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Time for bodycams

Why the New Zealand Police need cameras now

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Matua Kahurangi
Sep 08, 2025
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Police officer's 'high-risk' carotid hold not justified - IPCA | RNZ News

The death of Tom Phillips during a police shooting has once again exposed a gap in New Zealand’s policing system - the absence of mandatory body cameras. No one outside the police knows exactly what happened in that fatal moment. That is the problem.

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