Act has announced it wants to introduce new immediate "practical" penalties for young people caught shoplifting.

Leader David Seymour told Mike Hosking it's part of a broader law and order policy being announced this morning, aimed at making the country safer.

“People feel like their communities are being taken over by people with the wrong values. I was talking to someone last night, she said she Ubers door to door in Central Auckland.”

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