law and order

Labour have released their police and corrections policy. Once again it promises more unfunded spending:

Labour says it will fund 145 police constables in its first year in office and get rid of single-officer stations.

Law and order spokesman Clayton Cosgrove announced his party’s police and corrections policy this morning.

He said Labour was committed to doubling staff in one-person stations, should they win in November.

“Labour is deeply conscious of the safety risks police face in their jobs every day. There is no way to ensure the safety of individual officers, but that doesn’t mean governments shouldn’t do everything they can to minimise risks.”

The role of sole-charge police officers in remote rural areas has come under scrutiny after a series of violent attacks.

If Labour was so deeply conscious of the safety risk police face why did they not move to do something about sole charge officers when they had nine years in power. Cosgrove and Labour are once again out to lunch on law and order. No wonder Labour never gives any questions to Cosgrove in the house anymore.

Yesterday I spoke with Garth McVicar from the Sensible Sentencing Trust. It is the second in the WOBH Radio Summer Series interviews.

WOBH Summer Series Interviews – Garth McVicar

The boy-racers have turned out to be chickens in the face of the law designed to crush their cars for repeat offenders. now the son of a mother who just yesterday became a victim of drunk driving says crush drunk drivers cars.

The oldest son of a mother-of-five killed by a woman fleeing a police check point says it’s time to crush drink-drivers’ cars.

Bradley Phillips said last night he was frustrated by the Government’s eagerness to crush boy racers’ vehicles, while letting drink-drivers keep theirs.

His mother, Penelope Rae Phillips, 52, died in Blenheim on Friday night after a 20-year-old woman smashed into her car.

The woman had been stopped at a police checkpoint 400m away. Police said she blew a positive result then sped away.

Officers scrambled to pursue, but the woman struck the white Nissan Penelope Phillips was driving. She died at the scene.

An innocent driver killed by a drunk skank and the skank survives. I feel for the son.

I read this story yesterday after I saw the headline on the Herald site that really rates as spam journalism. The headline read “Woman dies as driver flees police” giving the impression that the woman was involved in a police pursuit when nothing of the sort happened.

Just today we also hear that;

One of New Zealand’s worst repeat drink-drivers has been caught again, racking up his 40th driving conviction – 14 of them for drink-driving.

Richard Steven Rowe, 46, of the Bay of Plenty, is in custody awaiting sentencing in April for his latest drink-driving conviction. He faces up to two years’ jail and disqualification from driving for more than a year.

How many chances does one get? Looks like more than 14 or so. Crush their cars. This is the result of another vagary of our justice system, never being allowed to know what prior convictions a fool has already. Crush their cars.