Police officers use discretion when deciding to
enforce the law when certain situations arise.
Discretion is a key component of law enforcement,
most discretionary decisions are based on
misdemeanor or traffic enforcement.

Police officers are obliged to follow state statute
and agency policy and procedure when making these
decisions.

Rumour has it that the Deputy Premier has been to see the farmer and that the Nationals are getting involved.

Support is growing for him it seems and there are going to be some red faces.

Bye the way, Steele, what would you have done?

has the police arrested that leftist antifa thug who assaulted Andrew Bolt a couple of months ago? Thought not the abc is more interested in Tony Abbott punching clean air 45 years ago.

Let's hope that the Nationals can bring about a common sense solution to police stupidity.

It only takes one careerist bureaucrat, feeling left out and eager to make a name for himself, in the headquarters Firearms Registry (FAR) to wreak mayhem. If that is where it is coming from.

Hoping that the FAR hasn't become the backwater dumping ground for the ones with difficult personalities who cannot get along with their patrol partners and team. So it is off to be flotsam in the Sargasso Sea that is FAR and we'll see you no more.

A pity, because if the FARs could be allowed to direct their efforts at collaring criminals again instead of the endless bureaucracy of keeping dossiers on and monitoring ordinary licensed citizens for no return, there are some there who could still make a contribution.

Very different to be going home feeling you contributed through helping to pull violent drug dealing bikies off the street than to sit there day in day out polishing a seat and looking over the shoulders of ordinary respectable people every day. That's politics, more the pity for men and women who only signed up to nab crims.

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

I guess every contributor on the Forum would have their own opinion on how such an incident should be managed? And by and large they'd probably be right. I would most likely act in exactly the same circumstances, as most others would, herein.

The bewildering part of course is; The 'forcing' of this fellow into his M/V? Seemingly for the purpose of conveying him to a police station. By what measure or process was this 'force' imposed? Was it at the point of an unloaded .22 Rimfire? Was he manhandled, how exactly? And why take such an unsustainable risk, when police were already en route to take this individual into custody? Answers a Magistrate would indeed be keen to hear?