A police operation to covertly follow a man came to an abrupt halt when the man found tracking devices planted in his car, ripped them out, and listed them for sale on Trade Me.

Ralph Williams, of Cromwell, said he found the devices last week in his daughter's car, which he uses, and in his flatmate's car, when the cars were returned by police after being seized and searched.

Police have neither confirmed nor denied they placed the devices. But Mr Williams said a mobile phone Sim card in one of the devices appeared to transmit messages to the mobile phone of Detective Sergeant Derek Shaw, of Central Otago CIB.

Mr Williams also claimed he had e-mails from Mr Shaw saying: "If you have got something of ours it would be good to get it back. You can call me and I can come meet you."

Mr Williams placed one of the devices on Trade Me with a price of $250. The ad read: "Used government covert surveillance tracking. No police to bid on this ..."

A Trade Me spokesman said the listing was removed yesterday "at the request of the New Zealand Police".

Mr Williams said the cars were seized after an unmarked police car was torched in Alexandra in July. An investigation found nothing on him.

Mr Shaw would only say yesterday: "Police use a variety of legitimate investigation techniques. However, it is not the policy of the police to comment on those techniques or other operational matters."

The Summary Proceedings Act says a warrant should be obtained for a tracking device but one can be installed without a warrant if there is not time and an officer believes a judge would issue one if time permitted.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4192807a10.html

It just gets worse for the NZ Police...after enjoying a reputation for many decades of one of the most corruption -free police forces worldwide.

Here's video of the arrest, excuse appalling reporteress...http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1336811

In the last couple of years we have had cops going to jail for pack rape, allegations of freakygroup sex involving top cops, right up to the Assistant Comissioner, evidence of lies, deceit and cover-ups..(.just google the name Louise Nicholas)

We have a multiple murder retrial pending here in New Zealand , involving the murder of almost an entire family...the only survivor was the eldest son, David Bain.He was accused of murder of five family members , was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The scaled-down story is that he served 12 years before a retrial was ordered. Now one of the daughters murdered was a hooker , Laniet Bain --who was apparently just about to go public about her incestuous relationship with her father Robin Bain before the shooting.

Now there significant disquiet about the death of this young prostitute,especially in the South Island, and rumours that the local cops were ALLEGEDLY fucking her, and that this led to tampering with evidence and shoddy detective work by the Dunedin police to cover this embarrassing fact up...now I have talked to some ex-prostitutes about what it was like working prior to legalization a few years ago, and apparently it was quite common for the cops to pressure the young hookers into a free fuck or gang-bang.

Going off topic here, but it's a fascinating case --murder of a dysfunctional family combined with idiot cops with something to hide( why else torch the house ??)


An excerpt from Investigate Magazine...june 2007









‘Megan’, a former escort interviewed by Investigate in Dunedin says police had an “arrangement” for free sex in the brothels.

“I worked at a parlour at one stage and there were police that came in there. They never paid. They thought they had every right to come in there and have the services. It was all quite shocking to me and I didn’t know what the procedure was, I was a bit naive about it all and I wasn’t very impressed. But obviously if a person can do that with me, and I had more clues than some of them, then yes, girls could be taken advantage of.

“Definitely it went on, without a doubt, that police took advantage of the girls...This was about 1991, 92, when I worked there.”

There was, she says, a mixture of uniform branch and plainclothes detectives. She also recalls one police officer who had sex with her then tried to get her to smoke a cannabis joint with him.

“He had a big bag of this dope, a huge bag. When he went to the toilet I reached across for an ordinary cigarette and accidentally knocked some of his papers on the side table, and I saw he had an invitation to the police ball.”

In return for enjoying free sex with prostitutes, police officers turned a blind eye to offences such as using underage schoolgirls in the parlours.

Which brings us to yet another twist in this increasingly serious story: in late 1993, perhaps early 1994, Bayfield High School dropout Laniet Bain began working part time at the Reflections massage parlour. She would have been aged just 17. It is extremely likely that part of her “initiation” involved being forced to have sex with Dunedin police officers. And one of those officers was quite likely Detective Sergeant Milton Weir – the man who later controversially spearheaded the Bain family murder investigation and allegedly planted evidence to implicate David Bain.

In a statement dictated to Colin Withnall QC in his presence but left unsigned amid fears for her life, Dunedin woman Susan Sutton recounts a conversation where one of her friends told her about Milton Weir’s behaviour.

“Joyce has also told me about what Milton used to do when he was in the squad that was in charge of the Dunedin massage parlours. She said he would insist on having sex with the new young girls at the parlours as a perk of the job, and that Jack and Winnie Ingersoll would arrange it for him.

“Also, some of the girls who were under age or had a drug conviction and accordingly weren’t allowed to work in the parlour would be allowed to work in parlours provided that they gave Weir free sex, not only for him but for his mates.”

Let that sink in for a moment. Susan Sutton’s statement confirms what Investigate had already heard from Megan. But there’s even more corroboration – Megan doesn’t know either Sutton or her friend Joyce Conwell (aka Joyce Blondell); she’d already quit the parlours to work as a private escort before their time there.

Were senior Dunedin police officers sexual clients of underage prostitute Laniet Bain? Did that have a bearing on how the police conducted their investigation into the Bain homicides of June 20, 1994?

One man who knows something is Dean Cottle, who told police he’d met Laniet in a bar in Dunedin in August 1993.

Cottle’s statement was taken by Detective Malcolm Inglis, who later worked on the David Benson-Pope tennis balls investigation. The statement is intriguing for both its explosive content, and the apparent lack of interest of police in what Cottle was telling them.
For example, he reveals:

“About the family, she told me that her father Robin had been having sex with her and this had been happening for year [sic]. That he was still doing this as I believed it...she didn’t want it coming out what had happened to her, I wasn’t to tell anyone.”