Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby
Ryan Bridge: We need 500 excellent cops, not average ones
- Autor: Vários
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- Duración: 0:01:55
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So it looks like looks like police will miss the deadline of adding 500 extra sworn officers by 2026. What we were promised should take two years. Now the new Police Commissioner, when fronting scrutiny week in parliament, he said it will take 2.5 years. So an extra six months - will anyone really care? Probably not. Should we care? When there are more bad guys out there doing bad things, we should always care about how many good guys and girls we have out there countering that. But on this particular point of missing a target by 180 odd days, not really. Why? One - the target was always described as highly ambitious and that should be a clue from a politician. Two - they may still make the deadline. That has not been discounted at this point and they are working hard to do that. Three - it was only a target because it was included in the coalition agreement with New Zealand First. And clearly, if you follow the public comments of Mark Mitchell through the past year, even N