19-02-2022, 07:31 AM
It is absolutely outrageous that the useless Police Commissioner hiding in his office has now allowed the number of illegally parked vehicles bringing Wellington to a complete standstill to have doubled in a matter of a few days.
My son in law is an ex Police Sergeant and he is just furious about the current situation.
He says one of the PolicesÔÇÖ most preciously guarded and hard fought treasures is the reputation, respect and co-operation they have from 95% of the NZ public which has now been seriously undermined by this dithering.
He fully expects Coster to be sacked, and especially so if there is a change of government in the near future.
It is unacceptable that a capital city has been so badly crippled and our own Police force can do little more than scratch their heads.
This quote sums it up perfectly really:
When people in Wellington see that the law is not being applied to people who are threatening and abusing people and making death threats, and parking their vehicles in the middle of the road so that people can't go about their business, they start to wonder why they should follow the law themselves, and the basic legitimacy of the police starts to fall over,ÔÇØ Jones said.
Monash University criminology lecturer Dr Ross Hendy said there was a concern that people would think the police were ineffective because they appeared to be doing nothing.
My son in law is an ex Police Sergeant and he is just furious about the current situation.
He says one of the PolicesÔÇÖ most preciously guarded and hard fought treasures is the reputation, respect and co-operation they have from 95% of the NZ public which has now been seriously undermined by this dithering.
He fully expects Coster to be sacked, and especially so if there is a change of government in the near future.
It is unacceptable that a capital city has been so badly crippled and our own Police force can do little more than scratch their heads.
This quote sums it up perfectly really:
When people in Wellington see that the law is not being applied to people who are threatening and abusing people and making death threats, and parking their vehicles in the middle of the road so that people can't go about their business, they start to wonder why they should follow the law themselves, and the basic legitimacy of the police starts to fall over,ÔÇØ Jones said.
Monash University criminology lecturer Dr Ross Hendy said there was a concern that people would think the police were ineffective because they appeared to be doing nothing.