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The Evening Post
May 2, 2002
What do police want to prove?
Letter to the Editor
by Gavin Dillon, Upper Hutt
Your
front page picture (The Evening Post, April 24) showed "partners in
crime-busting" Detectives M Oxnam and S Wildon,
both beaming with satisfaction.
Lower Hutt locals, together with the rest of New
Zealand, congratulate the police on solving two serious
crimes in the Wellington
region, an unenviable task most of us would want to disown.
The police's profile has never been so high. On page 4, however, the same
day, you also published a heading Police Widen Christchurch Abuse Probe. The
case is eight years old, the person (Peter Ellis) has been convicted, served
time and released. What are the police trying to prove?
Is it possible that Dunedin
author Lynley Hood, in her book A City Possessed, demonstrates her prowess as
a crime-buster in showing the police up as well behind the eight-ball and
losing their way?
The credibility of the police here takes a dive. I hope their future
investigative abilities will maintain the shine they bask under today.
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