Thread: Overall length Saga continues

Originally Posted by systolic

What it means is that the the Minister, or anyone else in Government, can't tell the cops to say, stop a criminal investigation into someone just because they are a big donor to the political party making up the Government of the day.

That may be so, but you seem to underestimate the power of ministers a bit.

Remember last year when the police had a go with their wishlist of changes to the arms act ? Pressure from the firearms community on the then minister (Paula Bennet) has some interesting consequences. The phrase "torn a new arsehole" comes to mind if you think about what happened to some folks at police HQ.