The Government has confirmed police will be given new powers to issue move-on orders across town centres nationwide, allowing officers to direct people — including rough sleepers — to leave an area for up to 24 hours.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith told media many main streets had been “blighted” by disruption, arguing police currently lacked tools to intervene before behaviour escalated into criminal offending. “Many disruptive, distressing and potentially harmful acts can occur before officers have any means of intervention. It doesn’t make sense,” he said.
Police Minister Mark Mitchell said decisions about distance and support would rest with frontline officers. “They do this every day,” Mitchell said, adding police were familiar with local communities and service networks. However, he stressed homelessness responses should not fall primarily on police, saying social agencies must “step up and own those issues.”
Advocacy groups have warned enforcement-based measures risk displacing homelessness rather than addressing underlying social causes.
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In my own town (and I’m sure it will be the same in others) police have always had the powers to remove the bums from the shop fronts. They just choose not to. In fact, they have zero presence in the city centre.
So no freedom of movement, huh? These inhumane, human rights eroding laws, are the kind of thing we see in slow creep authoritarianism of the kind found in the UK and elsewhere. Time for you to go National, this isn’t only undemocratic, its inhumane. Why too are New Zealanders homeless in the first place? Neither you or Labour have served this country well.
“Go be poor somewhere else!”
Yep you see this in so called perfect nations like Singapore where the homeless are “moved on” so as not to advertise the less than perfect reality.
The nation is blighted by the fascists in the beehive.
They have systematically impoverished people, not only by feeding international ‘investors’ but by impoverishing the population via the edjucation system, the legal system, by family destruction and by introducing racism, preferential treatment, immorality and PC nonsense.
And police is used again to govern the disgusting deeds of the political class..
Paul Goldsmith…sounds ((( )))
Remove them to where?
Given the power to issue move on orders!
Just for rough sleepers then?
Quick! Turn the sprinklers on… then go in after with the batons…
Homeless people lose my respect when they start abusing me for no reason other than me not being in their position – or being white.
I’ll pray for you.
The government is too cheap to actually put in mental homes and too busy giving the land to the “white half cast” iwi to give a dam about the insane. The iwi turned Sunnyside into expensive housing commercial business, allowing only those with an 80k income to live there. Tokanui mental hospital land is going to iwi for what? Too stare at for their spiritual health? Meanwhike their people live on the street! No-one in this government or prior ones care for the vulnerable in this God forsaken land. There are insane people in every society. Disgraceful country.
Hear ya.
Do never give up.
Do never give in.
Godzone needs you.
We The People are one.
The parasitic shysters want us to believe otherwise.
When there is a glut of homeless sleeping rough in the urban areas, this is a VISUAL ADMISSION THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED!
In fact, the Uni-Party Government under which we are ALL suffering under just demonstrated how much they really love us, despite the fact that we pay their parasitic salaries!
I invite Paul Goldsmith, Judith Collins, and Lex Luxon to spend a week on the streets, and see how well THEY deal with the stressors!
Ridiculous morons….and the same situation is happening GLOBALLY as the Global Economy falters and will eventually collapse, or be replaced with something that will only pay pennies to the dollar!
https://amazinggracespaces.org/emergency-urban-sleeper-pods/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGsRDf4kEwA
https://www.facebook.com/groups/775801081313358/posts/1125822362977893/
Sleep Pods are less expensive than incarcerating a homeless person who has in some instances been made UNEMPLOYABLE OR DISENFRANCHISED BY THE DEEP STATE / POWERS THAT BE!
And what homeless person can afford a fine of $2K???
To stop the persecution and prosecution of homeless citizens who are registered to vote, I would ask that they please vote for the New Zealand Loyal Party!
You people need to realise that all these “homeless” people are there BY CHOICE. I live in Rotorua and let me assure you they get paid more in benefits than some people earn in one week. That info was given to me by the Maori wardens who said DONT GIVE THE HOMELESS ANYTHING. They CHOOSE not to spend their money on a roof over their head which is provided by the state. They are a blight on our streets, filthy, and their behaviour is scaring away tourists and locals alike, get your life together and stop the pity party. There are no poor people in tbis country. It’s a CHOICE. Cut the perma victim crap, we all have stories to tell about our upbringing thst wasn’t so flash. They are given food and winz vouchers and they are put up in backpackers and other places. They are just a bunch of lazy losers who can’t get their shit together and I for one am sick to death of them. Recently I saw one man urinating into a rubbish bin and one of my customers had the misfortune of seeing a guy having a wank outside a local church. Lovely. 🤮
As for our mayor who claims to have cleaned the place up, guess who was in charge of the housing portfolio that started this bloody problem? Yeah same person. Look it up yourself. What a joke.
Sick to death of benefit bludgers, beggars and homeless people while we import people from the third world to do the work our lazy lay abouts don’t want to do because our welfare is FAR TOO SOFT ON THEM AND FAR TOO GENEROUS.
So yeah I am a fan of this new policy. Piss off and clean yourself up I say. No one else is gonna do it for you!
You’re absolutely spot on. The welfare sysyem is more than generous and there should be no reason why we should put up with people living on the street. These people are probably mainly mentally sick, but guess what, all the mental facilities were closed – and this is the result.
Rotorua is a cosmic universe unto itself.
Rainbow Springs was turned over to an Iwi only to go bankrupt and shut it’s doors after 70+ years.
Tribes and certain other ‘ethnics’ are always fighting at petrol stations, in the mall, and on the lakefront.
Many shops have closed, and the hotels that house the Covid homeless were gang-operated and managed, complete with drug transactions and prostitution.
Many Fenton Street businesses are now closed…and the hotels are uncomfortable and have hard, prison mattresses.
The tourism traps are ultra-expensive, and run by arrogant vendors.
Our last trip there was a real eye-opener, to the point that we won’t be going there ever again.
At some point, volcanism will probably release a massive fart of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide which will kill a lot of innocent people there, or maybe with the Taupo Super-Volcano finally blowing…!
Below is a potential similarity…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
For all those who say the homeless like it that way, go and live on the street for a week and see how you like it, especially in winter. Comments like these make me feel ashamed of my fellow New Zealanders. Glad many still have a heart based on some decent comments here.
I’m guessing you’re retired? Thought so. When you have to slog your guts out giving of yourself of physical labour just so some layabout poor excuse of a person can get drunk, accost me in my car, or expose themselves by urinating, having a wank or worse still having sex out in public then I am sorry but any empathy I had for them has LONG GONE,
You keep looking at everything with rose coloured glasses. Try living in it, or running a business in it. Or go past the brand new double glazed socialtownhouses with flash cars parked outside all day with unkempt lawns, broken windows, or drunk people spilling onto the street, roaming dogs, unsupervised kids – WERE F*CKEN OVER IT – OK? And furthermore we are over working to PAY a for it to a bunch of ungrateful grifters.
Good job I will ring the cops myself and get the f&ckers moved on. Either move them on or WE move on and the whole of New Zealand ends up like Wellington. The managed decline by the lefty loonies of a once fun and vibrant city is a disgrace. Now the beaches and water are full of shit. Where’s the outrage from the greenies? What a disgrace. If you vote left in this day and age you have some SERIOUS delusional , issues and it’s you and your ilk who are bringing this cpu try down with your “tolerance”
Even today, beggars at the traffic lights in Rotorua and hamilton. looking forward to that grift stopping.
Do you both, Globi and you, realize how you BOTH have been played out against each other, divided against each other, and made to quarrel against each other, just so taht thej can divide us?
Well said
What a load of crock the Maori wardens lied to you. Often they don’t have ID to get a benefit. I worked with the homeless, and mental illness is the majority reason you dick. What do you think the insane did after no support? Few may have a benefit but there is something wrong in this country. And if you think a 285 is enough to rent a house you have a try. Sick to death of benefit bashing. Jobs? Would you like to employ one? There are no darn jobs that is why 125 thousand kiwis are leaving each year. It’s people like you that don’t realise jack.
There are people out there with deplorable mindsets Judy. This is how the likes of National get re-elected.
Don’t have ID – pull the other one Judy. There is literally NO ONE who doesn’t have ID in this country unless they are illegal imports. Seems you’re the one lied to .
No jobs my ARSE. Why are we importing people to work? Where are the kiwi bus ans taxi drivers? Where are the kiwi hospitality staff? Why do we import thousands every year to pick fruit? We have over 400,000 people ON THE DOLE. Lazy and entitled is what they are and they wouldn’t know poverty if it hit them in the face. They could do these jobs if they had to.
As for 285 for rent, you can easily rent a room for that in multiple places around NZ. One of my son’s flat,ages pys 160 in a major city for his room. Or they could do work for someone who provides accommodation like a farmer – or sleep in a tent like my great grandfather did. No dole back then, you didn’t hear him complaining.
People like you are the problem. You’re an enabler. You’re not their saviour, and you shouldn’t do it with other peoples money. The only people who can help anyone are that individual. As for mental health- people would have far better mental health if they got off their arse and got a job, had a reason to get up in the morning, felt like they were contributing to something, got some fresh air and vitamin D, got off the cocktails of prescription amd illegal drugs and took a bit of self responsibility. That’s all that’s needed. Most people just need a good kick ip the arse.
Anyway get used to this government, we’re not going to let the loony mad lefties back in anytime soon. They have absolutely WRECKED this country funnelling other peoples money to their mates with working group’s, consultants, NGOs, wrap around services and all that crap. We have gone backwards. Look the Aussies have had a gutsful and are going to put Pauline Hanson in power, good job, nice to see, gonna happen here.
WAKE UP.
To those you you who are suggesting this is a terrible thing – well offer one in YOUR house – let’s start with you judy, you take them in and look after them.
If we don’t act now this is what we get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0sbFFvVyx8
Wellington is well on its way
Tell me how is someone who has schizophrenia and a mind of a three year old in a grown up body meat to gather ID, full out ton of forms and go apply for a benefit without a bank account? Or do you think the insane can do this without support? They have no support at all. We did set up housing for them and I sectioned some under 8A, in 2018, what a nightmare to get that done, while running the house. You lot are naive. We need alysums back where the insane are looked after. I bet they end up in the suburbs in your back yards and you will deserve it. Silly kiwis.
I don’t disagree. Some people should be locked up. Who shut down the asylums?
As for the homeless ending up in the suburbs, well isn’t it better they aren’t all concentrated together being a menace? Instead of sectioning them, just pick them up and drop them off outside our MPs houses or better still the beehive? That’s what we should do.
How did they get schizophrenia? Smoking pot probably. Are you talking about one of your children? Sounds like it.
Easy to let rip behind anonymous! Your not worth listening too.
It’s you’re – you’re welcome