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RNZ News
22-05-2025
- RNZ News
Sniffing out crime
Nine new detector dog handlers and their dogs are joining crime-fighting efforts and border security in both Aotearoa and into the Pacific. They have recently graduated from the Dog Training Centre at Trentham. The dogs can sniff out not only drugs and banned goods, but also firearms, explosives and cash. Chief Customs Officer for the Pacific Detector Dog Programme, Dave Huff, tells Jesse all about it. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
Times
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Scrap non-crime hate incidents to protect free speech, Tories say
The Tories are pushing to scrap non-crime hate incidents to prevent frontline officers 'wasting time on this Orwellian nonsense' and prioritise fighting crime. Non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) were introduced after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence to monitor situations that could escalate into more serious harm or show heightened community tensions. But increasingly they have been used to record petty arguments and trivial incidents. In November The Times revealed how a nine-year-old was subject to a NCHI after calling a classmate a 'retard'. It was among at least 13,200 NCHIs logged by 45 police forces in the year to June 2024, according to data obtained under Freedom of Information laws. An amendment to Labour's Crime and Policing Bill will seek to block police forces keeping
