Police ‘not posties’ of brochures
PA Wellington The acting Minister of Police, Mr Tapsell, has rejected Opposition complaints that overworked police are acting as “glorified posties” of Government propaganda. National’s spokesman on police, Mr John Banks, raised the issue in Parliament yesterday when he asked the Government to stop using police officers to deliver its promotional brochures.
But Mr Tapsell said if Mr Banks was referring to the Saatchi and. Saatchi community constable leaflets, he was wrong to say police throughout New Zealand were delivering them house to house.
Police headquarters had advised that local voluntary groups should be used for the job, Mr Tapsell said. “A few community constables may have decidied to undertake such delivery,” he told the House. Mr Banks then directed Mr Tapsell’s attention to a Police Association article saying some constables had to deliver more than 15,000 brochures each. Mr Tapsell said he had not seen the article. Mr Banks asked if it was "ethical to have overworked police officers in understaffed areas acting as glorified posties” for the Government, but the Speaker, Mr Burke, ruled his question out of order.
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