Mark Ron: Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Bill — In Committee 
Mark Ron: Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Bill — In Committee 
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RON MARK (NZ First) 
: 
 Is it not interesting that finally we are starting to get some indication from National as to where it might be going with its law and order policy but we will deal with that at a later stage. 
Firstly I hope that when National members give their law and order speeches they will acknowledge that it was New Zealand First that brought home detention— 
Judith Collins 
: Ha ha! 
RON MARK 
: The member can laugh all she likes. She should go to the written questions because they do not lie. There is New Zealand First’s track record on exposing home detention for the sham it is. The point is in there. 
If this Parliament seriously believes that the provisions in Part 2 with regard to 24/7 monitoring of offenders through extended supervision will work it is dreaming. Take the example in Christchurch of the young man who was picked up by a taxi-driver outside the casino having called a taxi to take him home. He got to his home and did a runner on the taxi. Normally the police do not get involved in civil cases such as this because they do not believe it is their job to make people pay for their taxis. But is it not interesting that when the taxi-driver gave the address of the property he was outside suddenly police cars arrived. Why did they arrive? Because the person whom the taxi-driver had picked up outside the Christchurch Casino was on home detention and supposedly was being monitored 24/7 on his anklet. He still managed to go to the casino for an evening’s gambling and do a runner on his taxi fare. So with that in mind what confidence am I expected to have in this garbage before me? The answer is none. 
If that is not enough consider the man in Christchurch who was on home detention under supervision with an anklet on under 24/7 supervision and who was committing burglaries. He had accurately worked out that from the time he activated his alarm it took a minimum of 1 hour for the security people to arrive on his doorstep. So he knew that he could race off his property break into his neighbour’s home steal his stereo get home have it planted and hidden and when the people from Chubb Security arrived to see whether he was there he was there. He simply said: “Well there’s something wrong with your gear bro’ it doesn’t work does it? Must be something wrong.” and so they thought there was. 
That 24/7 supervision is so effective that we now have the infamous case of a person who was personally supervised by a Chubb Security guard who was standing outside the door whilst the offender—the inmate under 24/7 supervision—was inside the room sexually assaulting his cleaner. 
Judith Collins 
: As you do! 
RON MARK 
: As you do! The Government cannot tell me that this piece of garbage that should be sitting on a roll in someone’s lavatory is going to work—it is rubbish! 
With all due respect to my National Party colleagues who have a proven track record of saying: “We’re gonna get rid of the gangs we’re gonna get tough on crime we’re going to do this.” and when they get into Government they spend 9 years doing nothing— 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: With help! 
RON MARK 
: Oh the member should not say “with help” because when New Zealand First came into coalition with National we put steel in the spine of that party and we brought in 500 extra police. We brought in the non-association laws and we were the motivation behind that—and I still have the coalition agreement. I still have the black and white coalition agreement signed by Jim Bolger that stipulated and laid down the firm improvements we made to law and order under a National - New Zealand First coalition. Now the problem is to sit here and tell me— 
Hon Rick Barker 
: There was no order in that coalition. 
RON MARK 
: Well I tell the Minister that in the 12 months that New Zealand First was in Government there were far better laws passed through this House than the sort of garbage I am seeing right now. Because at the end of the day the proof of the worth of this document lies in the victims and the Minister can be assured of that.