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Speaker 1: So Andrew Costa has revealed he's not going to be

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Speaker 1: seeking a second term as police Commissioner, which I think

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Speaker 1: is going to upset almost no one. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think most of us are going to be happy to

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Speaker 1: see the back of them, aren't we, Because while he

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Speaker 1: absolutely does look like a decent and very very very capable,

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Speaker 1: smart guy, he's just been really rubbish at the job,

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Speaker 1: isn't he. I mean, I think for a start, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be great for police morale, because they

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Speaker 1: have been quite vocal about the fact that they've been

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Speaker 1: quite unhappy about being led by a man who doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to actually want to chase down the bad guys

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Speaker 1: quite as much as they do. But I also think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be good for public confidence too, because

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Speaker 1: I think we would all prefer to see a police

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Speaker 1: boss who wants to lock up the perpetrators of this

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Speaker 1: current crime problem that we're experiencing now. To be fair

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Speaker 1: to Andrew Costa, the fact that he's not seeking a

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Speaker 1: second term really isn't all that unusual Historically for police bosses.

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Speaker 1: We haven't actually had one go much longer than six

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Speaker 1: years since about the nineteen forties. But the trouble for

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Speaker 1: him is that no one cares about that. What we

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Speaker 1: all care about is that everybody knows he isn't wanted

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Speaker 1: in the job, right. I mean that was made abundantly

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Speaker 1: clear when after the election the new Police Minister Mark

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Speaker 1: Mitchell wouldn't express confidence in Costa. That said everything you

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Speaker 1: needed to know. It was even more obvious when Mark

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Speaker 1: Mitchell published that letter telling Andrew Costa how to do

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Speaker 1: his job. So even if Andrew Costa did want to

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Speaker 1: have a second term, which you may well have, he

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Speaker 1: would have probably by now have had a little chat

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Speaker 1: to Mark Mitchell and have been told that ain't gonna happen. Mate. Now,

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Speaker 1: to Costa's credit, he has lifted his game under this

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Speaker 1: new government. But it's never really been convincing, has it,

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Speaker 1: because everything just happens so slowly. I mean, for example,

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Speaker 1: the foot patrols in Auckland absolutely wonderful. I welcome them,

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Speaker 1: but Auckland retailers had to beg for months and they

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Speaker 1: had to hold public meetings to be able to get

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Speaker 1: those foot patrols announced. And the crackdown on the boy

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Speaker 1: races again brilliant, happy to see it, but first we

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Speaker 1: had to witness offices and live in retreating from a

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Speaker 1: mob of wild boy racers, Like, why does it have

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Speaker 1: to get to the point where you desperately need the

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Speaker 1: thing before the thing happens? This should be obvious to

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Speaker 1: a place spots to do this stuff. It just never

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Speaker 1: felt like being disciplined. Daddy was in his nature. He

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Speaker 1: was the soft guy. He's always going to be the

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Speaker 1: soft parent. So probably I think we've just got the

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Speaker 1: best outcome for everyone. By Andrew Costa and the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Police consciously uncoupling in April next year. For more

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