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Just 13 businesses have been kitted out with anti-ram-raid equipment by the Government. The figure comes from a written Parliamentary question to the National Party, which shows just 5 new installations in shops in the past 6 weeks. The Government's Retail Crime Prevention programme offers vulnerable businesses help, including fog cannons and bollards. National's police spokesperson, Mark Mitchell, says it's a failed policy to the tune of $6 million dollars. "There's more shopkeepers and shops out there that I've visited in the last 3 weeks that have gone ahead and put their own bollards up or their own security measures and their own cages. And fundamentally, the reason for it is that this Government keeps making announcements they think sound good, but there's no possible way of delivering on it." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.