Bakshi Kanwaljit SinghKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): I would like to start from where my colleague left about mental health. Before I touch upon the mental health part I would like to give the good news to my friend Aupito William Sio that the Government has allocated more than $500 million for the justice sector and particularly for increasing police numbers. That was discussed in the select committee at length. My good friend was at the select committee where the Ministers the Hon Paula Bennett and the Hon Louise Upston explained their ambitions and what they want to achieve as Ministers in both votes.It is very important to understand that if there is a problem it cannot be fixed overnight; it takes a while. But we are getting 880 extra police officers on the front line and out of those more than 250 will be allocated to Auckland. Another piece of good news for my friend Aupito William Sio is that recently from the last graduation we had 26 extra police officers who came to Counties Manukau.The police are doing an excellent job and we should appreciate them. I also do not agree with the assertion made by the previous speaker Aupito William Sio that the police are not responding. Police told us at the Law and Order Committee that they are responding and the expectation from the Government to the police while allocating the extra funding is that within 48 hours they will respond to every burglary. That was mentioned by the Commissioner of Police during the select committee hearings.Darroch Ball: Forty-eight hours?KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI: My friend from New Zealand First is shouting. Forty-eight hours for minor crimes is not bad.Darroch Ball: What are serious crimes?KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI: Serious crimes are attended immediately for your knowledge. You should go and talk to the police and see and ask your good friend Mahesh Bindra who is sitting with you. He can brief you that the police are doing an excellent job.Here I would like to also mention that the police are going to get 20 extra ethnic officers who will be dealing with small businesses about their issues. Recently in Auckland they ran an operation known as Operation Dukan to support small businesses in terms of how they can prevent the recent burglaries that they have been facing. After visiting a thousand shops and businesses the police commissioner said that they asked for some extra funding and the Minister was generous in allocating $1.8 million to help these small businesses so that they can take extra precautions like installing extra security measures. That will help those businesses.Recently I attended a public meeting in Hamilton where the shopkeepers mentioned that they were very pleased that this money has been allocated. I would also like to mention that the other area where the police are focusing—and it was mentioned in the select committee—is the P epidemic which is really hurting our youth. We want to address that. That is why extra funding is being allocated to the police to deal with the gangs and deal with this problem.I would also like to touch upon Vote Corrections which was also part of the Law and Order Committee consideration. Sarah Dowie was trying to mention that mental health was one of the issues that was mentioned and dealt with in the select committee. Thirty percent of offenders develop mental health issues while they are in prison. That is because they are in isolation. They do not get much of the freedom that they require. But overall prisons and the corrections system are putting in extra resources to deal with this. We also asked during the investigation at the select committee how they deal with it when parole is granted. They mentioned that the Parole Board takes into consideration whether to have that assessment but they also mentioned the challenge that once the prisoner is released from prison it is up to the prisoner whether they come for their counselling or not; they cannot make sure they come back and deal with it.