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	Newstalk ZB March 6 2007; 12:28 Police rape poster campaign hits Capital A scathing poster campaign is underway in Wellington attacking the credibility of the thin blue line following the recent police indecent assault trial. The poster mimics the current police recruitment campaign poster, based on the theme of getting better work stories. It invites people to join the police to "hear great rape stories". In some places around the city the official police posters have been ripped down and replaced, and in others the mock poster has been pasted over the official ones. The poster directs people to a non-existent website and also to an 0800 phone number, which goes through to an apparently unrelated Rotorua holiday park. The Police Minister has moved to defend the force against the poster campaign. Annette King says it is an appalling slur on thousands of good and honest Kiwis who police New Zealand with integrity and respect every day. She says she is disturbed by the ugly and vicious poster. Mrs King says the people who designed the poster ignore one obvious fact, that the people who brought the prosecutions against the police who were charged recently were in fact police officers themselves. National Party police spokesman Chester Borrows adds it is hugely unfair to taint 7,500 police officers with the actions of three or four. He points out an independent and objective report into the integrity of the police is due out soon.