Nats to check whether smacking persecution exists

Although there is no real evidence that police are persecuting parents over new smacking legislation, National will be checking to ensure that a smacking zone is a persecution free zone for parents who commit the crime of smacking kids - and then get investigated by Police and CYFS for it.

Cos, folks, these crimes should not be investigated, because that's the intent of Parliament. There's no point having two or three police cars sent to investigate crimes that they are not allowed to prosecute.