Bridges Simon: Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill — Third Reading 
Bridges Simon: Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill — Third Reading 
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SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga) 
: 
 A lot has changed in the world since 1974. The world has become a more complex place. Jacinda Ardern Chris Hipkins Aaron Gilmore Nikki Kaye and Simon Bridges entered the world and that is not the start of it. But in addition to all of that sort of light and wholesome goodness the world has become more complex. I want to talk briefly about I suppose the way things have changed and what the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill reflects in that respect. We see in the purpose clause or the reasons for this bill some of the changes in our values and the way we think about things. The new bill prevents unsuitable people from working in private security. It ensures that security personnel and private investigators can be required to undertake training. It prescribes codes of conduct. It beefs up or ensures there are appropriate penalties for breaches. So we have seen some changes here and a view that bouncers security personnel of all shapes and sizes are not performing just a private role as we probably thought they were in the early 1970s but that there is a public interest in or a public aspect to what they are doing. So they need to be regulated and trained and we need codes of conduct. I suggest there has been a real change in the way we view rights personal autonomy and the privacy of individuals. 
I have Chester Borrows sitting near me and I do not want to cast aspersions on his age but for argument’s sake let me ask how long the member was a police officer. [ 
Interruption 
] When he was first a police officer—and I have heard this from shall we say more senior officers—the way that a breach of the peace or something was sorted out was with a good hard thump. That is the truth of the matter. They would implement a bit of rough justice and the lad or whoever it was who had done the bad thing would be on his way. We certainly do not condone that sort of behaviour now because as I say rights of individuals have increased. I happen to think that is a good thing by and large and personal autonomy and our sense of our privacy have been greatly enhanced. 
Again we see that not just with police officers but with bouncers. Interestingly I think it was  
Breakfast  
television—which Jacinda Ardern and I will be glad to appear on tomorrow morning—that had the head of the New Zealand Security Association— 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: What channel? 
SIMON BRIDGES 
: Television One 7.20. It is the highlight of the week for Jacinda Ardern’s grandmother but that is another story; and of my mother by the way. I am getting off track. The point of the story is that on television this morning they had the head of the Security Association. He made the point that I suppose I am making in a roundabout sort of way. If we look back to 1973-74 there was zero regulation— 
Hon Member 
: On passports? 
SIMON BRIDGES 
: I am not going to talk about that. There were no rules and under this legislation there were effectively no rules for bouncers. But it is a very different world today where I think we legitimately expect our bouncers our security personnel to be beholden to some higher standards because they are performing some kind of public role and we want them to be seen as such. So our tolerance levels have gone down. We do not accept heavy-handed bouncers security surveillance and all of those things. I am very happy to support this bill and we might just talk a little more about it on Television One’s  
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 at 7.20 tomorrow morning.