If Bill Shatner is what you remember about TJ Hooker, you probably have teh ghey.
Posted on 07/20/2006 6:30:04 AM PDT by presidio9
A New Zealand policewoman has been censured for some unauthorized "undercover" work — a stint moonlighting as a prostitute — but is being allowed to keep her day job after giving up the night duties.
While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer said sex work and police work don't mix.
The policewoman had worked for a limited time as a prostitute in the northern city of Auckland before her clandestine activity was uncovered, police said. Her name and rank have not been made public.
Police media communications manager Jon Neilson said he understood the officer had taken up "secondary employment due to financial difficulties," but had not sought police approval to work in the sex industry.
She has been counseled over the matter, which "under police procedures .... amounts to a censure," said Deputy Police Commissioner Lyn Provost.
"I can assure the public that ... this type of secondary employment would never be approved given that the type of work is inappropriate and incompatible with policing," Provost said.
A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective said that depending on the brothel in which she worked, the police officer could have earned 500 New Zealand dollars (US$312) on a busy night.
Had she heard of other police officers moonlighting as sex workers?
"We have law students that are sex workers, we have doctors that are sex workers, I mean anyone can be a sex worker," the woman said, asking that she not be named due to the sensitive nature of her job.
"NZPC's philosophy is that we support people that are in that (for) secondary employment," she added.
Police Minister Annette King called the matter an internal police employment issue. It was "inappropriate" for her to comment.
Can I offer you a bust?
Pictures....I'll need to see pictures before passing judgement.
Innocent Until Proven Homely.
The New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective? Good Lord. Socialized hookers? How did we come to this pretty pass?
"While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs.."
What's the big deal??
In the U.S. we allow politicians to combine prostitution with their regular duties.
30 days in the hole (ahem)
"You have the right to remain silent, or to say: `Oh baby! Oh baby!'"
"If you give up this right, I will hold my body against you."
"If you understand these rights, please signify by reaching slowly for your wallet."
At least they didn't take her downtown and stick her in the pokey.
Jail would have been bad also.
WTF?
Will the revamping of the English language ever end? "Sex Worker" = "Whore"... Same-O, Same-O. There is no nice way of putting it.
And I disagree with the New Zealand officer that said hooking is "incompatible with policing." A smart cop working as a whore could acquire tons of helpful information from the scourge of the earth once they plug into her. It's a well known fact that most men's brains drain right out of the head on their shoulders and into their loins when properly stimulated and who better to stimulate than a whore and who better to gather the criminal knowledge contained within those "brains" than a police officer seeking useful information?
For an extra $20, she'll take out her handcuffs;)
OK. There was this TV program called T.J. Hooker, with William Shatner as the main character.
I propose a NEW program called N.Z. Hooker about the daily up and downs (and in and outs) of a New Zealand lady cop/hooker.
If Bill Shatner is what you remember about TJ Hooker, you probably have teh ghey.
teh ghey?
'scuse me. I'm old. Huh?
Check your beeber.
Look at the size of those buckles!
She's only guilty if she's not hot. Is she hot?
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