The biggest threat is the belief there isn't one!

Kia Ora,

Last week was a long weekend here in New Zealand. It meant there were a lot of events on with even more drunken idiots to deal with.

So that meant Police & security were out in force at many events.

But again it raised the issue of New Zealanders believing there is no threat here from terrorist elements in particular during the Rugby World Cup.

This issue came up again because I was using a torch I acquired in Iraq, which for its size is so powerful compared to any available in New Zealand.

A Police officer approached me about it & we got to discussing the security preparations for the Rugby World Cup.

But yet again I was met with the believe they had that all preparations were great & that there was no real terrorist threat.
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The day after reports came out of how the British are already preparing well above what the British police have at anytime in the past for the Olympics.

Even if New Zealand did that, it does not have the numbers to adequately cover all the games that maybe on in a short period of time. Any terrorist will know this.

Right now it needs to start preparing some private security to assist.
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As if to emphasize just how unprepared New Zealand is another incident involving explosives arose.

A farmer dropped off a largish amount of explosives that were if a bad state of repair at the local police station. This resulted in a four hour cordon whilst police waited for the army to arrive then transport it to a safe area for detonation.

Yes as it was unstable moving it did pose some risk, but since the farmer had transported it there, there was a good chance that it could be moved to a safer area early on.
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Should a terrorist campaign be launched in New Zealand & in particular during the Rugby World Cup we can not afford to wait four hours for someone to show up. Even now those procedures are far too cumbersome.

Al Qaeda have shown on several occassions they are not above using diversions such as suicide bombers to isolate their main target.

But here in New Zealand we continue to beleive that there is no way that could happen here.

The biggest threat is still the belief there is no threat.

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