New Zealand Police Statement of Intent 2004/2005 now available

The New Zealand Police Statement of Intent outlines the medium-term outcomes sought and the strategies put in place by the Government and Police to facilitate:

* ensuring communities are adequately protected from crime through a whole-of-government response that fits within the framework of the Crime Reduction Strategy. This means a strong focus on stopping increases in violence, burglary, vehicle crime and organised crime; and

* improving the safety of New Zealanders through making the roads safer and addressing national security concerns.

It also sets out the advice and services the Commissioner of Police has agreed to deliver to enable the achievement of these outcomes.

The Statement of Intent 2004/2005 is available here:

http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/2004/statement-of-intent

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>