Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

I’ve been pretty vocal in my criticism of the Police Commissioner, but never the actual police. However, yesterday my brother had an experience that makes me question what on earth is going on inside the police force at the moment.  Yesterday morning my brother was dropping his son and his son’s mate to school around 8am. My brother’s friend who's just flown back into the country was on speaker phone in the car, telling them all about his trip, when my brother notices a paddy wagon surging up behind, lights flashing, 4 or 5 cops inside.  He immediately pulls over to let them pass, assuming they’re after someone ahead and he wants to get out of their way. But the wagon pulls in behind his car. A female officer hops out, comes over and says to my brother – “you’re on your phone.” He says, “it’s a hands free call, it’s coming through the car speaker.” She says, “no, you had the phone up to your ear.” He says, “no I’ve never had it at my ear, it’s been on speaker, my boys can testify to that because we were all l