‘We’re not coping’: Police resources stretched as Omicron takes hold

With a wave of Omicron infections bearing down on New Zealand, police are stretched thin, Stuff reports. Hundreds of the country’s more than 10,000 police officers have been diverted from regular duties to help at managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities and monitor protest activity in Wellington, while dozens of others are off work because they’ve chosen not to get vaccinated.