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Labour said it will deliver the "largest police service" in New Zealand history if re-elected to power at the election, with 300 additional police officers. It is part of the party's law and order policy, released today in Hamilton, and would cost $124 million over four years. It would be delivered through an additional 50 officers graduating in the first year (2024 / 2025), 75 in each of the second and third years, and 100 in the fourth year, for a cumulative total of 300 extra over the four-year period. It also included moves aimed at strengthening legal protections against stalking and harassment, a "crackdown" on gang leaders and "disruptive gang convoys". Labour promises crackdown on gangs, 300 extra frontline officers Play Video2:24 The victims of crime say it's too little, too late from the Labour Party, senior political reporter Benedict Collins reports. (Source: 1News) A review of the reparation system is also in the mix, aimed at speeding up payments for victims. Labour leader Chris Hipkins said while in government his party had delivered 1800 new police officers, the largest increase in policing numbers in New Zealand history. “This was a deliberate policy to support our frontline and increase community safety, following a decade of underinvestment by the previous National Government, which resulted in 30 police stations closing around the country." He said the party would build on that by delivering 300 more officers, if re-elected to power. Police officers graduate in 2023 (Source: 1News) It would mean there was one officer for every 470 New Zealanders he said - "the best ratio in modern history". The Police Act 1886 established New Zealand's first national, civil, police force, meaning it has existed formally for 137 years. The ratio was one to 541 officers in 2017, he said. “With 300 more cops we would increase the frontline by 2100 officers since we came into office. This is three times the amount National delivered over the same timeframe, when they were last in office. “We will also continue to crack down on gangs. Recently, we’ve seen communities disrupted and intimidated by dangerous gang convoys. This is intolerable. “Labour will introduce laws to punish this behaviour and develop new ways to target gangs leaders and break their international links." He said Labour had a "proud track record" of standing up for victims of violent crime, including establishing a new criminal offence for strangulation, tripling funding for the Victims Assistance Scheme and doubling funding for Victim Support. "Recently passed legislation also provides more rights and protections to victims of family and sexual violence. “We will go further for victims in relation to stalking and harassment by modernising our laws, to bring them in line with overseas jurisdictions. This will include exploring the possibility of creating an offence for stalking with a penalty of imprisonment." He said better support for victims will be provided following a review of the reparations system, which sees offenders ordered to pay victims for the harm caused. “Being the victim of a crime is painful enough without having to wait an extended period of time for the reparations you deserve. We will review this process to investigate how we can speed it up. “We will continue with our plans to free up Police time by enabling mental health experts to respond to mental health call outs, pass law to make ram raiding an offence, and make aiding and abetting youth crime and posting yourself committing crime online aggravating factors at sentencing." Police officers would receive better training also, he said, with the nationwide rollout of the Tactical Response Model. "We will continue to support the firearms registry, which is at risk under an ACT-National Government, who refuse to make keeping it a bottom-line."

Ladies and Gentlemen this is a classic example of projection. Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions. Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings.

I'm a little bit worried about you. Can we provide support services?

I should have wrote that in the sarcasm font.

Well they don't according to your statistics they have a 66% greater chance of injury if they make contact with the rail.

I didn't back him because your gut told you he was injured.

Seemed to run OK.

Labour are getting really desperate now. Even their own polls are telling them that.

Didn't realise Muller was Justice Minister and deliberately crashed his car and ran away.

How's Kiri?

I think you are having one of these:

I thought the sentence was quite succinct and unambiguous. Phenylbutazone isn't a prohibited substance if below the following levels: 4.2.2. Phenylbutazone at a mass concentration of 100.0 micrograms per litre in plasma. That is a very very low level which is reached 5 days after administration of the normal dose. As you know I've long argued that they should release the detailed results for any positive returned. However they are reluctant to do that as it will increase the debate about what are performance enhancing levels when it is easier just to have zero and ignore environmental contamination.

Note the total Government Bonds on issue have more than doubled since September 2017.

You really are economical with the truth. Robertson gave the RB access to a wider range of AMP tools and then put pressure on them to use them. Not to mention the infinite loop of Treasury issuing Government Bonds and the Reserve Bank having to buy them to keep control of inflation and interest rates. Although the Reserve Bank has stopped purchasing the Treasury hasn't stopped issuing bonds. So much for independence: Since March, the Reserve Bank had been printing tens of billions of dollars and pumping it into the economy using something called LSAP (Large-Scale Asset Purchases). The LSAP worked; New Zealand's unemployment rate of 4.9 per cent is well below where economists feared it might be. But the LSAP has had some negative side effects too. Asset purchases have pushed interest rates down, unleashing a wave of cheap lending that has sent the housing market rocket to record highs in the midst of a global recession. Robertson had initially been sceptical of the link between the Bank’s money printing and high house prices, but the Reserve Bank letter marked the point at which Robertson officially acknowledged that not only was the Bank’s money printing having an effect on the housing market, but that he and the Bank should work together and do something about it. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300223358/reserve-bank-repeatedly-warned-government-money-printing-would-lead-to-house-price-inflation https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300166483/grant-robertson-writes-to-reserve-bank-saying-its-time-to-think-about-house-prices

Has it helped turnover?

Really? Obviously you didn't keep up with Borrow and Print Robertson or turned a socialist blind eye. Read the two documents attached. How independent under this Labour Government is the Reserve Bank? BTW the $30 billion didn't last long as a target. March-2020-Memorandum-of-Understanding-regarding-the-use-of-alternative-monetary-policy-tools.pdf 21-March-2020-Letter-from-the-Reserve-Bank-to-the-Minister-of-Finance-requesting-an-indemnity.pdf

You don't understand markets - we all realise this. We know the majority of the population don't bet on horses however the majority of the population do gamble. The subset that do bet on racing is large enough to ignore the animal activists.

Yet you saying "John Key did it" does? With a very limited toolset to achieve their targets which Borrow and Print Robertson further stuffed up with his QE memorandum. The ANZ said this morning that Labour flooding the market with Government Bonds is going to keep interest rates high and probably increase for longer than anticipated. Cost to the taxpayer in Government interest repayments is going tobe a lot higher than the $17m per day it is now. Fair call for the next Government to blame Labour for this mess!

Perhaps you should stick to spreadsheet analysis rather than relying on your gut......seconds thoughts probably not.

Why pacify a minority most of whom don't bet and want racing stopped completely. Sufficient numbers in the market to ignore them.

You said you had only two 6 packs! The first race at Hastings is midday - the last at Moonee Valley is 7:25pm. 12 x 330ml cans over 7 hours......not enough!

If he is an "investigative journalist" what is he doing "speculating"? Rubbish. Are you saying NO toxicology tests were undertaken? Also that such tests would have departed from the normal testing protocols? That is tested for less? To quote the RIB: "Autopsies on the horses, by three separate veterinarians, showed each died from different forms of heart failure, the summary said. The findings were reviewed by another veterinarian. Samples taken from the three horses returned clear results for prohibited substances."

Here's the thing. @Archie Butterfly links a recent bute positive to the previous deaths inferring that it was the cause. If it was then why didn't the toxicology reports from the autopsies find evidence of bute? BTW bute isn't a PED - it relieves pain but doesn't make a horse 5 seconds faster. @Archie Butterfly is a fraud.

Because the RIB has more leaks than my mums colander!!!