Government dumbing down Police! More Crime results!

Kia Ora,

Well the new report is out slamming the New Zealand Police as been poorly run.

The Police Commissioner has come out in defence of the Police as suppose he can now he is not staying in the job. The Police Association has also made good points about how it isn't really focussed on what the police face on the street.

Now the police will admit like any organization that there is always areas they can improve on & that they need too.

But it appears the answers that have been proposed, as highlighted in the past even in these posts, are the very things that are stopping the police from doing their job.

Just try to ring in suspicious activity & see the run around you get by the requirements at police communications. It is often more like you are the criminal depending on who you get.

Then you can get the police who at times show up like at my attack, note it in their note book, but not as they put it 'hard copy' unless definite evidence comes up. Evidence did come up when two of them died in an accident, but how sure could they be of conviction of the other two involved?

Now you can't blame the Constable for that, as has been mentioned to me, the police virtually have to comply with that poor management tool of KPI's(Key Point Indicators) & are judged by their numbers of arrests or traffic tickets. So if they don't put one down that there is little likelyhood of a conviction, then their numbers will look better. It is just human nature but it is at the expense of a real impact on crime.
Policing and Crime Prevention
There is comment about the NCO's(Non-commissioned officers) not changing fast enough. The thing is most of the NCO's I have meet in the police, during the course of security work, are in support of the changes in regards to the poor parts of the previous culture. But not in regards to anything that affects actual policing on the streets. The real important parts of been in the police role I would think.

Then there is the comments about those in the senior roles. Those roles are political & so they have to tread a fine line.

As was shown in the drink driving debate the government wanted more study & figures even though everyone knew it should be implimented immediately. So the pressure goes on for more figures of arrests, tickets at the detriment of good policing.
Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, Fourth Edition
Gone are the days virtually where, as a retired police officer & I reflected, a police officer could hardly arrest anyone from year to year but still have a big impact. Just by having that presence for suspicious activity impacts directly on crime.

At each level people are seen as under performing if they are not making their numbers of arrests or tickets.

In whose eyes are they under performing?

If there is a serious crime I would expect a detective constable to be doing their best to solve that crime not, as I heard the other day, pulling someone over to give them a warning, if not ticket for a driving offence.
Crime Prevention (Criminal Justice Series)
Or a team police units prime role is not to arrest people but break up any disorder then worry about the arrests. Such a unit worrying about arrests might find itself short of staff when they need them most.

This dumbing down of the police by the government is the reason behind so much of the unreported crime. People have lost faith in the police as they have to work within the guidelines to make the numbers look good.

Business management techniques do not work in a true service organization. Police officers join to make a difference last I looked, not satisfy some numbers game.

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