Police Commissioner Richard Chambers addresses the issue of police officers leaving New Zealand for Australia, emphasizing that quality and standards are more important than recruitment numbers, while highlighting efforts to attract returning officers through incentives.
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Oh, look, I mean, I don't get into that. I I said very early on in my tenure, Mike, that what mattered was quality. Uh I was not prepared and I'm not prepared to drop standards uh to make sure that we hit that number. I want quality police officers because I know that that's what Kiwi wants Kiwis want too. So yeah, I've set very clear standards and expectations. And um if we we select the wrong people to uh be police officers in our country, we spend many more years trying to fix things. So uh we're we're on track uh later this year to to hit that five hundred, but we'll have five hundred outstanding cops and we've also had about a hundred rejoin since January last year, um, who have left police and done other things in New Zealand. Some of those have come back from Australia, but you know, they've gone and tried a few things outside policing. So I think that says a lot about who we are as an organization and and what it means to be police officer in New Zealand.
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