Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats to save costs and allocate resources more effectively. Coster emphasized that bomb threats are typically false alarms and a waste of time for frontline officers, leading to the decision to downsize threat response and bomb disposal operations under his tenure. The move aims to streamline police activities and focus on more significant tasks, as stated by Coster.

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