Hon Jim Anderton
Member of Parliament for Wigram
Progressive Leader

11 September 2009
Media Statement

Jim delivers on his promise

Twenty years ago, local MP Jim Anderton was promised funding to build a new police station in Sydenham. He put out a press release to announce the good news.

The 1984 press release has been pinned on the police notice board ever since.

“I was promised that the Christchurch South Police would have a new station in two to three years,” MP for Wigram Jim Anderton said.

But the funding never eventuated, until the last Labour-led government.

“I’m told that the police are going to frame the old press release from 1984 and give it to me!

“When I first arrived in Christchurch and stood as an MP in 1984, I could see that the police had totally inadequate facilities and were spread out over three sites which was hard to administer.

“In the 1984 –1990 Labour government, I kept reminding the Cabinet of their promise. In the years of the Labour-Progressive government of 1999 – 2008, I promised my Labour Cabinet colleagues that the only way they would get rid of me was to build the Christchurch South Police Station.

“That’s why I was thrilled to be present when the former Minister of Police, Annette King, laid the foundation for the new building last year and am thrilled that the police are finally in their new headquarters,” Jim Anderton said today.

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