Proactive Policing & security.

Kia Ora,

Interesting comment after yesterdays post. Agree with most of it but there needs to be some comment on points raised.

Crimestoppers has arrived here in NZ & has shown it is effective in Britain. It is definitely a part of what needs to be a three part targetting of crime though how effective it will be will depend if NZ gets over its 'don't get involved or don't dob' mentality.

The other two parts are one that is mentioned proactive policing. But there isn't any. I know this is upsetting many in the police as they now are controlled by KPI's (Key Point Indicators) which don't work in business os how they are supposed to work in policing I am not sure. NZ polcing is now mainly reactive & any reports of suspicious activity are not acted on. Crime isn't even acted on because they are too busy elsewhere. Call in a suspect drunk driver though & you will get alsorts descending on you. That is a fact because in last few months working security have called police for suspicious activity, including possible major crime about to go down, crime in progress & possible drunk driver. The only one that brought a response was the drunk driver.

Added to that you can use good proactive security. It just hardly ever happens in NZ. If you do it, you risk getting told to stop or questioned as too why you were taking any notice.

In fact you risk being told the same by police & even told you are wasting police time. I know a lot of police don't agree with it, but that is the system they now live in with too few police on the ground both for effective policing & on the grounds of health & safety.

To now have a white supremist group claiming they are patrolling some streets of Christchurch because there is no effective security in those areas are worrying. The police claim otherwise. I well remember the US military claiming the same whilst insurgents/Al Qaeda patrolled & controlled suburbs of Baghdad.