According to this article on the NZ Herald website, in an interview with Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB, Police Commissioner Mike Bush says his troops will have “a fair idea of whether or not someone was going to the supermarket.”
“We may even have a little drive with you to see where you’re going.”
He had earlier told Newstalk ZB’s Chris Lynch that people shouldn’t drive to the beach or a park for some fresh air once the lockdown starts: people should only go out in their cars to get essential supplies.
Last year we posted a series of articles by Roger Childs on the importance of regular exercise for both physical and mental health and you can’t expect people to do that by just walking around the house and garden.
Your editors intend to find out if a cycle ride to the beach (about 5 km in our case) and back results in being stopped by a member of the Schutzstaffel. That will be more difficult for them in their squad cars if the cycle paths are used.
Update
This statement from Mark Mitchell MP (National, Rodney) clarifies that you are allowed to walk or cycle to both the beach and parks — in fact with limitations, you can drive there too. So much for Bush’s (typically) addle-brained statements
Interesting. France cannot cycle at all & their outings are limited to one hour only now.
Recent first hand experience has evidenced ‘the best of times and the worst of times’ in terms of the behaviour of people within the our current ‘state of the nation’. Agression within supermarket aisles is becoming ‘de rigeur’. Yesterday in a Paraparaumu supermarket a sylph like woman who would have been in her 80s shared that as she was recently putting groceries into her car a well dressed man demanded money of her.
Yesterday I noticed the visible presence of a marked Police I Car in the vicinity of this supermarket – and frankly appreciated it’s presence – a presence that I feel is a visible deterent to those with ill intent.
As someone who worked for the military in Germany in the latter stages of the cold war, when the division of the Berlin wall was exacting its toll – and the true evil perpetrated by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS) was exposed- I am less than impressed that this article equates NZ Police to these monstrous deviates.
I have no doubt that the current lockdown will see increased family violence along with an increase in suicides amongst vulnerable elderly whose vital connections are now reduced or eliminated.
I am commited to collaboration that will reduce this propensity.
As a ratepayer and a citizen – I am thankful for the NZ Police presence.
The reason for the patrol car in that location is more likely the one given by Commissioner Bush in the post. Like Coronavirus there’s no antidote to Cretinovirus, but its spread was boosted by the constant scaremongering on the part of the Legacy Media. Schutzstaffel is German for protection echelon, the Nazis used it to refer to Hitler’s bodyguard, later turned into the political paramilitary. The problem in NZ is not the frontline police officers, most of whiom as we’ve said before are good, but their masters in Molesworth Street.