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Posted in Bent Cops by Jack on 07/11/2008

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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed”. Friedrich Nietzsche.

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BENT COPS AND OTHER SCUM.

A three-decade-long conspiracy of corruption and perversity in The New Zealand Police.

NO NEED TO MAKE STUFF UP, THE TRUTH IS SUFFICIENT.

“All members of the New Zealand Police have key roles to play in building and maintaining safer communities together. Those of us who have the privilege of holding the office of constable – that is, being sworn police officers – carry special powers to help protect life and property, preserve the peace, uphold the law and prevent and detect criminal offenses. These powers come with important responsibilities. Chief among them, New Zealanders have a right to expect the highest standards of ethics, integrity and conduct from their police officers.” Rob Robinson, Police Commissioner. NZ Police standards of conduct. The following standards of conduct are expected of all police officers:

  • Honesty and integrity
  • Fairness and impartiality
  • Respect for people
  • Respect for confidentiality
  • Obedience to the law and lawful orders
  • Reasonable exercise of discretion
  • Efficient performance of duties
  • Not damaging the reputation or relationships of the Police

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The NZ Police are a sizeable bureaucracy with a greatly inflated sense of importance. Their stock in trade is secrets and lies, so by definition (although not necessarily in fact) those secrets and lies are important. Hunting down and punishing people who reveal those secrets and lies is a vital part of protecting the brand.

Michael Daly

August 8, 2025 • 5:00am

Police shoot man in Rotorua

  • Coroner Michael Robb has found that the death of Shargin Stephens, 35, who was shot twice by a police officer in Rotorua in 2016, was “preventable”.
  • The probationary officer who shot Stephens had placed himself in the ‘danger zone’, and his actions had led to Stephens reacting, the coroner said.
  • The coroner said the narrative of events provided by the officer was “consistently inaccurate”.

The death of a man, fatally wounded by police in Rotorua in 2016, was preventable, Coroner Michael Robb has found.

Robb also expressed concern that accounts given by officers at the inquest into the death of Shargin Atarea Stephens “did not accurately reflect what occurred”. The narrative of events given by the officer who shot Stephens – referred to as L05 – was “consistently inaccurate”.

Comments

1   If it’s true it would be the story of the year. weizguy.

 2.  paula wrote: It’s a very informative site. There’s nobody more motivated than a Dutchman who has a grievance concerning money and reputation!

3.  Bentcops is quite a revealing insight into NZ’s police. I’m personally familiar with some of their devious and heavy-handed machinations. Greg

4.  I feel secure in the knowledge that there are people among us capable of clear communication. I am impressed by your work Jack. I have understood the complexity of what you have said. I myself have limited academic ability. Therefore I am grateful to be privy to this particular educational gem. Regards Steven

5.  This is a very impressive piece of work. I’m concerned that the damning criticisms of the police on this site have gone unanswered and I suspect I know the reason – I think they must be valid. Anon

6.  This website shows you what a (NZ) Dutchman with various grievances can do if he is pissed off! You can be assured of several hours of informative and entertaining reading. (Jack, the person concerned, has that blunt and obscene turn of phrase characteristic of his demographic) It will take you into the compromised world of the NZ Police.

7.  “I think this site has a genuine purpose and seems to be monitored by a humorous (in spite of the experiences he’s had to endure), careful (in so far as collecting evidence to present a truthful account), and remarkably emotionally/mentally resourceful man (again in light of what he has had to endure – a lot of people would lose the plot but Jack has put a good deal of his no doubt frustrated energy into attempting to restore some sort of logic to the chaos of the events instead of resorting to ignorant violence).”

8.  As a person that joined the Police in my 40’s the biggest shock I encountered was the continual lying, bullying and deceit that is a deliberate systemic part of the NZ Police culture right from little lies by Constables to the bigger lies by Commissioned Officers at PNHQ. They seem incapable of understanding how much extra public respect and understanding they would get by simply telling the truth about all kinds of matters. New Zealanders seem to have some naive belief that there is something special about our police in that the corruption that is evident in places like the Australian police does not happen here. After all the evidence that has been produced over the years, why would anyone still believe that we are any different?  omand

9   The police are like any children. We need them, love them, but their behaviour is sometimes execrable. When they are unquestionably wrong, destroy families and individuals, it is a far healthier society if we lead them to the truth and force them to do what is unthinkable in their culture currently, admit they were wrong, apologise, and compensate.  hobbes123

10  good grief, Quite a read!
I completely understand the mindfluckery and injustice you feel, to say the least.

11  ” It is clear this Britton character is unhinged and a menace not only to your family Jack, but I would assume anyone else who might happen to upset him. It reeks of delinquency in their duties (at best) that the police haven’t at the very least had cause to get his guy looked at by a psychiatrist. I can only guess they’re mates of his who feel sorry for him (or somebody is directing them to try and assist him in his pursuit of you).
Either way, it is clear the police are not being neutral in their dealings but are showing a bias towards the fruitcake.”

12   I learnt much from sitting on that inquiry. Once it was clear that Mrs Shipley was not implicated it became my first experience of Parliamentary bi-partisanship, as the committee grew increasingly appalled at the untrustworthiness of Police witnesses. No MP on that committee was unaffected. Most shattering was the simple stupidity at senior levels, in sticking to incredible denials in the face of overwhelming evidence, including video footage. The committee had no desire to destroy public confidence in Police integrity. We noted our unhappiness with their evidence and focused the report on protocols for preserving constitutional propriety. It appears from reports of the Wang affair that Police agreement on those might have been as unreliable as their evidence to the committee.” http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/?p=109 .

nicky59 My chosen field continues to disgust me. (Lawyer) Judges/JPs are corrupt (some of them – especially the JPs – ALWAYS give police the warrants they ask for), police officers routinely lie in court (to the point where most of them -with a pitiful few exceptions – can’t even tell the difference between the truth and a lie after a few years), defense lawyers routinely reveal privileged information to the police/prosecutors, or deliberately do not push a strong line of defense, to help convict their own clients (there are countless innocent men in prison BECAUSE of their own corrupt defense lawyers), most prosecutors have entirely lost sight of their obligation to withdraw charges (or ask that they be dismissed in extreme cases) when they form a reasonable belief that the EVIDENCE does not support the charge (they seem to think trials are some form of “game” that they need to “win”). posh_paws (3 ) 9:58 pm, 16 Mar 09

The NZ Police force is inherently well-resourced, funded from the public purse, and more than capable of fooling the average New Zealander, a fact that has been repeatedly proven over the years with an extraordinary volume of questionable police practices, investigations, cover-ups, prosecutions and the many innocent victims that have eventually been released from prison, but not before their supporters and advocates had experienced the Machiavellian machinations of the New Zealand police force and their well-fed Crown attack dogs.

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CAN WE TRUST THE NZ POLICE NOT TO COVER UP THEIR OWN CRIMES?
Yesterday’s bombshell report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority has exposed what Public Service Minister Judith Collins starkly described as corruption within New Zealand’s police force. On the question of whether the IPCA findings amounted to corruption, Collins was blunt: “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck”. Her assessment of the scandal was equally damning: “a total lack of leadership and integrity at the highest level.”
The whole story is an astonishing account of a police force that covers up its own extremely bad behaviour. Public trust in the police should rightly plummet. And questions about the role of all political authorities across the spectrum now need to be asked. From ministerial offices to the current top cops, there needs to be serious scrutiny about the rottenness in New Zealand’s policing.
HISTORY REPEATING: A CULTURE OF MISCONDUCT AND ERODING TRUST
Observers of New Zealand policing will recognise disturbing echoes of past controversies in the McSkimming affair. The parallels are not coincidental. They represent a persistent institutional culture that has resisted decades of attempted reform.
A decade ago, I wrote an article for the Herald on Sunday titled “NZ police are failing the public”. In it, I catalogued a litany of failures, embarrassments and injustices that had accumulated on the police’s record. I pointed to case after case where police conduct had fallen short, and trust in the institution was eroding. From high-profile wrongful convictions such as those of Teina Pora and Arthur Allan Thomas to botched investigations and mishandled sexual assault cases, the pattern was clear: police culture and structures were not adequately safeguarding integrity or public confidence.
Arthur Allan Thomas spent nine years in prison after Detective Inspector Bruce Hutton planted a cartridge case to incriminate him in the Crewe murder. A Royal Commission in 1980 concluded that police had committed an “unspeakable outrage.” Yet decades later, in 2013, then-deputy Police Commissioner Mike Bush described Hutton as having “integrity beyond reproach” at his funeral. Such incidents sent a signal that police leaders were more inclined towards cover-ups than self-policing.
Notably, my 2015 article highlighted how the police hierarchy tends to protect itself and the powerful, often at the expense of justice. One stark example was the decision not to prosecute a well-connected Cabinet Minister, John Banks, despite strong evidence of electoral fraud – a decision that “smacked of the Establishment protecting itself.” I observed that the police’s mentality seemed “more inclined to cover-ups than rigorous self-policing.”
The McSkimming saga tragically confirms that this mentality has persisted uninterrupted. The instinct at the top has been to cover up, deflect, and close ranks around a senior officer rather than rigorously investigate the allegations. It is a modern embodiment of “the Establishment protecting itself”, with a young female staffer and the public interest on the losing side.
The treatment of women and sexual misconduct complaints has been a running sore for New Zealand Police. The 2007 Commission of Inquiry led by Dame Margaret Bazley exposed pernicious problems in police dealing with women, sparked by the heroic efforts of Louise Nicholas to hold officers accountable for sexual assault. The inquiry found evidence of disgraceful conduct and a culture characterised by strong male bonding, tolerance of sexual misconduct, and a failure to hold officers accountable.
Dame Margaret was disturbed to learn there was no enforceable code of conduct for sworn police officers. The Commission concluded that certain elements of police culture – an insular culture that distrusted outsiders and fostered protection of fellow officers over accountability to the public – had reduced police’s ability to investigate complaints effectively and impartially.
The government accepted all 47 recommendations from the Bazley report and committed to ten years of monitoring. Yet here we are in 2025, facing remarkably similar failures. The IPCA’s current report could have been written in 2007: senior officers displaying an unquestioning acceptance of a colleague’s narrative, failures to investigate serious allegations, prioritisation of protecting an officer’s career over investigating potential misconduct, and attempts to manipulate oversight processes.
THE MCSKIMMING SCANDAL: ANATOMY OF A COVERUP
The facts of this case are devastating. In 2016, Jevon McSkimming, then 40 years old and a Superintendent, began a sexual relationship with a woman in her early twenties whom he met at a sporting club. He later helped her secure a job within the police. After the relationship ended, the woman began making allegations about McSkimming’s conduct.
As early as 2018, anonymous warnings appeared on social media, tagged to both Police and the IPCA, warning that McSkimming had “preyed on a young female” and made threats. These early red flags were ignored, as neither organisation had adequate systems to treat social media posts as formal complaints.
But the failure intensified as McSkimming climbed the police hierarchy. In April 2023, when Police announced McSkimming’s promotion to statutory Deputy Commissioner (effectively the second-highest ranking officer in the country) further anonymous accusations surfaced on LinkedIn, explicitly accusing him of sexual assault on a police employee, misusing taxpayer-funded resources for his affair, and threatening to blackmail his victim with intimate images. These posts were ignored by police leadership.
By late 2023 and into early 2024, the complainant sent over 300 emails to McSkimming’s police address, copying senior officials including then-Commissioner Andrew Coster, Deputy Commissioner Tania Kura, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, and Police Minister Mark Mitchell. The emails detailed allegations of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse.
Here is where the scandal becomes most egregious. In February 2024, an internal report by the Police’s Fixated Threat Assessment Centre noted that the woman’s messages raised clear concerns of criminal conduct and Code of Conduct violations by McSkimming. The report sensibly recommended referring the matter to the Police National Integrity Unit and the IPCA for investigation of McSkimming.
Instead of heeding that advice, police leadership chose to make the whistle-blower into the problem. No investigation of McSkimming was launched. Instead, police initiated an investigation into the woman herself for allegedly harassing McSkimming. In May 2024, police charged the complainant with causing harm by digital communication, effectively putting the alleged victim in the dock while positioning McSkimming as the victim. This move sent a clear signal: the priority was to protect a senior police executive’s reputation at all costs.
The woman’s lawyer, Steven Lack, describes what happened with devastating clarity: “At every stage, the Police had the opportunity to engage with her, to properly assess what she was saying, and to investigate her allegations. They could have viewed her as a traumatised victim. They chose not to. They accepted Mr McSkimming’s denials without meaningful inquiry and placed the full weight of the criminal justice system on my client for more than a year until the charge against her was withdrawn.”
ANDREW COSTER: THE COMMISSIONER WHO LOOKED AWAY
The IPCA report makes abundantly clear that this institutional failure reached the very top of the police force. Then-Police Commissioner Andrew Coster was informed by McSkimming of the affair and was receiving harassing emails. Yet Coster’s response was to protect his deputy rather than investigate the allegations.
In 2023, while serving on the interview panel for McSkimming’s appointment as statutory Deputy Commissioner, Coster failed to disclose to the Public Service Commission his knowledge of the relationship and the allegations. This failure, the IPCA found, “clearly fell below what a reasonable person would have expected.”
When the matter was finally referred to the IPCA in October 2024, Coster attempted to influence the investigation’s nature, extent and timeframe. As the IPCA report states, these attempts “were perceived by some others within Police as designed to bring the investigation to a rapid and premature conclusion so as not to jeopardise Mr McSkimming’s prospects of being appointed as the next Commissioner of Police.”
One participant at a meeting Coster convened described the pressure: “it was quite clear that he was very invested in Jevon becoming the next Commissioner.” Another officer with moral courage, Officer D, told the IPCA: “this looks like a cover-up.”
Audrey Young of the Herald offers an insightful observation today: “Coster doesn’t strike you as a bad person. Integrity is extremely important to him. Yet a good man can do bad things, even if he doesn’t comprehend it at the time.” This assessment captures something crucial about institutional failure: it is not always about individual malevolence but about a culture so deeply embedded that even well-intentioned leaders become instruments of institutional self-protection.
Luke Malpass, political editor of The Post, is more pointed in his assessment today: “Coster’s move from top cop to the top bureaucrat at the newly created Social Investment Agency now looks over. He has been placed on leave, ministers are refusing to comment, and if the tone of yesterday’s press conference was anything to go by, he no longer has the Government’s confidence. Realistically, the only conversations left will be about his exit terms.”
Collins herself said that if she were named in such a report, she would be “deeply ashamed.” The IPCA report, she noted, “speaks for itself.”
A HORRIFYING DISCOVERY
What makes this case even more disturbing is what investigators eventually uncovered. It was only during a belated vetting process for McSkimming’s bid to become Commissioner that the allegations surfaced more fully, leading to his suspension in late 2024. During the subsequent investigation, police discovered objectionable material on McSkimming’s work devices: child sexual exploitation and bestiality images that he had been accessing for at least five years.
Last week, McSkimming pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, entrusted with national law enforcement responsibilities, had been secretly accessing some of the most abhorrent criminal content imaginable while police leadership actively worked to shield him from accountability for the original sexual misconduct allegations.
This raises devastating questions: How did a senior officer access such material on police systems without detection? The entire police executive, in their unquestioning acceptance of McSkimming’s denials, never seized or forensically examined his devices. Their efforts to cover up what they perceived as a messy affair also served to protect a serious criminal in the most senior ranks of the police.
THE POLITICIANS UNDER SCRUTINY
The political dimensions of this scandal cannot be ignored. Police Minister Mark Mitchell has revealed that his office received 36 emails containing allegations against McSkimming since December 2023. However, Mitchell says then-Police Commissioner Andrew Coster directed police staff in the ministerial office to send the emails directly to his own office and not share them with the minister or his political staff.
“I am extremely disappointed that those emails were not raised with us at the direction of the then-Police Commissioner,” Mitchell told the Herald. Had he been briefed on the emails, he says he would have immediately raised concerns.
This revelation is explosive. It suggests that Coster not only failed to investigate the allegations but actively prevented political oversight by controlling the flow of information to the minister. The processes that should have protected the public interest and ensured accountability were systematically bypassed or manipulated by senior leadership.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who was Police Minister and then Prime Minister during much of this period, claimed that “nothing was ever raised about any of this” with him. While Hipkins called the failings “inexcusable,” his claim of ignorance raises questions about whether ministerial oversight of police is fundamentally inadequate or whether the police executive deliberately kept ministers in the dark.
A NEW WATCHDOG: THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE
In response to the crisis, the government has announced it will create an Inspector-General of Police, which is the strongest statutory oversight mechanism available. This new office, modelled on the Inspector-General of Defence, will have extensive powers to obtain information, direct access to police databases, and a right of entry to police premises.
This is a profound admission that the entire post-Bazley oversight framework, including the IPCA, has failed. As Collins noted, an Inspector-General would have the power to “review whatever files they choose” rather than waiting for police to refer matters. In theory, such an office could proactively audit the system, identify failures to act on internal recommendations, and immediately intervene. This is precisely what was needed in the McSkimming case.
The creation of this role represents the state’s most explicit acknowledgment that the New Zealand Police executive, when left to its own devices, cannot be trusted to police itself.
But will this new oversight measure solve the integrity problem? It is a step in the right direction, though a cautiously received one. Much will depend on the scope of the Inspector-General’s powers and their willingness to use them. If properly empowered, an Inspector-General could address shortcomings that the IPCA couldn’t. However, scepticism is warranted given how long it took to reach this point and the long history of reforms that promised change but delivered continuity.
A FEW BAD APPLES, OR A MUCH BIGGER CULTURE PROBLEM?
The narrative being crafted by ministers and the new police commissioner is one of “rotten apples” – that the failure was limited to a former police executive and does not reflect on the 15,000 frontline officers. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has emphasised that “all those in the executive who were involved in the case at the time have now left the police.”
This narrative must be challenged. The IPCA report does not describe one or two rotten apples. It describes serious misconduct by a significant number of very senior officers: the then-Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner, two Assistant Commissioners, and a Detective Superintendent. This was not an individual failure; it was the entire executive culture in action.
Sam Sachdeva of Newsroom makes a crucial observation today: “The commissioner and Police Minister Mark Mitchell were both at pains to argue the findings should not be seen as a reflection on the frontline police. Yet the report comes less than two weeks after the revelation that 120 officers are facing investigation for the alleged falsification of over 30,000 breath tests. There may be no direct connection between the events, but it’s tempting to wonder whether a police leadership team all too willing to compromise on integrity and ethics has passed on the wrong lessons to the junior ranks.”
Indeed, the breath test scandal is another damning integrity failure that has emerged concurrently. About 120 police staff are under investigation after an audit revealed over 30,000 alcohol breath tests were falsely or erroneously recorded between July 2024 and September 2025. The tests were logged without any driver involvement. Police officers across the country systematically falsifying official records. Defence lawyers say this “strikes directly at undermining the integrity of police conduct and their reliability” and could have far-reaching implications for prosecutions.
When officers see leadership protecting the powerful and punishing whistle-blowers, when they see senior executives bypass integrity systems with impunity, what lessons do they learn about the value of honesty and accountability?
As Sachdeva notes, “In the wake of McSkimming’s guilty plea for three charges of possessing objectionable material, Mitchell asked the public to not let one ‘rotten apple’ overshadow the good work of thousands of cops. An oft-used cliche, particularly when it comes to allegations of police misconduct, the metaphor has changed in meaning from its original use in the 1300s: that ‘a rotten apple quickly infects its neighbour’. The task for Chambers, and the Government, is proving that the rot is not too far gone to be fully removed.”
This isn’t a case where police have shown they are not above the law – where “the system is working.” Quite the opposite. As blogger No Right Turn argues, “It only fell apart because the perpetrator — who Coster clearly wanted to succeed him as Commissioner — had his computer searched, resulting in a sudden prosecution and conviction for knowing possession of child pornography.”
That blogger’s conclusion is stark but difficult to refute: “It’s hard to see how the organisation can retain any public confidence whatsoever after this. As other people have said, when the tree is producing this many bad apples, you don’t just throw them away one by one. You cut off the whole branch—or cut down the tree, tear up the roots, and start again from scratch. And maybe we need to do that with the police.”
THE CRISIS OF TRUST
Twenty years ago, the Bazley Commission exposed a police culture that enabled sexual predators within its ranks. The government accepted all recommendations and committed to a decade of monitoring. Yet the McSkimming case demonstrates that when tested at the highest levels, police culture reverted to its default setting: protect the powerful, silence the victim, close ranks.
Public trust in institutions is fragile. While surveys show that 69 percent of New Zealanders express trust and confidence in police, this trust will erode as the full implications of these scandals sink in. When the public sees an elite officer evade proper investigation while those who speak out are punished, it breeds cynicism and fear. It also risks deterring both ordinary citizens and honest police staff from coming forward with complaints.
The question that must be asked is this: why, after decades of inquiries, reports, recommendations, and promises of reform, does New Zealand Police continue to demonstrate the same patterns of protecting its own at the expense of victims and public accountability?
The answer lies in understanding that police integrity failures are not primarily about individual bad actors but about institutional culture and the protection of organisational reputation above all else. Until the default setting shifts from protecting the organisation to serving justice, until the instinct to shield senior officers is replaced by a commitment to transparency and accountability, the integrity crisis will continue.
The woman who tried to hold a powerful police officer accountable deserves better. The thousands of New Zealanders who have been failed by police over the years deserve better. And the dedicated police officers who uphold the values of integrity and service deserve an organisation that does not repeatedly bring shame upon them through the failures of its leadership.
The establishment of an Inspector-General is necessary but insufficient. What is required is a fundamental shift in how police understand their relationship to power and accountability. Until that shift occurs, New Zealanders are right to remain deeply sceptical about whether they can trust the police not to cover up their own crimes.
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Marnie Reid
I have an idea, instead of cctv watching everything we little people do, lets have body cams on every cop, politician, judge , lawyer… lets open up the lid on the corrupt… surely nothing to hide, nothing to fear…
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Morgan Kemp
I agree. This report is incredibly damning, and it is deeply disappointing to see this level of failure from the senior leadership of the organisation our members work within. As someone who works for the Police Association, I know how hard our frontline and support staff work every day to uphold high standards. They deserve leadership that reflects those same values. The IPCA has made it clear that the complainant was ignored, dismissed, and in effect treated as a problem to be managed rather than a person to be heard. That is unacceptable and must not happen again.
What does give me some confidence is the courage shown by Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves and Detective Superintendent Kylie Schaare, who continued to push for the allegations to be properly examined and ensured that the matter reached the IPCA. Their actions demonstrate the integrity and moral courage that the organisation should be known for.
Ultimately, the IPCA has done its job and McSkimming is neither Commissioner nor shielded from accountability. Now the responsibility sits with the “powers that be” to ensure there is structural change, stronger external oversight, and a culture where complainants are treated with an open mind, not suspicion. The establishment of an Inspector-General of Police must not be symbolic. It must have real authority to prevent exactly this type of misconduct and ensure accountability at every level.
Our members deserve a police leadership that they can trust, and the public deserves the same.
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Kevin Hester
In 2014, Graeme McCready, Penny Bright, a few others and I took it upon ourselves to Prosecute John Banks for electoral fraud, after the cops refused to prosecute him, when the evidence was blatant, that he had lied.
We won the case, that the cops wouldn’t prosecute, he was convicted and Banks received a sentence of a really nasty slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket and a week’s home detention, in a luxury apartment in Tamaki Makaurau, in other words he got off Scott free, too white and well connected, for our jails. He basically got off ‘Electoral fraud’ even when convicted, what message did that send?
In 2004 Iraena Asher went missing from Piha, after two wonderful women took her in after becoming distressed at a party where recreational drug use left her walking the streets, in a distressed state, in her underwear. The Police were called and instead of coming to her rescue, they ‘supposedly’ sent a taxi for her to the wrong address.
Others and I from Surf lifesaving NZ dived the coast looking for her body, the worst dive of my life, I searched for her, hoping not to find her, it was bizarre. The consensus in Surf is that we recover almost all people lost at sea in our region. I know no one in Surf Life Saving NZ who believes that Iraena disappeared into the Tasman sea, it pains me that only a few of us continue to seek justice for her.
Many people have ‘disappeared’ from Piha with little fanfare from the cops, there are a group of us who believe police corruption and or a serial killer, and or both has to be involved, it sounded far-fetched then but in light of this level of Police corruption, the perspective changes. There is no shortage of psychopaths on this planet who would be drawn to the Police service or the military for the cover it can provide for their nefarious behaviour. Most of what Bryce has written about Police corruption hinges on misogyny, quell surprise, not.
Not mentioned in this great piece of investigative journalism is Scott Watson, there is a very high chance that Scott is the victim of a false conviction, knowing now how corrupt our Police force may be, it would have taken only one ‘bad apple,’ to plant that one paltry hair, just like when Arthur Allan Thomas was framed by a cop with one bullet casing, Scott was convicted with one hair.
I’m sad to learn this story of Police corruption, I have a couple of mates who are cops, man, are we going to have an interesting time when I discuss this with them!
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Hugh Barlow
Excellent analysis. Sadly cowardly rottenness is a feature of just about any big organisation you can name, from corporations to churches and everything in between.
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Grant Plimmer
Mitchell and now especially Chambers & the yet to be appointed Director General have to really stand up, especially Chambers. It’s his time to shine & I’m sure he will find other road blocks of Police arrogance in front of him. But he has to push through, re-look at questionable convictions, have another look at how the mosque gun man got his fire arms licence, put to bed or not rumours of drugs around Jacinda’s partner, sort out pedo’s & miss use of Police computers & systems & sort out the breath test issue & appoint new people where required to senior roles. It’s a lot to do, but he will get support from the vast majority of the Police & the NZ Public. I remember when they had to sort out corruption in the Northern Queensland Police. It was achieved, they got rid of the bad apples.
Roche & others just need to get on & fire the people they control as well with no golden hand shakes. If they feel aggrieved make them come crawling back in court where the full facts can come out on why they are no longer in the job.
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Christine Rose
That’s damning and disgraceful. The rot exposed makes the whole institution stink
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Saman Liyanage
A very impressive and timely write up Dr Bryce. I couldn’t agree more!
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Briony Dyson
Excellent analysis.
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Tex Edwards
On par with the ANZ board described as ” grubby ” by the banking regulator
The police scandal is just easier to understand
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Pete Kaye
Lyn Andrea Chook some vindication here for what you have been writing about all these years m8
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Is it credible that both Luxton and Mitchels senior office staff who sent the emails on to police never raised any questions about them given the emails claims of sexual offending by a senior police Commissioner!
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The court judges ALWAYS assume that the NZ Police are not corrupt, & let them repeatedly breach the Criminal Disclosure Act 2008. That’s the NEXT investigation that needs to be done: WHY I got stuck in the District court from December 2O21 to February 2023, with Judges allowing corrupt police to REPEATEDLY breach the Criminal Disclosure Act, & why the courts appear to aid & abet corrupt police. And why a Police prosecutor would say to a judge, that even if we wanted to withdraw the charges, we can’t, because we under orders from a Commander, & because she has lodged a complaint with the IPCA. And WHY the judge didn’t even blink, when told to his face, that a Commander was interfering with a court case, & WHY the Officer in Charge of the case, told me when I was trying to get STANDARD disclosure from him, that he had been transferred to another region, & that the charges were withdrawn & the my lawyer should have told me. No, my lawyer did not tell me, at the court date, the Officer in Charge said I was s’pose to be told & got POACHED to work as a duty lawyer, when the court knew full well, there were no lawyers taking new clients in the region etc etc etc… And on & on, the kangaroo 🦘 court antics went with no Officer in Charge of the case…
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The Police Corruption is looongterm.
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The 2 top cops used a well oiled and practiced police process to cover up atrocious offending and persecute the victim of domestic and sexual violence by a senior officer. They had political protection for several years , while the same scandals surged through parliament surrounding the top government officials who appointed them .
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This is just the icing on the cake! if this is happening at “top level” (cover up)
imagine what is happening at ground level!
So many more stories to tell!!
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Police offending of the most abominable nature goes back decades. Currently the police are refusing to investigate historic serious sexual and other offending by police, military, public servants and foreign players. This week’s revelations pale in comparison. Time to lift the lid

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02 The SIS and the NZ Police cover-up a case of manslaughter, CONFIRMED by the offender Eric (Louisa Marie) van der Lubbe. From Detective Colin Irvine all the way to the top.

Posted in Bent Cops by Jack on 09/07/2008

THE REAL WANGANUI/NZ POLICE

YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GENE POOL, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE FOOL GENE OUT OF THE BOY.

Perverting the course of justice #2 Just prior to the 1987 general election I happened to speak to Detective Colin Irvine at a Labour Party election meeting. I asked him if he was tooled up and he said, “discretely” and he then asked me a question about my brother Eric. I don’t remember the question but I do remember replying, “Why what’s he done?” Irvine shook his head and refused to say what Eric had done. My asking about his tool/firearm must have twigged his memory. Later Eric told me that a bloke had hassled him at a night club in Wellington/Porirua or thereabouts and Eric had pulled out his privately bought pistol (he thought he was James Bond) and had frightened the hassler off with it big time. He said, bloody good job that the bloke, in a panicked rush to get away, jumped over a wall, fell several meters and sustained fatal injuries on concrete below. He also said that Irvine was involved in the investigation (cover-up) and that Irvine was a real bastard. I remember seeing an item about the incident on TV (before Eric told me about it) and that the cops were appealing for witnesses. Eric lost his firearms licence, got the sack from his flash (double-nought spy) job at the Security Intelligence Service and got away with manslaughter because the SIS and the cops, including Irvine, engaged in a conspiracy to cover up Eric’s crimes so as to save both organizations the embarrassment of having to admit that SIS had employed a pistol-packin plonker. Makes the pie and the Playboy in the briefcase scandal seem a bit lame. It’s easy to see why Irvine was so relaxed about vilifying my (nobody) name to the Ombudsman and posterity. Eric’s crimes, manslaughter, presenting a firearm, unlawful possession of a loaded and restricted firearm. Bound to be a few more charges that would have been thrown at a non protected joe blogs. —————————————————————-

I made an emailed complaint about the above to the PCA, below is the reply. PCA 1

WHAT TRIGGERED OFF THAT LETTER YOU MAY ASK, ANOTHER FALSE ACCUSATION PERHAPS? The answer is at the bottom of the page.

PCA 2 PCA 3

http://www.kiwisfirst.com/judge-file-index/high-court-justice-lowell-goddard/

Louisa ( Eric ) van der Lubbe. said, on 19/03/2011 at 2:08 am (Edit)

Wow, I’m famous at last. However, dear bro I think you ought to own up to a couple of errors on this story.

The incident to which you refer happened when I caught a petty thief trying to steal the radio from my car and when I confronted him, he threatened violence. He changed his mind very quickly when I showed him the ( unloaded ) 9mm pistol I was carrying. I had, in fact been to a gunsmiths with it to have the grips changed and was on my way home. A perfectly legal operation.

Yes, the turd did run off and jump over a wall to escape, fell about 5 metres and ( probably ) broke a leg as he was still howling his head off when I drove away. Not dead as you claim and certainly not part of a cover up by the Police/SIS.

I suppose I should have called an ambulance but I was a bit annoyed at him at the time. In hindsight I should never have told you about it as you seem to have exaggerated the whole thing and it’s consequences…which were none in fact. I never heard another thing about it. I guess the turd crawled off and is still limping..I hope so anyway. I paid a lot of money for my car stereo!

To claim there was a death and subsequent cover up is absurd. The police would have been all over me like flies on shit for two reasons.

1: They never could stand the fact that a brother of yours was involved in law enforcement and later an officer in the SIS. That was aneathema to their credo that if one member of a family is a ” crim “, so must be all the others.

2: The police despise and envy the SIS because it used to be their job ” Special Branch ” They would have used any excuse to make the SIS look bad and would have plastered me all over the front pages of the Dominion and Evening Post with ” leaked ” reports. As they did with the agent who had his briefcase stolen from his car and ” left ” conveniently in the driveway of the house of a left wing reporter for the Evening Post. He must have annoyed a cop somehow.

Anyway… I have no desire to be implicated in something of that nature by my own brother simply because it furthers your interests….another example of how badly you have treated me during my whole life.

Remember smashing up my car while I was away with the army and covering that up…shame on you. I could go on for hours with other examples but why bother you have a good memory , if no conscience.

On with the real facts.

The reason for my forced resignation from the SIS was a fabricated offence under the Firearms act..granted..but no charges were ever laid or even considered. They resulted from a complaint from a massage parlour owner who was a police informant, who was actually acting in good faith. Strange but true, the police did act correctly and in a considerate manner and I have no beef with them. They were given false info which came from a normally reliable source and I cant blame them for that. That woman had her own agenda, that of protecting ” her ” girls from potential harm. I was, unkowningly, dating one of them and she was a bit freaked out with my owning handguns, which I enjoyed using in regional shooting competitions. She thought I was a crim….lol. (perceptive lady)

The internal watchdogs of the SIS are much more effective in digging up dirt however and they put me under surveillance and they discovered I was taking counselling in preparation for a sex change. You can imagine how well that went down..” laughs”

They put a blank paper in front of me and told me to write a letter of resignation, put me on an unofficial blacklist for any govt job, ever, and showed me the door. Nothing more, nothing less.

Still, working for them was the MOST boring job I’ve ever done, so no loss. I made much better money elsewhere and didn’t need to lie about my identity anymore.

I have absolutely nothing to hide anymore and revel in my freedom. The shopping in europe is wonderful and my passport doesn’t ring alarm bells in airports.

I’m happier now than ever except in finding that you are bullshitting about me. Stop that will you?….there’s a good chap.

I never had any dealings with Colin Irvine after leaving Wanganui so he has no input in this affair whatsover. I do think he is a bent cop though.

HE did come to see me at the MOT office before raiding your house and he did fish about for info on you which I found most amusing. I know you were never a drug dealer or involved in burglaries and I’ll defend you to the hilt on that even though I have a strong personal dislike for you.

I did tell Irvine that he was barking up the wrong tree but hey, when the cops get a name they aren’t happy until they have the whole family, down to the 3rd generation, locked up. They get quite fixated…goes with having a power trip.

Jack, I’m sorry that these things are following you to this extent but you seem to revel in the muck so I’ll not try to convince you to drop it all and start a new life elsewhere…..even in as much as it has worked for me and my family here.

For the rest of you… Jack has been definately dumped on from on high, unfairly and with considerable venom, by the NZ police, some of whose members are definately corrupt. They have been shown up on numerous occasions by Jack and they really dont like that. They’ll do anything they can to get him for that, no question.

If I was in Jack’s shoes, ( which I’d hate because I prefer mauve pumps to basketball boots ) I’d have packed up and left NZ years ago and good riddance to it.

Wait… I did !….he should do the same. No earthquakes here.

Lastly…Jack..remove this falsehood from this site. It hurts me emotionally but it hurts your credibility more. I have no axe to grind with you and I thought until today that I had sucessfully removed you from my life. Do us both a favour and either edit the story to tell the truth or delete it altogether.

The ” he thought he was James Bond ” comment cracked me up though… Jane Bond is more accurate.

cheers… Louisa… your sister. :-))))

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Jack said, on 20/03/2011 at 4:10 am (Edit)

The word fantasist came to mind when I read your dribble Eric. If you lied to me about why you got the sack from the SIS that’s your lookout. I’ve written what you told me at the time and I won’t be changing a word of it.

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Jack said, on 22/03/2011 at 3:36 am (Edit)

You know if dopey Eric had kept his gob shut, stayed silent like Irvine and the SIS have done all these years, this matter would have remained inconclusive. But no, the “Wow, I’m famous at last.” fantasist couldn’t resist returning to the scene of the crime and confirmed for all to see that the “9mm pistol” incident did happen, that he was the offending gunman and that there were no “consequences” over the matter.

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“I had, in fact been to a gunsmiths with it to have the grips changed and was on my way home. A perfectly legal operation.”

If you want anyone to believe that claim give us the name and address of the gunsmith and the date you allegedly visited him or are you another one of these forgetful types?

The day before he  skipped NZ, leaving his sordid past, mounting debts and rubber cheques behind, ERIC burned his bridges with me by blaming me and my alleged criminality for his inability to get even the most demeaning “govt job.”

“They [SIS] put a blank paper in front of me and told me to write a letter of resignation, put me on an unofficial blacklist for any govt job, ever, and showed me the door. Nothing more, nothing less.”

Then, like the true coward he is, he blamed my alleged criminal proclivities for him being a penniless poser.

Hoist with his own petard!

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DEFAMATION

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