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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Police need the power to pursue
Description: Yesterday, 33 young people were due to appear in the Youth Court in Christchurch. Of those, two-thirds of them were facing charges of unlawfully taking and/or using cars. Or, as you and I would say, about 20-or-so of them were accused of breaking into cars and driving off in them, or jumping into a car that one of their mates had stolen and going for a cruise. And that was just yesterday’s line-up in the Youth Court. Today, local police are speaking out and saying that because they aren’t allowed to chas...