Police Training... Their best

Nothing like a little obfiscuration..

The taser is being tested by frontline policemen in Auckland and Wellington.

An official police update of the Taser trial, published on October 17, made no mention of this wallys success.

A constable who had had Taser training, was not injured, when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts while trying reload his weapon on October 1.

Whilst attempting to stun the man at the centre of the dispute the officer accidentally shot the man's teenage son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray but hit the man's 21-year-old daughter – another unintended target.

I'm just thankful that the boys in blue are still not routinely armed.

Government Leaking like seive

The leader of the New Zealand National Party leader Don Brash has got an interim injunction stopping the publication of leaked emails he believes were stolen from his computer.

The interim injunction granted in the High Court at Wellington yesterday and names as first and second defendants "John and Jane Doe".

Dr Brash said the interim injunction stopped publication by any means - website, publication or broadcast - or distribution of copies of the emails.

How laughable is that? A very highly ranked government officer has emails stolen? Arent we talking about the Beehive? The center of government? Where one would expect security to be of the utmost importance and efficiency...

As well one would expect that the audit and tracking facilities would be of a robust nature and easily reveal the path these "stolen" emails followed.

What if the silly twat had a virus? what if the emails are attached to a virus and happily winging their way all around the world.

Does this mean that every owner of a computer with a virus whose machine spreads these emails further is going to be prosecuted?

One can only wonder as too the content of these emails.. National Security? Salacious gossip? Romantic entanglements? Child porn? Damaging enough to see Dr Brash loose his tenuous leadership?

Speed Kills

To prevent cars from speeding through town they commissioned a group of busty blondes to hold up speed limit signs and slow people down.

Surely a much more efficient campaign than the present campaigns being espoused by Land Transport Safety Auhority and ACC....

TeleCon

Justice is still alive in New Zealand

What a waste of tax payers money!

Spoilt little rich kid is able to get a counsel for child appointed to present her case and has removed herself from her mother's care into the guardianship of the Family Court..

All because she wanted to live with her sister who is in her early 20s and will allow her free reign.

The mother said "She is not a bad daughter, she is not in trouble with the law, she is not in trouble at the school, she is just a normal teenager" and "is appointing someone to be her legal guardian who will let her do what she wants... unlike a mother, over normal issues like being home at 11pm".

What arrant nonsense..

New Zealand does face some serious issues with child safety and abuse but for the family court to allow itself to be dragged into what is basically a teen age tanty is ludicrous..

Why couldn't the judge simply tell the little brat that she was being stupid and too go home and enjoy her life... at least she has a life!!!!

I speak even less highly for the private school and their counsellor who supported this poor little rich kid!

Mind you the New Zealand education system is itself in tatters with the New Zealand Qualification Authority now allowing "text speak" to be used in exminations. Utter bullshit and just another indicator that the entire New Zealand Education system is failing miserably.

Justice alive and well in God's own

In November of 2004 Tim Selwyn protested against the Foreshore and Seabed Bill by smashing a window with an axe at the PM's (unoccupied) electorate office. He pleaded guilty to a charge of "conspiracy to commit criminal damage".

Mr Selwyn also left a pamphlet at the PM's office which said

"Tonight concerned Pakeha vented their anger and disgust at the Government's attempts to steal by confiscation and without consultation, Maori land in the form of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill by attacking the electorate office of the Prime Minister.

The broken glass symbolises the broken justice of this issue and we call upon other like-minded New Zealanders to commit their own acts of civil disobedience to send a clear message that such injustice can never be accepted.”

In what I can only describe as a fit of pique the Police also laid charges of "seditious conspiracy" and "making a seditious statement" relating to that pamphlet.

In June 2006 Mr Selwyn was convicted and sentenced to prison for “publishing a statement with seditious intent”.

Ah well Justice has been seen to be done hasn’t it!

Interesting to note however that the same Judge just recently sentenced a man whose street racing killed an innocent bystander to Home Detention! Yet Mr Selwyn is still in jail awaiting a court of appeal hearing. Who do you consider would be more worthy of receiving Home Detention?

Justice Delayed

IMHO Justice most certainly not seen to be done.

Imagine the public outcry if that Judge had issued a Home D sentence for that “famous” chopper builder Billy Lane in Florida.

New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations

For many years the ACC have been dumbing down the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations by funding a different document and instructing Initial Occupational Assessors and Vocational Independence Assessors to use the document they have funded. Recently this arrangement has been changed.

The Statistics Department of New Zealand analyses all occupations in New Zealand and described the education, experience and skill required to be an earner in each occupation in New Zealand and after each census produced the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations. the ACC are not permitted to instruct the occupational assessors on how they must assess. The occupational assessors must be expert on what they do. This means the occupational assessors may not be permitted to be instructed by the ACC on what they must report except qualification, experience and skill required to be an earner in any of the titles they give.

The work task activities and skill requirement for those activities that make up any occupation must be clearly detailed before the medical assessor may determine safety and sustainability while having regard for the injuries. This has all been very craftily avoided over the years.

NEW CHANGES

The new document that all assessors must rely upon is now complete.

There are some changes in the layout of how an occupational assessor is required to look at occupations. Each occupation is now graded so we will be able to determine whether or not we have been properly assessed. This will have far-reaching effects as it will identify the errors of fact made by a very large number of occupational assessors.

The good news is we are now able to rely upon this new improved information. This new information will ultimately required the Corporation to reassess former decisions as it is radically different to the information that they have been relying on to the extent that it shows up extraordinary errors of former decision makers.

as an example if we were to look at a plasterer we would see that to be rehabilitated he would need to reach a skill level of "4".
In New Zealand:

NZ Register Level 4 qualification

The New Zealand standard classification of occupations has been replaced with
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO)

Check out the web site

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To assist to determine whether or not you have been rehabilitated you will find this site very useful. This information forms the basis of the information we rely on and is now an integral part of the basis of employment or earnings capacity in New Zealand. Goodbye Skills New Zealand you have failed!!