Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 22, 2017 17:27:40 GMT 12
POLICE U-TURN AFTER OFFICERS TOLD NOT TO TICKET DRIVERS FROM POORER SUBURBS
Police chiefs have backtracked on an instruction telling officers not to target drivers in Christchurch's eastern suburbs because those motorists could not afford tickets.
The Star has learned an internal police task memo went to officers this month as part of a strategy aimed at educating drivers instead of penalising them.
Officers were told to avoid targeting drivers in east Christchurch.
Instead, police can give them compliance, or refer them to a programme to get a licence or an agency to assist with employment in order to be able to pay for a warrant of fitness.
Hill said that was the intent of the task, and it had been "reworked" to reflect that.
As part of a plan to reduce Maori offending by 25 per cent by 2025, police were looking at the ways in which Maori and people from lower socio-economic areas were entering the justice system.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11925107
Police chiefs have backtracked on an instruction telling officers not to target drivers in Christchurch's eastern suburbs because those motorists could not afford tickets.
The Star has learned an internal police task memo went to officers this month as part of a strategy aimed at educating drivers instead of penalising them.
Officers were told to avoid targeting drivers in east Christchurch.
Instead, police can give them compliance, or refer them to a programme to get a licence or an agency to assist with employment in order to be able to pay for a warrant of fitness.
Hill said that was the intent of the task, and it had been "reworked" to reflect that.
As part of a plan to reduce Maori offending by 25 per cent by 2025, police were looking at the ways in which Maori and people from lower socio-economic areas were entering the justice system.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11925107