Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. In light of that I would ask the Minister of Health to go away and to provide to the Opposition the briefing notes and the papers from the police that he stated in the House tonight say that they do not support this bill and say that this bill is going to be counterintuitive because the Opposition does not have those briefing notes. We have not received that information. We will go back and check the Hansard but I'm sure that Minister has taken a call tonight in the House and quoted from a report and official documents that were provided by the New Zealand Police. So I would ask the Minister or someone or another Labour member that's going to take a call to go and get those documents and please table them for us so the Opposition are able to take that advice and look at the information because we have not seen those briefings.I just want to come back very quickly to the New Zealand Police Association because they do always genuinely have a very good feel for what is happening and especially in relation to legislation like this. Bearing in mind and addressing the issue about why this was not brought to the House when the National Party was in Government this is a member's bill. This is a bill that the member felt strongly about that was put in the ballot and was drawn from the ballot. It was actually a bill that was driven out of a select committee process that was under way. So that's why the bill is in the House.I just want to go back to some comments that Chris Cahill made—[Interruption] ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! Order! I will not have the two of you debating across the Chamber.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker Chris Cahill is the President of the New Zealand Police Association. I was reading an editorial or a report that he wrote just yesterday and one of the issues that he was raising—there is a real concern about in modern policing today—is the fact that there is a rise in organised gangs and crime and that the young police officers coming out the college now are within two or three weeks having firearms presented at them and having had to deal with the threat of firearms. Matt King: It happened in Kaitāia.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Just recently it happened in Kaitāia apparently. Normally the firearms are in the hands of violent gang members and this is a bill that's been brought to this House to give the police the power—those young police officers that are going out on to the street and putting themselves at risk—to be able to actually level the playing field a bit and to mitigate that risk. And we've got the Government standing in opposition to this bill. When you've got the police Minister who seems to be missing tonight—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! You will not refer to a member that's not in the Chamber.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Sorry Madam Assistant Speaker; you're right. The police Minister has been a strong advocate and at every given chance he has been very vocal about the fact that he's taking strong steps against gangs and organised crime. What's his position on this? What's his feeling about this—about a bill that's actually going to give the police service the ability to be able to go in there—Hon Dr David Clark: He says it's piecemeal.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Don't give us part of the information Minister. Don't give us part of the information—600 searches; give us all the information. Give us the whole picture because you seem to be cherry-picking at the moment to be able to make an argument against a bill that we see as being very effective in allowing our police force our police service to actually take steps against organised crime and criminal gangs. I find it ironic that we were in the House before the last recess debating the National Animal Identification and Tracing Amendment Bill where it was OK for the Government to bring a bill to the House to say that you could have warrantless searches when it related to dairy cows. But now they're saying it's not OK to have a warrantless search when it relates to firearms in the hands of criminals and gang members. That to me is sending a very very poor message to the people of New Zealand.Just let me give you a very quick example: the police service in Kaitaia receives some information to say that there are some patched gang members that are getting organised to go down to the local BP station and commit an armed robbery using sawn-off shotguns—that information comes to the police. This bill here allows them to respond immediately. If they know they're dealing with violent gang members that have got the prohibition attached to them around the ownership of firearms it allows them to respond immediately. It allows them to go to that gang pad it allows them to enter the property and it allows them to search for weapons similar to domestic violence orders.So this is a very good bill. It's a bill that is actually going to level the playing field a bit. It is going to allow our police officers to go into a violent gang member's home and search and make sure that he's not in possession of firearms. It's going to help those young cops—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member your time has expired.