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Police sent women officers to
guard their Wellington Central station when more than 200 angry people
protested outside over the not guilty verdicts in recent police sex trials. The station doors were guarded by
a thin blue line of eight police, seven of them women, prompting cries of
"where are all the male cops?" Last night's protest was largely peaceful,
though tension swelled when protester, Vanessa Cameron-Lewis, pictured,
screamed as it appeared she was being denied entry to the station. The crowd chanted
"shame". Ms Cameron-Lewis had told the
crowd she was going to deliver a written statement detailing historic
incidents of rape and sexual assault against her. The use of female officers was a
deliberate move "to show this is the face of policing in 2007", he
said. The protesters walked along
Lambton Quay and staged a further protest outside the High Court building.
Protest organiser Lenka Rochford said they were "stunned and
outraged" at the acquittals of suspended Assistant Police Commissioner
Clint Rickards, and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum in two
historic sex offence trials. Shipton and Schollum are serving
prison terms for the rape of a woman at Mt Maunganui in 1989. In |