How many police staff Northland will get following an announcement of an extra 1125 police is yet to be determined.
Rodney's National MP Mark Mitchell said Northland would benefit from Prime Minister Bill English's announcement yesterday of a $503 million Safer Communities package that would deliver an extra 1125 police, including 880 sworn officers, over four years.
The first recruits will begin training in July and be on the beat in November. However it was yet to be determined what regions would benefit from the extra resources.
The news comes after the police staff shortages in Northland were labelled a "crisis" by the police's representative body.
An article in the Police Association's December 2016 magazine entitled 'Staff crisis affects duties' said: "Some basic policing is becoming untenable in Northland as a result of working with minimum, or below, staffing numbers.