Most people know how I voted at the last election. I gave my party vote to ACT and my electorate vote to National. Unless something changes dramatically between now and polling day, I can’t see myself doing that again.
Chambers, in an internal note to staff on Thursday afternoon, said he “strongly reject[ed] the claims that have been made”.
It’s not just the British Police that must be avoided but also their ideological allies who have programmed them into ‘Anti-Racist’ automatons.
New Zealanders deserve better than this grubby politics as usual. Labour’s latest recruit arrives under a cloud of their own making. The public will not forget it.
The origins of this lie with a politicised, activist police senior management.
PILLAR is calling on parliament to ensure any expansion of biometric surveillance powers is accompanied by clear statutory safeguards, independent oversight mechanisms, transparency requirements and meaningful protections for privacy rights guaranteed under New Zealand law.
Allegations last year raised serious questions about the priorities of the New Zealand Police, it seems they are more focused on policing online speech than addressing severe criminal behaviour.
Rutherford urges Supreme Court to block police uses of dragnet cell phone surveillance.
How New Zealand's law enforcement became an activist agency protecting a fiction, and the media reinforces the deception.
A legal case in Kansas shows how surveillance technology can distort policing priorities. When authorities can monitor anyone cheaply, the temptation to target critics increases.
Information damaging to police interests was consistently absent from what was initially made public, and consistently only emerged under pressure from persistent journalists. The OIA exists precisely to prevent this.
A person going off the grid is one of the greatest challenges police face in trying to find someone, because technology serves as a person’s electronic footprint.
Public trust, once diminished, is difficult to rebuild and recent years of police misconduct should have woken our lawmakers up by now. It is essential that parliament takes the time to get this right.
My hope is that if the defamatory press release put out about Lucy as a result of the botched police investigation results in findings against the police in court, then they will start caring about whether investigations are conducted competently.
