Q+A Interview with Police Commissioner

[Olive]

I've read today that Coster has been let down by his threat assessment staff, who are part of the faction in NZ Police who resent him and his modern philosophy of policing by consent. That explains why he didn't give instructions to take down the occupation while it was still manageable - they assessed the threat as low.

The thing that baffles me is that there seems to have been no effort to establish a perimeter and prevent new occupiers from coming in.