4. Police—Safer Communities Package and NumbersIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei) to the Minister of PolicePolice—Safer Communities Package and Numbers4. IAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei) to the Minister of Police: How will the Government's Safer Communities package make police more accessible and easier to reach?Hon PAULA BENNETT (Minister of Police): It is important that people can contact the police at all times of the day and night whether the matter is life-threatening or less serious. That is why our Safer Communities package includes a new non-emergency number that people can ring to contact police when their issue is not urgent enough to call 111. There are currently more than 300 local police station numbers many of which are not answered 24/7. The new number will mean people can get through to police any time of the day or night.Ian McKelvie: How will the new non-emergency number work?Hon PAULA BENNETT: Many people have found themselves in a situation where they need to speak to the police and it is not serious enough to call 111 and they do not know whom to call or how to get through. People will be able to ring the new number for anything non-urgent. It will also be linked with the 111 system so they can be transferred immediately if it is something that is more important and they will be able to report things like suspicious activity historic or low-level crime or simply ask advice of the local police.Ian McKelvie: How will the number help police respond to people more quickly?Hon PAULA BENNETT: The number will be answered by some of the new 245 non-sworn police staff. They will be well trained to assist people with whatever they need. Thanks to the extra 880 sworn officers we are funding there will be more police out patrolling and ready to respond when they receive these calls.David Seymour: Has the Minister asked the commissioner to prioritise more police hours at community policing centres such as the Epsom community policing centre?Hon PAULA BENNETT: Where police are deployed is entirely up to the commissioner. However he has assured me that because of these extra police more than 15 stations that were open only business hours will now have a community police person 24/7. So that is good news.Stuart Nash: Is the increase in announced police more less or exactly the number of sworn police she asked for?Hon PAULA BENNETT: It is exactly what I asked for in the Cabinet paper.Stuart Nash: Is the 880 announced police more less or exactly the number of sworn police the Police asked for in its original business case requesting greater resource?Hon PAULA BENNETT: Since the Police wrote the Cabinet paper it is exactly what it asked for in the Cabinet paper.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [Interruption] Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! A point of order has been called. It will be heard in silence.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I seek leave to table a record of a video on Twitter at 9.20 a.m. from that Minister saying 140 of the 880 sworn officers will be going into rural New Zealand which indicates she knows a lot more than she is saying—Mr SPEAKER: Order! No I am not prepared to put the leave. It is obviously something from the media available to members if they want it.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Mr SPEAKER: Just before the member makes his point of order I hope he is not in any way going to relitigate a decision I have just made. But I will hear from the member. Rt Hon Winston Peters: My point is that not every member of this Parliament is on Twitter. Mr SPEAKER: No but every member—[Interruption] Order! Members who want the information can be on Twitter and get it if they find it useful. [Interruption] Order! Mr Mark.