New Zealand Equality Education Foundation
(incorporating the International Ex-Fetus Association)
New Zealand Equality Education Foundation Submission
to the
Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct
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1. Re Term of Reference (4): Police Conduct, especially sexual conduct
It is none of the Commission's business what the sexual conduct of members
of the Police is outside working hours, as long as no law or regulation is
breached thereby. Arguably, to inquire into such issues amounts to a breach
of the Right to Privacy, which is implicitly allowed for section 28 of the
Bill of Rights Act.The present Government has legislated in the area of sexual morality in a
manner which has been vey controversial, and it is in no moral position to
try to impose its own version of moral conservatism on the Police, on the
one hand, while outraging the moral codes of conservative members of Society
by its "progressive" social legislation, on the other.
2. The Need for an Inquiry
The Commission should rule that the need for it to exist has not been
established to the standard expected by a reasonable person, and it should
therefore wind itself up forthwith(i). There has been no prima facie evidence
in the public domain of any widespread occurrence of sexual crimes by police
officers, and the setting up of this Commission therefore appears to be a
knee-jerk, hysterical reaction to one highly-publicised allegation. One can
understand that female members of the public like to feel sure that the
Police, who are supposed to protect them from sexual crimes, are not
themselves systematic perpetrators of such crimes, but the proper forum to
try this issue is in a Court of Law. The fact that this Commission has
indeed been hampered in its work by the need to give priority to the
relevant Court processes is a demonstration of the validity of that point.
3. This Commission of Inquiry embodies a Breach of Section 19 of the Bill of
Rights Act.Men are much more liable to be discriminated against by the Police than are
women, so the fact that this Commission exists, while no Commission is
investigating discrimination against men by the Police, is a prima facie
breach of section 19 of the Bill of Rights Act 1990. This is another reason
for this Commission to wind itself up forthwith.Successive New Zealand governments have seen themselves as promoting
"equality for women" (which is a mindless and hypocritical phrase which
ignores equality for men), and have prided themselves on New Zealand having
been the first country in the World to give women the vote.With the connivance of the highly oppressive "Human Rights" Commission,
however, the Police have lower physical standards for female entry into the
Police than for male entry. We submit that this fact is bound to
detrimentally affect Police morale, to instill a culture of anti-male double
standards and discrimination which must inevitably affect how the police
treat male and female members of the public, and to result in a relatively
ineffective police force, since physically competent male officers on the
front line are constantly having to "carry" physically incompetent female
officers.There was a recent case the the United States, for example, of a
dangerous prisoner escaping from a courthouse by grabbing the gun from his
guard -- a grandmother ! Because of Feminist dominance of the media (I must
add), the fact that the guard was female was concealed by most media
outlets, so you are probably unaware of such incidents when they occur in
New Zealand and elsewhere.Having female officers enter the Police force with the benefit of a double
standard allows them then -- in the consequent atmosphere of political
corruption -- to carry out anti-male propaganda activities from their
taxpayer-funded power-base. For example, I refer you to the webpage
http://nzmera.orcon.net.nz/pubenemy.html , where you can see a Police
advertisement that attacks men by characterising them as violent, and
accuses them of using children to regain control over a relationship when it
ends. The Police treat Women's Refuge as a reputable organisation, whereas
in fact it has no academic credentials, no system for filtering out false
claims by women, no concept of intellectual integrity, and is grossly sexist
and anti-male.4. In conclusion, we submit that this Commission should wind itself up
forthwith and should recommend the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry
into the effect on Police morale and efficiency of anti-male
double-stanrdards in recruitment, and the setting up of another Commission
of Inquiry into the Human Rights Commission.
i i.e. by the quickest legal method it considers available to it.