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Speaker 1: Domestically once again. We're angsting apparently this morning about the

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Speaker 1: government's target of five hundred new cops by November. We've

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Speaker 1: got briefing papers out of February that show a lower

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Speaker 1: pass rate for trainees. We've got the physical aspect of

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Speaker 1: the test an issue. Apparently the Associate Policemanister Casey Castello

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Speaker 1: is with us on that's very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Given this was February. I just can't work out, given

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Speaker 1: the target is November and it's still only April, are

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Speaker 1: we I mean, are we panicking here? Is there a

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Speaker 1: red flag here? Or should we just wait until April

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Speaker 1: to see where we get to?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's the big issue here. We

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Speaker 2: have a twenty week recruitment course. The last wing that

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Speaker 2: would go in will be July, and still graduated the

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Speaker 2: twenty seventh of November, so we still have a few

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Speaker 2: months to get through. And we still have the Auckland

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Speaker 2: Training Base to open, which we hope to put an

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Speaker 2: additional wing through the air in June. So you know,

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Speaker 2: we have all of the forecasting is not particularly helpful

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Speaker 2: month by month analysis because things such ate and change

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Speaker 2: to call on that readiness quote that's in the article.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a bit misconstrued. What we're talking about

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Speaker 2: is because we've sped out the amount of time that

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Speaker 2: gets from a recruit applying to getting to college, that's

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Speaker 2: a much shorter time. So what we're talking about is

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Speaker 2: readiness to get to the college, and that's usually the

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Speaker 2: fitness standard. I know when I went down, you know,

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Speaker 2: God nearly forty years ago, you had a short space

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Speaker 2: of time to get from Oh you're going, and to

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Speaker 2: be ready to get into the college. You've got a

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Speaker 2: part pass a fitness test. And that's what we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: That readiness there not not the pass rate out of college.

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Speaker 2: That's still very high.

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Speaker 1: Got chat. Last time I heard there was generally speaking

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Speaker 1: good interest in applying. Is that still applicable or not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, still very good interest. And the police have done

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary job in terms of the promotion, the recruitment.

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Speaker 2: The standard we're maintaining is incredible. I'm actually heading out

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Speaker 2: to the college this morning for another wing coming into college.

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Speaker 2: The standard of recruits is really impressive, and the engagement

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Speaker 2: and the process has been really good. So we're still

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Speaker 2: very confident. Attrition rate fluctuates up and down all the time.

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Speaker 2: And we know we've got overseas. You know, we've got

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Speaker 2: previous cops who are trying to rejoin. So there's really

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Speaker 2: good interest in the place.

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Speaker 1: Is the media getting to I mean, I suppose it

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Speaker 1: to your fault, you did say five hundred, But is

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Speaker 1: the media getting overly fixated on this whether it's four eight, seven,

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Speaker 1: five oh five. If you've got the message out there,

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Speaker 1: people feel safe for people are getting arrested, they're being

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Speaker 1: dealt to the police forces back, does it really matter?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the key point. A. We're getting great

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Speaker 2: interest in joining the place. There's more, you know, the

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Speaker 2: police themselves are happier with the job they're doing. They're

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Speaker 2: feeling like they're back doing what they were joined the

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Speaker 2: police to do. There's really good morales. Just up at

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Speaker 2: Kaiko Kitty Kitty last week saying there's really good stuff

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Speaker 2: happening on the ground and police are feeling really good

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Speaker 2: about the job they do. And that's reflective and that's

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Speaker 2: what us target is about us making sure that we

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Speaker 2: get really good interest in joining the police from really

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Speaker 2: good people because it is an amazing career, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Casually appreciate it. Very much, Casey Costello, Associate Police Minister.

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