OPINION: Policing protests during Covid is proving challenging for many forces, and the anti-vaxxers and others who have gathered at New Zealand’s parliament grounds in Wellington have been difficult to dislodge; Monash University Criminology Lecturer Dr Ross Hendy, a former NZ Police sergeant, believes that while the waiting game may not be the ideal response politically, it could be the safest route to a peaceful resolution.

ANALYSIS: The fatal shooting of a New Zealand police officer and wounding of his colleague has reignited the debate on arming the police. Dr. Ross Hendy, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, discusses the impact and attitudes towards routinely arming the police.