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Budget 2017 invests $1.24 billion of new operating funding over four years and $785.6 million of capital funding in law and order initiatives to help make our communities safer, Police Minister Paula Bennett, Justice and Courts Minister Amy Adams, and Corrections Minister Louise Upston say.
“The extra investment in Budget 2017 includes the $503.8 million Safer Communities Package which was announced earlier this year and will deliver an additional 1,125 police staff,” Mrs Bennett says.
- Louise Upston
- Amy Adams
- Paula Bennett
- Police
- Justice
- Courts
- Corrections
- Budget 2017
Minister of Police and Corrections Judith Collins has congratulated Senior Constable Blair Spalding and his dog Rush on winning the National Police Patrol Dog Championship.
“The competition was stiff but Blair and Rush have taken the Frank Riley Cup as National Patrol Dog champions and I offer them my most heartfelt congratulations,” says Minister Collins.
- Judith Collins
- Police
- Corrections
Corrections will receive close to $14 million from the Justice Sector Fund to enable it to purchase mental health services for offenders in prison and in the community over the next two years.
Police has also received funding to enhance information sharing on mental health, says Corrections and Police Minister Judith Collins.
- Judith Collins
- Police
- Corrections
As part of the Government’s commitment to a more integrated, more effective response to family violence, an innovative new approach is to be piloted in Christchurch from 1 July, Ministers have announced.
The Integrated Safety Response pilot will bring together a team of Police, CYF, Corrections, Health, specialist family violence NGOs and Māori service providers to support victims and their families.
The pilot is part of the comprehensive cross-agency work programme overseen by the Ministerial Group on Family Violence and Sexual Violence.
- Judith Collins
- Anne Tolley
- Amy Adams
- Social Development
- Police
- Justice
- Corrections
Police Minister Michael Woodhouse and Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga say agencies are working together to urgently review how a prisoner on temporary release was able to leave the country.
“The circumstances leading to Phillip John Smith (Traynor) obtaining a passport and later absconding are the subject of multiple investigations involving Police, Corrections and the Department of Internal Affairs,” says Police Minister Michael Woodhouse.
- Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga
- Michael Woodhouse
- Police
- Corrections