Auckland police too busy?

[Maki]

A young boy was attacked and strangled in Auckland 2 weeks ago. Since then the police have been too busy to do anything. (A passerby got the number plate of the attacker.)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10512322

Do you live in Auckland? Do you have any idea what the police are so busy doing? Could it be harassing riders and drivers who might be doing 10km and hour or so above the legal limit (while not doing anything about irresponsible twats who are texting or talking in their cell phones and not even paying attention to what they are doing, but don't get me started on that one...)

So, any ideas? Are the police too busy chasing madmen who are 10km above the posted limit to deal with stranglers of young children?

[awayatc]

It is indeed dispicable...I had once something like that happening and filed an official complaint in writing to the police complaints authorithy....I got a real nice police officer visiting a few times, apologising etc.
But people need to react if they want things to change.....
Complain in writing, go visit your local MP, especialy so close to election
time....

Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Do not allow evil to triumph. Do not do sit by and do nothing..........

[Dave Lobster]

There's often a good handful of coppers sitting next to the tyre shop on Fanshawe st in the city. Quite often an unmarked one and a regular jam sandwich one.
No.. not nicking red light jumpers at the lights where there's a get together EVERY morning, but nicking people speeding past the BP garage. Fucking ludicrous.

[mowgli]

Reads to me like an unfortunate coincidence to me. The attending officer became indisposed (injured in the line of duty perhaps?) before the incident was entered into the Police system. I agree that another officer should have been tasked with re-establishing the details once it was realised that the ball had been dropped.

Generally I think our Police have a rough deal putting up with some awful things and with little thanks. Folks are more inclined to beat up on their mistakes than to commend their successes. I wouldn't want to do their job. I'm grateful that they chose to do the things most of us wouldn't want to.

[riffer]

To be honest, if there were more general duties and beat cops you wouldn't notice the ones sitting around waiting for speedsters. Like it or not, its part of police policy.

Have a think about how much the petrol price increases have impacted on police budgets. Remember, the Minister of Finance allocates a budget each May for the next year. It doesn't go up if petrol prices increase. The budget shortfall must be met somehow - its most likely through not replacing some officers who retire or are indisposed.

Add to that the amount of murder investigations that take up masses of police personnel.

It all adds up.

[Dave Lobster]

Ah, just to clarify my last post.. It wasn't a dig at policemen per se. More a dig at the policy they've been handed of criminalising people that aren't setting out to commit crime - ie targeting crime that creates income.

[Maki]

There's often a good handful of coppers sitting next to the tyre shop on Fanshawe st in the city. Quite often an unmarked one and a regular jam sandwich one.
No.. not nicking red light jumpers at the lights where there's a get together EVERY morning, but nicking people speeding past the BP garage. Fucking ludicrous.

They could obviously care less about traffic safety.

[riffer]

They could obviously care less about traffic safety.

Just because you follow subscribed policy doesn't necessarily mean you agree with the politics behind it Maki.

[Maki]

Just because you follow subscribed policy doesn't necessarily mean you agree with the politics behind it Maki.

A truer word was rarely spoken. The politics make me sick.

[Dave Lobster]

Just because you follow subscribed policy doesn't necessarily mean you agree with the politics behind it Maki.

What about having the balls to walk away from a job because you disagree with what you're being asked to do?

[McJim]

A truer word was rarely spoken. The politics make me sick.

So don't eat 'em. (To be honest I find a lot of policies hard to swallow anyway!)

Let's not have another cop beat up thread eh?

[Maha]

(To be honest I find a lot of policies hard to swallow anyway!)

Is that the Italian way of saying Police??
If so, then may I suggest you get 'Lower' when rewarding said officer for letting you off in such a manor...

[mowgli]

Have a think about how much the petrol price increases have impacted on police budgets. Remember, the Minister of Finance allocates a budget each May for the next year. It doesn't go up if petrol prices increase. The budget shortfall must be met somehow - its most likely through not replacing some officers who retire or are indisposed.

You'll probably find that the Police Personnel budget is separate from their operating budget so that personnel numbers are not affected by operating costs. It works like that in one other government agency I know.

[Maki]

So don't eat 'em. (To be honest I find a lot of policies hard to swallow anyway!)

Let's not have another cop beat up thread eh?

Yes, let's all just shut up and accept the fact that cops are too "busy" to investigate violent crime against children.

[Toaster]

A fair chunk of the police you see in the yellow and blue cars are there because their role and equipment is funded for traffic duties only. Don't forget the MOT was rolled into the police in the early 1990's - purely a traffic role. At least the traffic staff can and do get used for GDB back up when needed... something we did not have when the MOT existed.

If that huge part of the overall police budget was removed then you'd be back down to the GDB response staff only - you'd never see them because they are busy with domestics, arguments, fights, disorder, robberies, burglaries, disputes, thefts, idiots, twats, morons, nutters, suicides, complaints, whingers and sudden death investigations etc etc etc - its a busy and thankless role many of you seem to forget.

Traffic offenders are not "criminals" and the offenses commited (like speeding)do not fall under either the Summary Offences Act or the Crimes Act.

If you don't want a traffic offence against your name then slow down and give the cops more justification to argue with the government to allow more resources be allocated into CIB and general duties policing.

For those that feel cops should not ticket speeders at 11km/h over the limit, then when should they ticket them? Why have a speed limit then if it won't be enforced? There has to be a limit somewhere and you can't leave it to individual discretion - how would we as riders then know what each individual cop would consider reasonable? Some will do you for 20+ and other rather zealous cops will do you for 5+.