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Speaker 1: Scrutiny week at Parliament's tossed up some interesting material, hasn't it,

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Speaker 1: some of which popped up yesterday around policing and crime.

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Speaker 1: Government's promise of five hundred year police officers within two

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Speaker 1: years might be an issue. Our prison might be full,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, as soon as due next year.

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Speaker 1: Both issues fall under the watchful, of course, of the

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Speaker 1: Police and Corrections Minister. Who is Mark Mitchell's well this

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Speaker 1: morning to you?

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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Did Chambers drop you in it?

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Speaker 2: No? No, not at all. No, he was one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent right what he said is that number one I've

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Speaker 2: been very hot on as well. We're definitely not dropping

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Speaker 2: standards and fit quite the opposite. The curriculum at the

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Speaker 2: Police College went from sixteen weeks to twenty weeks for

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Speaker 2: more training. We remain committed to that target of ten

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Speaker 2: seven hundred eleven police officers trained by November twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: But of course we knew that was always going to

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Speaker 2: be ambitious, but we remain committed to it. We'll get

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Speaker 2: as close to it as we can.

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Speaker 1: As you sit here this morning. Is he right in

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Speaker 1: saying what he said yesterday? It's probably twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: No, what they are talking about there is the funding,

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Speaker 2: so you've got to have funding in place. The funding

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Speaker 2: is the appropriation goes through to June twenty twenty sixth.

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Speaker 2: That's what they were talking about. Everyone is absolutely committed

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Speaker 2: and still focused on delivering by twenty seventh in November

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. We know that it's aspirational, we know

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Speaker 2: it'll be tight, but we committed to it. All the

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Speaker 2: briefings that I've had in Casey and the only reason

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Speaker 2: why Casey's talking to it, it's her delegation under the

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Speaker 2: portfolio is everyone is committed to it.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're committed to it. But do you need more money?

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Speaker 1: And if you need more money, will more money be

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Speaker 1: coming or No.

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Speaker 2: No, we don't need more money. All the money is there.

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Speaker 2: The money is there. We're just getting on with it.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, we've got a very strong pipeline

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Speaker 2: of police officers, apply of people pipeline. No, there's a

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Speaker 2: strong pipeline there. And all the advice that we've had

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Speaker 2: is that we're on track. We know that it was.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: No, he's not wrong, he's one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Right, really right in you you're on tracking you're not

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Speaker 1: on track. Which is it? You're other on tracking, you're

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Speaker 1: not mark.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are on track, the police are on track.

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Speaker 2: That's the briefings of the information that we've had. And

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Speaker 2: I think what the Commissioner was saying, I agree with them,

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Speaker 2: is that it's ambitious. We're not dropping standards. Absolutely, we're

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Speaker 2: not going to be doing that.

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Speaker 1: I get that you don't want to drop standards. But

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Speaker 1: when he says it's most likely to be the middle

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Speaker 1: of twenty six, if he's right in saying that, that's

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Speaker 1: a broken promise, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I think that he was talking about the funding runs

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Speaker 2: through June twenty six.

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Speaker 1: All right, so you said here confidently this morning is

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Speaker 1: my Christmas present to the z B listeners. You will deliver.

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Speaker 1: I have promised five hundred by the end of next year.

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Speaker 2: That is what our target is. That's what we're working towards,

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Speaker 2: and we remain focused on that. We're committed to that.

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Speaker 1: Okay. The thing is, there was a best and worst scenario.

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Speaker 1: You do we know which one it's going to be,

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Speaker 1: And if it's the worst, is that a problem?

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Speaker 2: No? No, there's going to be plenty capacity in in

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Speaker 2: our correction system. They've done an outstanding job. They're bringing

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Speaker 2: more beds online. We've got I was down at Wykiria

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Speaker 2: last week. We're bringing six hundred and fifty more beds

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Speaker 2: online down there, and we turned the side for the

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Speaker 2: for the next stage of the project, which will do

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Speaker 2: a further eight hundred and ten days. So no, we

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Speaker 2: will on. Well, we've got plenty of capacity. Corrections have

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Speaker 2: been doing an outstanding job. They're above the rate of attrition.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got lots of new Chrestians officers coming in.

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Speaker 2: We're actually in pretty good shape.

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Speaker 1: You're not giving us any flannel for Christmas? Here are you? Mark?

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Speaker 1: For goodness? Say you're not gilding the lily? Here are you?

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Speaker 2: No, not at all, But talking about Christmas, I actually

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Speaker 2: wanted to get you a gift, Mike. I've been on

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Speaker 2: the show for six years. Yes, I love being on

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Speaker 2: the show. Thank you for having me on again this year.

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Speaker 2: But what do you get a guy that's got everything?

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Speaker 2: And I thought, well, I said to Sarah what we

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Speaker 2: get Mike? She said, well, you know what about chemo

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Speaker 2: golf balls. I don't think he's a golf player. And

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Speaker 2: if you've got Camo golf balls, you're going to lose

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Speaker 2: it every time. No one's going to know you played

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Speaker 2: a crap shot. So I thought, yeah, that's a good

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Speaker 2: present of someone that's got everything. But listen, Mike, can

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Speaker 2: I just say thank you to all the listeners that

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Speaker 2: tune in for Politics Wednesday. It's been a huge door

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Speaker 2: opener for me around the country because of that common link.

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Speaker 2: And what's really been what's really been noticeable for me

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Speaker 2: this year is with my emergency management role, is that

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Speaker 2: I've been to eight local states for emergency and it's

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Speaker 2: been a huge door opener of the air for me.

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Speaker 2: And there's already some sort of trust that's been established

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Speaker 2: because they feel like they know me through through the show.

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Speaker 2: So I just wanted to say thank you, thank you

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Speaker 2: to see them and Glenn wishing you guys are really

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Speaker 2: merry Christmas. And to all the listeners that tune in

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Speaker 2: to the show, but also to Politics Wednesday and Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, well done and you go well,

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Speaker 1: we'll catch up with you next year. And does same

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Speaker 1: to you of course, make Mitchell Minister of Police and Corrections.

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