Thursday, May 12, 2005

If police are too busy, then we need a whole lot more / The New Zealand Herald, 12 May 2005

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10125009
Roland Hide
"What can police be so busy doing? Police Minister George Hawkins, on Monday's Perspectives page, told us crime was coming down and police numbers were going up. Hang on. Crime down; police numbers up. How can they be too busy? The answer is that our police are overstretched combating ever-increasing violent crime. "