Police sending photos of youths to national database

Published: March 8, 2021, 6:09 p.m.

Police are approaching innocent young people, photographing them, collecting their personal details and then using a phone app to send it all to a national police database. RNZ first reported on young Maori being stopped and photographed by police in Wairarapa last year, but we can now reveal it has happened across the country. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui reports.