Obtain motor vehicle ownership details - govt.nz - Connecting you to New Zealand central & local government services

Obtain motor vehicle ownership details - govt.nz - Connecting you to New Zealand central & local government services

Who owns that vehicle?

If a vehicle is sold in New Zealand, you can approach the Govenment Vehicle register and ensure it is owned by the seller selling the vehicle. The Government charges for this service.

If you end up buying a vehicle that was stolen during its history, you may end up losing the vehicle. The police should present an online license search where you put in both the persons' name, your own name and drivers license number, and the licence plate. It can then tell you if it is a valid transaction.

The current setup is rather silly, easily and cheaply remedied. Fixing it would make private sales of vehicles safer.

NZ Police : Services : E-crime Unit

NZ Police : Services : E-crime Unit

E-Crime and the New Zealand Police

The NZ Police are travelling around the internet finding forensic evidence of wrong doing. This raises a question, should evidence that amounts to a set of digital switch states, in themselves, constitute a crime or is "fraud" as we know it a redundant concept in the e-world? The attempt by police to somehow "sanitise" networked computers that carry intelligence, the communications of terrorists, means that arguments for laws to convict merely on the presence of evidence start to be won. This of course leaves open a gaping hole when it comes to the ease with which a person may be framed for a crime.

Police work in this regard is demanding but digitial evidence is indestructable. So keeping it is free. Storing it costs next to nothing. Locking it down with encryption is easy, and makes evidence of it (encrypting the date with the right algorithem can produce evidential artifacts that are impossible to fake). Evidence of where you have been has to become reliable. Credit Cards are a convenient form of accountability.

Police find evidence of and use the internet to investigate a crime to help find perpetrators of harm to others. A liberal policy toward pornography has led to the inevitable trails of greedy child pornographers. Emailing, blogging or just surfing on the internet leaves trails behind, and that does not mean it leaves trails behind only on your computer. People running pornographic based business on the internet are doing so with the blessing and consent of the State, now able to detect line-crossers that perpetuate evil toward other people. For the first time ritual abusers have been exposed. The law is there to protect children. Child abuse and slavery are the result of people who abuse others. Catching them requires reliable mechanisms.

Parole

The newish leader of the National Party recently announced a new Law and Order policy. Don Brash, possibly NZ's next PM is taking populist stands on just about everything, appealing to a narrowing of NZ opinion. The law and order policies are to eliminate Parole for violent offenders and increase jail terms with 2 billion being spent on housing an additional 3000 law breakers. Current prison population is about 6000. The cost to the taxpayer of living in a crime free world is already greater than what is spent on it. Will increasing prison populations have the effect of reducing crime or is that a false assumption?

But the elimination of parole will make matters worse for those caught in the new dragnet, those not guilty of major larceny or violence who will come under the forceful eyes of "top dogs" - unofficial ranks of priosoners usually equating to factors such as severity of crime or connections to organised crime.

With increased exposures to malign influences, reintegration of the mild criminal is made less likely.