Thread: Firearms Licence Renewal

Originally Posted by Savage1

Government needs to lift it's funding, Police have had a zero budget increase for years.

Sorry Savage, but I cannot agree. If there's time and coin and resources to be sitting at the end of passing lanes and the bottom of hills pointing a camera at traffic, pinging them for (often tiny excess), there's time to investigate burglaries properly (or at all would be nice). Reason number 183 that constant unofficial taxation is a bad idea when that's the image the public see on a daily basis, but get no-shows come the day they get burgled. Short sighted right?

Having said that, it's obviously a decision made at bullshit castle, rather than cop-on-the-street level

Originally Posted by Tommy

Sorry Savage, but I cannot agree. If there's time and coin and resources to be sitting at the end of passing lanes and the bottom of hills pointing a camera at traffic, pinging them for (often tiny excess), there's time to investigate burglaries properly (or at all would be nice). Reason number 183 that constant unofficial taxation is a bad idea when that's the image the public see on a daily basis, but get no-shows come the day they get burgled. Short sighted right?

Having said that, it's obviously a decision made at bullshit castle, rather than cop-on-the-street level

You don't need to agree, it's a fact. Not to mention a large part of Police funding comes from ACC and Land Transport on the condition that a certain amount of Police hours are used for traffic enforcement. So Police don't always have a free hand with resource allocation.

There isn't the man power to fully investigate every burglary. Police have had a budget freeze yet they are expected to do more with less.

Don't worry, I'm as frustrated as everyone else, but like you say, it's decisions that are way above my head. I suggest writing to Judith Collins to complain.

Originally Posted by Savage1

You don't need to agree, it's a fact. Not to mention a large part of Police funding comes from ACC and Land Transport on the condition that a certain amount of Police hours are used for traffic enforcement. So Police don't always have a free hand with resource allocation.

There isn't the man power to fully investigate every burglary. Police have had a budget freeze yet they are expected to do more with less.

Don't worry, I'm as frustrated as everyone else, but like you say, it's decisions that are way above my head. I suggest writing to Judith Collins to complain.

My other police friends say the same thing. Interested to know whether you think the police and traffic police should be separate depts again?

Originally Posted by Savage1

You don't need to agree, it's a fact. Not to mention a large part of Police funding comes from ACC and Land Transport on the condition that a certain amount of Police hours are used for traffic enforcement. So Police don't always have a free hand with resource allocation.

There isn't the man power to fully investigate every burglary. Police have had a budget freeze yet they are expected to do more with less.

Don't worry, I'm as frustrated as everyone else, but like you say, it's decisions that are way above my head. I suggest writing to Judith Collins to complain.

I would suggest that writing to Collins would be about as useful as pissing into the wind