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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.
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We USns even have multiple police forces cruising the same area. We had a two car accident on a city street yesterday and the first cops on the scene were state park police.
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Is that state park... police, or state... park police? Do you mean parking police who are state troopers or is there a state police force called state park?
We only gots state and federal police here. Our State forces do everything your local cops and State Troopers would do. Our Feds are not like your FBI though - they only handle things like International Airports, Aviation Law, counter terrorism, human & narcotics trafficking (together with state forces), some missing persons stuff, cyber-crime, Policing of Australian Territories, Foreign Peace Keeping Operations, etc.
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The State Parks have police forces. Depending on state law, they may or may not have police authority outside of the park boundaries (unless they're in pursuit of a suspect). County police forces, city police forces, and state police forces are the usual trio.
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State and National Park police can also be called park rangers. Not attesting to exact accuracy of anything on the above site. But it has a good over-all explanation.
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State and National Park police can also be called park rangers. Not attesting to exact accuracy of anything on the above site. But it has a good over-all explanation. Your Park Rangers are very different from ours! We have over 500 National Parks, but even though they are called National, the National Parks and Wildlife Officers are employed by respective State and Territory governments. Our Park Rangers are not involved in criminal law enforcement, though they can issue fines for various offences and do investigate infringements of Park Laws and have people charged. They do just about everything else though - they are part scientist, part guide, part wildlife expert, part firefighter, part parking inspector, part gardener - you name it they do it! They certainly have no need of the kevlar vests, tasers, shotguns and other defensive weapons that yours do! They leave all that stuff to the police. Meet a Park Ranger National Parks
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