警方说，国家党砍掉警察部门2,100万纽币的经费，给国人造成了“额外的风险”，但是警察部长朱迪斯•柯林斯(Judith Collins)却推诿说这只是一个具体操作的问题。
真相什么呢？砍掉2100万经费，乃国家党政府强加于警方的，根本不是法律及治安委员会的初衷。警务专员接到通知，要他想办法找出这笔钱（2,100万纽币）以供砍削，而现在警方意识到如果将来出了什么麻烦，警察部长肯定是溜之大吉。
朱迪斯•柯林斯不想担这个责任，她推脱得一干二净。毫无疑问，如果警方不能及时赶到犯罪现场，他们是执行不了工作的。警员们自然会尽力而为，问题是由于少了300辆警车，警力被削弱，任务完成不了的情况势必会发生。警察部长那时就会反过来怪罪警方给她出的是馊主意。在对这个问题的处理上，她的嚣张和玩世不恭实在是太明显了。
“她谎称国家党投放了额外600名警力在街上巡逻。今天她还在试图继续这个谎言，可是又不得不承认，即，这600名警员中的380名其实是工党在任时投入的成果。国家党上台后，只增加了额外224名。”
Hon Clayton Cosgrove
Law and Order spokesperson
June 24
Collins ducks responsibility for “additional risk”
Police say that the $21 million cut to resources forced on them by National creates “an additional risk” for New Zealanders, but Police Minister Judith Collins is fobbing responsibility off as an operational matter, Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove says.
“Police Commissioner Howard Broad honestly and forthrightly admitted at today’s law and order select committee that the $21 million in so-called ‘savings’, resulting in 300 police vehicles being taken off the road, would create additional risk,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Of course, the Commissioner put a brave face on it, and told the committee his aim was to try to eliminate the additional risk, but he shouldn’t even have been made to answer the question in the first place.
“Judith Collins ducked the question about guaranteeing there wouldn’t be any delays in police responses given the $21 million cut,” Clayton Cosgrove said.
“Quite unbelievably, she told the committee that it would be inappropriate for her to provide a guarantee when the police had told her they could re-allocate vehicles without affecting services.
“The fact is that the requirement for $21 million in cuts is a requirement her government has forced on police,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “It wasn’t the Commissioner’s initiative. He was told to find the $21 million, and now the police know that if anything goes wrong, the Police Minister will be nowhere to be seen.
“Judith Collins is washing her hands of responsibility. Police can’t do their job if they can’t get to the scene of the crime quickly and efficiently. There is no doubt they will do their very best, but when they don’t succeed, as will inevitably happen with 300 cars off the road, they will probably be blamed by Judith Collins for giving her bad advice. Her brazenness and cynicism is remarkable.”
Clayton Cosgrove said Judith Collins was forced to “sort of come clean” at today’s select committee about the number of extra police National was funding.
“She has falsely claimed that National is putting 600 extra police on the beat. Today she tried to maintain that fiction, but she also had to admit, however, that some 380 of these were funded by Labour. National’s contribution is just 224.”
Contact: John Harvey 021 461 675, Clayton Cosgrove 021 829 562.
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