@@lachiedryden7445 Sadly true with Maori being 51% of prisoners. 70% of which are gang members. Where do we begin? thankfully with incarceration at around 70 per 100,000 we aren't as bad as the USA with over 650 per.
I've lived in NZ on 30 years now, and never had a bad police experience. Never come across a power tipping or aggressive cop, possibly because we are pretty chill here, mutual respect between cops and the public mostly.
Fr (exept one time when I was little, a pissy cop came and was just being an asshole and saying my dad was speeding when he wasnt but other than that, they are all pretty chill). I want to be a cop as soon as I finish school, and I will make sure I'm not one of the agressive ones (I was born in NZ and still live here)
The cop dancing with the youth is a former All Black who became a cop when he finished with the ABs.. Glen Osbourne..most in the ad are serving members of the force..😊
The police cats...they are honorary; we have cats and rabbits saved by the cops that get to wear the vest and put on their websites. We love it!! In I'm south island... we safe :)
New Zealanders have a quirky sense of humour like their sister nation Australians but a little more on the silly side. South Pacific Islanders eg. from Samoa, Tonga etc. live in NZ.
As Norwegian, I was a kid going down to NZ back in 1994 just to do some white water kayaking after leaving the big water season up in Nepal and doing climbing in Thailand. Kiwi Police woke me up in some tiny car (Holden I think it was called?) - and them police did not instantly call me a criminal. They just woke me up and asked if I was fine parked in a random place. Here is another important part - I got to see "Once we were warriors" theatrically in NZ - and I got to pick up a book called "The Bone People" by a poet called Keri Hulme that informed My life a lot while playing with water and friends. (I got the news too -Yay Keri thank you - isolation was a thing even back then - as was history)
its called a welfare check. Someone probably saw you asleep in the car and was concerned so called the police. They send a couple of cops to check that everything is ok. I have a daughter with special needs, new neighbour didnt know and heard her being very loud so rang the police who came and did a welfare check, They just needed to see her then all smiles and away they go, lots of apologies from them for disturbing us. Good thing is now the police know we are here and that means come christmas time they bring around presents for her.
The Police do their job like any other country. We don't carry arms but it doesn't mean they are not without one close by. Like other countries everyone has their grievances with cops but because we have a multi-cultural force here, it leaves no room for discrimination otherwise you won't last that long. If you don't want them on your door step, then don't give them a reason to be there. We are a safe country but we also have gangs and the normal bad guy. It doesn't take much to catch the bad guy/gal cos the Police use social media to catch them and we have more good people than bad. As for the gangs, if you don't want them in your life, stay out of theirs.
This was obviously a small selection of Police life in New Zealand (Aotearoa).... like Canada 🇨🇦 everything governmental is bilingual (minimum).... there's always the quirky Kiwi sense of humour, everybody in this was a serving member of the New Zealand Police, except the kuds.... that really was the Chief Commissioner of Police, kind of like seeing the Head of the FBI in the ad, but you'll note distinctly not in an office, rather what appeared to be a press briefing in a conference room, actually in the park. As for the "missing" pieces, there's all the "Roads" Police, like Motorway (Highway) Patrol, accident investigation, forensics, legal (ie. Police Prosecutors - paralegals), mounted (horse / bicycle / motorcycle).... etc. And the Cat(s) - they're a staple of most commonwealth police forces, good mousers, company for office staff... the station cat.
You know you are in a "safe" country when you see almost all cops have no lethal weapons. NZ is one such place. The "Samoan" you saw could have been exactly that, or Maori, Tongan or any one of several other Polynesian peoples. I also saw an ethnic Chinese, and a Sikh in the video. The Christchurch mosque maniac aside, Kiwis are a very friendly people (Wallabies excepted). If you are coming this way, Kiwiland is well worth a visit, with South Island being my favourite.
If you compare it to other western countries, we really are friendly. I have never seen a cop have a gun on them but a taser, unless they were at a scene involving guns
As a New Zealander I can tell you it's not that safe and is getting worse. I had to get my face reconstructed after an assault in 2003 and have been left with permanent brain damage and many other health related issues. Granted it is safer than alot of countries but we have a severe and growing methamphetamine problem which has led to alot of mentally unstable and violent behavior, especially in some of the smaller communities.
Yeah, even though nz has ram raids and stuff now days, compared to most countries it's very safe which just shows how horrible other countries have it.
Its unfortunate what happened to you and i hope who did this gets theirs at the end but as a kiwi this ad was made almost 10 years ago designed for recruitment and this worked big time, recruitment numbers tripled the year after because it was focused on "do you care enough?" Perhaps NZ police need to bring out a new ad, but to say this ad didnt work is definitely wrong, i know because i have 2 mates and a cousin who joined because of the appeal of this ad. Best 2 million dollars NZ government has spent.
@@Jamac007 I was wrong. I didn't know the stats. I am a little fuzzy on things from back then. I think I was still in the bitter stage when I first seen the add because I didn't get Justice. This came out after my assualt and things did change. I stand corrected. I also think you are right and we could do with a new add because where I live there is not many and they go to the neighboring city on the weekends to help leaving the town lawless. Any other country that would be chaos. We are very lucky to be in New Zealand.
NZ police don’t carry guns on their person. People do get murdered but very rarely, and if that does happen then The police will know who did it. This radio station put this theory to the test “3 degrees of separation” and found it true, that every third person you speak to in NZ they will know someone that you know. Shows how small we are. More New Zealand videos please. I don’t want to see Australia but I did watch the Aboriginal video.
Kinda safe but there's a bit of violence in schools , postcodes or gangs there's quite a lot of it but the police here are actually good no racism , no unfairness simple easy police 👍🏽
There's a few of these ads and the police have no guns so if someone is resisting arrest they will generally throw a police cat at them this distracting the criminal long enough to apprehend without severe injury, there's not many though as they are very hard to control especially if they have been pre thrown.
The police cats are to sniff out hidden fish that has been caught illegally, they have the harness because if they didn't have it the cats just run off into the bushes and you never see them again.
New Zealand Police haven’t carried guns until recently, and only 33 cops have been killed in the line of duty in the last 100 years. Unfortunately however, these facts are changing. There is a current debate about cops carrying guns.
All police vehicles have guns. 1 in a lock box in front passenger foot well (glock handgun) and either a shotgun or semiautomatic in the boot/trunk. The shotgun is normally loaded with beanbags or salt shots and the semiautomatic rifle is loaded with the same ammunition the army use.
I've worked on a police recruitment video as an extra (not this one) and everyone in police uniform was a sworn officer. They are also ''on duty'' when filming but ''out of service'' so they're on full pay. And no we don't have police cats.
A few years ago, I got clocked exceeding the speed limit by a police car going the other way. So I did the sensible thing - pulled over and waited for the cop to do a U turn and catch up. Wound the window down and declared confidently, "It's a fair cop." I then had an "oh shit" moment as I realised the Sergeant was a blonde. She, otoh, was giggling like mad. I still got a ticket for exspeeding the seed limit, but no boring lecture on the dangers of excessive speed. Gotta love NZ Police
Love your content and reviews.But can you please review a Kiwi Band called House of Shem, the song is Anything you ask for. It will grow on you for sure's, honest checkitout bro.
There's been some all some police recruitment advertising , it fits our humor, types of people, and both genders, and different areas you may want to go into, it's like no day is the same and you people represention of your everyday community
No we don't have Police cats! 😅😅 Phezz great joke tho.. need them for sneezing hehe 👍 Apparently we were number 2 last year, but ooh dropped to no.4 now. but still the safest country in the Asia Pacific region 👍
I thought the guy running that said the lady was ruining his flow was an actor, but in general it is real cops that do these adverts. You should look up the one that the police are dancing, it’s pretty good. Several police force around the world did one, including several from the US. There are a couple of police stations that have a cat, they are more of a mascot but hang out at the station and sometimes go in the car with their “owner” and have a police vest, so cute. You guys would love it here in New Zealand. In general our police are good people and we aren’t afraid of them. Given the bad press I think I would be scared of US police shooting first and asking questions later. Our police are unarmed majority of the time, they have a shotgun in their car but have to get approval to use it. They have pepper spray and sometimes tasers. In general our citizens are unarmed, with weapons used for hunting. We are not allowed guns for self defence and pistols and automatic weapons are illegal here. Very different place.
Our cops are,pro active,not reactive,and kiwi's being chilled people,so are our cops,wave out to them driving by, they'll wave back, that's how we roll bedsides,most NZ families have someone in the police force or knows someone who does but unfortunately there are some who think the law doesn't apply to them,very few,but thats all it takes to stuff up the good
There is still crime here like any other country and you are still vulnerable.There has been violent crimes and terrorist crimes here but not as frequent as many other countries.But as a born n bred kiwi I rank NZ around 97% safe. As far as the wilderness is concerned there are no predators or poisonous reptiles only like 2 poisonous spiders which one is an Australian spider.
Since the criminals saw this ad on TV crime has skyrocketed, especially after watching the government funded sex change in the courier van shown in the video.
NZ cops don't carry guns. Are there other countries where guns are not required? They have guns in their vehicles but they can't access them unless approved by their supervisor.
Seeing a New Zealand female cop toting an M16 Assault Rifle is more than cool, it's down right......just makes an innocent man want to surrender. New Zealand is very safe to pretty safe if you keep to well lit city streets. Suburbs are safe and gun violence is not common. NZ Police are trained to maintain good relationships with the civilian population and don't routinely carry weapons. However each police vehicle carries a variety of weapons in their car's truck, so quick access is available. Police officers are routinely armed on diplomatic protection duties and when on duty at an international airport.
The guns are there, just not flouted on the officers hip. Generally if there is a dangerous situation involving firearms the AR15's appear pretty promptly. Otherwise if someone is just getting out of hand and talk and persuasion fails its taser and pepper spray time.
It would be safe as with a population of 5.084 million pretty sure Brisbane's population is just over 5 million and it's safe, I'd still bet NZ is safer though 😁
i have made a few odd calls to NZ police to report criming ,or some crazy. I have been a victim of a death threat, he got convicted when i lived in a hostel, =but thats another story, they dont give us unarmed combat training in the Artillery!
