Nash StuartSTUART NASH (Labour—Napier): Let me talk about Vote Police. But first of all I want to say hearty congratulations to Jacinda Ardern and our new deputy leader Kelvin Davis. This is a dynamic team that is going to take a new energy and a new drive and a new face into this election campaign. It is actually worth noting that both Jacinda and Kelvin have been past police spokespersons for our party and this shows the focus and the drive and the energy and the commitment we are going to be making and taking into the police portfolio.There are a couple of things that are worth noting in this report. The first one is that we noted that in fact the Police put one bid in—that is all; just one Budget bid. We also noted that that received less than 75 percent of the original funding asked for by the Police. The whole committee was concerned about the costs to the community of the Police getting less than 75 percent of what it asked the Minister of Finance for.We are in trouble in our communities. I disagree with Darroch Ball. He said you cannot arrest your way out of the justice system and having more police will not work. No one is ever suggesting we can arrest our way out of the problem we are in at the moment. But what we are all suggesting—what New Zealand First is suggesting and certainly what Labour is suggesting—is that we need more police on the beat. That is why Labour has committed 1000 more police in its first 3 years in Government—1000 more police—plus the staff associated with that.But it is not about arresting our way out of the problem. It is about crime prevention. It is about putting more officers into our communities so they understand what is going on so they know the dynamics of who is doing what in our communities and so they can prevent the crime. We are locking up too many people these days. Our Corrections budget is $900 million more now than it was 12 years ago—$900 million a year more to keep men and women in jail. That is not a good use of taxpayers' money.We talked about the fact that we have a real problem with P with methamphetamine. We saw the Government come out I think it was yesterday or certainly over the weekend and almost admit it is losing this war on P. I spoke to the Mayor of the Far North a couple of weeks ago and he told me that P is free on the streets of Kaikohe. It is free until someone becomes addicted and then they are in the grasp and the tangled web of the gangs. That is absolutely wrong and we need more resources in our organised crime squads so we can come after the gangs that are peddling this death into our communities.When the price of P is cheaper and it is more plentiful than it was 8 years ago after the then Prime Minister John Key declared a war on drugs we know there is something wrong. We know there needs to be a change in strategy and that is what we are going to deliver on.We also noted that the Budget showed that the resolution rates for property crime are going to remain stable at 13 percent and that the resolution rates for crime against the person are going to remain stable at 43 percent. It has been this way for the last 4 years and the Budget documents show it is going to be like this for the next year. This does not give the people of New Zealand the confidence that the police are resourced in a way that is going to keep us safe and solve crime and put the bad guys behind bars. We have to do better than this. What this says is that 87 percent of burglaries are going to go unresolved and that is unacceptable.What we know is that family violence has gone through the roof. In fact 41 percent of police call outs are to family violence incidents. We need to change this statistic. What we do know is that the police attended 17000 more family violence call outs last year than they did the year before. That is a sad indictment of what is going on in our communities. Again this is why we say we need community police in there to find out to know what is going on before it happens and to put interventions in place. The shame of this is that the 100000 calls that the police attend every year for family violence makes up only 20 percent of the estimated 500000 incidents of domestic violence in our country. It is terrible. That is all I have to say for now.