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Speaker 1: Look a lot better crime wise, as the latest stats

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Speaker 1: revealed the government well ahead of its target on crime reduction.

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Speaker 1: There are twenty nine thousand, twenty nine thousand fewer victims

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Speaker 1: of violent crime than when the government came to power.

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Speaker 1: Another goal by twenty twenty nine was to reduce it

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Speaker 1: by twenty thousand. So they're rolling. Richard Chambers, Police Commissioner

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Speaker 1: back with us. Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: So numbers don't lie. This is a material drop.

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Speaker 2: You've got to be pleased, very very pleased, Mike. I'm

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Speaker 2: stoked also for my staff across the country because I

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Speaker 2: know just how hard they're working, and you know, all

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Speaker 2: centers across the country, and I think these results reflect that.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon? It is because an Auckland, Wellington,

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Speaker 1: christ you to beat patrols are up one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirteen percent, which is a lot. Is it that or

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Speaker 1: is it other things or all of it?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's everything, Mike. I mean when I

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Speaker 2: came in as a commissioner, I was very clear about

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Speaker 2: wanting to ensure that my staff did the basics well

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Speaker 2: and that's about getting the mountain to the community, walking

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Speaker 2: the beat. The stats show just how hard they're working

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Speaker 2: to be visible across so you know, beat teams is

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Speaker 2: one aspect of that. But actually, all my staff across

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Speaker 2: the country are doing an incredible job. They know how

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Speaker 2: important it is to do the basics well good.

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Speaker 1: The serious violent crime part of it, when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at statistics, is that the low hanging fruit or not?

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Speaker 1: Is that the easy stuff to fix?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Pola, thing is not easy, Mike. We deal with many,

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Speaker 2: many complex situations and there are a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: contributors to you know, those fantastic results. So I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure i'd call it low hanging fruit at all. I mean,

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Speaker 2: every day and every night we go out there, we

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Speaker 2: deal with really really tough things. My staff do remarkable

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Speaker 2: work out there day and night, and yeah, the situations

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Speaker 2: that they deal with are challenging, so I wouldn't call

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Speaker 2: it low hanging fruit. You know, we will continue to

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Speaker 2: work very very hard whatever confronts us.

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Speaker 1: The reason I asked the question is they do seem

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Speaker 1: extremely good results. Is there more where that came from?

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Speaker 1: Or another? Is this going to tail off? In other words,

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Speaker 1: the battle ahead is harder.

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Speaker 2: Well, if I think about retail crime as one example,

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Speaker 2: you know that has been increasing considerably. We know that

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Speaker 2: over recent years that that's really started to come down significantly.

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Speaker 2: It's still increasing, but it's increasing at a much slower

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Speaker 2: rate now. Same with ram raids. You know this. So

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Speaker 2: far this year we've had fifty five RAM raids compared

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Speaker 2: to three hundred and eight at the same time in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. So look, there's a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: things that we've got to think about in policing. We've

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Speaker 2: got to balance our resources. But I know how hard

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Speaker 2: the front line's working, and you know they have my

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Speaker 2: support to keep working real hard, keep up the good work.

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Speaker 1: Appreciated it. Richard Chambers, the Police Commissioner with us. For

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