Law enforcement

Why is it when you see a photo of a sex offender you immediately just know they are a sex offender?

Why is Immigration checking, just look at his photo.

Immigration New Zealand is reviewing the file of an American man, who was rescued yesterday after being one of a trio overdue for more than a week from a tramp in the Kahurangi National Park.

Guy Verschuur, 51, is listed on the Nebraska Sex Offender register, an official website of the state government.

He was convicted of first degree false imprisonment of a minor in January 1998.

The site had a photo of Verschuur which matched that used by Nelson police, and recorded him as having ‘‘absconded’’. Details of his crime were not listed on the website.  Read more »

The Labour party and their proxy in the Prison Guards union oppose private prisons, they say the state can run them better.

Imagine the outcry if drugs, weapons, porn and home brew were found in a Serco run prison…the wailing and howling would be weapons grade.

However that is exactly what has happened in a state run and union controlled prison. The union needs to come forward with some answers, Otherwise Anne Tolley should outsource this prison forthwith.

Illicit drugs, pornography, home brew, gang paraphernalia and weapons are among the 854 items of contraband discovered at the Otago Corrections Facility in the past three years.

The Milburn jail had 19,123 visits by members of the public between its opening in June 2007 and the end of last year.

Of the 6987 people who applied to be registered prison visitors, 642 were declined for various reasons, including attempting to bring in contraband and being subject to court orders or charges.  Read more »

A cop who tasered a a scrote has been cleared. The crim claimed he was backing away…I say that is attempting escape, just as well he was tasered.

The police conduct watchdog has cleared an officer accused of inappropriately using a Taser to arrest a man who was backing away when he was zapped with the high-voltage weapon.

Bruce Robert Roulston made a formal complaint against the officer last year after he was Tasered in the driveway of his Christchurch home in 2010.  Read more »

This is why Police need to use the Glock in the first instance. It is a terrible case where the sole officer’s nearest police suport was 70km away. By the time those reinforcements had arrived this police officer could well be dead.

Fortunately some members of the public and Fire Service intervened. They are heros.

Tactically, in an agressive situation it may well have been better fi the officer had drawn his Glock in the first instance.

Firefighters and Kawhia locals came to the rescue of a rural Waikato policeman last night when he was knocked to the ground and attacked by at least five offenders, police say.

The policeman had been set upon by at least five people, who were kicking him as he coiled up in pain on the Kawhia wharf, as about 80 members of the public watched on, inspector Rob Lindsay said.

The group took his taser, his radio and his pistol and were only stopped when local firefighters and the public stepped in to intervene. If they hadn’t, the outcome could have been much worse, Lindsay said.

Although the officer had called for back-up, his closest colleagues were 70km away in Ngahinapouri and couldn’t make it to the scene in time to put a quick stop to the attack, which left him with serious bruising and grazing to his face, arms and body.

No one could have faulted the police officer had he drawn and shot these offenders.  Read more »

Michael Laws says it is time to arm the police and also dispels some myths around the recent incident in Dargaville:

Every time a police officer is brutally attacked in this country – be they shot, stabbed or beaten – the NZ Police Association representing frontline staff provides the Pavlovian response. Arm the police, they ritually demand.

In turn this provokes the equally Pavlovian response of the police hierarchy, the government of the day and numerous academics: No. Their collective rationale is that the police, and the public, will be in greater danger if our frontline against the ferals and the nutters have Glocks strapped to their waists.

This week, Justice (and former police) Minister Judith Collins led the charge. The police already have liberalised gun regulations, she argued. They can take arms to any incident deemed likely.

Which rather misses the point. Police have no idea how any situation might escalate or de-escalate when they receive that initial call. The ones in which they are injured or killed, tend to start from some mundane pretext. Incidents are generally deemed not likely – and then all hell breaks loose, as it did in Dargaville this week or in the driveway of Napier drug dealer Jan Molenaar in 2009.

I don;t think it is good enough that the pistols and rifles are in lock boxes in police cars…when things escalate they escalate far faster than a police officer can run back to his car and unlock a box.

Liberal pantywaists have been arguing with me all week that arming the Police would have meant that an officer would be dead rather than shot at with his own taser. Michael Laws knows the real facts around that…armed Police get a much politer response from people than those unarmed or considered unarmed…the crims obviously consider Tasers to be no threat at all:

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I see the crim hugging liberal sooks are moaning about the proposal to arm police:

Claims policing is becoming more dangerous are a bid to create unjustified public fear a lobby group says.

The rate of assault per sworn police officer had barely changed over the past decade, Rethinking Crime and Punishment director Kim Workman said today.

The Police Association has called again for police to be armed after four attacks on officers over Christmas.

Police Association vice-president Luke Shadbolt said the incidents had emphasised the increasing danger faced by staff.

“Increasingly, members are calling for general arming. And we know, amongst the staff … more and more are leaning toward general arming as well,” Shadbolt said.

I can’t see any reason why our police can’t be armed…the criminals are.

For that matter I can’t see any reason why suitably trained and licensed citizens can’t be armed either…the criminals are.

There was a time in NZ history when people were able to easily carry firearms, you will note too that in those times there was less crime.

Nice to see Corrections taking my advice:

The Department of Corrections says the man has access to food and water and it will not and has not provided him with any.

Andrew Sullivan blogs about a Police Department using Pinterest to post about crims.

Perhaps Tolley could think about this initiative ..she will of course have to fight off the crim hugging liberal panty-waists:

Law enforcement is starting to harness a new force in social media:

A few months ago, we told you about the Pinterest page set up by the Pottstown Police Department, where they uploaded (or pinned, or whatever) pictures of wanted criminals. As a result, arrests in Pottstown were up 58 percent.

Now, following Pottstown’s lead, the Philadelphia Police Department hasset up their own Pinterest page, though it is still in the early stages. Over on their “board” you can see images of robbery suspects, wanted criminals, smiling policemen with their dogs, and Charles Ramsey looking like he’s trying to figure out how his Blackberry works. Some pictures are more important than others.

Seriously good idea from the cops:

Greek authorities have launched an investigation into allegations that riot police used a female protester as a human shield during demonstrations over a visit to Athens by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, this week.

Witnesses said the young woman, who has yet to be identified, was frogmarched in handcuffs ahead of riot police as protesters threw stones at officers.

Magistrates have launched a separate inquiry into a report that protesters arrested after clashing with supporters of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party were tortured at the Attica General Police Directorate. Human Rights Watch said accountability for police abuse was urgently needed.

The group said: “The scenes described by the victims to reporters are deeply shocking. No one should be treated that way by police. Greece needs to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation of their allegations.”