Police Minister admits police body armour botch-ups.
About 60 per cent of front-line officers are yet to get a vest!!
National Party police spokesman Chester Borrows asked in Parliament "Can the minister confirm that front-line police were first promised stab-resistant vests in June last year, then in February 2007 and then in May, but that fewer than half of officers have them now, all because management ordered the wrong colour, the wrong material, the wrong design and then the wrong sizes, which means that 1500 tiny vests are now in storage, wasting $1.5 million that could have been spent on other tools to keep front-line police safe?"
Ms King agreed there had been errors. The latest figures were that 3241 vests were issued to staff, 1500 were in the process of being issued and 1700 were in storage because they were too small.
Acting Sergeant Andrew Grice was stabbed four times when he and two other officers responded to a domestic incident in Hamilton on Wednesday.
Mr Grice would not have been so seriously injured if he had been wearing a vest.
Deputy Commissioner Rob Pope said the deadline for when all officers were expected to have the vests was February but that had since been re-adjusted to the end of the year.
Policewatch says a new broom is required for the Management and the Minister!!!!
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