Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): The issue with which I wish to speak about in some seriousness in my community of Northcote is about crime. Nothing typifies the impact that this has had on my community more than the tragic killing of Joshua Tasi a 28-year-old 13 months ago and the impact that that had on his family his loved ones the first responders that had to deal with him and those who knew him in our community and the wider community. Crime has had a devastating impact in the Northcote electorate. In addition to this incident we've had kidnappings assaults shopliftings break-ins ram raids and more.Now I want to speak with some seriousness about the positives that are going on in our community with respect to crime prevention. There's some great initiatives in my community. For example the Kaipātiki Youth Development Trust looks at identifying at-risk kids or kids that have offended and trying to provide mentorship and other types of wraparound services to keep these kids on a solid footing. There's initiatives like Steps to Success that the Kaipātiki Communities Facilities Trust organises that provides youth with some skills and motivation to get out there and apply for jobs.There's truancy services that do a wonderful job in our community in making sure our kids turn up to school on a daily basis. There's initiatives like Community Patrol—which I'm a member of or try to be—that do a fantastic job volunteering in our community and patrolling the streets often at night to make sure our communities are kept safe. And not just in my community but there's some great initiatives throughout Auckland. For example the Vanguard Military School which looks at offering youth who aren't succeeding in mainstream and may end up actually offending a way of engaging in education and training and getting ahead in life.Now I'm extremely happy that we've started down the pathway in our 100-day plan to address rising crime to make our community safer. For example two initiatives I wish to speak about: the young offender military academy programme which is going to start later on this year and it's going to be trialled in Auckland. That is based off the Limited Services Volunteer programme that is actually in my colleague the Hon Chris Penk's electorate up in Whenuapai. That is a great initiative and I look forward to that being established.We've also looked at giving police more powers which is a great start. But I do want to speak to where we need more support. What we need more support to address rising crime and make our communities safe is in two key areas. The first is the reactive actions and the second is in the proactive actions. Reactive ones include restoring consequences for crime making sure there are in fact tougher sentences—we've got the Minister of Justice here who will be introducing laws to limit the amount judges can deduct from offenders when they're sentenced. Those are great initiatives which I think will go a long way to reducing crime in our community.But there's also some proactive measures that we can focus on and I think the biggest one we can focus on a proactive way is offering youth a way out of their current predicament and that is by encouraging apprenticeships and encouraging further training opportunities. The one issue that I've had given to me about the military academies—which I know and I've spoken to the Minister of Police about—is making sure that there's pastoral care once these kids come out of these academies. So it's all very well for them to go on and get this great training and mentoring but when they get placed back into their home environment they're often back reoffending. So we need to make sure that there's actually good pastoral care to help these kids as well.We need to drive out the gangs of our communities—which there are in my community as well as others—and also up community organisations; organisations like Big Buddy that do a great job of mentorship. So we've got a lot to do in law and order I'm happy with the Government's approach and thank you.