LETTERS Where are MP’s extra police officers?
I noted with interest Emily Henderson’s comments in the Raumanga community discussions recently and mention of health and wellbeing.
She said the Government had everything on track in law and order. And increasing police numbers. How come the central Whangārei police station doesn’t open 24 hours now to give service to the public, nor is it open over the weekend? On Saturday morning there was only a sergeant at the station looking after prisoners and three constables for the whole of Whangārei.
Or that there is a witch hunt to find the whistleblower Northland cop telling Duncan Garner of the crisis in Northland policing?
Where are those extra police she’s talking about when the attrition rate is bounding along? What’s the police numbers seven years ago to numbers now? How come there is a nursing, teaching, housing and living affordability crisis? And no viable solution shown in seven years. It’s not all rosy in health and wellbeing like through Emily’s glasses.
Howard Clement
Onerahi Only one outcome In Ukraine the war has settled into a pattern of attrition, this is combat at its most visceral. Literally.
There is only one possible outcome, unless the context alters dramatically, which is a decisive
Russian victory, at the very least in Donbas. It remains to be seen if the arrival of advanced Western weapons will stop the grinding advance of the New Czarism.
They may achieve a stalemate, but stopping the Russians coming will not stop them keeping on coming.
Western nations cannot accept a redrawing of borders at the behest of the invader. What appalls me, and I mean it — is that Russia and China, now the realm of the Emperor Xi, have pledged unlimited friendship. Which means China is giving vast support to the Putin regime. Trade between the two powers is hitting overdrive. Russia has hydrocarbon energy in vast quantities. And both Russia and China will negotiate climate change at their own pace.
As we Kiwis know rather too well the People’s Republic can pay good coin, but there are considerations attached. And along with forging new bonds with Russia, the South Pacific Ocean now becomes common with the
South China Sea.
So in the Solomons China is a good, very generous northern neighbour.
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But on the other side of the Taiwan Straight, people in the great majority regard their very close neighbours as a foreign force who would invade their island home and extinguish their way of life.
Ask the Uighars.
As we ask the Ukrainians. China and Russia together are on the move, and that means they believe they will win.
Can you dig it?
GM Tinker Whangārei