Police Porn

(here's hoping that title doesn't elicit too many hits from google searches looking for something salacious!!)

So 300+ officers of the NZ Police force have been busted for having porn in their emails ... so what?

Can we honestly be surprised at this? I think not. Face it, it's a bloke dominated occupation and blokes have always had a fascination with porn. Though from a purely chauvinistic, slightly voyeuristic perspective I'd just love to meet the 30 or 40 of the policewomen that have been nabbed in this investigation. They sound like the open-minded sort of ladies I've always wanted to meet. (Mind you given what some of our police get up to with truncheons that may not be such a good idea).

It's interesting to note that the volume of the offending emails took up 20 percent of the space available on the police email servers. I'm impressed, that's a lot of dirty pictures floating around in the electronic aether. Even the best efforts of my media class, back in journo' training days would have struggled to compete with that (Monday was "thank God it's porn day"). Our best efforts didn't even raise a blip with the Polytech's internet police. My suspicion here is that if an audit was done of any normal workplace the proliferation of such inappropriate images would be just as common. I base this on what I've seen on colleagues computers where I work.

One can only assume handing out speeding tickets, as our police are wont to do, creates a certain amount of stress which needs to be relieved, and this is the way some officers have chosen to do it. Next time I'm out driving I'm going to make sure I have a copy of Hustler or Penthouse in the glovebox, and if I get pulled over for speeding I'll just whip it out (the magazine you perverts!) and hand it over. That way the cop can get his jollies without the stress of having to write a ticket.

Of course my actions could be misconstrued as being a smartarse, comparing a cop to a sexual offender, in which case I'd probably get the truncheon treatment. To be safe I think I'll hang on to my glad mag's for the time being.