Just as we’ve got over last month’s shameful border bungle, a la Thelma and Louise; faceless, nameless public officials continue to make a joke of their jobs and our security.

I’m a fair-minded person and I have no beef with bureaucracy over the Pullman Hotel bust out. It’s the fence-jumping fugitive that must cop the consequences and the full force of the courts for that feckless escapade. We can’t turn our hotels into razor-wired prisons for managed isolation. So I give our officials a pass on that one.

But someone must take the rap for the egregious security breach of Covid positive patient data. You would hope such a spreadsheet is password locked with highly restricted access. You would hope. Someone must be sacked for that confidence -destroying breach – and perhaps prosecuted, too.

Then just yesterday, the Keystone cops caper continued with the risible case of the Kiwi in managed isolation with a missing Covid test. Nicole Green had served her fourteen days but still wasn’t allowed to leave because her day twelve test had gone awol. The Northern DHB’s dopey system doesn’t register the swabs in the database at the point of collection, so lord knows what happened to Nicole’s nasal swab.

But the most lamentable blow to public faith in our public services emanates from the youth justice facility supposed to be a keeping a teenage killer under lock and key. And after Haami Hanara escaped with his mate from Korowai Manaaki, neither the facility or the police alerted the public to this dangerous offender on the loose for more than twenty four hours. What’s worse, Korowai Manaaki didn’t even notice these two were missing for eighty minutes. And they took a further forty minutes before they bothered to call the police.

An epic failure to protect and an epic failure to inform. And you may have heard, these rogue roosters escaped through the same window that previous escapees have busted out. How about a bars few around the window? This is not Korowai Kindergarten.

But despite this latest spate of clangers, don’t bother waiting for any real sense of accountability or consequences to emerge, from any of these agencies. Hello Snowballs. Hello Hell.

• Teen murderer smashed window, traversed roof to escape custody