Thursday, September 18, 2008

Aussie police not really into disclosing child abduction attempts.

Apparently, Sydney police aren't into telling the media and public about crimes happening in their community. Strangely, that includes a recent spate of attempted child abductions. Yeah, I mean, why help parents protect their kids when you could be a cool secretive police officer? From the article:
Police have been criticised for not releasing details of serious crimes since police radios were encrypted in May.

The new system means the media, and the public, do not find out about incidents until notified by police, often many hours or several days after the event.

"Secrecy and a lack of confidence in not revealing things to the public actually has the potential to work in favour of the criminals," Opposition police spokesman Mike Gallacher sid yesterday.
By the way, what's the Opposition Police?

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