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While Bobert is getting teargassed in Ecuador, New Zealand is showing itself to be at the cutting edge of crime detection, with the Police here resorting to good old fashioned detective work to find sought after culprits....

The man accused of kidnapping his grandson Jayden Headley could make things easier for himself by giving up the boy, police say....Detective Senior Sergeant Chris Page said today Headley needed to realise the matter had gone far enough.
"Handing himself in may be a mitigating factor...to identify that he's taken steps to reduce the amount of impact that this offending may have had on young Jayden."

Keep up the good work Sherlock.

Elsewhere, the state's hired thugs, are setting their attack dogs on suspects who have submitted...

Mr Wilby got out and put his hands up. A police constable, Jason Spence, pushed Mr Wilby against the side of the van, intending to handcuff and arrest him. Mr Wilby was co-operative. The Crown said the accused then grabbed Mr Wilby and forced him to the ground. The accused started motioning to his dog to bite him. The dog seemed confused, then it bit Mr Wilby a number of times on the upper arms and elbows before the accused pulled it away.

and shooting numerous times at unarmed suspects....

The Crown says Windrum was reckless when he fired at a car Lowe had commandeered while trying to escape police.
Windrum, who had been in the force barely two years when the June 2004 incident happened, is defending the charge.
Another officer is understood to have been trying to wrestle Lowe from behind the steering wheel at the time of the shooting, but that is disputed by the defence.

While it's a good sign the police are prosecuting their rogue officers - unlike the 1980s when they could rape at will -- it seems the sick police culture is still alive and well.

But perhaps sickest of all is the current taser "trial".

The taser, which delivers 50,000 volts of compliance per shot, is designed to be a non-lethal means of subduing violent offenders.

The police are currently several months into the year-long trial , which unreassuringly is monitored by "internal review and audit processes".

To put it simply, how can the public have any faith in the results of this "trial" when the police simply ignore incidents like these?

An Auckland policeman attending a domestic dispute in Auckland accidentally blasted himself and a teenager with a Taser, before pepper-spraying an innocent woman....
An official police update of the Taser trial, published on October 17, made no mention of the constable firing five times, or missing his target, zapping himself or hitting the boy, the newspaper reported.

The Herald which reported the incident in the first place quoted police spin doctor Jon Nielson as saying that the fact a Taser had been fired more than once in a single incident, simply was not "relevant".

Speaking of cons.