Wait, WHAT? Police broke law for a case that was false anyway?
WHAT?
Police used false information to access powerful network of surveillance cameras
Police falsely reported cars as stolen to gain access to powerful databases that record number plates when hunting for the women whose travel sparked the Northland Covid-19 lockdown last October.
Detectives identified the cars associated with the women then listed the vehicles as stolen which opened access to Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems operated by two private-sector companies with a massive network of CCTV cameras.
Those companies – Auror and Safer Cities – operate cameras across petrol stations, shopping malls, big box stores, supermarkets and other shared public spaces.
A lawyer says revelations that police falsely reported a car stolen to gain access to private companies’ CCTV camera networks could undermine trust and cause information holders to question whether future requests from police were legitimate and lawful.
David Fisher is one of NZs best journalists, if he claims Police falsified information to gain access to surveillance, than unless it is directly refuted by the NZ Police, and they certainly don’t refute it happened, then it fucking happened.
The ease with which Police knowingly falsified information to access more powers is made even more outrageous when you consider that the entire allegation of these women driving around illegally was false in the first place.
The real issue here is how often are NZ Police lying to access wider powers to make their actions legally evidential?
We saw with the recent Gang crackdown that hundreds of warrantless searches were conducted using the forearms provision in the Search & Surveillance Act, but I suspect the Judiciary will point blank refuse to allow Police to prosecute gang members for charges that weren’t related directly to having firearms illegally on their property, because if they do allow Police to do that, the Search and Surveillance Act can just be a drift net for breaking into peoples homes without a warrant.
This is why its is so essential to have a properly funded Human Rights Tribunal so that when the Police simply break the law to arrest people there is some means of challenging that and holding them accountable.
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Actually Nathan wasn’t it your old mate Winston who waded in on this one?0
This is a bit long! But I don’t think that police are constrained to just carry out real police matters now. It’s serving moneyed interests and following the letter of the law when it is addressed to someone they want to deliver to now I feel.
Crikey dicks. Who’d have thought that this country painstakingly built and which people gave their lives for in wars in an effort to retain civilisation and national respect could have ended up by being policed by people who seem to put values aside as they come into contact with hollow people in society.
I thought police would have been able to hold onto integrity besides occasionally slipping down the slope in regular ways over the decades. But then they’d haul themselves up like strong heroes that we see in films etc. But I think they think of themselves as part of their tv series acshually. And power tending to corrupt you know… so fake road blocks for alcohol testing to acshually get names and addresses of thoughtful elderly people interested in having the freedom to access euthanasia when they were ready to die, were then visited and police demanded any appropriate drugs or potions they had. I realised then that they were inclined to use power without discretion. And of course love helicopter rides looking for cannabis. The government is happy mostly being well paid to go on enriching the wealthy and keeping in with the money exchanges in the world to facilitate ‘wealth creators’.
Money is often at the root of crime. Here is a bit from Wikipedia explaining who owns us or will in time. Even those with money count for nothing when the major creators of potent puff and promises have so much sway. The police are prepared to serve as required.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange#See_also
Stock exchanges originated as mutual organizations, owned by its member stockbrokers. However, the major stock exchanges have demutualized, where the members sell their shares in an initial public offering. In this way the mutual organization becomes a corporation, with shares that are listed on a stock exchange.
Examples are Australian Securities Exchange (1998), Euronext (merged with New York Stock Exchange), NASDAQ (2002), Bursa Malaysia (2004), the New York Stock Exchange (2005), Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, and the São Paulo Stock Exchange (2007).
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange can be characterized as quasi-state institutions insofar as they were created by government bodies in China and their leading personnel are directly appointed by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Another example is Tashkent Stock Exchange established in 1994, three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, mainly state-owned but has a form of a public corporation (joint-stock company). Korea Exchange (KRX) owns 25% less one share of the Tashkent Stock Exchange.[19]
In 2018, there were 15 licensed stock exchanges in the United States, of which 13 actively traded securities. All of these exchanges were owned by three publicly traded multinational companies, Intercontinental Exchange, Nasdaq, Inc., and Cboe Global Markets, except one, IEX…. In 2019, a group of financial corporations announced plans to open a members owned exchange, MEMX, an ownership structure similar to the mutual organizations of earlier exchanges