Censured cop gets top job

Hey there Veteren44. Are you a current or ex cop, as your protective, trot out the 'official line' comments are completely the opposite to the general public feelings on this matter as reflected by what most other correspondence are saying. Police comments generally on most contentious issues are made regardless of what the public feelings are which comes across as gross arrogance in the face of well intentioned dialogue that is frequently in disagreement with the way police view things or with the action or non-action taken. The real problem most people have with NZ police is their charge and be damned attitude for anything the public may do that the police can charge them for. "Leave it to the courts" police say. But when it comes to police 'indiscretions' similar or identical to what the public are charged for, we do not see police charged for anything except the most extreme incidents. Public perceptions are that most 'wrongs' police do are whitewashed away through internal inquiries with hardly anything more than a quiet censure (as proscribed by police procedure guidelines) just like happened with Sargent Archibald at the time. Then there is the issue of a certain senior Auckland based police person with a shocking self admitted involvement in depraved sexual behaviour with a police inquiry about to happen when he resigned before the investigation could go ahead and the matter was conveniently dropped by the police. No action was taken so the person took his generous retirement package and moved on to other things a free man. Is it no wonder and to great shame, the NZ police no longer have the respect they once had?

To Veteran44. It appears it is you that need to get a life instead of living under a dream cloud of unreality. If you are a veteran of the police, it is perhaps understandable but not excusable, why you have such a twisted way of looking at how the general public view things when a police whitewash happens and the not so mythical blue line closes ranks yet again. Regardless of what you like to think, the public take this as police arrogance in the face of what should happen but does not,and is completely unacceptable. As Dave said, the police treat their own quite differently to how they treat the public who are charged regardless, and the courts left to decide guilt. If the police wish to be seen as working for the public good, they should charge their own who offend similarly to the public and leave it to the courts to decide rather than white wash things through a so called 'police inquiry'. A perfect example of this is the sharp shooter who killed an innocent bystander on the Auckland Western Motorway recently by not checking his line of sight first, which is the first rule in outdoor shooting. A so called trained police sharp shooter should have checked this but clearly did not. The courts should have been used in this instance to decide quilt, which should not have been decided by yet another internal whitewash.

He was found guilty of enfringing a rule and punished according to the rules. He was then promoted on merit, with his record open to the selection panel. What a fuss about nothing. These (old) police "groupies" need to get over their tantrums and get a life.

And we wonder why our youth don't respect law and order (ya right, order!)

How dodgey is that? Putting the burglar in charge of the bank vault. Very dumb decision. The guy is untrustworthy and should never have been given such a position. It reflects very poorly on the Police.

How typical. Just like the French did with the returned bombers of the Rainbow Warrior, the NZ Police are no better in rewarding one of their own who subversively shared private information from police files with his buddies outside the force which could have been used in defense of ex-police criminals on serious charges. Now this proven subversive person is to be put in charge of Police School Intelligence and Investigation etc training. Its 'rewards' like this made to cops who made bad decisions on the job, that don't help restore public opinions of NZ Police to where they once were. A slap on the wrist with a dry feather is not an appropriate action particularly when followed within a span of less than 5 years by not only promotion from Sargent through to Detective Inspector, but to then being put in charge of the Police Training School. These over the top promotion/rewards are no better than the arrogance of the French and just as self damning. The real concern here is that the NZ Police fail to see where they are continually going wrong with accountability issues, and failing to treat their own as they do the public, who pay their wages.

Another bad example by the Police but what can we mere mortals do?