New Zealand First has backed away from some hard-line law and order remits after some passionate debate at its annual convention being held in Dunedin.
Two remits from Rotorua requiring people to wear mandatory GPS bracelets were resoundingly lost.
One remit wanted all convicted paedophiles to be automatically fitted with a GPS bracelet until their death.
The second remit would have required a person with a history of domestic violence, and subject to a protection order, to have a GPS bracelet fitted under all circumstances.
A delegate was concerned about the prospect of convicted paedophiles, regarded as high risk, being fitted with the bracelets and put back into the community when they should be kept in prison.
Another woman was concerned paedophiles being put back into the community, were "hanging around schools and parks" without anyone knowing who they were.
A further delegate wanted perpetual offenders, who cut of their GPS bracelets, to be microchipped so they could not be in a place of crime without detection.
However, the silent majority from the more than 200 delegates voted strongly against those two remits and they were defeated.
A third remit wanting people who appeared before the courts and who had previous convictions of serious violence be denied home detention or parole was passed after the word "serious" was added as an amendment.
Those three remits were left over from last year's conference.
A remit submitted this year wanting more frontline police trained, and ensuring small police stations around the country provided a 24-hour response capability, was overwhelmingly passed.
