Pubdate: Wed, 27 Feb 2002
Source: Evening Post (New Zealand)
Copyright: Wellington Newspapers (2002) Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.evpost.co.nz/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/142
Author: Dave Crampton

DOUBLE STANDARDS?

It appears the police are willing to prosecute anybody suspected of 
possessing cannabis, as long as it is not one of their own number.

The police lost a court case over the illegal search and arrest of Chris 
Fowlie, but when cannabis was found in the car of an off-duty police 
officer, after the car was crashed in Christchurch (The Post, Feb 22), what 
did the police do? Nothing, apart from covering it up as an internal 
matter, apparently.

Why would it be an internal matter if the offence did not happen in the 
course of employment?

Maybe it is about time somebody started policing the police properly.

DAVE CRAMPTON

Johnsonville
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