Police Must Stop Unlawful Training

Commissioner Coster,

RE: Unlawful Hate Speech Training for NZ Police

NZ Police officers are currently receiving compulsory training designed to help them detect ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crimes.’ 

Examples of such ‘offences’ in the training material include the statements, ‘There are only two genders’, ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ and perhaps the most perplexing of all, ‘Free Speech’. 

Hate crime laws do not exist in NZ. 'Hate speech' is very narrowly defined in the Human Rights Act. However, the examples presented to officers in this case are not only highly prejudicial, but should be self-evidently legal. 

‘Free of expression’ is a right enshrined in our Bill of Rights Act. ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ formed the campaign slogan of the National Party in 2005. To invert this fundamental right by presenting it as criminal is outrageous and suggests a deliberate politicisation of NZ Police under your leadership. Senior officers have contacted us alarmed by these unjustified moves within their ranks.

If this training is implemented as per the module’s own instructions to ‘Recognise, Record, and Respond’, law enforcement in this instance would be enforcing laws which do not exist! 

NZ Police exercise authority according to the doctrine of ‘policing by consent.’ Such extra-judicial activism defies this fundamental public mandate by showing a callous disregard for the Sovereignty of Parliament as sole author of NZ law. 


We call on you to cease this training immediately. 

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  • Daniel Breen
    signed 2025-02-15 11:16:19 +1300
  • Sarah Watson
    signed 2025-02-13 18:01:52 +1300
  • Richard Barrington
    signed 2025-02-13 11:43:37 +1300
    Are there just toooooo many rabbit holes?
  • Gerard Pain
    signed 2025-02-12 13:56:24 +1300
  • Nicholas James Jenks
    signed 2025-02-12 10:41:18 +1300
  • Matthew Bolton
    signed 2025-02-11 19:42:02 +1300
  • John Roos
    signed 2025-02-11 09:37:03 +1300
  • Cairo Murphy
    signed 2025-02-05 19:02:28 +1300
    NZ’s trust in the police 📉📉📉
  • Jay Trad
    signed 2025-02-04 15:34:44 +1300
    The NZ Police are a gang act in the same way, becoming more and more thuggish. They are more concerned about their tacky tattoos and bad hair cuts. They lie and turn a blind eye to their comrades. Cowards!
  • Caleb Brown
    signed 2025-02-03 19:24:00 +1300
  • Paula JE Falwasser
    signed 2025-01-25 15:11:49 +1300
    I oppose the distruction of the NZP
  • Alanna Columb
    signed 2025-01-22 20:19:57 +1300
  • Stephen Thoms
    signed 2025-01-22 17:58:45 +1300
  • Janet Grime
    signed 2025-01-19 20:07:27 +1300
  • Vaughan Tocker
    signed 2025-01-17 06:11:44 +1300
    Police don’t help people they destroy them. Why are the Police involved it will be like talking on thin ice.
  • Peter Sullivan
    signed 2025-01-03 22:17:56 +1300
  • Tina Moulynox
    signed 2025-01-01 15:36:41 +1300
  • Jack Juretich
    signed 2024-12-14 06:47:27 +1300
  • Jennifer Strauss
    signed 2024-12-10 11:58:09 +1300
  • Grant Crenfeldt
    signed 2024-12-10 08:10:51 +1300
    This is outrageous and unacceptable in New Zealand.
  • Lars Brandt
    signed 2024-11-25 17:06:18 +1300
    Freedom for New Zealand
  • Mark Jerling
    signed 2024-11-22 13:56:24 +1300
  • Jennine Bailey
    signed 2024-11-20 15:32:53 +1300
  • Aidan Higgins
    signed 2024-11-20 05:07:38 +1300
    This maddess merry go round needs to cease, to be honest my tollarence has worn thin of all DEI and what ever falls off its poisoned tree. This mess needed addressing from 2015 so keep up the fight ..
  • Liana Johnson
    signed 2024-11-15 23:02:33 +1300
  • Leonard Ben McIntyre
    signed 2024-11-13 15:54:59 +1300
    So i see our corrupt government, is counting on the naive notion that this is to protect the vulnerable ect. ect. Is going to be swallowed whole be the weak and fragile public?

    This is not good for me because I like the truth… even if it hurts. It’s my truth, and I won’t be a part of foolish notions of the noisey few!
  • Elizabeth Black
    signed 2024-11-03 00:12:59 +1300
  • Avice Jacobson
    signed 2024-10-23 21:24:32 +1300
  • Russell Garbett
    signed 2024-10-19 20:16:40 +1300
    Police abide by your values, you’re code of conduct and the Bill of Rights
  • Ann Satterthwaite
    signed 2024-10-19 06:23:17 +1300

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