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New Zealand: “You are no longer innocent till you’re
proven guilty.” Police Minister responds: “It’s
fantastic, isn’t it?”
cryptogon.com
Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 2009
So it goes…
Via: Scoop:
PAUL Yeah but the truth is, under the Criminal Proceeds Act,
the Police can take your property if they suspect you’re
dodgy.
JUDITH But you’ve got the right to get it back, you’ve
got the right to claim it, and the Police…
PAUL Yeah but then you’ve got a whole matter of procedure
to go through because the cops have decided they suspect you
got the property criminally.
JUDITH Well actually Police would lose all credibility if they
went round doing that unnecessarily. They’ve got a lot
of leads, they know exactly who they’re after, and they
will be after them.
PAUL Search and Surveillance Bill – new powers for all
enforcement officers, like Meat Board Inspectors, like the Overseas
Investment Office, like the Civil Aviation Inspector, like the
Pork Industry Board Inspector, like the Reserve Bank Inspector,
the Dog Control Officer. When it comes to surveillance all of
those people have the same powers now as the Police?
JUDITH It really is a terrible sounding list isn’t it
Paul, and what is even more terrible is to know that those powers
are already in legislation but they’re interested in a
whole lot of different legislation, this bill has come in because
of the work of the Law Commission looking at all the various
powers and trying to put some rules around them.
PAUL The powers are extended. Look there’s two and a
bit pages, I’ll read you a few. Agricultural Compounds
and Veterinary Medicines Inspector – Animal Products Inspector
– Animal Welfare Inspector – Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Inspector – Children Young Persons and their
Families Inspector – the Extradition Act Inspector –
Marine Mammals Protection Inspector. All of these people have
the power to come into your premises, to command your IT provider
to provide them with all their computer records, to detain you,
to use reasonable force, to rub you down, pat you, search you
– the Pork Industry Board Inspector.
JUDITH That sounds terrible doesn’t it? That’s
one of the reasons why the Select Committee has actually said
they’re not reporting back until May, they want to go
through the whole bill and make sure they’ve got everything
sorted out, but the Law Commission is very firm that these are
existing powers but they often don’t have proper regulations
around them. Look I’m like any other New Zealander, I
want to know why would the Port Industry Inspector have those
sorts of powers just like everyone else, and that’s why
we’re certainly looking at them.
PAUL But at the moment what’s proposed in the bill, is
that any of those people can break in premises, and to search
everything, detain, use reasonable force, conduct a rub down
search and command your IT provider to surrender your computer
records, that’s what’s been proposed in the bill.
JUDITH Well that’s what’s all being looked at now,
and I think that’s one of the reasons the Select Committee
is taking extra time to look at it, is to make sure that there’s
nothing in there that shouldn’t be there, and also to
deal with any concerns people have.
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