警察部长朱迪斯柯林斯再次误导她的部下，她声称：目前一线警员的装备足以应付危急情况--- 工党法律及治安事务发言人克雷顿∙柯斯格罗夫（Hon Clayton Cosgrove）表示。
“这位部长吹牛的水平及频率都相当可观，”克雷顿∙柯斯格罗夫表示。“最近几周内她放话说：政府已额外增加600名前线警力，其实其中386名是前工党政府任内的成果。”
“再者，一边裁掉300辆警车-此举将导致前线警力不足，一边坚持说警员照样能保质保量完成任务---而前方警员对此的反馈恰恰和她相反。”
“其三，她又威胁说要辗碎飙车族的车子，接着却承认说每年因此被摧毁的车子其实少到掰着指头就数得清。
现在她又扬言说，确保前线警员有保证人身安全的配备是根本，讽刺的是，她却不敢说明，近期发生的两起警员被袭的事故中，被袭警员当时居然没有穿防护背心。
“毫无疑问，朱迪斯柯林斯会把这一切都归咎于不走运，说警察只要穿了防护背心就会一切大吉，然而警员和管教部门的其他员工都对她吹的牛皮颇为担心。”
克雷顿∙柯斯格罗夫说，超过400万纽元投入到增加装备和员工训练，对我们是个好消息，“如果总是不得不做些画蛇添足的事，对柯林斯女士和她的属下并没有好处。”
“假使警方和管教部门员工如今把柯林斯女士讲的话打完对折以后还要再打对折才相信，我也不会感到奇怪。因为只有那么做，才能稍微接近真相一些。”
8 July 2009 Media Statement
Hon Clayton Cosgrove
Collins misleads on yet another safety issue
Corrections Minister Judith Collins has misled corrections staff with her claim that it is essential that frontline staff have the equipment to manage dangerous situations, says Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove.
“This Minister is quite remarkable in the level and frequency of her boasting,” Clayton Cosgrove said. “In recent weeks she has:
Claimed the Government is funding 600 extra police when all but 224 of them were funded by the previous Labour Government.
Stripped more than 300 vehicles from the police fleet, while maintaining, contrary to what frontline police tell me, that police will still be able to do their job safely, effectively and efficiently.
Threatened to get tough on boy racers by crushing their cars, but then admitted that the number of cars to be crushed could probably be counted on two hands each year.
And now she has claimed that it is essential for frontline corrections staff to have the tools to keep themselves as safe as possible, while cynically not disclosing that in two recent incidents staff who were assaulted would not have been issued with stab-proof vests before they were attacked.
“No doubt Judith Collins will pass this off as unfortunate, and say many staff will be better off because they will have stab-proof vests, but both police and corrections staff are becoming more than a little weary of her bragging.”
Clayton Cosgrove said while it was good news that more than $4 million is being spent on extra equipment and training for corrections staff, “Ms Collins does herself and staff no favours by always having to gild the lily.
“It would be no wonder at all if both police and corrections staff are now dividing every claim she makes by two, and then by two again. That might get them somewhere close to the truth.”
Contact: John Harvey 021 461 675.
