Police future ‘chilling’
PA Wellington Contemplating the future of the police in New Zealand was a "chilling” experience, said the Commissioner of Police, Mr Ken Thompson, at the police centennial dinner on Monday evening at the Beehive. “One cannot look forward without flinching at the potential crime rate by the year 2016 — just 30 years on,” he said. “In the preceding three decades, reported offending has exploded 450 per cent.”
Mr Thompson said that if the next 30 years went
the same way as the last, New Zealanders would be confronted by 2.7 million reported offences in the year 2016. "That, I am afraid, is just too ghastly to contemplate,” he said. The policemen and policewomen of the future would have the advantage of policing a society they had been drawn from and were familiar with. “They will have the benefit of greater knowledge, better education, more intensive training, appropriate laws and the tools and technology of the twenty-first century,” Mr Thompson said.
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