Airport Drug Interception

Good old days though, Casey, weren't they? Yeah, didn't have the commentaries to worry about back in those days. Yeah, fun times. Hey, thank you very much. Appreciate it, Casey Costello, who's the Minister of Customs. Reason I asked Casey that is because um I'm shall I do it now? Yeah, I'll tell you now. Go on then. Okay, so you remember the dodgy um police breath tests. Remember that where we're where we f found out that there were a bunch of cops who are, I don't know what they were doing, trying to get the numbers up or whatever, and they were just sitting there pressing the buttons on the breathalyzers, making it look like they'd done heaps more breathalyzing than they actually had. And originally we thought, oh, there was about 30,000 of them. 130 of these police officers had ended up doing 30,000 dodgy tests. It now looks uh uh we we've now confirmed through independent analysis that it was actually 42,000. But it may have been as high as a hundred and eleven thousand. So what happened is these guys, WSP went in and did some independent analysis of the the police data and said, Look, there are a hundred and eleven thousand cases here that look like your cops have been dodgy with this and pressing the button. And the police looked at it and they said, No, we don't think it's 11,000, we think it's 42,000, because in these 69,000 over here, there are 20 seconds between the driver and the next driver. And that's totally possible. Like it is possible in a really efficient breath testing situation to get that done every 20 seconds. I call BS on that. I don't think about it for a second. Where was I did it? I got caught in a breath test the other day when I was coming down the road. And so you you put and so we timed it before. You pull up and they go, hi man, we're just doing a breath test. Can you just state your full name and address into this number and then and then you go, Heather Duplice Allen, for Graham Street, Auckland Central, and then they stop, right? That's eight or nine seconds already. And then you have to wait look what? What are you waiting? If you're a police officer, text me and let me know. I think it's five seconds at least. So now we're up to 13, 14, 15 seconds that we've been sitting there. And then after that, then they go, you may go. And then you go, and then the other uh oh mate, behind you has to hoof it. Hey, in the spot 20 seconds, let's go. Not possible. I call BS on it. So I reckon the numbers are lot higher. I reckon it might be 111. Sorry, Heather, what was the test result again? It was in the middle of the bloody day. There was no child, but which does make me wonder why are you sitting around Ponsonby? Are there that many drunk drivers around Ponceby in the middle of the day? It was like, yes, ladies who lunch, they may well be. Anyway, no, I got away with it. Well, I didn't get away with it. I did nothing to get away with. I was cleared. But anyway, we're still waiting for the police. We haven't heard from the police yet, have we, Kev? Now we're still waiting for the police. They're still trying to figure out whether they've got the people who can come and talk to us about the breath testing. So we'll let you know, because there's a little slot reserved for them after five o'clock. Stand by for that. 17 past four.