Nor'West News: January 24, 2017
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Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Your Local Views<br />
Maintaining trust and confidence<br />
This week’s<br />
opinion piece<br />
was written<br />
by Canterbury<br />
district police<br />
commander<br />
Superintendent<br />
John Price about modern<br />
day law enforcement<br />
I am extremely proud of the<br />
police team who serve the people<br />
and make a difference to the<br />
community every minute of<br />
every day as our team keep the<br />
peace and ensure the public will<br />
be safe and feel safe.<br />
In New Zealand, our police<br />
have the implicit consent of the<br />
community. In order to do this,<br />
we must be seen as policing with<br />
integrity and with accountability.<br />
Essentially, we must have the<br />
trust and confidence of the community.<br />
Policing by consent follows the<br />
principles, ideas and ideals of<br />
Sir Robert Peel, which define an<br />
ethical police organisation.<br />
These ‘Peelian Principles’ are<br />
as relevant today as they were in<br />
1829 when they were established.<br />
Police, at all times, should<br />
maintain a relationship with the<br />
public that gives reality to the<br />
historic tradition that the police<br />
are the public, and the public are<br />
the police.<br />
We maintain the highest level<br />
of ‘full trust and confidence’ of<br />
any policing organisation in the<br />
world, at about 80 per cent.<br />
By comparison, some policing<br />
jurisdictions have trust and confidence<br />
levels lower that 10 per<br />
cent, demonstrating that those<br />
organisations are not widely seen<br />
as ethical and trustworthy.<br />
If you have travelled overseas,<br />
you will have seen examples of<br />
policing organisations which<br />
have an approach of policing<br />
with fear and only force.<br />
We place enormous importance<br />
on maintaining and fostering<br />
the trust and confidence of<br />
our communities and we work<br />
hard to ensure we maintain our<br />
core values and hold each other<br />
to account.<br />
Having been a member for 30<br />
years I think the community is<br />
justified in having trust and confidence<br />
in this organisation.<br />
In Canterbury, we want to<br />
ensure that people can be safe<br />
and feel safe and I’m sure that is a<br />
sentiment you will share.<br />
Our focus is on reducing harm<br />
caused to families, whether that<br />
be through violence in the home,<br />
death and injury on the roads,<br />
drug use or dishonesty offending.<br />
We also want to empower<br />
communities to work together,<br />
support each other and to speak<br />
up when something isn’t right.<br />
We work very closely with<br />
a range of agencies and community<br />
groups to ensure people<br />
receive the support they need and<br />
deserve.<br />
Over the past year, we have targeted<br />
those bringing illegal drugs<br />
and firearms into our communities<br />
and, as a result, have seized<br />
140 illegal firearms. Each one of<br />
those is potentially a life saved.<br />
We have also prevented significant<br />
amounts of illegal drugs in<br />
getting to our streets.<br />
We are very lucky in that we<br />
receive a lot of positive feedback<br />
from members of the community<br />
for the work we do.<br />
To those people who have taken<br />
the time to contact us, I would<br />
like you to know that your words<br />
of support mean a lot to myself<br />
and my team who come to work<br />
every day to make a difference in<br />
the lives of everyone so that we<br />
can be the safest country.<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Last week we asked<br />
readers if they thought<br />
more funding should<br />
be allocated by the city<br />
council to install school<br />
zones, which would<br />
include signage and a<br />
reduced speed limits<br />
around schools. A reader<br />
responds:<br />
Colin McGavin, of<br />
Papanui – I live in Paparoa<br />
St and am very familiar with<br />
the traffic patterns caused<br />
by the school. There are two<br />
street frontages for Paparoa St<br />
School – Paparoa St and Tomes<br />
Rd. Paparoa St is a cul-de-sac,<br />
dead end, so carries no through<br />
traffic. Tomes Rd joins Rutland<br />
St with a 90-degree corner and<br />
a 25km/h speed limit. At school<br />
start, 9am, and finish, 3pm,<br />
times, both sides of both streets<br />
are filled with the parked cars<br />
of parents and others dropping<br />
off or picking up children.<br />
This means that there is<br />
generally only room for a<br />
single line of traffic and you<br />
have to give way to let through<br />
cars coming the other way.<br />
So there is already a ‘built in’<br />
speed restriction mechanism.<br />
Therefore, spending money<br />
on additional signage for this<br />
school is a complete and total<br />
waste of money. Take it off<br />
this list and spend the money<br />
on schools that have genuine<br />
problems.<br />
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