And you would be correct.
While the system promotes laziness, incompetence and don't caredness that's what the public service will deliver. Apparently that's what the public want; whenever a tough decision is made there's an outcry and sometimes a lawsuit; whenever a tough decision is not made there's an outcry. Either way, an outcry...the result; stalemate. More useless policy and advisories get issued, yet the truly lawless continue to operate outside the law and everyone else sighs, reads the latest inconclusive tripe from the agency and tries to figure out what they're supposed to do with their paperclip inventory this week to remain compliant...
Meantime, a bloke accepts a ticket bought by his partner for an activity they both believe is lawful but wasn't, and he dies.
But the paperclips are counted. The advisories have been circulated. Regulation has been seen to be done. The performance indicators have been met.
The departmental heads no doubt dismiss it as an unfortunate event that couldn't have possibly been prevented by them, because ya know, they sent out the advisories...
There's a time for advisories and there's a time for jackboots. This was a time for jackboots, warrants and arrests and the agency missed the time. Sure, hindsight's a wonderful thing, but when a person is flouting rules and contravening regulations, doing what he was told not to do and dragging customers into it; IMO time to pull out the jackboots and the warrant, and public opinion be damned. Otherwise the regulations are worthless and so is the regulator.
They didn't do that, and that seems to be the public service people want. If that's not what you all want, why have you got it?
