. . . “I don’t talk about policing by consent. I talk about trust and confidence, and it is fundamentally important that the police have the trust and confidence of the public, and we’ve got some work to do at the moment.”
He was “frustated” to hear trust and confidence in policing was dropping globally.
“We’re in New Zealand. We can be different, and we will work very, very hard to strengthen trust and confidence in New Zealand police.” . .
One of the reason trust and confidence had dropped here was the concept of policing by consent when too often it seemed that the consent was that of those who broke the law rather than the majority of us who keep it.
He is right we can be different here, and the promising early results in policing statistics will help with that.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
He could start by disciplining the police that were helping out at the hikoi instead of doing their jobs.
Policing by consent is like parenting by consent. There needs to be boundaries and if you go beyond those, the results need to be clear and predictable. The rise in crime is far worse that statistics show because if there are no boundaries, who is going to report it when it happens?
CXH the naivety was breathtaking. An ex cop told me they will actually think they were going a great woke and PC job.
It is been interesting to read about Policing across the United Kingdom and the "accusations of Two Tier Policing" the foundation of this statement is
[1] - how the UK Police deal with the Muslim Communities
[2] - verse how they deal with the "white community"
[3] - the over reach by Police on Hate Crimes - this one is interesting that there are large numbers of uniformed Police who spend "time at a desk" doing nothing else but "logging call/complaints on all manner of (so called) complaints" regarding hate speech - which most have the Police visit the "perpetrator".
Within the context of Two Tier Policing - what has also come to light is the practice, by Police of applying "Policing by consent".
Another factor that has also come to light - is the large numbers of Police who are members of the Gay Community, and openly flaunt that association in Public, especially public events - such as the Notting Hill carnival.
And sadly here in New Zealand we have seen similar events/actions - and I wonder if this has led to lack "of trust in our Police"??
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