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Over an image of the PM and the escaped charges press secretary the headline reads Officials urgently investigating vetting and employment of PM's press secretary. The police deleted photographs of his phone and denied there was enough evidence to charge him. In the context of the latest revelations about the police ‘Quelle surprise’

Not urgently enough apparently. More carpets and lots of sweeping. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

can we discount the fact that things have been buried, perhaps actively by police, at this stage?

#nzpol

Former top cop Andrew Coster criticised in IPCA report on McSkimming case When police did eventually refer a woman's claims about Jevon McSkimming to the watchdog, senior police attempted to influence the investigation, a new report has found.

Now THIS is front page news. JFC.

“other allegations…he misused a police credit card, made use of police property to further a sexual relationship, and threatened to provide an intimate visual recording to other people if the woman made a complaint about him.”

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The Social Investment agency has put Andrew Coster on administrative leave while they investigate his coverup of a sexual harassment workplace issue relating to the behaviour of convicted pedophilia and beastiality collector Jevon McSkimming. But they still have a page on their website listing Coster's self-serving biography and achievements.

Maybe the "mature conversation" NZ needs to have is about the gap between rhetoric and reality with CEO and board appointments.

I sincerely hope the Victorian State Government are rethinking their appointment of Mike Bush. Heck, all Aussie states should be rethinking their recruitment of NZ cops.

Former rogue cop John Dewar jailed for company thefts John Dewar has been sent back to prison after a jury found him guilty of stealing $113,000 from a finance company he was the boss of.

Bloody grim. Police in the years since seem to have treated John Dewar as a role model rather than a cautionary tale. Louise Nicholas all over again.

Just to be clear, this is what John Dewar has been up to since covering up sexual assault by 3 of his colleagues.

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So anyone wanna ask Goldsmith and Collins about their giving police sweeping powers to crush protest and perform previously illegal surveillance in light of *gestures* ?

At what point do we publicly accept that NZ is deeply corrupt and the only reason why we don’t have a culture of direct payoffs and bribery (that we cite as the evidence for us not being corrupt) is because it’s not needed? The boys club gets what it wants through people playing their social roles.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Chris Hipkins misrepresented what Tamatha Paul said. She knew exactly what she was talking about.

Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.

And the ones taking random photos of mostly Maori kids

and the 120 that were caught falsifying 30k breath tests. And harassing people at funderals. And the auckland cop that was a gang informant. There's never a reckoning.

If we need to have any mature conversation in this country, how about a mature conversation about how police need to be held to a far higher standard than other people which includes any allegations being taken extremely seriously?

Govt drops victim advocate Louise Nicholas: 'It's back to battle we go' Govt may be scrapping Louise Nicholas' role supporting victims of sexual violence.

And the Government dropped Louise’s contract in 2020. I’m wondering if they were worried she was about to find out www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

And the police commissioner says:
"The absolute worst outcome of this would be if anyone did not feel safe in reporting sexual assault to Police, or did not think Police would listen and investigate thoroughly.

I want to reassure you that is not the case."

Yeah, right.

'Inexcusable conduct': Police Commissioner says lack of leadership over McSkimming Richard Chambers says today's IPCA review into the McSkimming complaints found inexcusable conduct by former senior police leaders.

Louise Nicholas reported her assault in 1993.

32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.

Complete 100 percent vindication of Tamatha Paul for expressing why many people have been skeptical about the police.

Meanwhile, Chris Hipkins appointed this creep while he was PM, and instinctively jumped in to defend the police's integrity...

This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.

When they say they're going to "roll out" a new drug test to they really just mean "we're going to make up a bunch of results"?

An anti-regulation gun lobbyist changing the law to put herself in charge of the nation's firearms regulator what could possibly go wrong

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[Medieval monastery]

Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?

Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.

Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?

Me: lol yeah

Hipkins calls for more robust vetting after it failed to identify McSkimming's behaviour The Labour leader says it is "unacceptable" that former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming's behaviour was not picked up in vetting for the role.

Has anyone asked the question - why was McSkimming able to obtain child pornography and bestiality images from Goolge searches? Google shouldn't even be returning those results. How's that AI detection going, eh?

#nzpol

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Both of these elephants have got themselves stuck under children's playground equipment. They'll be absolutely fucking useless going over the Alps.

Only one of these things has The Post deemed worthy of front page coverage.

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If our dogshit judges thought publishing the name of this pedo friend of David Seymour's would cause issues for future trials they'd be rolling out suppression orders. They didn't. Jago's name should be published. End of.

This makes sense until you consider how these same outlets approach anything involving prominent brown wāhine politicians.

I wonder why pale stale male presidents of the ACT Party without name suppression get an abundance of caution approach we don't see journalists exhibit elsewhere?

Hell of a lot of people saying "haha tankies" and not a lot of people saying god damn that sucks for queer people in China who just want to live their lives and get laid.

Cool how government and council are supposed to 'run like a business' but when they do normal business-type things like staff training that includes lunch, having work functions and providing coffee for employees those are suddenly WASTE!!!!