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Annette King Police Minister Annette King has leapt
to the defence of police after posters were put up which she says slur their
reputation. Ms King said a poster that said a
career in The poster appeared today at Wellington
Railway Station. Former policemen Brad Shipton and
Bob Schollum, and Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards were acquitted
by a jury last week on charges of kidnapping and indecently assaulting a
then-16-year-old girl more than 20 years ago. Last year the same three men were
acquitted of historic sex charges against Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas. Shipton and Schollum are already
in prison for a different rape -- of a Ms King said it was important to
note that the people who had brought the prosecution against the three men
were police themselves. "I'm asking the people who
put up this poster to think about the huge majority of decent police staff
whom they are damaging and hurting by their ill-considered actions," she
said. The poster comes as police are
trying to recruit enough staff to fill the 1000 extra positions promised as
part of New Zealand First's support agreement with Labour. Opposition MPs say the recruitment
drive is failing to meet its targets and police are dropping entry standards
in a bid to make up the numbers. |
