Pike River:

From Stuff News:
‘….It comes as criticism of the police operation grows. An Australian-based online mining journal today called for New Zealand police to be blocked from controlling mine rescues.
”What I never want to see again is a disaster of the Pike River mine’s magnitude being controlled by the police…and not the people trained and skilled in mine rescue,” nzresources.com editor Ross Louthean said in an editorial headed: ”Mine rescue must not remain with Mr Plod”…’