Sergeant Clint Wright. PHOTO: ODT FILESCentral Otago needs to brace for "middle-class" beneficiaries and spikes in family violence as the impact of Covid-19 begins to bite. That was something the community and those charged with intervening, such as police needed to be prepared for. He predicted that people who had never had to would have to visit Work and Income. "We are going to see a lot of middle-class beneficiaries."

Source: Otago Daily Times June 23, 2020 16:41 UTC