Increase police numbers, and recruit overseas police with experience in zero tolerance policing
Ensure more police are on the street. Re-introduce community policing
Early intervention for minor crime e.g. vandalism, disorderly behaviour, graffiti
Review police practices, productivity and eradicate political correctness
Establish special unit in IRD to audit the income of gangs

Target police resources on people who sell drugs to kids, and violent crime
Increase funding for effective and evidence based drug education and treatment
Support making private ownership of fully functional semi-automatic weapons illegal
Investigate the benefits and costs of a low fee, centralised gun registration system and database
Introduce instant fines, rather than criminal convictions, for adults with small amounts of cannabis

Labour will tackle burglary by targeting high-burglary areas
Labour will continue to fund Maori Wardens and will introduce permanent funding for Pacific Wardens to develop and expand the Pacific Warden Programme
Labour will establish a Commission of Inquiry into Organised Criminal Gangs as a means of establishing the extent of gang involvement in organised crime and ways to stamp it out
Will pass the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Bill

Achieve a police-to-population ratio of 1:500 by the end of 2011
Take DNA from all convicted criminals
Amend the Proceeds of Crime Act to target the economic base of organised crime
Strengthen criminal non-association laws
Ensure greater use of preventive detention for violent repeat offenders
Introduce post-release monitoring with tough sanctions

Double the size of the police force over the next five years
Prevent crime "at the source" and eliminate the reasons young people enter into a life of crime
Trial roadside drug testing using technology currently available overseas
Advocates the de-merger of the traffic officers from the police

Oppose the decriminalisation of cannabis and any liberalisation of other drug laws
Enact legislation that make drug dealers an accomplice to any crime committed by their 'customers'
Toughen penalties for driving while disqualified or without a licence, alcohol or drug-impaired driving, and driving at excessive speeds
Allow drug testing of youth involved in crime, or admitted to CYPS care