Increased Highway Patrol presence...

[R650R]

it takes hours to trace most crimes doesn't it, that's their job.
why don't police cars have cameras in them, a lot of crimes are solved these days by putting the footage or photo on facebook etc, are the cops scared of having video recordings of the days work or something?
it seems a very simple solution to evidence for pretty well all road crimes to me, once the footage has been handed over with the paperwork it's up to others to administer then you can get back to the donut shop..

I think one of the councils did that and their was an uproar.... as it was a highly efficient technique... remember early doco on ANPR plate reader cars, UK cop said it picked up so many wanted people/expired taxes etc they he could do an honest days work parked outside cop shop, turns out 1 in 10 is a vehicle of interest.....

Would suck for bikers though... those times on group rides where you all frapp it out of roundabout and blast past few cars. A cop on other side could instantly issue say 10 bikes with tickets for illegal street racing, unnecessary acceleration, inconsiderate overtaking etc.....

We've had basically EVERYTHING that is in the Person of Interest Tv show for about 20 years but various govts have decided NOT to utilise it.... Theye even pretended the new computer system that ran it was faulty once they realised its power. You see they realise that fear keeps them in power, not fear of them. While we are scared of p-addicts, burglars and massive increase in gang numbers we haven't got time or money for protests or political action/mass strikes about the shite job govts are doing....
Note that everytime some random autistic zero threat teenager makes some random comment on an obscure blog that no one reads, about doing ******** to ****** MP whooooosh they are vacumned up and swat teamed.... bang first offence and the system plucks them out of the ether.....
But high level crims with a bread crumb of cell and banking data tracking them right down to street level addicts are rarely as a percentage caught.... eg 100% of the above described group nailed.... but what at a guess 5% of high level crims caught????

Here's the simplist thing I'd do if I was in CIB..... get my spunky intern/office bitch to compile at list of the top ten muscle cars eg HSV commodores etc.... Check out the owners employment/crime history/postcode and write some algorithm that works out likely legal ownership of expensive assets. Also look out for same vehicles owned by auntys/grandmas that would have no interest in driving such cars.
Then go knock on some doors and delve into bank records etc.....
You cant tell me that wouldn't lead to a meth distributor or two...... without even leaving the station.....
Instead of having those expensive drug dog teams wasting time visitng prisons (I mean who gives a damn about prisoners being on drugs, they are locked away from hurting us at the time) you have them at supermarkets and bottle stores and patrolling the car aprks at major sports events and concerts etc....
ANY crime that doesn't not involve harm against a person you let them off free or massively reduced sentence if they Rat on someone significantly higher up the foodchain. Of course they wont know any decent info but just a name of who to look at would be major boost, they only get to use this option once though to make sure they give a decent lead.....

[rastuscat]

why don't police cars have cameras in them, a lot of crimes are solved these days by putting the footage or photo on facebook etc, are the cops scared of having video recordings of the days work or something?
it seems a very simple solution to evidence for pretty well all road crimes to me, once the footage has been handed over with the paperwork it's up to others to administer then you can get back to the donut shop..

Data storage and management.

It would consume hundreds of hours each day having to store and administer the footage, which would have to be kept as it is gathered in the course of business, and the public have the right to request access to it.

Things are never quite as simple as keyboard warriors think.

[Scuba_Steve]

Data storage and management.

It would consume hundreds of hours each day having to store and administer the footage, which would have to be kept as it is gathered in the course of business, and the public have the right to request access to it.

Things are never quite as simple as keyboard warriors think.

But that's saying NZ is as good as many other countries isn't it. Other countries manage it alright.
Sounds more like an excuse than anything else