Ross Meurant’s interview on Morning Report is well worth a listen if you missed it. Meurant is a former leading police officer and right wing politician. Meurant says that “police are a subculture that tend to look at everyone as villains” with a ”tendency to exaggerate”. He says that this filter means that information gathering by […]
So much for blue-green. The Nats are opposed to DoC having an advocacy role. Yet DoC’s advocacy saves important bits of native bush. Below is an exchange from parliament yesterday in which National attacked DoC for protecting old growth kanuka and Chris Carter rightly defended DoC (and picked up on my blog from Wednesday about […]
KEITH LOCKE (Green) to the Minister of Police: Has she made any complaints over any aspect of police operations in the last week; if so, on what grounds?
Hon ANNETTE KING (Minister of Police): No. There is a necessary separation between the Minister of Police and the Commissioner of Police over day-to-day policing decisions. This separation […]