McSkimming’s and the fallacy of a ‘few bad apples’ in the NZ Police
Police watchdog scathing of former top cop Andrew Coster on McSkimming case
Other allegations about Jevon McSkimming include 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
Jesus wept, it just gets worse…
Former top cop Jevon McSkimming admits having child exploitation, bestiality images on work devices
…and worse…
Damning report into police ‘rot’ leaves uphill battle to restore trust
During his nearly five-year stint as police commissioner, Andrew Coster made much of the importance of policing by consent.
“We rely on the support of most of the community to be successful, and that depends on the way we operate and on the extent to which people feel that they can trust us and that what we’re doing is appropriate,” Coster told E-Tangata in a 2023 interview, having previously sparred with opposition MPs in defence of the concept.
It is darkly ironic, then, that Coster’s tenure will now be defined by the serious damage that he and his leadership team have done to public trust in NZ Police, after a scathing report into how the force handled claims of sexual offending levelled against disgraced former deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming.
When the alleged victim lodged three formal complaints through an online reporting portal in April 2024, she would have hoped to have her concerns taken seriously and investigated.
Instead, as the Independent Police Conduct Authority concluded, the police response was “characterised by inaction and an unquestioning acceptance of Mr McSkimming’s narrative of events” – that of a consensual affair that had ended badly and led to a campaign of harassment against him.
Not only were the woman’s allegations not properly investigated, she was herself arrested and charged with violating the Harmful Digital Communications Act, with the case only dropped in September this year.
Among those criticised by the Police Conduct Authority is Coster, who failed to disclose his knowledge of McSkimming’s relationship with the woman and the misconduct allegations when part of a panel that ultimately appointed him as a statutory deputy commissioner in 2023.
After a senior officer raised concerns in September 2024 about the failure to investigate the allegations against McSkimming through the usual police complaints process, Coster brushed them aside as anonymous and “sent from a variety of email addresses with made-up names”.
…Coster hid details of all of this from Mark Mitchell the Police Minister FFS!
McSkimming’s bestiality and child sex porn was only exposed after he was investigated for the complaint made against him, if there had been no investigation, that may never have come to light.
The cover up and the bewildering attempt to prosecute the woman who made the complaints just compound this nightmare.
The current move now is to claim, ‘a few bad apples’, but with a wider investigation of police using work devices to watch porn alongside the case of police falsifying breath tests…
Extent of police falsifying breath tests ‘unfathomable’ – employment lawyer
One of New Zealand’s leading employment lawyers says she’s never seen anything on the same scale as the investigation into 120 police officers who were involved in falsifying alcohol breath tests across the country.
Employment lawyer Barbara Buckett says the number of staff and the fact it occurred across the country points to wider problems within the organisation.
“There must be something there that police have to look to in terms of its own leadership and its own culture within the organisation, because it needs to ask some hard questions about accountability, consistency and environment which contributed to the behaviour, if it’s to this extent.
“That’s what seems to be unfathomable, the number and the geographical spread of it.”
RNZ earlier revealed about 120 staff were under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were “falsely or erroneously recorded”.
…there is a real problem inside the NZ Police.
We have pretended for a very longtime that there was no corruption in our Police Force, that illusion has been shattered this week.
I have seen Police corruption in this country, time and time and time again but even I’m surprised by the scale of this.
The danger is that we now have Cartel linked organised crime in NZ and they specialise in blackmail and using these very types of abuses of power to gain leverage over Police and Detectives.
The NZ Police force grew out of the Mounted Constabulary, their job was to protect white settlers by beating the snot out of Māori at the edge of the settlement. NZ has always turned a blind eye to heavy handed police tactics because these heavy handed police tactics kept them safe at night, but with so little in the way of genuine oversight over the cops, corruption quickly follows.
The IPCA is a joke, it is barely any scrutiny and the only reason this has exploded in the way that it has is because the cover up is so extreme there is no way for even the IPCA to fuck it up.
Real independent oversight with powers of investigation is way over due.
This is a reckoning.
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Coster is now “on leave”. Does not have the integrity to immediately resign and publicly apologize. Will be desperately negotiating a generous payout package. Knows he will never work in nz again
Sleepy H. Well actually I expected Mr Coster to apologise to all New Zealand women and perhaps resign, after the misogyny and violence meted out at Albert Park in Auckland, while cops watched at a safe distance. I expected him to be providing a report/ investigation about that. I may be wrong, but I thought that he’d undertaken to do so, but he scarpered. I’m told that he owns kiwifruit orchards, so here’s his chance to go after the high-hanging fruit this time, unless he has something lined up abroad.
” …Coster hid details of all of this from Mark Mitchell the Police Minister FFS! ”
I can’t believe that Collins or Mitchell didn’t have some idea considering their close ties to the NZP.
well they were copied into emails a year ago .I think the PM will be off on another trip overseas and leave Mitchell under the bus .
Exactly – a lot of high up people knew about this and it’s obvious they’ve been busy with a mop and bucket.
There is still a lot to play out here.
The cops aren’t the only ones that need cleaning out !
This government is rotten from the inside out !
Google “List of New Zealand Police controversies”
On Wikip, You’ll get those that hit the media but there are others.
The worst thing I ever did in life was sign the Official Secrets Act.
Best thing I ever did in life was to refuse to agree to a ‘confidentiality agreement’
lay off the drugs ya tripper
I’m really wondering how all and sundry spoke of Coster’s integrity… based on what? He certainly showed very little in this case. Not such a nice guy after all.
The poor girl who has spent all of her twenties in a gaslit nightmare. Hope her compensation package is big enough to make up for it. And for her persistence and bravery.
Lone Comet. Well said, but no compensation will ever make up for the existential nightmare inflicted upon this young woman by two rich guys protecting themselves. The best she can hope for is a peace and quiet untouched by the machinations of twisted immature morons.
What did I tell you?
https://bentcops.org/
Makes me extra skeptical of the suppression order over the Philips affair. Guys that hide crap like this cannot be entrusted with suppression powers.
Well said .
There will not be many on this site that connects the dots in the same way
There are no dots to connect, just images of shabby Kraut wandering around in his grubby y-fronts tying red string to news articles written by equally conspiratorial cretins.
There are no dots to connect, just images of shabby Kraut wandering around in his grubby y-fronts tying red string to news articles written by equally conspiratorial cretins.
Trevor Ardern also appointed Luxon, the worst PM in quite some time,as head of the business advisory council. That’s by far her biggest mistake.
Mitchell , Collins who just had no idea and the rest of your government… disaster.
Collins and Mitchell kept the prosecution against the victim going for nearly a year after they found out that McSkimming was jacking it to dogs raping toddlers. Disgusting
How would the Ministers even know of the prosecution, let alone keep it going?
And how come the IPCA report makes no mention of the alleged and very odd involvement of any Ministers in decisions to prosecute?
How trustworthy is the new commissioner and who vetted his credentials when all this was going on under every bodies nose for 9 years. Shouldn’t Mitchell resign as police minister because he didn’t like coster from the start and i wonder why that was . Police gossip like every one else could it be that Mitchell had heard about it but did nothing until he was forced to.
And noone really curious about what Mcskimming had over Coster to force a senior career officer (the most senior) to protect a sexual offender at the risk of not only his career but his freedom if found out? Not only that but recommend him as his replacement??? Something stinks and it stinks bad.
Kim. Apparently Coster and McSk were buddies, cycling mates, something like that. But one wonders what was so special about McSk that an inner cabal would pervert the course of justice to make him the next CoP.
Friendship is one thing.. risking career and freedom for one is another. No, i believe he has something criminal against Coster.. IMO anyway.
Kim. “Criminal “? I hope you’re wrong. Could be something personal which Coster prefers to keep private. Thing is, it seems to be senior police women who were determined to do the right thing, and like I intimated, it were women and women’s right to speak, who were the victims at Albert Park, so there’s a ghastly irony in this whole dreadful scenario.
Perverting the course of justice is criminal. That’s a hell of a risk for a friend. Even a good one without a damned good reason.
I wondered how long it would take for you to point the finger at Jacinda to deflect from the fact that your PM and MINISTER both knew ,and were privy to the ladies emails a year ago and did nothing .A real minister and PM would have stepped in then and dealt with this ASAP .Instead they appointed Coster to a nice new high paying job at some new bull shit ministry of fuck all .JOBS FOR THE BOYS I THINK its called .
So when is a real reporter going to grow some balls and take a deep dive into the involvement of Luxon and Mitchell along with Collins in this failed cover up .Also the appointment of Coster to Willis new ministry of Social investment was done when they knew this was going down .
Jobs for the boys right there .
Maybe Tova will. She just did the numbers on Mcskimming’s pay and payments since being suspended under very oblique circumstances of no authority willing to reveal anything.
That’s pathetic gw.
As the Coalition gets back on top GW and his mates will get more desperate to find a reason to find fault