News (Media Awareness Project) - New Zealand: PUB LTE: Double Standards? |
| Title: | New Zealand: PUB LTE: Double Standards? |
| Published On: | 2002-02-27 |
| Source: | Evening Post (New Zealand) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-24 19:37:51 |
DOUBLE STANDARDS?
It appears the police are willing to prosecute anybody suspected of
possessing cannabis, as long as it is not one of their own number.
The police lost a court case over the illegal search and arrest of Chris
Fowlie, but when cannabis was found in the car of an off-duty police
officer, after the car was crashed in Christchurch (The Post, Feb 22), what
did the police do? Nothing, apart from covering it up as an internal
matter, apparently.
Why would it be an internal matter if the offence did not happen in the
course of employment?
Maybe it is about time somebody started policing the police properly.
DAVE CRAMPTON
Johnsonville
It appears the police are willing to prosecute anybody suspected of
possessing cannabis, as long as it is not one of their own number.
The police lost a court case over the illegal search and arrest of Chris
Fowlie, but when cannabis was found in the car of an off-duty police
officer, after the car was crashed in Christchurch (The Post, Feb 22), what
did the police do? Nothing, apart from covering it up as an internal
matter, apparently.
Why would it be an internal matter if the offence did not happen in the
course of employment?
Maybe it is about time somebody started policing the police properly.
DAVE CRAMPTON
Johnsonville
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