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Check out dates, just not on the cop computer
Posted on December 4, 2006 4:45 PM
It's summer in New Zealand, while in California it just feels like summer with wildfires tearing through the state. Being summertime (in New Zealand), it's when everyone wants to find that special someone for a little somethin'-somethin'.
No one wants to have a date with a special someone punctuated by a SWAT team executing a forced entry on your tiny apartment with a warrant for your date's arrest. Unless you're into that sort of thing, and on the Internet who knows, maybe there's a service for that particular fantasy.
Me, I'd prefer not to have my earhole enlarged by some dedicated officer jamming a gun barrel so far in that he's cleaned out the earwax in the opposite ear while my date is being cuffed and hauled away for questioning.
Here's a fired Kiwi in Wellington, who used his position in a police call center to do more than search Google to see what kind of blog posts his dates make...
"I've basically been screwed for doing something that's a common practice. I've used the information the same as everyone else has," Les Neilson said.Who out there wouldn't drop a Romeo or Juliet's particulars into a police database query, if they could? But I don't really buy his "compromising position" argument. It sounds more like he was looking to leverage his dates into a compromising position with some less than public knowledge.
"If I'm socialising with people and I'm meeting new partners then I need to know the background of those partners because I don't want to put myself or the department in a compromising position.
"There's nothing that says 'I can't do that' – I've been doing it for the last 20 years."
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