Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well I don't know where to start. I'll start with the last contributor. Emily Henderson gets up and does a tub-thumping speech on law and order. I'd ask the member: when was the last time you went and spoke to or visited your local police station and your local members because you want to know what the reality of what they're facing is?Dr Emily Henderson: By Zoom two weeks ago and had a good chat with Superintendent Tony Hill—excellent.Hon MARK MITCHELL: By Zoom two weeks ago. So she's well and truly in touch with what's happening up in her electorate of Whangārei. Well let me give you some real feedback in terms of what's happening up in your electorate. Number one your police are stretched to almost breaking point. Number two they try to police under a new pursuit policy which means that in your electorate failing to stops" are going through the roof. Number three Operation Tauwhiro is a Clayton's operation. It hasn't got any new resources it hasn't got any new personnel and actually all it is it's a name and they've asked officers—and Police National Headquarters went out this week and said "Give us as many good news stories as you can to try and support because the Minister keeps standing in this House and keep talking about how good Operation Tauwhiro is." I'm telling you now I get a flood of correspondence from front-line police officers saying that it's smoke and mirrors. They don't like it. It's deceptive. They don't like the way the public have been deceived and they don't like the way the Labour Party and Labour Party MPs keep standing in this House and spouting Tauwhiro as if some big new operation has been launched where they're getting more support more resources and the ability to tackle gangs. It's business as usual. They've quite simply been asked to record any—oh she's yawning. She thinks this is boring. It's boring her what her own staff in her own area—actually the feedback that she's providing. It's a disgrace. It's a complete and utter total disgrace. I listened to Chris Baillie stand and make a speech an impassioned speech because actually you know what? As part of his public service he actually served in our New Zealand Police Force. Do you know what happened? The Opposition parties were laughing and mocking him the whole time he delivered that speech. That's what we're dealing with in terms of trying to deal with this bill. Let's go back to the heart of the bill. So the heart of the bill is quite simply this: the genesis for it was that the whole of New Zealand saw taxpayers' money given to the Mongrel Mob in the Hawke's Bay to run a meth programme. I don't think any sensible Kiwi in this country felt that the right use of taxpayers' money was to fund a criminal organisation to deliver a programme—oh by the way I was in the Hawke's Bay on Friday and I met with the Police Association and the results on that programme have shown that it has completely totally failed and no one in this House or in the Opposition will actually stand up and tell us how successful it was or what the numbers are on it because they don't have the facts. They don't actually have the facts. But I can tell you this—and we heard the Dr Seuss stories and the tone and the mocking and like Chris Baillie said as one of their best political tools it's not a very effective tool but they do deploy it all the time; it's to try and label people: racist misogynist whatever you like. If you say something they don't like and you want to engage in a debate they try to shout you down with silly comments like Dr Seuss books. It's embarrassing when you try to have a proper debate. What I'd say is this to the members: go down to Hawke's Bay and meet with the police down there and just ask them and say "How do you feel about the $2.5 million that we gave to a local chapter of your Mongrel Mob?"—the guys that you're turning out every day and every night to go and deal with the crime because—shock horror—the Mongrel Mob is a criminal group. They commit crimes. They wear patches. Do you know how they get that patch? They don't get a patch by being the best at tiddlywinks or winning the local pétanque competition. They get a patch because they've gone out and they've proven that they're good at crime and they're good at violence. And if they've proven that they're good enough at crime and good enough at violence they get a patch. What this Government's done is it's given a group in Hawke's Bay that the police are constantly having to deal with a group that's peddling drugs a group that's behind thefts and burglaries a group that's behind armed robberies a group that fails to stop when the police try to stop them a group that's willing to use violence on a weekly basis in the community—and our police who don't get paid a lot who need more resources that are stretched are having to go out there and deal with a group that this Government felt was a good idea to give them $2.5 million. So I'd challenge all the Labour MPs and the Green MPs and whoever else is getting up and trying to defend it and will not vote for this bill because this bill is try to stop it to go down to Hawke's Bay. Talk to the local police down there. Talk to the local community and see what they think."