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Speaker 1: So it looks like looks like police will miss the

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Speaker 1: deadline of adding five hundred extra sworn officers. What we

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Speaker 1: were promised should take two years will now in fact

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Speaker 1: more likely, according to the top brass scrutiny week in

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Speaker 1: Parliament this week, take two and a half years. So

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Speaker 1: an extra six months. Will anyone really care? Probably not.

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Speaker 1: Should we care? Well, when there are more bad guys

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Speaker 1: out there doing bad things, we should always care about

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Speaker 1: how many good guys and girls we have out there

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Speaker 1: encountering that. But on this particular point of missing a

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Speaker 1: target by one hundred and eighty odd days, not really why.

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Speaker 1: One the target was always described as highly ambitious and

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Speaker 1: that should be a clue from a politician. Two they

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Speaker 1: may still make the deadline. I mean that has not

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Speaker 1: been discounted at this point and they are working hard

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Speaker 1: to do that. Three, it was only a target because

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Speaker 1: it was included in a coalition agreement with New Zealand. First,

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Speaker 1: and clearly, if you follow the public comments of Mark

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Speaker 1: Mitchell through the past year, even National has been skeptical

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Speaker 1: about the timing of it. And most importantly, not hitting

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Speaker 1: five hundred by November next year doesn't mean that we'll

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Speaker 1: have zero extra cops on the beat by that date.

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Speaker 1: It means we'll probably have a few hundred extra, with

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Speaker 1: more coming in mid twenty twenty six. The most reassuring

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Speaker 1: thing about this whole debarcle were the words from the

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Speaker 1: new Commissioner, Richard Chambers yesterday, who said, we are not

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Speaker 1: going to compromise. So if it takes us a little

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Speaker 1: bit of time to produce the best quality officers, then

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Speaker 1: we'll take that, and is right, of course, of course

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Speaker 1: he's right, because we need five hundred good cops, five

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Speaker 1: hundred great cops, five hundred excellent cops, well trained and

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Speaker 1: well resourced, not five hundred average cops. For more from

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