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RNZ News
26-05-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Retail group relieved police petty crime change not 'hard and fast rule'
Retail NZ is still waiting to meet with Police Minister Mark Mitchell, after calling for an urgent meeting about the directive. Photo: RNZ / Calvin Samuel A retail group says it accepts police don't have the resources to investigate every report of crime. A recent memo directed police staff not to investigate crimes under a certain value , such as shoplifting allegations under $500. Police clarified this was not a firm rule and that investigations were triaged on a combination of value and solvability. "We're pleased that the police have clarified there isn't a hard and fast rule against investigating these lower value crimes ... Ideally we would have the police turning out to every report of crime but we understand they just don't have the resources to be able to do that," Retail NZ advocacy manager Ann-Marie Johnson said. "However we know a lot of retail crime is committed by recidivist offenders and so we need them to be able to track the patterns so they can capture these people when they offend again and again." She said police may need to refer to previous cases in order to arrest repeat shoplifters. "We at Retail NZ encourage retailers to report all offending and that helps police track patterns and put appropriate resourcing where necessary," she explained. Johnson had called for an urgent meeting with Police Minister Mark Mitchell, which she said was yet to be scheduled. "We meet with Minister Mitchell fairly regularly anyway to keep him updated on our views on retail crime, so we'd expect we'll be seeing him fairly shortly," she said. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Local event to help black individuals with MS
(WSYR-TV) — Next Friday marks World MS Day, and one local health center is making sure a portion of the population who suffers from MS is getting seen. Sandra Gibson, a PA-C with MSCS Upstate Comprehensive Care Center, brought along two women dealing with MS, AnnMarie Johnson and Lequanna Brown, to discuss how Central New York can better treat, and diagnose, the African American community. After a proclamation, May 30th will also be World MS Day here in Syracuse, and it coincides with their event at Syracuse Community Health on South Salina street. Learn more at Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
RNZ News
14-05-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Retail NZ on 140 million govt package to improve attendance
education about 1 hour ago The Minister in charge of attendance, David Seymour in an announcement said business should not serve children in school uniforms in school hours if they're doing their bit to curb truancy. On Wednesday, the government announced a 140 million dollar package to improve attendance over the next four years. Ann-Marie Johnson, the Manager for Advocacy and Advice for Retail NZ spoke to Lisa Owen. Tags: To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
