National is the Party of law and order
26 November 2019
National has today released the
seventh in our series of discussion documents. The law and
order document has a range of proposals to put victims at
the heart of the justice system, Leader of the Opposition
Simon Bridges says.
“National believes victims should get justice, criminals should be held accountable for the harm they cause and offenders should be rehabilitated so they can become contributing members of our society.
“We will crack down on gangs whose numbers are increasing at almost twice the rate of frontline police. We’re proposing a new police unit that would harass and interfere with gang activity, banning gang patches and revoking parole for those who associate with gangs.
“We also want to speed up access to justice, make the system fairer for victims, and apply our Social Investment Approach to stop people offending in the first place.
We are committing to:
• Giving Police greater
powers to search the cars and homes of violent gang
members
• Reintroducing our Social Investment Approach
to justice
• Reintroducing the Meth Action Plan,
updated for the 2020s
• Increasing penalties for those
caught supplying synthetics
• Reintroducing a pilot
programme of mental health nurses in Police watch houses
We are proposing to:
• Ban gang patches and
insignia in public places
• Create a new sentence for
violent gang crime
• Widen the clean slate programme
for young offenders
• Increase penalties for the most
serious young offenders
• Make working prisons
compulsory
• Streamline the courts system
• Make
the Victims Notification Register an opt-out
system
• Refuse parole to murderers who don’t give
the location of a body
“Law and order is personal for me. I worked as a Crown Prosecutor on more than a hundred jury trials. I’ve seen the harm serious offenders have caused families and communities. I want New Zealand to be the safest country in the world.
“National is
the Party of law and order. We’re doing the hard work now
so we can hit the ground running in 2020.”
https://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1911/Law_and_Order_Discussion_Document.pdf
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