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Stuart Nash versus the constitution and the Police
Stuart Nash, Labour’s spokesperson for Police, was strongly criticised recently for comments made on the sentencing of Nikolas Delegat, including by law professor Andrew Geddis who said Nash was...
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Police numbers game
With a by-election coming up in December, which will probably include a new party campaigning on law and order, and a general election next year, parties are throwing police numbers around. Police...
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Police accused of illegal moral crusade
RNZ have more on the using of an alcohol breath-testing check point to identify elderly people who had attended a euthanasia meeting. Yesterday police admitted they used a breath-testing checkpoint to...
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Euthanasia checkpoint conspiracy theories
Martyn Bradbury has made claims about the checkpoints used to gather information from euthanasia campaigners that look absurd to me. He seems to have dreamt them up as doesn’t substantiated them at...
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No charges to be laid against Todd Barclay
After a 9 month investigation the police have announced that no charges will laid against Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay. ODT reports: Police will not lay any charges in relation to an allegation...
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Police pay damages to Hager’s daughter
The Police stuffed up when they raided Nicky Hager’s house while he was away in October 2014. Today lawyer Felix Geiringer has advised that the Police have agreed to pay damages and costs to Hager’s...
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English announces Police package
In his ‘state of the nation’ speech Prime Minister Bill English announced a major boost to Police numbers. This is National’s first pitch at voters in election year, and shows an advantage for the...
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Bill English on ‘social investment’
In his ‘state of the nation’ speech Bill English explained how his ‘social investment’ approach was used to justify an increase in police numbers and resources. As a politician and a member of the...
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Clutha-Southland MP refused to cooperate
The ODT and NZ Herald have dug into the Police investigation into Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay, who last year became embroiled in a staff dispute in his electorate. Their investigation reveals that...
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Nash clash on police recruits
Labour’s police spokesperson Stuart Nash received a barrage of criticism for comments he made after agreeing with Police concerns about recruits who use anti-depressants, despite Nash apologising....
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Police release Pike River footage
Police have released 13 hours of robot video footage taken inside the access tunnel of the Pike River Mine. They say there is more to come but have to sort through a lot of material stored in various...
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Law on audio and video recordings
The Todd Barclay saga, in which the Police decided not to prosecute Barclay for making audio recordings of an employee in his electorate office in Gore (the Police are currently reviewing that...
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IPCA complaint laid over Barclay investigation
Someone has laid a complaint with the Independent Police Conduct Authority over the handling of the inquiry into Todd Barclay last year. The Police had reopened their inquiry last week. Stuff:...
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IPCA clear Police on Barclay investigation
At least one complaint was made to the Independent Police Complaints Authority about the police investigation into Todd Barclay in Clutha-Southland. The IPCA has cleared the police. RNZ: IPCA won’t...
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Police recently visited Whangarei killer
In a new development in the Whangarei shooting, in which two female property inspectors were shot dead and a maintenance man injured, the police have revealed that they visited the property last month....
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The Bradbury story: ‘unlawful’ access of bank records
This would appear to be big Bomber story, from NZH: Hunt for Rawshark sees police rapped again for ‘unlawful’ search of banking records Police have again been caught unlawfully harvesting private...
View ArticleNo charges after Todd Barclay re-investigation
The police say they have no new evidence of that justifies re-opening the case against ex-MP Todd Barclay so no charges will be laid. A number of news reports implied that this decision was because...
View ArticleDotcom settlement over police misconduct
A sudden splurge of Kim Dotcom news – he has announced he has settled with the police over misconduct over the raid – I think this is fair enough as the police seemed to take measures that were...
View ArticlePolice and prisoner numbers
The new Government aims to increase police numbers and decrease prisoner numbers. From the Labour-NZ First coalition agreement: Strive towards adding 1800 new Police officers over three years and...
View ArticlePolice want delay in cannabis legislation
The medical cannabis legislation introduced by the incoming Government would give people who are dying a legal out clause from using cannabis, but would keep it a crime to grow or supply them with...
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