2.Who is this Top officer u referring to?
Procedures?
Top priority of any fireman is to search any one trapped.
This also apply to police:to save any live in danger pro actively
--anywhere,any time.
3.I
can understand police go for corruption and tied up with
underworld---
for money,etc
I cant forgive police or others just ''to play safe''attitude to
protect
himself 101 %.Do nothing is the best..
4.What do u assess NZ?
This kind of culture/attitude cant be formed overnight,nor
to be changed overnight.
5.
While this photo was taken,the mother might be still alive...
Pumpkin case: Body under cops' noses for two days,By Elizabeth
Binning and Stuart
Dye--http://www.nzherald.co.nz,Updated 2:05PM Thursday
September 20, 2007
....A warrant to seize the Honda Rafaga was granted at 9pm on
Tuesday night but police did not find the body, believed to be that
of missing woman An An Liu, until 1pm yesterday(Wed) during a
forensic examination...
The car, registered to Ms Liu's fugitive husband Nai Yin Xue, had
been parked outside their Mt Roskill home since at least
Monday.
Detective Senior Sergeant Simon Scott said the delay was a result
of police conducting a "thorough inquiry here and doing thorough
investigations".
Mr Scott said police spent Tuesday trying to obtain a search
warrant for the car but it was not granted until 9pm.
It then took a further two hours before the car was towed to a
secure location.
Yesterday morning the forensic examination was delayed "a little
bit longer than it usually would" be, while police underwent a
briefing on the case, which included bringing staff new to the
inquiry up to speed.
Mr Scott said once under way the forensic examination had to be
carried out according to procedure.
"We haven't had the keys for that vehicle. It's just not a matter
of breaking the windows and getting in."
He said the examinations were not as easy as shown in television
programmes such as CSI.
"These things don't take minutes, they could take days or weeks. We
are wanting to do a thorough investigation into that vehicle and we
are not going to be rushed," he said. "We are working for An An and
her family and we want to gather the evidence and prosecute the
offender and that's what we are going to do."
A former high ranking cop has criticised police for taking two days
to find the body in the car.
The ex-detective, who asked not to be named, said police inaction
and failure to find the body was "absolutely appalling."
He said once the police were told Qian had been abandoned, Ms Liu
was missing and her husband had fled to America, they made basic
errors.
He said a search warrant in a potential homicide inquiry could be
obtained within an hour, and rejected police claims they could not
search the car for many hours because of the time it took to get
the search warrant.
"Urgency was the name of the game," the former detective
said.
He said there was a possibility she may have been alive when she
was put in the boot and was still alive when Mr Xue left Auckland
for Melbourne last Thursday.
"Christ, one of your prime duties of your oath of office (as a
police officer) is to protect life," he said.
The ex-officer said the police had too many senior officers in the
upper echelon who did not "think outside the square and don't know
where the jugular is and to go for it and to get their priorities
right.
"I don't know if they are scared of all the niceties they think
they are supposed to bloody observe or whatever."
But Police Deputy Commissioner Operations Rob Pope said he had
every confidence in the investigation team.
"There are many forensic and legal requirements to be taken into
account when dealing with an item of potential evidential value.
Following proper process in these matters can be critical to the
conclusion of any trial process."
Auckland City Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said "we don't just
go busting into things".
"We have to make sure we are in a very secure area where any
evidence is not going to be contaminated, where there's not going
to be any people who are offended or distressed by what we might
uncover. We needed to make absolutely sure that the processes that
we used are correct.
"Our staff, including myself, have been working exceedingly long
hours to make sure this investigation is carried out appropriately.
We are not going to fall into the trap of fitting into the general
population's agenda. What we need to do is do things properly. Like
I said, there is no apologies for doing the job right."
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When asked if there was a chance the woman might have been alive
but died in the time it took for police to open the boot, Ms
Hegarty said: "I'm not going to speculate on that but we haven't
had any reported sightings of An An since 4.35 last Tuesday."
Auckland defence lawyer Barry Hart last night criticised the time
police took to obtain the search warrant and find the body, saying
it appeared "slack".
Mr Hart said warrants could be granted by a Justice of the Peace if
police had "reasonable grounds" to conduct a search.
"In my experience police get search warrants often when they've got
very little evidence to justify it, so it seems absolutely
ridiculous if they're suggesting that it took a lot of time and
it's a great formal process when in reality it's not ... it sounds
to me that they've just been a bit slack."
Keystone Cops?
* The boot of the abandoned car outside a house in Keystone Ave, Mt
Roskill, was the most obvious of places.
* And yet it took 45 hours from the time police first went to the
street before those searching for An An Xue looked inside.
* When they finally got around to it, they found the body of a
woman that must have been there for at least six days.
* Why it took them so long is just one of many questions arising
from a sensational case that in some ways resembles the Keystone
Kops.
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