Salesa Jenny: Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSalesa Jenny: Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — Third Readings[Sitting date: 04 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1174. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JENNY SALESA (Labour—Manukau East):I rise to take a brief call in support of the third readings of the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill and the Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill.Firstly I will speak on the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill. This bill has been through the Law and Order Committee for due process and the select committee introduced a number of amendments to ensure that the bill is more appropriate. I would like to commend the select committee members for their work and I would also like to thank and acknowledge the Minister of Corrections Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga.The Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill aims to ensure that a small number of very serious offenders can be given public protection orders which allow them to be detained in a secure facility. Public protection orders are targeted solely at convicted offenders rather than being more widely applicable to individuals in the community who display similar characteristics. Phillip John Smith is a case in point on exactly why legislation like this is necessary and it is unfortunate that the Government did not get around to making these changes before he escaped earlier on. Mr Smith a convicted murderer a paedophile and convicted of other offences including aggravated robbery and extortion was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for murdering the father of a young child whom he had molested. His history of criminal activity is long and violent and he should not have been allowed to apply for and subsequently receive a passport while he was an inmate in a prison facility.Mr Smith was born Phillip John Traynor. He did not even legally change his name to Phillip John Smith. It is just unacceptable that he was able to leave New Zealand fly to Chile and then on to Brazil carrying over $10000 in cash—taxpayers’ funds as it turns out as he was able to dupe our tax system out of over $50000. Given his high-risk profile Smith should not have been put on a temporary release. His eventual capture was only by fortunate identification by a staff member at a hostel overseas. It was an unacceptable lapse in our justice system that allowed Smith to escape putting at risk his former victims and the public in general. There is a need for better monitoring of high-risk violent offenders and sexual offenders like him.This bill seeks to protect the public from almost certain harm by a very small number of serious sexual and violent offenders. The proposed bill would do this by creating a new legislative regime allowing the High Court to make public protection orders which would allow detention of a subject in a secure facility.I turn now to the second bill the Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill which amends the Parole Act of 2002 as it relates to extended supervision orders. Under the current law extended supervision orders can last only for a period of up to 10 years and this cannot be renewed. The Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill is needed because the 10-year period for some of the people who were the first recipients of extended supervision orders will expire soon. Extended supervision orders were established to protect children under the age of 16 from a small number of convicted child sex offenders who are considered to be a high risk of seriously reoffending at the end of their sentence. The sexual and violent offenders to whom the extended supervision orders would apply are likely to be those with behavioural and intellectual challenges who cannot remain in the community unsupervised. The current estimate is that this will apply only to a small number of offenders. Approximately about 29 to 41 such offenders will be placed on these orders.Labour supports and commends both the Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill and the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill. Thank you.