Police arrest man for Civic assaults

Buffy the blue heeler layer???

Ive been to a few parties in kambah that were scripted like something from blue heelers and/or buffy – good times great taste!!

I thought it was scripted from the police day book from a little country town called Kambah, with a bigger town nearby called Woden…

Isn’t mount thomas based at the hellmouth or something>>?

Well the courts cop plenty here, to the point where i have nightmares about ever ending up in front of the beak in this town.

But as long as police media and senior management maintain their current bullshit mode to all public concerns it’s going to be roufg for the troops out in the court of public opinion.

I think that’s a shame.

And while it’s not a valid sample ny own anecdotal sample of people reporting assaults to the police is a clear 5/5 of complete disinterest, some of those cases were as serious as these ones.

The guy has gone before the Court – thats fairly accountable and as part of that it will be public record.

I would expect the Police not to let the media know anything that might compromise an investigation until that investigation has been completed.

I think that you would find that any robberies, Assaults GBH would get the same attention – media or not.

You may have noticed that I keep banging on about people cop bashing when they are doing a fucking excellent job.

Thumper said it well
“whatever the motives, its a bit tough when you get bagged for not doing the job, and then get equally bagged for doing the job.”

Start bagging the Courts for letting serial offenders go. Bit of mandatory sentencing or something.

G

G, due to the lack of transparency and accountability that we keep banging on about we have a problem knowing what it is the police are up to and “trust us” has never cut it.

When police meida responded to this by saying there was no problem and the victims had been in the wrong place it inspired even less confidence. From the outside looking in it still appears that media profile got these cases a degree of attention which other similar assaults have not had.

Anyway the trouble with getting tough on scum is that we’ve got 300,000 people who think that “scum” means “everyone but me”.

Which is not to say some harsher punishment of serial offenders would upset me any.

K – I think Det Sgt Hains comment was probably in reply to something like what you wrote – “Amazing what a bit of media pressure can do.”

I think the media bases its expectations on TV shows.

I did some searching on the ACT Govt website under legislation and came up with this out of the Crimes ACt 1900. I am not seeing “pressure from the media” as one of the grounds for arrest.

212 Power of arrest without warrant by police officers
(1) A police officer may, without warrant, arrest a person for an offence if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that—
(a) the person has committed or is committing the offence; and
(b) proceedings by summons against the person would not achieve 1 or more of the following purposes:
(i) ensuring the appearance of the person before a court in respect of the offence;
(ii) preventing a repetition or continuation of the offence or the commission of another offence;
(iii) preventing the concealment, loss or destruction of evidence relating to the offence;
(iv) preventing harassment of, or interference with, a person who may be required to give evidence in proceedings in respect of the offence;
(v) preventing the fabrication of evidence in respect of the offence;
(vi) preserving the safety or welfare of the person.

As for the X number of fights in Civic – it happens every weekend. Instant dickhead just add alcohol.

These wankers may have been getting in fights every weekend for the past couple of years, and never been picked up. They probably got there arse kicked and went running to the Police screaming assault.

I think the Police have done an excellent job with this one, and the investigation into the little prick who hit Clea Rose. As I said give credit where it is due.

G

G, firstly I hardly ever manage to watch tv these days, so I’m sure I haven’t got my expectations about police from American cop dramas.

Have another look at Det Sgt Hains’s comments, particularly “as there always is with matters such as these” — you don’t think that could be in response to media pressure saying what are all these lazy police doing, there’s been x number of assaults and no arrests?

K

The only problem with having all ‘decent folk’ as I see it would be that we would have nothing to judge what being a good person is…. or the standard of being a good person will be raised leaving those of us outside the norm already will be considered crims – purely on the fact that they will become societies only basis for comparison…. ya? ya? ya?