“..Drink-drive police get off charges..”
“..Half of all police officers caught drink-driving in the past three years have beaten the charge ..
.. raising allegations of one law for police and another for the public.
Three officers are still fighting their cases in the courts, including one caught driving while more than three times the legal limit.
Even the police’s top personnel manager admits it is hard to secure a conviction against an officer.
The average conviction rate for all drink-drivers in the past three years was more than 95 per cent ..
.. compared with less than 38 per cent for police officers.
Figures given to The Dominion Post under the Official Information Act show that just five out of 16 officers on drink-driving charges have been convicted since the beginning of 2006.
The 16 include the three whose cases are still before the courts..”
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