{"id":138533,"date":"2021-04-27T05:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=191262"},"modified":"2021-04-27T05:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:49:59","slug":"nz-police-had-no-dedicated-team-to-scan-internet-before-mosque-attacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/27\/nz-police-had-no-dedicated-team-to-scan-internet-before-mosque-attacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Phil Pennington<\/a>, RNZ News<\/a> reporter<\/em><\/p>\n It took seven months for the New Zealand police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks<\/a> \u2013 but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down.<\/p>\n An internal report released under the Official Information Act (OIA) said this was despite the team already proving its worth \u201cmany times over\u201d in countering violent extremists.<\/p>\n The unit still does not have dedicated funding, despite a warning last July it risked being \u201cturned off\u201d.<\/p>\n