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Speaker 1: Auckland is be vigilant in public. That is the message

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Speaker 1: from Police Safety on public transport in the spotlight following

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Speaker 1: the death of a woman on an on the Hunger bus.

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Speaker 1: It was half mid afternoon. This happened. A thirty seven

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Speaker 1: year old man sought by a police handed himself in yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but no charges have yet been laid. Simeon Brown is

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Speaker 1: the Transport minister. Minister, good morning, thanks for being on

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Speaker 1: the program.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me anything about this is a tragedy

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Speaker 1: for the victim here in the victims family. Do you

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Speaker 1: know anything about her?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't at this stage. All I'd say is

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Speaker 2: this is an absolutely tragic situation for the family the victim,

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Speaker 2: and really I feel for them. But also it's really

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Speaker 2: important we now work across Auckland to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we are restoring confidence for Uklanders to use public transport.

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Speaker 1: Is it safe to go on a bus or a

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Speaker 1: train in.

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Speaker 2: Auckland, Well it is. I think The issue here though,

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Speaker 2: is there we have real challenges around law and order

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Speaker 2: across New Zealand and that's why we are really focusing

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Speaker 2: in our police back on the front line. I'm meeting

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Speaker 2: with Mark Mitchfield and with officials from police and Aukland

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Speaker 2: Transport later today to talk about the situation and what

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Speaker 2: more can be done. The key issue here is to

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Speaker 2: ensure that we are utilizing the resources that we have,

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Speaker 2: to give Aucklander's confidence around utilizing public transport, keeping public

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Speaker 2: transport workers safe, and looking at what more we can do.

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Speaker 1: The heroes reported on previous and are threatening to kill

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Speaker 1: by stabbing. Sentenced in May. This is the guy who

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Speaker 1: has been arrested. Got a year and seven months. People

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Speaker 1: get automatically released after half of their sentence if it's

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Speaker 1: less than two years. You know, it was alleged to

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Speaker 1: a breach bail. Should this guy have been on the streets.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why we're changing things like the Sentencing Act.

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Speaker 2: That's why we're removing, you know, making it harder to

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Speaker 2: get parole in some of these circumstances. That's why we're

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Speaker 2: reducing the work that Paul Goldsmith's doing around reducing some

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Speaker 2: of the discretions that judges have around discounting sentences. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's what we were elected in order to deliver, and

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Speaker 2: that's what we are. That's the legislation that's currently going

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Speaker 2: through parliament and.

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Speaker 1: Auto release after half your time served under two years.

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Speaker 1: Those seems a bit a bit loose, but you're not

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Speaker 1: changing that.

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Speaker 2: Well, if there's a range of things, we are changing

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Speaker 2: because ultimately we need to make sure that you know,

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Speaker 2: serious violent offenders our help account and we're a public

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Speaker 2: safety first in our criminal justice system. That's why God

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Speaker 2: of our legislation going through parliament.

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Speaker 1: Should he have been on the street.

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Speaker 2: Well if I don't know all the details in terms

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Speaker 2: of that, but all I say is does it make

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Speaker 2: we are changing?

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Speaker 1: Does it make it?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? Absolutely? I feel you know, I feel like most

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Speaker 2: AUK doers probably feel this morning, which is a sense

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Speaker 2: of anger, a sense of you know, concern, And I

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Speaker 2: think the key thing here is, you know, whether you're

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Speaker 2: walking down the street, going on a bus or a train,

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Speaker 2: you deserve to feel safe. And you know, we need

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Speaker 2: to make sure that the legislation prevents serious dangerous offenders

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Speaker 2: from being able to be you know what, then we

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Speaker 2: want to protect New Zealanders from them. We also need

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Speaker 2: to make sure that police resources focused on the rudio

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Speaker 2: that Mark Mitchell's doing, but making sure the police are

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Speaker 2: focused on frontline activities. And it's why We also meet

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Speaker 2: with Auckland Transport and police officials a bit later today

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Speaker 2: to talk about, you know, what what can we do

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Speaker 2: with the resource we've got. There's also some funding that's

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Speaker 2: available around putting more screens and for bus drivers and

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Speaker 2: getting that rolled out of it faster potentially. So there's

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Speaker 2: there's things that we can do and we're going to

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Speaker 2: be talking about how we can how we can continue

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Speaker 2: to do that.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's hope something comes with that. Minister, Really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. Thank you for being with me.

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Speaker 1: That's Simeon Brown.

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