So where are you at with the police and what

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Speaker 1: are the police saying to you as opposed to what

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Speaker 1: they think they can do and what they will do.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. We were not consulted or the

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Speaker 2: community was not consulted prior to hearing this in the media,

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Speaker 2: so we're obviously quite disappointed. Since then, we have I

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Speaker 2: have spoken to Tony Hill. He is coming to our

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Speaker 2: community meetings on Wednesday up in Culberan and obviously we'd

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Speaker 2: like to ask him a lot of questions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't blame you can't blame them in theory.

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Speaker 1: I mean Rollinson rangure is booming and therefore more people,

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Speaker 1: more cops. So you can see why they're focusing on

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Speaker 1: those areas, can't you.

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Speaker 2: Oh but that doesn't mean that you should take away

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Speaker 2: the real police in our royal communities.

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Speaker 1: No, So what sort of timeframe we're dealing on this?

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Speaker 1: When do we need to bring your back back and

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Speaker 1: work out what's going on here?

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Speaker 2: Look, the submissions are closed or the two week consultation

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Speaker 2: with the staff is next Wednesday, the thirteenth of July.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: In that time the community can write some missions and

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Speaker 2: we obviously have our community meeting technique this Wednesday, where

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Speaker 2: we hopefully can get some answers to the questions that

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Speaker 2: we have around how our communities and then I guess

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Speaker 2: from there we'll find.

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Speaker 1: Out all right, We'll stay in touch. Becks apreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Backs Green, president of Fed Farmers in North Canterbury. For

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