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In the article, Andrew Coster wrote of the balance between privacy and safety.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Coster wrote in the On one side, they were panned for only learning of threats to mosques posted to a website used by extremists and white supremacists after a member of the public told them. And on the other, there are reports of police approaching innocent young Māori, photographing them, collecting their personal details and sending it to a national database. Coster writes these both speak to the question about what trade-offs to privacy the community is prepared to make in the interests of safety. Criminologist Emilie Rā...

Costs of protecting yourself against crime must be tax deductible, says lobby group 23 February 2021 - 12:10 By TimesLIVE Anti-crime tech costs should be tax deductible, says TLU SA. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/prykhodov High walls, security cameras, burglar alarms, electric fences, razor wire, armed-response services and home insurance: A lobby group has launched a campaign for all these expenses to be deducted from tax. TLU SA said on Tuesday it wants a change to section 23(b) of the Income Tax Act, which prohibits South Africans from deducting security expenses fro...

Collins on Bridges' wokester jibe: 'I wouldn't call someone that' © RNZ / Samuel Rillstone National Party leader Judith Collins says justice spokesperson Simon Bridges should direct criticism to ministers not the police commissioner, who he labelled a "wokester". The party's justice spokesperson, Simon Bridges, called Police Commissioner Andrew Coster "our wokester commissioner" in response to a police operation targeting guns held by organised crime groups and gangs. © RNZ / Sam Rillstone, Dom Thomas On Tuesday he doubled down on his criticism saying there had been multiple occasions whe...

Road police in Surrey arrested two men they said tested positive for cocaine after they were stopped in a hair-raising pursuit on Valentine's Day…