Police eye taxi-drivers
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney New South Wales could get a set of police of a different variety from the normal gun-toting “boys in blue” — taxi-drivers recruited under a system to be known as Cab On Patrol. Under the system, which is operating overseas, taxidrivers could be recruited as sorts of mobile spotters and paid a fee for reporting
criminal activity. According to the head of the Sydney C. 1.8., Chief Superintendent Bob Bradbury, the police are looking at the scheme as a means of adding to their store of information on criminal activity. “One ounce of information can be likened to 20 tonnes of hard work,” he said. “I have paid out, as head
of the C. 1.8., well over $120,000 (for information) in the last 12 months.” Apart from offering rewards in particular cases, New South Wales police also pay for information which leads to the arrest or conviction of any person involved in large criminal activity. The anonymity of informants is guaranteed and those who wish to use pseudonyms can do so.
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