11. Police—Safer Communities and Better Public Services TargetsCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Minister of PolicePolice—Safer Communities and Better Public Services Targets11. CHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Minister of Police: Did Cabinet make a decision to formally abolish the Safer Communities package targets for the New Zealand Police of 98 percent attendance at home burglaries within 48 hours and for 95 percent of New Zealanders to live within 25 km of a 24/7 Police base by June 2022; if so when did Cabinet make that decision?Hon STUART NASH (Minister of Police): No.Chris Bishop: Why did he not take a paper to Cabinet formally abolishing those important targets given those targets were established by Cabinet in the first place?Hon STUART NASH: The previous Minister never asked Cabinet to note or agree to the performance targets the Minister alludes to. [Interruption]Chris Bishop: Does he agree with the comments of—SPEAKER: Order! Order! I'm just going to interrupt the member and indicate to the Opposition that they have an extra three supplementaries as a result of the animal noises from my right.Chris Bishop: Does he agree with the comments of Police Commissioner Mike Bush who told the Justice Committee in March in relation to targets that the right targets drive the right performance and if so why does he think that 98 percent of burglaries being attended to within 48 hours is not the right performance target for the police? Hon STUART NASH: Targets don't keep our communities safe; resources do. It's why we're putting 1800 more police into our front-line police over the next three years. Chris Bishop: Well does he agree with the comments of Mike Bush in relation to the nine performance targets set by the previous Government that They're the right targets for the police. They're the things we should be aiming at. They're the things that we as an executive think are the right performance outcomes for the New Zealand Police on behalf of the public that we serve." and if so why is he acting contrary to what the police commissioner thinks are the right targets for the police? Hon STUART NASH: I see my role as the Minister of Police as providing the resources for the commissioner to actually achieve the targets of keeping our communities safe and putting the bad guys behind bars. Chris Bishop: Why did he tell the Justice Committee a couple of weeks ago "There are only two performance targets I've asked the commissioner I would like to see." when this leaked Cabinet paper shows he wants to retain the previous Government's 10000 fewer serious crimes Better Public Services target and the 25 percent Māori reoffending reduction target amongst others and is he confident he hasn't misled the Justice Committee? Hon STUART NASH: There are only two performance targets I'd like to see. If the commissioner has operational targets that he'd like to deliver on then that is fantastic and I back him on those. Chris Bishop: Why did he tell Parliament in the annual review debate on the police that the Government was retaining the 10000 fewer serious crimes Better Public Services target when he's now telling the House he's only setting two performance targets for the police? Hon STUART NASH: I am only setting two performance targets for the police."