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More Police Needed Because of Crime, Not Population

Ron Mark MP
Spokesperson for Police
11 AUGUST 2016

More Police Needed Because of Crime, Not Population


National are kidding the public and using the pretext of growing population to explain their plans to increase police numbers but it’s really because crime has gone up, says New Zealand First.

“Since 2008 the total number of incidents that police have attended has increased from 420,000 in 2008 to 525,000 in 2015 and of those incidents the number of arrests made has dropped from 72,000 to 69,000 in 2015,” says New Zealand First Spokesperson for Police, Ron Mark.

“That’s a drop in arrests, while incidents have gone up, but the government keeps saying crime is going down when in reality, it isn’t.

“In Northland, police report serious crime is up by 17 per cent and other police around the country are finding they must do more with less.

“With crime supposedly going down, if you believed the government, why would you need more police to solve less crime?

“Police Minister Judith Collins only spoke up about increasing police numbers after New Zealand First said this would be a bottom line.

“The National government know they have to play catch-up over police numbers because the public are getting fed up about increased crime and we are lagging far behind other countries,” Mr Mark says.

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