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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-534/
- Published: 2022-03-30T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-31T08:42:38.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

> Police Minister **Poto Williams** has refused to let National’s police spokesman meet the Commissioner or any district commanders, saying cops are too busy for him.  
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> \[…\] “She is being petulant and vindictive and making it personal because I am doing my job in holding her to account,” Mitchell told Newstalk ZB.  
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> “It may be uncomfortable being told I don’t think she’s very good at her job and I don’t think she’s across her portfolio, but for her now to use her political power and position in government to start blocking me from meetings – that’s Third World stuff.”  
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> Mitchell told the Mike Hosking Breakfast: “She may as well go and join the Cabinet in Somalia.”  
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> \[…\] Williams said \[…\] it was for her to make decisions on a case-by-case basis.  
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> “I think the police have been quite busy in the last few months, so in this case I’ve decided \[against it\].  
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> \[…\] She said **police had not told her they were too busy for a meeting** but “as Minister of Police I have an understanding of what police are going through at the moment”.  
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> NZ Herald

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