Comrades
I appreciate we are a shallow settler nation with all the cultural maturity of a can of day old coke-cola and that most of our attention is being spent pretending Fuck Boy Island isn’t a pus filled hate wound of exploitation, but I fear that an event has occurred that hasn’t really been given the due consideration that it perhaps deserves.
Tom Fitzgerald has quit.
I know, I know, I know.
I know you are going to respond, ‘Bomber, there’s no such contestant on Fuck Boy Island”.
I know.
Tom wasn’t on Fuck Boy Island, I’m not talking about Fuck Boy Island anymore, I’m talking about the real world and in the real world, Tom Fitzgerald quitting is turning my blood cold and as a citizen, you should deeply give a fuck about that.
Tom Fitzgerald is NZs top Police Detective and in the wake of the miscarriages of justice of Peter Ellis, Alan Hall and Teina Pora, he has quietly quit.
He has quit right after he had created a new police interrogation tactic that saw Police lie and manipulate false confessions out of criminals.
These false confessions have led to the Courts throwing the cases out.
Fitzgerald originally claimed it was the Police who had fucked up using his system when in fact Fitzgerald was present and monitoring the interrogations from a seperate room while they were occurring…
Top cop intimately involved in interviews that led to false murder confession
The architect of a controversial interviewing method had intimate oversight of its use in a case where a false confession was extracted from a murder suspect.
A High Court judge said detectives trained in the Complex Investigation Phased Engagement Model (CIPEM) misled the man, and “manipulated” him to make a confession that was “very flawed” and “not credible”.
Detective Superintendent Tom Fitzgerald, who is the officer in charge of the police’s national crime group, and who created CIPEM, previously said any issues were the result of mistakes by the detectives who questioned the suspect, not a flawed model.
He wouldn’t discuss the extent to which he was involved in the interviews, which were conducted as part of Operation Archer – the investigation into the 2016 murder of Upper Hutt woman Lois Tolley.
Stuff can now reveal that Fitzgerald helped plan the suspect’s interviews and watched them unfold from an adjacent room – offering advice and direction to the two detectives as required.
…look, if you want to have cosy fireside chats with criminals and that helps get information and prosecutions, hey, that’s smart Policing, but what we have here is a process that has clear breaches of good faith law, is in fact illegal and allows for huge periods of time where the fucking camera or recording devices are switched off.
How the Christ can we have any certitude that there isn’t something untoward occurring when the cameras and audio get switched off? The fact that Fitzgerald originally claimed his interview process wasn’t correctly followed by the Detectives and that was the reason the case fell over simply isn’t fucking true! Fitzgerald was there coaching the fucking Detectives the whole fucking time!
Look, you can’t have a Police interview process that generates false or illegal confessions! If all we are trying to do is set people up and convict them of crimes we force them to confess to, that’s not a fucking legal process, that’s a gulag! How have the NZ Police managed to get away with this with so little media attention and how often is this interview process now being used? Are we going to see a sudden spike of mistrials because the Police have adopted a rigged interview process?
BTW – you all know that Fitzgerald was the Detective in charge of the Scott Watson case right? The OTHER big legal case in NZ that most believe was also a miscarriage of justice!
You all know Fitzgerald used Prison narks to get that conviction right?
Why is it that our mainstream media can spend so much time on Aaron Gilmore, ram raiding teens and Fuck Boy Island, but almost no focus on a NZ Police force that are drunk on their own power and are consistently framing people for crimes they didn’t commit?
What the fuck is going on in this country?
If we had a functioning Fourth Estate, the cops would be getting chewed out nightly on Seven Sharp and The Project, what was Jeremy doing this week?
Why he was getting a manicure.
This is why we can’t hold the powerful to account, our fourth estate guard dogs are lap dogs to mediocrity.
You can all go back to Fuck Boy Island now you sheep, we are a nation of easily distracted imbeciles.
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“How the Christ can we have any certitude that there isn’t something untoward occurring when the cameras and audio get switched off?” Short answer we cannot. Police has a toxic culture that makes it’s officers believe they are above the law, this frequently leads to the most toxic and destructive hubris in which the circumstances of an allegation are (re)shaped to fit an individual upon whom Police have made the moral judgement of guilt. The person who has faith in the New Zealand Police is a person who has had not direct dealings with them. Keep speaking truth to power Bomber.
Rob Pope headed the Sounds murder investigation.
Hasn’t this shit been happening since the Detective’s Hutton and Johnston shenanigans in the AA Thomas days?
He’ll be sniffing around MBIE looking for a feed before you know it. And Ministers will be “comfortable” with it if and when he does
Grieve Martyn, let your tears nourish your soul.
Well that’s interesting. My neighbour is a disgraced senior Northland copper, who got pinged by IPCA for threatening a suspect with a beating if he did not cough, Mr plod thought he had turned the video off, heh, and he did, but not the sound recording function!
And he has more recently been done for leaning on a prosecutor to drop an assault charge against his business partners teenage son.
Nasty Macho culture still in the NZ Police.
“NZ Police force that are drunk on their own power and are consistently framing people for crimes they didn’t commit”
Isn’t that the truth, from minor traffic offences to murder investigations, the lie, or misleading police statement, is the most well worn implement in the policing toolbox.
…the OTHER big legal case in NZ that most believe was also a miscarriage of justice!”
I don’t know that “most’ people think there was a miscarriage in the Sounds murder case. Maybe some but not most, simply because “most” people don’t give a damn either way.
I believe it. The evidence is compelling about the boats
Thanks Martyn. Cops need gopros on their vests 24/7 when on duty. Can’t get away with BS policing with sound plus audio. They’re the biggest gang in NZ and as such need monitoring. I’m certain there are countless wrong convictions. Police lie, bully and injure innocent people and get away with it. I’ve witnessed this myself. There are more than “a few bad eggs” in their gang and they need to sort their shit out. With the power they wield they need to sort the control freaks from decent people. Starting with a four year degree before the usual tiny term at police college. Ethics and people skills should be right up there in their studies. Bloody uneducated morons speeding around creating “better work stories” otherwise. Meh
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