The joy of drunk off duty cops (get better drinking stories)

Detective charged over late-night row
A police officer will appear in court on a disorder charge after allegedly verbally abusing a woman and her young son while on a night out drinking with a colleague. The Herald understands the two officers were detained in the early hours of Saturday in Papakura. One of the men is alleged to have approached a woman in a parked car and demanded her name and address. When she refused, he allegedly told her he was a police officer and pressed his badge against the windscreen. The woman - whose 11-year-son was in the back of the car - again refused to give the pair her details and told one of the officers that his fly was down. The Herald understands one of the officers is alleged to have then exposed himself to the woman and her son. The woman crossed the road to a petrol station and asked for help from one of the staff, who called the police. The two off-duty detectives followed her into the petrol station, telling witnesses they were police officers. Uniformed officers arrived at the station and tried to convince the two detectives to leave with them quietly. The pair refused, so the senior sergeant from Papakura was called. When the two detectives refused to go to the station with the higher-ranking officer, they were arrested. The incident was captured on CCTV.

I've said it once, I'll said it a thousand times, we can't allow the cops to drink with the public, the public needs protection from these angry, drunk alpha males, we HAVE to keep Police bars on site at Police stations going because sweet Jesus we don't want them exploding on the public. The only reason they will be charged is because it's on CCTV, if it hadn't been on tape the mother would've been threatened with some bullshit trumped up charge until she dropped her complaint, that's the usual standard procedure in these cases.

Booze still part of police culture
The refusal by Superintendent Graham Thomas to take a breath-test after being spotted driving home erratically from a police bar is just the latest in a string of incidents involving officers who had been drinking in a police bar or canteen.

The extreme stress caused by the job, the pathetic training they are given (19 weeks) and the lack of serious counseling and holiday home services combine to create unarticulated rage sown together by a repressed culture of pathological lying (ask any woman who has dated a cop) which seems to exploded the second off duty cops mix with the public, remember this case last year...

Off-duty police accused of assault
Three off-duty police officers are facing assault charges for allegedly attacking two students in the lobby of an apartment building. Constables Chris Renata, 31, Patrick Garty, 32, and Wiremu Bowers-Rakatau, 21, are due back in Auckland District Court on September 21 after making an appearance there on Monday. The three were suspended from duty early last month, but returned to work last week carrying out non-normal tasks, the New Zealand Herald reported today. Garty faces three assault counts and Bowers-Rakatau faces two under the Crimes Act. Renata has been charged with common assault under the less serious Summary Offences Act. The three were arrested this week in relation to an incident in central Auckland on March 18 involving a group of university students going home after celebrating St Patrick's Day. One of the students, the son of an Auckland detective, needed stitches to his head.

Oh the irony huh? The only reason these off duty cops are getting prosecuted is because they were dumb enough to beat the crap out of the son of a Detective, normally off duty cops would’ve been able to get away with bashing people up, but beat up the son of a Detective and there’s hell to pay.

Until the Police get the services necessary to help deal with the stresses of the job, let's keep them locked up in their bars to protect the public.