Your local NZ National Party politician probably won’t admit it but it’s been five years since the police budget has been increased and the strain is starting to show. Statistics are showing resolution rates are decreasing, despite a supposed decrease in recorded crime (more of that in a minute). It seems the thin blue line…
Update: The man was later named in a New Zealand Herald report as “Muhammed Rizalman Bin Ismail, a junior military official at the Malaysian High Commission in Wellington…” source A diplomat has been given name suppression in New Zealand for alleged burglary and the attempted rape of a woman in Wellington. Diplomatic immunity case now officially…
Remember our blog, Palmerston North’s Wikipedia Entry Censored? We discussed the curious incident of crime references being edited out of the town’s Wikipedia page because it was putting-off professionals from relocating to the area. We all know that there is an issue with crime in Palmerston North, and its effects are having a big impact on one…
The United States rowing team has just had an unpleasant brush with New Zealand’s spiralling crime problem. On Saturday a member of the team had a number of personal items stolen after the World Rowing Championships at *Lake Karapiro. A Police press released managed to turn what could’ve been a PR clunker into a ‘gold…
The Press is reporting that there was a sharp rise in “burglaries” following the quakes that hit Canterbury and Christchurch. Reports of looting (“police staff in the city centre have clamped down on any reports of looting“) have been largely suppressed since the quakes started but it has just been confirmed that there’s been a…
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