1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Would we be asking the questions of Richard Chambers police 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Commissioner if we hadn't been dealing with mix skimming and 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: cost and co. Now. Chambers, from my dealings with him, 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: is exactly the sort of person who the police need 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: leading them. He is one of those appointments, when it's made, 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: you get it, unlike Coster's appointment. When it was made, 7 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: you saw a durned fingerprints. All labert in history shows 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: how that worked out. From all his actions so far, 9 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: he not only had to write the direction of the 10 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: police broadly, but tidy up a god awful mess that 11 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: if you believe headlines are shaking the public's faith in 12 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: the entire force. Now I don't actually believe that for 13 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: a moment. Police at fifteen thousand strong are not rotten, 14 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: the same way the bad apple in a corporate doesn't 15 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: mean the whole business stinks. But as a result of 16 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: the mess, Chambers felt it necessary to share the speeding 17 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: ticket news one hundred and twelve, which as far as 18 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: I know was actually one hundred and eleven. Not that 19 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: that excuses it. It just keeps getting misreported. And then 20 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: he's down an Oriental parade with cash Ptel having a 21 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: dip while there's a tsunami warning. Now he thought the 22 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: tsunami warning was lifted. It wasn't. He had to bring 23 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: the appropriate people and say sorry. And then he's in 24 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: front this week of the Parliamentary Committee having his minis 25 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: to my Mitchell. Heap praise on him as well he might. 26 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: The point being are we micro analyzing people in public life? 27 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: And if we are, is it useful? And if it isn't, 28 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: which I doubt it is, do we put people off 29 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: going for top jobs in the public service? Can you 30 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: be a decent operator and completely innocent or incident free? 31 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: Is any of us completely incident free? Is one hundred 32 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: and eleven cays even a thing? I mean may a copper? 33 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: I go one hundred and eleven every weekend in the country, 34 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: probably more a lot of people do. Do I take 35 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: tsunami warning seriously? No? Do I take atmospheric river warning seriously? No? 36 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: Read I mean New Zealand Iver reacts to most things 37 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: driven by the digital media who live for clicks. So 38 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: the year go, I doubt I'll be a police commissioner. 39 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: What I also know, as it can't be bothered with 40 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: the myopic gawking over matters of little or no importancy. 41 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: Chambers is clearly a more patient man than I am, 42 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: But as I say, he seems the real deal and 43 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: the man for the job. How about we let him 44 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: get on with it and give the nonsense arrest. For 45 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news 46 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: Talks it'd be from six am, or follow the podcast 47 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.