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Restoring Law & Order
ACT believes protecting the safety and property of its citizens is the government’s first and most important job. The rights of victims should trump the rights of criminals.
Increased funding for Corrections to lift prison capacity.
Abolished Labour's prisoner reduction target.
Defunded Section 27 "cultural reports".
Strengthened consequences for Kāinga Ora tenants who engage in repeated antisocial behaviour.
Strengthened Firearms Prohibition Orders.
Made gang membership an aggravating factor at sentencing.
Enabled greater use of remote participation by victims in court proceedings.
Piloted military-style academies for young offenders.
Restored Three Strikes for the serious repeat violent and sexual offenders.
Introduced a member's bill to make rehabilitation or education a condition of parole.
Toughened sentences for attacks on sole charge workers or those working in a business connected to their home.
Given greater weight to the needs of victims at sentencing.
Introduced tougher measures for serious young offenders.
Successfully campaigned to overturn race-based prosecution guidelines.
Advancing changes to improve citizen’s arrest laws.
Introducing tougher penalties for shoplifters.
Strengthening trespass laws.
Delivering faster justice for victims by clearing court backlogs.
Advancing a member’s bill to make the creation and sharing of AI-generated, sexually explicit deepfakes illegal.
Giving Kāinga Ora more powers to evict unruly tenants.