Pollies: National's Mark Mitchell and Labour's Ginny Andersen on the status of the 111-emergency call system
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
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Show Notes
Both the former and current Police Ministers maintain that while the emergency call setup needs updating, it is currently stable.
Official Police documents claim the system's outdated, causing preventable deaths and injuries.
Labour’s Ginny Andersen said that there is funding in place to keep the current system working until 2025.
She told Mike Hosking that instead of putting the money into updating the system, they instead financed a new secure digital network
Andersen maintained that the system does work, the primary issue is that it doesn’t have digital capabilities.
Police Minister Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking that he's seeking advice about the system, but can't give a timeline for the upgrades.
He says there's still work to be done to figure out how much the work will cost.
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