Labour wants to increase safety in small communities by turning the 62 one-person police stations nationwide into two-person stations.
Labour will also restore police numbers in stations that had resources reduced to boost the 300 extra police in South Auckland.
That will mean funding an extra 145 constables in the first term of a Labour-led Government, including doubling the staffing of one-person stations.
The policing policy, released yesterday, centres on a community policing model to target crime hot-spots such as youth crime, burglary and family violence.
"The focus is often on headline-grabbing crimes, but it is crime at the lower end of the criminal scale that makes far more people feel unsafe," law and order spokesman Clayton Cosgrove said.
"It may mean needing to rethink how police resources are deployed, with greater use of non-sworn staff at crime scenes to free up constables for investigative work. We need police to be able to focus better on crime prevention and resolution."
In 2010-11 there were 59,361 recorded instances of unlawful entry with intent/burglary/breaking and entering, with only a 15.2% resolution rate.
Theft and related offences had only a 23.8% resolution rate.
The low resolution rate led to the public feeling unsafe, Mr Cosgrove said, and policing petty crime would help prevent many offenders graduating to more serious offending.
Prevention of crime would also be a priority.
Labour's corrections policy continues its focus on reducing reoffending.
"We will also resource programmes that manage the integration of prisoners back into society.
Labour remains opposed to privately-run prisons.
The documents released do not have any information on the costs of the policies.
