Ken Evans.
A lack of funding for more police was a glaring gap in the 2016/2017 Budget, a victims of crime advocate says.
Ken Evans, Tauranga spokesman for Sensible Sentencing Trust, welcomed any extra efforts to improve the justice system efforts to look after victims of crime.
Mr Evans said one
of the trust's major concerns was extra funding being absorbed in administration costs.
"One of the glaring omissions in this budget is no funding for more frontline police which helped deter crime and assisted in improving our crime resolution rates."
Police Association president Greg O'Connor said the Government's 2016/17 Budget could be described as a "status quo" one, which funded debts already incurred.
