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Every new police officer is told to “maintain at all times a relationship with the public" that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the publi.
Simon Bridges and Andrew Coster spar in fiery exchange over gangs. (Video first published in February)
OPINION: I was part-way through planning this column when I received a phone call from my 26-year-old nephew, frustrated at being pulled over and questioned by police for the fourth time since Christmas for what is best described as the offence of Driving Whilst Māori. He was released without charge on each occasion, but was seeking advice as to how he might stop this from happening. I drew a blank. This was a timely reality check on my topic of choice – Police Commissioner Andy Coster’s recent references to his preference for a consent model of policing. The notion of policing by consent derives from the “Peelian principles”, the set of ideas developed by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, when founding London’s Metropolitan Police.