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增强警力――工党政策将改单人警局为双人警局
工党法律与治安事务发言人 克雷顿∙柯斯格罗夫 （Clayton Cosgrove）
工党决意将新西兰现有全部62个单人警察局变成双人警局。10月12日，工党法律与治安事务发言人克雷顿柯斯格罗夫宣布了工党的法律治安政策。
这个政策对于警方和全国的小型社区都比较保险。
工党深深意识到警员们每天工作要承受的风险。虽然无法确保每个警员的人身安全，但这并不意味着政府就可以什么事也不做，政府应尽其所能把危险性降到最低。
增加警员从而加强安全――这是我们可以控制的一个方面。上届工党政府执政时，我们预算中额外增加了1250名警员，其中的1000名是宣过誓的。 这些额外的警员使我们的警力、士气及安全性都大大增强。
然而自从国家党执政以来，几乎每个地区的警员人数实际上都被削减，从而为国家党大选时所承诺的为奥克兰南区增拨300名警员支付经费。
工党将维持奥克兰南区的警员数目不变，但我们将恢复其他地区的警员数目。这将意味着在我们执政的第一届投入额外145名警员，包括让现有的单人警局人数翻番。由此工党能实现对社区及警方安全性的承诺。三年来，国家党一共只多资助了30名新警官。
经济状况许可的条件下，工党会进一步增加警员数量，这么做的短期目标是跟上人口增长的步伐，但长远目标则是提升警员与总人口的比例。
我们的目的是要延续上届工党政府施行的社区治安模式。这意味着和社区合作以制订适用于各社区所需的治安行动，重点放在青少年犯罪、入室盗窃及家暴等类型犯罪的高发地段。
人们关注的焦点常常是上媒体头条的罪行，但实际上让更多的人缺乏安全感的却是那些规模不大的小罪。这正是千里之堤溃于蚁穴的意思。工党矢志要严肃对待所谓小打闹之类的小罪。
这可能意味着我们需要重新思考如何分配使用警力，更多地派用非正式雇佣的警员到犯罪现场，从而让警官们能放手将精力投入到查案工作。我们需要警方能够把重点更多地放在预防犯罪上。
…… 工党正致力于制订出一个长期计划将预防犯罪作为优先的重点，这将与作为短期目标的‘严打犯罪’并行不悖。
工党的治安政策也关照到这样一个事实，即几乎每个犯人最终都会被放归社会。因此，我们要竭尽所能防止他们重新犯罪就非常关键。为了保障社区安全，把罪犯关起来，却在没有进行任何投入改造犯人以避免重犯的情形下，又让同一个犯人回到社会，这样做毫无意义。
我们需要每个监狱都有一套改造犯人行为的项目计划，注重解决精神健康、吸毒、缺乏读写及其他基本技能等问题。这么做不是对罪犯手软，而是为了让社区更安全、令生活于其中的我们免受滋扰。
工党将采取防患于未然的计划把犯罪消灭在萌芽状态。我们的目标是通过对犯人行为的‘更新’或‘重设’，以避免犯人回到社会后再度犯罪，而且，我们还将安排好令让回到社会的释放犯能重新融入社区的一系列项目。
每当被问及如何才能承受得了投入如此大的项目时，我只有一个简单的回答：因为我们承受不起不这么做的后果。每个犯人一年要花掉纳税人9万纽币。如果算上庞大的监狱人口，那么9万不知要翻上多少番。
所以，为打造一个更安全的社区而投入，不论在经济学意义上还是从人本考虑，都是有意义的。
联系：克雷顿∙柯斯格罗夫 （Clayton Cosgrove）
克雷顿柯斯格罗夫授权，国会大厦，惠灵顿
ClaytonCOSGROVE
Law and Order Spokesperson
12 October 2011 MEDIA STATEMENT
One-person police stations will become two-person
Labour is committed to making all 62 one-person police stations in New Zealand two–person stations, Labour’s Law and Order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove said today when announcing the party’s police and corrections policies.
“This is a safety initiative both for the police and for the small communities they serve around the country,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Labour is deeply conscious of the safety risks police face in their jobs every day. There is no way to ensure the safety of individual officers, but that doesn’t mean governments shouldn’t do everything they can to minimise risks.
“Safety in numbers is one factor we can control,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “In the last years of Labour government we budgeted for an extra 1250 police staff, 1000 of whom were sworn staff. Those extra numbers significantly boosted police morale and safety.
“Since National came to office, however, police numbers have actually been raided in almost every district to pay for National’s election promise to put 300 extra police into South Auckland.
“Labour will leave those extra police in South Auckland, but we will restore police staffing numbers in other districts. That will mean funding an extra 145 constables in our first term, including doubling the staffing of one-person stations. That maintains Labour’s commitment to community and police safety. National has only funded 30 new constables overall in the past three years.
“Labour wants to increase the number of police still further as the fiscal situation improves, with a short-term aim of keeping pace with population growth, but a long-term goal of improving the ratio of police to population,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Our aim is to extend the community policing model we implemented in our last term. This means working with communities to determine the policing programmes they need to target particular crime hot spots such as youth crime, burglary and family violence.
“The focus is often on headline-grabbing crimes, but it is crime as the lower end of the criminal scale that makes far more people feel unsafe,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “That’s what ‘sweating the small stuff’ is about. Labour is determined that so-called petty crime must be treated seriously.
“It may mean needing to rethink how police resources are deployed, with greater use of non-sworn staff at crime scenes to free up constables for investigative work. We need police to be able to focus better on crime prevention and resolution.
“Few disagree that the best way to make all our communities safer is to prevent crime happening in the first place. Labour is committed to developing long-term programmes that prioritise prevention and that will endure across the short-term ‘getting tough on crime’ pressures of the electoral cycle.”
Clayton Cosgrove said Labour’s corrections policy recognised the fact that almost everyone in prison will eventually be released. ”That’s why it is vital that we do all we can to minimise the risk of re-offending. It makes no sense to lock people up to keep society safe, and then to let the same people out again without having invested in trying to change their behaviour so that they don’t re-offend.
“We need programmes in every prison that promote behaviour change by addressing mental health, substance abuse, illiteracy and lack of numeracy and other basic skills,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “This is not about being soft on criminals. It is, quite selfishly, about making society safer for the rest of us who don’t offend.
“Labour will adopt a nip it in the bud approach in our prisons. Our aim will be to ‘re-wire’ and ‘re-programme’ prisoner behaviour to prevent re-offending when a prisoner is released, and we will also resource programmes that manage the integration of prisoners back into society.
“When people say to me, how can we afford to invest in such programmes, I have one simple answer: We can’t afford not to. Each prisoner costs taxpayers more than $90,000 a year. $90,000 a year multiplied by our huge prison population adds up to a heck of a lot of programmes,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Investing in greater community safety makes sense financially as well as in human terms.”
Contact: Clayton Cosgrove 021 829 562
Authorised by Clayton Cosgrove, Parliament building, Wellington
