Making New Zealand a safer place

One of National’s priorities this term is to deliver better public services, and the first results for the justice sector Better Public Service targets have been released.

They show almost 3000 fewer violent crimes over the past year. And our crime rate is now the lowest in 30 years.

The results show total reported crime down by almost 6 per cent over the year to June 2012, that’s 21,337 fewer crimes. Youth crime was also down 4 per cent, and reconviction 7 per cent.

National’s better public services targets aim to further reduce total recorded crime by 15 per cent, youth crime by 5 per cent, and reoffending by 25 per cent by 2017.

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