Although each weapon type rarely changes in function, you can purchase rare skins for your weapons to show off your style. They are exhausted and they shouldn’t have to be up all night manning their own checkpoints.Cash has one purpose in the game: to purchase weapons. “A presence in the worst affected areas would make a huge difference to communities that are suffering. Seymour said more than 600 police were sent to the Parliament protest and yet only 100 have been sent to Hawke’s Bay. People on the East Coast are terrified and their pleas for help should be listened to.” “The first duty of Government is to keep people safe. Some residents have even indicated they could take up their own arms if the situation worsened.Īct Party leader David Seymour said the Prime Minister needed to order the military to assist police. Meanwhile, local residents spoken to by The New Zealand Herald have said they would like to see armed forces take over the roadblocks they had set up to prevent looting of damaged properties. Wise also said crime was potentially underreported due to widespread communications issues. Napier Mayor Kirsten Wise told RNZ regardless of reporting levels people were scared and wanted more people on the ground. The region had got 145 additional frontline police staff in the wake of the cyclone on top of 770 already there.Ĭoster also said reports of crime were down on normal levels. He said more resources were on their way. On Monday, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said he felt police had the situation under control and the number of law and order issues was actually lower than normal. “Honestly for us it was a very, very scary moment and that crew just had to up and leave.” Ryan Lawson of East Coast Traffic told Newsroom staff were facing daily abuse. He said the official’s denial of the occurrence of the event was “a little bit frustrating considering. Harvey said his crew was feeling “shaken, uneasy and nervous” following the incident, and one crew member had asked to take “stress leave”. “It is why the police are arresting anyone that they find engaging in illegal behaviour or they have evidence of having engaged in illegal behaviour.” “I completely understand that they are really, really worried about the actions of a very small group in our community that is acting in a way that is completely antisocial and completely unacceptable,” Nash said. Nash grew increasingly frustrated and asked Du Plessis-Allan why she “was so fixated on this”. He said “he wouldn’t doubt” that people who had guns had pointed them at the checkpoint but wasn’t convinced by the supposed lack of evidence.
He replied that he understood that people were “feeling unsafe”. Speaking to Newstalk ZB’s Heather Du Plessis-Allan, Police Minister Stuart Nash was asked if he would now admit that there was a problem with crime in Hawke's Bay. “The reports of guns pulled at checkpoints, so far there have only been third- or fourth-hand accounts of it,” Hipkins said during a press conference.
Under attack from the Opposition and some residents about crime in the region, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said earlier this week that there was no first-hand account of the incident. Harvey also said police said they had made some inquiries, but they hadn’t done anything more than that. He confirmed these statements were first-hand accounts. “We had the police come to us that night, and took statements from everyone involved,” Harvey said.
Traffic management supervisor Liam Harvey told Newstalk ZB this afternoon that the roadworkers reported the incident to police. Photo: Photo: NZ HeraldRoadworkers who say they had guns pulled on them at a Hawke's Bay roadblock say they are frustrated by officials casting doubt on the incident.Ī traffic management boss said staff in the region had a pistol and sawn-off shotgun pointed at them while working last Friday. One of several roadblocks in place around the wider Puketapu area, in Hawke's Bay, being manned by locals.
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