Kia ora,
Well the debate continues over the terrorist stunts carried out by a NZ newspaper.
When you read the articles they actually did very little but walk in with alcohol & minature explosives, gain access to restricted areas & dress up as construction workers on one occassion.
Yet the authorities have aimed their remarks at the reporters not on those who are to provide the security.
Their are comments that the security will be a lot different for the Rugby World Cup. Why should it be different then? In todays world the threat is always there. To be ready for the Rugby World Cup, the changes need to happen now, because the biggest change that has to occur is a mindset change.
One thing that was noticed in Iraq was former NZ soldiers fitted in well, but many former NZ police officers(without a military background) struggled initially with the change in mindset required.
Even as dangerous as the street of NZ have become with crime so random, it is still a huge change in mindset to be in an environment where you have to shoot to maybe kill & be aware that death may come from anywhere.
As one person I had quite a few dealings with in Iraq said "the west has already lost this war as these guys are committed".
Having, as the police organizer said " a heavy but low key presence" isn't going to work.
With the prospect of suicide bombers, you need to be meeting them at a distance from the objective. The tactics they use have being refined & adapted.
Thanks to briefings whilst in Iraq at the time of the attack on Abu Gharib, internet footage provied by the attackers & looking at past attacks it was easy to see the similarities in the attack on a prison in Afghanistan. This time it was successful.
These attacks are seldom carried out in isolation & they will come armed to get further in to their target.
That means meeting them at the furtherest point from the target.
It means with the police already overstreteched & undermanned, professional private security are required for the more in the face roles. Leave the polce to their jobs or specialist roles.
Experienced police officers both in & now out of the force, have being worried for sometime that what I have being talking about would happen & they are not ready.
How many of the current force are ready to shoot to kill? Even most soldiers over history have not actually shot to kill. It is more likely now, but pulling the trigger is not what everyone can do when the time comes.
At worst case & suicide bombers do show up, they are mission orientated & the only thing that will stop them is to kill them.
Harsh, but that is the fact of life. After 18 months of training how many of the current event security staff will be ready for the possability they could die?
About 1% I would say & they would be all ex military.
Security! In reality NZ is just playing at it.
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I think that NZ Police needs to take a good hard look at itself in regard to the training that it DOESN'T do...i.e. how many police officers are on the receiving end of the type of skills maintenance and upgrade training that the military deliver to their own even while deployed on ops? Maybe it is well past time that Police need to think more about taking officers OFF the beat for regular and frequent training, especially in those areas like the actual use of force...can't always count on AOS and STG being around as the bail-out force. It's not just realistic training to ensure that individual officers will or will not pull the trigger but the next level up to develop and maintain the collective skills as a group (much as we know from section and platoon dynamics), and to train and develop junior commanders.
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