1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,800 Speaker 1: It's a lot going on in the crime and justice 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: space this week. One punch laws to talk about shortly, 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: but also today we've got the new police college opening. 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: The Royal New Zealand Police College Auckland campus will have 5 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: its ribbon cutif in fact there is a ribbon. The 6 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Police Commissioner Richard Chambers is with us on this Richard morning. 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. 8 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: Is there a ribbon? 9 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: Well, I suspect there may be. There will certainly be 10 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 2: a plaque. 11 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: Is a we should have done this years ago vibe 12 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: about it? 13 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 2: Well, look, we had done it before, Mike, not for 14 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: some years. But you know, we are obviously putting through 15 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 2: a lot of recruits at the moment, and I know 16 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 2: that over the years some people have steered away from 17 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: a career in the police because you're traveling down to 18 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: our PARRIU college for twenty weeks since it's quite a 19 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: challenge for some family. So this is about creating opportunities 20 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 2: for those that might find Pari EU for twenty weeks 21 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: a challenge and a bit more local. So the forty 22 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: that we have getting underway today, thirty three of those 23 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: are from Tomaki, Mikoto, and seven of them are from Norton. 24 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to ask, so what are you doing? 25 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: Are we getting more police or are we just getting 26 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: the same number of police shuffled about in two different 27 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: locations around the country. 28 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: Well, any one wing we can manage up to one 29 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: hundred recruits and the reason for that is that our 30 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: numbers per recruit and our trainers is very important. We 31 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: can't overwhelm the trainers. We need to be able to 32 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: create opportunities for one on one as best we can. 33 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: So the more recruits we have, the less that personal time. 34 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 2: So we operate to a maximum one hundred. So yesterday 35 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: we had sixty start in Pariua College and today we 36 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: had forty up here in Auckland. But right now we 37 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 2: have five wings going through, So we have four wings 38 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: down in pari Rua and at the moment, over three 39 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty recruits are training to join New Zealand place. 40 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: And I don't remember a time where we've had so 41 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: many recruits training at any time encouraging. 42 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: Why are they Is this the promotion? Is this the 43 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: noise around it? Or what? 44 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: Look? I mean, I've been around for thirty years and 45 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: policing fantastic career and there's no doubt there are. So 46 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: they thousands more out there to join can very keen 47 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 2: to join the zen On Police, and we have been 48 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: putting a lot of effort into our recruitment. We've got 49 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: a five hundred more come in our way, as you know, 50 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: and we're working really really hard to recruit when you 51 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: have thousands in the pipeline. But we take very seriously 52 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: our recruitment process, and of the ten who say may 53 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 2: apply to join police, we actually only get one coming 54 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: to the college because we have very intensive expectations, you know, 55 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: processes be the physical, medical, or academic. So it sounds 56 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 2: like quite a low number ten percent, but you know, 57 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 2: we do have standards in place which is on as 58 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: you know, determined to ensure we look. 59 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,399 Speaker 1: Up to the legal stuff that we're talking about this week, 60 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: the one punch, the discounts and courts, all of that 61 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: sort of stuff the government are moving on. 62 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: Does this help you, Well, Look, our job, Michael, is 63 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 3: to enforce the law, whatever the law is, and we 64 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: certainly welcome the new coward punk flaws. I mean, you know, 65 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: in New Zealand people have lost their lives as a 66 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: consequence of coward punches when victims are distracted and you know, 67 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 3: can't defend themselves. And you know, I appreciate the some 68 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: perspectives out there, but either they will enforce the law, 69 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: and we have experienced some tragedies in our own country 70 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 3: through coward punches. 71 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: All right, Richard, appreciate your time very much. Richard Chambers, 72 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: who's the police commissioner with us for more from the 73 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: Mic Asking Breakfast. 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