What is the Story with Police Communications?

Kia Ora,

As I move to increase awareness of the new 0900 Suspicious service still take up sub contract work. Interesting couple of nights & then there is the joke that is called police comms.

But before we get to that a quick look at what we face on the streets & the blatant disregard of laws/common sense shown by New Zealanders especially in Christchurch.



For those that have never visited Christchurch there is these days an alcohol ban in place within what is known as the four avenues.

The above footage was a group of 12 very drunk individuals in blatant breach of the liquor ban.

It was a common theme throughout the two nights.

The first night the weather was atrocious & that seemed to be a signal for some of the worst driving in particular by taxis. Speeds estimated up to 100kmh, lane changes with no indication (a common issue in Christchurch), blocking fire engines, no lights on & if one incident stands out, it is the taxi pulling out with a fare into the path of a 4WD. Luckily the 4WD was one of the few doing the speed limit & had very good brakes.

One other was the cyclist dressed in dark clothing, no lights who cycled the wrong way up the one way street, initially to one side then as they went down the road, moving to the centre of the road. Only to be pulled up with a start on the second night by the police car that just happened to be at the lights.

Both nights there were large numbers of drunks in particular in large groups.

The one thing that took my breath away though was the call to Police communications.

There has been here in NZ a push on drink driving. On the second night, a vehicle parked in front of mine & two young females then got themselves ready to go out. Whilst they did that the driver started followed by the passenger to drink from bottles. The passenger's bottle looked very much like a bottle of alcohol, where as the driver's bottle markings looking similar to some Coca Cola bottles from a distance.

So I continued to observe. They then got out of the vehicle, asked a couple of questions & said we will be back in a couple of hours.

Whilst they were away the car was looked into & quite clearly could be seen were two bottles of alcohol. The driver's was half empty of what appeared to be some sort of red wine.

When these two women returned just over an hour later & left Police communications were called.

Registration was given, car make & model, description of pair in particular driver & types of alcohol. The only thing I didn't do beside pull them over was use my camera to video them drinking.

What was I told? "Oh we will pass on details but instead would you like to fill out the form so it can be followed up?" Form I know which ones as fill them out often, but for drink driving?

If it was so serious it would be a joke. In the last few weeks it seems that police communications has lost touch with what they are actually there for.

Good for me though as it will increase the frustration & people will start looking for other options like the 0900 Suspicious. If we are to tackle the crime that is increasing day by day, one of the first things that has to change is the the way police communications deal with calls.

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