Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Police): I thank the member for the patsy question because I have seen some data on that, in fact, that shows the number of outstations and smallest police stations that were closed, predominantly during the tenure of the last National Government, as a cost cutting measure because Police's funding was not keeping up with the increasing pressure that police were facing. I have several of them in my own electorate that were closed during the tenure of the last Government. Now, I looked closely at that, and one of the arguments that the police have made—it was an operational decision from the police to close those outstations—is that they would actually rather have the police out and about rather than sitting in a small, isolated area, often by themselves. Better to have the police out on the road in a car than sitting in what is, effectively, an office waiting for people to come to them. I actually think that, operationally, that's a good decision for the police to take.