Police lauded intelligence system after Mosque attacks - a podcast by RNZ

The police were lauding their intelligence system shortly after the mosque attacks, even though they knew parts of it were in a woeful state.
In April 2019, a month after 51 people were killed, the National Intelligence Manager said the system's effectiveness over the past decade should be "celebrated".
But the intelligence section was haemorrhaging staff and had been panned in internal reviews - and even now has major problems.
Unlike the Security Intelligence Service, police did not review their own performance in the lead-up to the mosque attacks - instead, feeding into the Royal Commission which took almost two years to report back.
Phil Pennington is looking into this.

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