Thread: Petition to sign re licence

Done. As an aside, the Police are very aware of the issue. My eldest daughters partner is a homicide detective and he (and others) have just been seconded to help clear the vetting backlog. Not a good use of that particular resource in my opinion as I would have thought that redirecting the efforts of road police sitting in a car with a radar gun would have been a better decision.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Done. As an aside, the Police are very aware of the issue. My eldest daughters partner is a homicide detective and he (and others) have just been seconded to help clear the vetting backlog. Not a good use of that particular resource in my opinion as I would have thought that redirecting the efforts of road police sitting in a car with a radar gun would have been a better decision.

The last time the the big-wig cops ‘redirected’ the cops doing traffic to do other stuff and spent traffic allocated money on other projects they got a roasting and a threat of withdrawing of funding as quite a chunk of the funding cops get is specifically for traffic stuff.

(A bit oversimplified but you get the pictures.)

What is the point of this petition ?

It is poorly worded, and even if by miracle it gets enough signatures to be noticed, what real change will it result in ?

The petitioner is asking for an inquiry... Whoopee.

If he had drafted it along the lines of "require the Minister of Police to direct licensing authorities to provide an automatic extension to a license provided the applicant had submitted their renewal application before the expiry date" it might actually go somewhere and deal with the issue.

Well @ebf. YOU initiate a satisfactory petition then.

I'm a cynic.

Petitions are in most cases non-binding and not worth the paper they may be printed on. Government and Gov. departments ignore them.

Only things that matter these days are court cases, and even then parliament can't be overruled by the courts.

So basically we are f**ked.

Even so, petitions still raise awareness amongst MP"s.

Originally Posted by Woody

Even so, petitions still raise awareness amongst MP"s.

@Woody, I think the petition we are discussing won't even make a dent.

Personally, I think there are more productive ways of doing things, but if someone does decide to go the petition route, I would suggest that they at least have a word with one of the opposition MPs, and get some help in drafting it in a way that would maximize discomfort for the minister or MP involved. The name of the game in politics is to embarrass the other team...

Well mate, if you had a go at it there would be plenty here that would sign it I reckon.

Finally done, only 150!

Originally Posted by Fawls

Finally done, only 150!

151 now!

Done

Done

Well at least it was an attempt.....and as is so often the case a significant level of misunderstanding in the response, too...........

https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parli...?itemId=217316

168, not the greatest response so far.

Plenty of time for signatures yet. 96 days AIWT.