Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Law and Order
- Introduce a new policy of Gang Control Orders to crack down on gang members and minimise the risk posed to the public.
- Utilise Inland Revenue’s powers to investigate gang members’ income and tax paid.
- Introduce an infringement notice offence for shoplifting, resulting in instant, practical punishments such as fines and community service.
- Review the use of electronic monitoring sentencing for violent offenders and abolish the prison population reduction target.
- Invest in safer communities by increasing the number of prison beds.
- Bring back Three Strikes to keep the worst reoffenders off the streets.
- Restrict the use of electronic bail, while dropping the target for lower prison numbers.
- Focus prisons on rehabilitating illiterate and innumerate prisoners to break the cycle of reoffending.
- Reform the reparations system so that the Crown faces the burden of risk of slow reparation payments or nonpayments.
- Clarify that judges are to impose the least restrictive outcome that does not impose a disproportionate risk to the community.
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