Lures needed to tempt police to country
Political reporter
Greater encouragement should be given to police officers to be based in out-of-the-way areas where crime is increasing, the Opposition says.
Its spokesman on police, Mr Banks, told the Commissioner of Police at yesterday’s Justice and
Law Reform Select Committee that places like Ruatoria were “hot beds” of crime and more officers should be given encouragement to • go there. However, Mr Churches said that there were many difficulties in attracting police staff to far-flung regions.
Often the level of unemployment in those places meant that officers’ wives or husbands could not find work and this was a discouragement to move. “But we are already offering officers a variety of incentives to get people into these areas,” he said.
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