Funded the recruitment of 600 extra Police officers and placed 300 on the beat in Counties-Manukau. Freed frontline officers from paperwork by providing smartphones and tablets, allowing more time on the beat and delivering over 500,000 extra frontline hours a year - equivalent to 354 extra officers. Used money and assets seized from criminals to fund crime-fighting initiatives, like 10 extra investigators to work on organised crime syndicates and drugs cases, and software to help Police extract and recover data from devices held under warrant.
positive towards national solidarity, civil society or appeals for public spiritedness or against anti-social attitudes