Election year:
2023
Political party:
New Zealand First
Policy:
Justice and Courts
- Prioritise the principles of the Sentencing Act to focus on the needs of the victim, then the community, and lastly the offender
- Adopt New Zealand First’s Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill as a Government Bill
- Introduce harsher penalties for fleeing drivers
- Increase the use of mandatory minimum sentences for serious violent and sexual offenders
- Introduce a degrees of murder regime that utilises ‘life for life’ for 1st Degree Murder
- Review and work to increase the fines for lower level crimes such as texting while driving and shoplifting
- Introduce an enforcement law for dangerous littering
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