Yes we get those ones from you as well as the NZ one and our own Australian Police Reality TV shows.
I don't like the increasingly common practice of police forces in selling their CCTV and patrol car footage to TV channels. The potential for corruption is huge.
According to the
CPI, NZ is 1st equal for low corruption levels and Australia is 11th, so you probably have less to worry about than many.
True. It's a complex situation. There are many reasons for that. Several Australian state police forces have been through judicial corruption enquiries and commissions in recent decades and been cleaned up a lot. But one endemic or inherent reason is perhaps that we do not have local police forces. Unlike in the States where local law enforcement is tied to local politics and therefore more easily corrupted at a local level, policing is solely a responsibility of State governments. Because police are transferred to and from different areas all the time, instead of being recruited from and staying in the one area, they are also not as liable to local biases and prejudices and family ties, etc that may affect their objectivity.
