The hilarious double standards of the National Directive to stop investigating retail crime under $500

Bhahahahahahahahahaha…

Police Commissioner on controversial shoplifting directive

The Police Commissioner says a controversial directive sent to staff about not investigating retail crime below certain thresholds gave people the impress police were “giving license to those who choose to break the law”.

He’s since canned the directive which he labelled “confusing and unhelpful”.

RNZ revealed last week a directive was recently sent to staff relating to police’s File Management Centre (FMC) titled ‘Assignment Changes – Theft and Fraud’.

The directive said that from 26 March the FMC was applying “nationally standardised value thresholds” when assessing theft and fraud files. The value thresholds are – general theft $200, petrol drive off $150, shoplifting $500, fraud (paywave, online, scam etc) $1000, and all other fraud $500.

“When assessing files with these offences, you will apply the relevant value threshold and file any file under that threshold regardless of any lines of enquiry or IFA score.”

The police instructions relating to Case Management define an IFA score as “a numeric value derived from a series of weighted factors which gives an indication of the solvability of the case, based on the presence or absence of certain key lines of enquiry”.

On Tuesday, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers held a media conference in Auckland following significant backlash regarding the directive.

He told media that on his first day as the commissioner he made “very clear” his expectations around retail crime and the role of the police and law enforcement.

…blah blah blah.

Here’s what I love about this – the juicy double standards.

When Police announced they were no longer noticing about mental health call outs to vulnerable people, there was muted response, yet when they announce they won’t be wasting time with petty theft, the end of Western Civilisation is upon us.

Fuck vulnerable people, but the Migrant Worker Exploitation Tobacco Guild shall not be robbed!

The Migrant Worker Exploitation Tobacco Guild have put tens of thousands of dollars into getting National elected and they want more pay off for those tens of thousands spent on attacking Labour in their Tobacco outlets pretending to be shops…

…in NZ we have a wonderful class and race element to retail crime.

You have angry and disenfranchise māori and Pacifica youth attacking shops staffed by exploited migrate workers while the white Volk in the suburbs clutch their pearls and scream, ‘something must be done’.

That ‘something’ turned out to be Goldie gifting The Migrant Worker Exploitation Tobacco Guild the right of vigilante violence to bash anyone suspected of shoplifting, so imagine their shock when they hear Police will treat petty theft in the same way they deal with mental health call outs, in that they won’t.

The Migrant Worker Exploitation Tobacco Guild is pissed brosef!

They put so much money into getting National elected, and sure they got their vigilante powers, but they expect the cops to still turn up, they aren’t mentally unwell people who don’t donate to National, they are a Tobacco Guild for exploiting migrant workers and they HAVE donated huge resources to getting National elected.

They want their pound of flesh and watching the Police Commissioner front and promise them  everything they want is just delightful.

This a pantomime to quell the Migrant Worker Exploitation Tobacco Guild and ensure they still donate resources for the next election.

National are the best democracy money can buy.

 

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