Comments on: Auditing The Government’s Police Numbers Strategy

By: Spartan

Spartan — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:38:47 +0000

In reply to Henry Filth. Poor pay and poor leadership. The current commissioner is working on the leadership issue but he's got 15 years worth of people being promoted into leadership roles which were attained less through merit, more through manageability - or put another way, climbed the ladder by holding it steady for their superiors.

By: Henry Filth

Henry Filth — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:12:53 +0000

So why are the literate and numerate so unwilling to consider the New Zealand Police as a career?

By: National are squeaky clean

National are squeaky clean — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:09:53 +0000

And now the final nil to complete their dictatorship…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360605837/live-nz-politics-blog

By: National are squeaky clean

National are squeaky clean — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:05:21 +0000

National has history in ” fiddling the books” and it continues to this day, to say otherwise is ridiculous.

By: Tess Tickles

Tess Tickles — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:43:10 +0000

Seems like the young offenders completing their time in bootcamps will be fitter and more literate than the new police recruits.

By: stevie

stevie — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:21:28 +0000

Police are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
For as long as we have had neo-liberal philosophies and free market economics( socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor) we have increased the poverty, addiction, alienation, inequality and desperation that drive criminal offending.
This is the situation:
There is a fire, we get fire extinguishers, then some bastards throw petrol on the fire.
The fire is worse so now we need more fire extinguishers.
Then the bastards throw more petrol on the fire so now we need even more fire extinguishers.
Some of the extinguishers are now exhausted and others are running out.
We have to get more fire extinguishers in a hurry and never mind the quality.
In the meantime bastards in parliament keep throwing petrol on the fire.

Everybody forgets who started the fire.

A while back one of the Brooke Van Veldens who post to TDB sneeringly asked me how many socialist countries I had lived in?
I replied then, as I do now, Aotearoa in the years of my birth, childhood and youth was a socialist country. Not nostalgia- fact.
RESTORE STATE SOCIALISM IN AOTEAROA! DESTROY CAPITALISM!

By: gordon walker

gordon walker — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:27:32 +0000

I look forward to Mitchells resignation come october .

By: Mohammed Khan

Mohammed Khan — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:41:14 +0000

They don’t want police officers to enforce the laws. They want officers to enforce their (bad) vibes.

By: Sleepy H

Sleepy H — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:22:32 +0000

Mitchell told everyone in January 2024 that 500 new officers by November 2025 would be unlikely
Luxon and Peters poured a ton of shit and bricks on his head for being honest.
Of course there was no “official” change of policy on recruitment standards but discretionary calls means we are where we are now.
Trainees unable to pass basic, well established levels of literacy is bad. What is worse is who else is having to change their standards because we no longer teach our children to read or write