[New Zealand] Burton inquiry: Police trackers on leave / stuff.co.nz, 6 March 2007
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EMILY WATT
"Police asked for their specialist surveillance squad to help track down convicted killer Graeme Burton late last year, but were turned down because management refused to recall staff from leave.
Burton later went on to kill Wainuiomata man Karl Kuchenbecker on January 6 this year."