Police: "It's OK if you're a cop"

Imagine you want to buy some guns, but you want to hide the fact from someone. So you abuse your access privileges to obtain the details of a registered owner, then use them to fraudulently register the weapons. If you or I did this, we'd obviously be going to jail. But apparently it's OK if you're a cop:

The South Island police officer was investigated after allegations surfaced that he illegally acquired firearms and concealed the purchases by registering them under false names.

He registered firearms under the names of innocent licensed firearm owners, intending to deceive the gun sellers and Te Tari Pūreke – Firearms Safety Authority.

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The allegations were initially investigated by the police, who concluded the officer had not committed any criminal offences.

Police accepted the officer’s explanation that he used third-party names to acquire firearms to avoid conflict with his wife.

As a result, they found no grounds to proceed with either criminal charges or disciplinary action.

The IPCA disagrees. But they're a toothless sham, who don't get to make prosecution decisions, so the cop gets away with it. And to add insult to injury, he got to keep his firearms licence, despite clearly not being a fit and proper person to enjoy such trust.

This is just the ordinary, everyday corruption of a police force which sees itself as being above the laws they enforce on us peasants. Its the corruption of a police force which behaves essentially exactly like a criminal gang. And its not acceptable. Crime is not OK if you're a cop. And if the police refuse to understand that, then we should fire them all and get some honest ones instead.