Senior cops who exposed the McSkimming police ‘cover-up’ revealed
Standing at the podium inside the Beehive’s theaterette after acknowledging there had “interference at the highest levels of police” in relation to a woman’s accusations of sexual assault by former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers acknowledged a group of police officers who “did stand up and challenge what was happening here”.
“I thank them for their courage, for the leadership and the integrity they showed in doing so.”
The IPCA’s report also dedicates section to several police officers under a heading ‘Officers who displayed commendable integrity and moral courage’.
The courageous Police prepared to speak up should be saluted.
I am still astounded that information was specifically hidden from Mark Mitchell.
Mark Mitchell as the Police Minister is our civilian oversight of te Police force, that this scandal was hidden from him is shocking.
I am no fan of Mitchell, but I think he has really shone in this crisis.
His denouncement and anger is righteous.
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The cynic in me says come back in five (ten?) years and see how the whistle-blower’s careers have gone.
The optimist in me hopes they’ll go well. . .
Not so fast, Martyn.
In his address to parliament on Wednesday, Mitchell was at pains, excessively so, I thought, to detail the dates of events, as if establishing in advance that he was a Sergeant Schultz in the drama: “I know nothing . . . nothing!”