Bakshi Kanwaljit SinghKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Chair for the opportunity to participate in this debate. First of all I would like to congratulate the leadership of Ministers the Hon Amy Adams and the Hon Paula Bennett in this justice sector. As has been mentioned it is not just policing or corrections but we need to look into the wider picture in the justice as well as the social sector where we can address the issues that have been raised. I would like to also acknowledge the Hon Judith Collins for her leadership as the Minister of Police in the past.The Government when it came into power in 2008 inducted 600 more front-line police officers who helped us to improve the law and order situation drastically. That had been our main issue at that time and that is why we are today the fourth-safest country in the world and we will continue to work upon it. That was the past. In the future—the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have earlier this year announced that we will be having an additional 1125 police officers to help the situation. It is very important we should understand that the numbers will help us to improve the law and order situation but it is the wider spectrum—as the Minister mentioned—the social angle that also has to be looked into and we hope that this will help us.We also rolled out new technology. New tools were provided to the police who told us that there were equivalent to about 350 more police officers on the street because of the technology. They did not have to go back to the police station to report what they had done. They are using technology—smartphones—to record crime and that is helping. This is what we are doing and we have also provided them with Taser guns. They are in lock-up and they are available; if the situation requires then they can use them.The additional half a billion dollars that was allocated to the justice sector earlier this year will help us to provide more money to Justice Corrections and Police so that they can help to increase the safety of people in their homes in their communities and at their businesses. Mr Nash mentioned that we have closed down a few police stations or community police stations but I can assure him that in the days to come we are helping 20 more police stations to be 24/7 so that they can provide the safety that people are looking for.We have also provided an additional 20 ethnic officers. It is very important to understand that with the changing demographic of New Zealand today we need more and more ethnic officers who can understand the culture who can talk in the language they speak so that they can have the benefit of their safety and their perspective.We are also going to launch a non-emergency number which will help people to take pressure off the 111 number. The non-emergency calls can be attended by this new number which can connect them to the police stations that are not 24/7.We are also working on family violence. We have made a lot of changes in the past so that family violence can be addressed and we can help the families to feel safe.Interest in getting recruited in the police has increased and more than 1351 applications were received earlier this year.I would also like to touch upon the Corrections part which is also important because most of our prisons have been turned into working prisons so that we can provide training to the inmates so that when they come out into society they have got some skills with which they can help themselves and their families to live a life with mana and they can be people with self-respect. In 2015 and 2016 a total of 176—