turnin:  The police rely on the support of the public and I'd like to think that we would all stand behind our local cop. But when we hear this sort of rubbish....thats a real problem for NZ.

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turnin:  The police rely on the support of the public and I'd like to think that we would all stand behind our local cop. But when we hear this sort of rubbish....thats a real problem for NZ.

I agree, especially when the 'local cop' is being deceitful, as described in the Press article:
"Dotcom said he met Orewa community Constable Jason Homan the day before the raid. He said it was later discovered Homan secretly filmed the mansion to provide intelligence for the raid."
And obviously, since they had reconnaissance, there was no excuse for the armed assault, they knew perfectly well who and what was there. I wonder if this kind of thing would have gone down under our previous prime minister, our current one sure is a suck-up.

turnin: ...Do we really want police like this, this is New Zealand ? This special squad of officers were supposedly the highest trained members of the force. If this elite force are incapable of reasonable professionalism what hope is there for Mr Plod and his Taser ?  The police rely on the support of the public and I'd like to think that we would all stand behind our local cop. But when we hear this sort of rubbish....thats a real problem for NZ...
  ....This is very very sad behavior. 

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turnin:??The police rely on the support of the public and I'd like to think that we would all stand behind our local cop. But when we hear this sort of rubbish....thats a real problem for NZ.

I agree, especially when the 'local cop' is being deceitful, as described in the Press article:
"Dotcom said he met Orewa community Constable Jason Homan the day before the raid. He said it was later discovered Homan secretly filmed the mansion to provide intelligence for the raid."
And obviously, since they had reconnaissance, there was no excuse for the armed assault, they knew perfectly well who and what was there. I wonder if this kind of thing would have gone down under our previous prime minister, our current one sure is a suck-up.

I have some faith that the NZ Police deal with things?professionally?and properly MOST times, especially major stuff like this. ?Trouble is they can only go on the information provided to them which I guess came from the FBI in this case, and we all know what 'overkill junkies' Americans can be. ?

Whatever the event it is now up to the FBI to stump up with some evidence otherwise yet another taxpayer compensation payout coming.?



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Kyanar: What are you talking about, "taxpayer compensation"? The Taxpayer has already paid more than enough for this (it was asked on Campbell Live whether the US government will be paying for the raid and the police spokesman effectively said "no").

BluesBoy: There is one thing that strikes me as strange about the raid. The security guard said that the officers doing the raid were wearing t-shirts, jeans and flak jackets. He also said that one of them had a "doo-rag" (bandana) on his head. I've only been in NZ for 5 years, but I don't think I have ever seen NZ officers do a raid like this in plain clothes, nor have I seen hardly anyone wear a "doo-rag". I'm just wondering if they used some officers from the US to actually do the raid? Something stinks about the whole thing...