The first 24 hours of move-on orders

The Police Minister is dismissing Retail NZ's scepticism on the new move-on orders.

Police can now issue 24-hour orders to move on beggars, rough sleepers or people acting disorderly from a public place. 

Retail NZ raised concerns it could just result in relocating the problem behaviour from one retailer to another.

Mark Mitchell told Andrew Dickens the industry group is quick to criticize, but this is an issue impacting many of its members.

He says he did a meeting with Wellington retailers at the request of a Green MP, because rough sleeping was disrupting business.

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