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Speaker 1: Part of the crime announcement yesterday, of course included more

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Speaker 1: community beat teams, So we're going to have sixty three

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Speaker 1: in Auckland seventeen and Wellington ten and christ you chare

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Speaker 1: coppers on the beat. The Police Commissioner Andrew Costas with

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

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: How much of what you're doing all this announcement yesterday

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Speaker 1: is about you, your initiative and how you run the

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Speaker 1: police versus the government telling you what to do.

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Speaker 2: Well, the government's given us five hundred additional staff, so

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Speaker 2: there's a great opportunity for us and they've been very

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Speaker 2: clear they can see nutlift and police visibility. We agree

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Speaker 2: with that. To do that, we are both investing new

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Speaker 2: staff but also trying to focus back on our core

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Speaker 2: after being drawn into a range of other activities.

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Speaker 1: And do you agree with it because you were told

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Speaker 1: to agree with it, or you agree with it because

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Speaker 1: you thought of it yourself.

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Speaker 2: Not a quiff had visibility as a key priority for

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Speaker 2: a long time. I think our challenge has been how

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Speaker 2: we balance up the other things. So new investments making

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Speaker 2: a difference there and of course being able or getting

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Speaker 2: support to step back from some of the things other agencies.

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Speaker 1: Ought to be doing, like the mental health stuff. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: have you done that yet or is that a work

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Speaker 1: in progress.

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Speaker 2: We've recently agreed what the triage approach to this will

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Speaker 2: look like, so that will be about the things we

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Speaker 2: can do to manage our time differently. But of course

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Speaker 2: we need to see a response from others to make

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Speaker 2: that workable, and we continue to engage with other agencies

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Speaker 2: on it.

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Speaker 1: I was going to see, you're sort of between a

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Speaker 1: rock and a hard place here, aren't you as willing

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Speaker 1: as you may be? Who's going to pick up the slack?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean there's some truth in that. I think

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Speaker 2: having the support to pull back recognizing there is risk

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Speaker 2: that attaches with us attending fewer events where families are

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Speaker 2: in distress. For example, it makes a difference.

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Speaker 1: The sixty three, seventeen and ten. Where did those numbers

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Speaker 1: come from?

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Speaker 2: The sixty three allows us to both go twenty four

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Speaker 2: to seven and our big coverage of the Auckland CBD

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Speaker 2: plus have three teams of seven covering both the other

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Speaker 2: Auckland districts, so it's the rationale there. In terms of

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Speaker 2: the coverage in Wellington and christ Church, we visited that

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Speaker 2: we will get to a seven day coverage, but we

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Speaker 2: don't think twenty four seven is required. So we've basically

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Speaker 2: worked the numbers based on what we think is required.

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Speaker 1: And it will make a material difference. So I'll be

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Speaker 1: able to walk down Queen Street and see a material

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Speaker 1: difference because things have changed.

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly our visibility is already increasing as the result

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Speaker 2: of the priority that we've put on that. But yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: I mean having a twenty four to seven presence in

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Speaker 2: the Auckland CBD will make a really positive difference. It's

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Speaker 2: not a single solution. A lot of the behavior that's

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Speaker 2: causing people to feel unsafe as anti social behavior falling

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Speaker 2: short of criminality, and so that's part of the ongoing

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Speaker 2: discussion being leadless. Some of the other agencies involved.

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Speaker 1: The five hundred people talked about recruiting. How is recruiting going.

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Speaker 1: Is there a queue of people who want to be

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Speaker 1: coppers or not.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely turned in a positive direction in recent months

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Speaker 2: with greater expressions of interest coming through as the job

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Speaker 2: markets got tighter. Takes a while for those to work

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Speaker 2: their way through the system, but in a sort of

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Speaker 2: kind of environment wherein we would expect to be successful

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Speaker 2: in our.

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Speaker 1: Equipment good stuff. Appreciate your time as always, Andrew Costa,

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Speaker 1: the Police Commission.

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