Jun 12 2009
Police had diffculty using Army during Napier Siege. Good
Listening to National radio on Friday some people are astonished that the Police had some difficulty using the Army for anything more than ‘administrative support’ during the siege.
now the government has asked for a report to find ways to make it easier to “call out the army”
Once again we are faced with this damned thing called common sense. It just seems to make sense that the police use the army when they are confronted with a lone gunman. The government should make it easier to do that right?
wrong.
When you sit down to think about it and put individual, highly emotive cases to one side there is a very good reason why there is separation between the military and the police. Using a nations military against its citizens should always be a last resort and should never be ‘made easier’
You only need to look at nations where this is common place to see it’s a road we don’t want to go down.
If necessary police should have their own armored
vehicles. Better the devil you know.
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