Surely this is not legal - shame on the cops

[Big Dan]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3085...iver-to-Air-NZ

[Hans]

Dunno if it's legal in NZ, although I seriously doubt it. I do know, however, that in most European countries this would carry a jail sentence for the cops under a paragraph that is generally called "Abuse of official power".

[huff3r]

Well apparently there were privacy issues surrounding the whole "name and shame" section of the paper they used to run with drink driving charges, hence it being dropped... sounds dodgy to me!

[Skyryder]

All the cops have done is turn someone, who in all probablity, had both their respect and support into someone who now has neither................and for what.

But truth be tell it was problay one indavidual who at some stage in their life put the hardword on an air hostess and got knocked back. Just hope she gets to kick their arse.


Skyryder

[James Deuce]

Least corrupt country in the world. Yeah, right.

[Taz]

I used to respect the police and the job they did. Now they are fast becoming only revenue collectors and harrasment officials. I'm rarely even polite to them now.

[p.dath]

I can see a flip side to this.

The Police obviously knew she worked for an airline, but probably didn't know what she did.

If A Pilot flew drunk then hundreds of people could be killed. There are greater issues of public safety that the Police reasonably considered.

[CookMySock]

The police are always a little selective in what information they use, and how they use it. I kinda don't blame them in this case, but it seems more a matter of whether she can be dismissed for this or not.

Steve

[red mermaid]

If you read the article you will see that she was ON her way to work.
Do you want a drunk air hostess looking after you in a safety situation in the air?

And also note her name was only released once the airline made a request under the Official Information Act.

[Kevnz]

Can we use the Official Information Act to see how many Police officers have got off DIC, or had no charges layed for it in the last year ?

[kwaka_crasher]

I used to respect the police and the job they did. Now they are fast becoming only revenue collectors and harrasment officials. I'm rarely even polite to them now.

Ditto. I won't even stop to talk to the cunts...

[p.dath]

Can we use the Official Information Act to see how many Police officers have got off DIC, or had no charges layed for it in the last year ?

You could probably get the aggregate information (no names, since you haven't given any), but you may be charged for the persons time used to generate that data.

[ManDownUnder]

There are greater issues of public safety that the Police reasonably considered.

And what about privacy or due process?

[Forest]

Police would not comment on that but assistant commissioner, operations Vic Rickard said: "We do take steps and preventative action when issues of behaviour impact on wider public safety."

I think the Police were justified in what they did.

[FROSTY:Me]

This is typical sensationalism. A DIC conviction for say blowing 420 is a shitload different from blowing 1000 for example. One being slightly over the limit at which an adult is concidered capable of sagfely driving a vehicle the other clearly being double it. yep both are over but the lower is a mistake the other clearly not