{"id":75140,"date":"2025-11-12T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/new-zealand-police-sex-case-findings-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:39:52","slug":"atrocious-on-every-level-sex-case-findings-shame-new-zealands-senior-police-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75140","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Atrocious on every level\u2019: sex case findings shame New Zealand\u2019s senior police culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspector general will be inaugurated to oversee service after report on how top officers steered investigation of Jevon McSkimming, who went on to become deputy commissioner<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government will take the unprecedented move of appointing an inspector general of police after a damning report found \u201csignificant failings\u201d in the way senior police officers handled serious sexual complaints against a former high-ranking officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipca.govt.nz\/download\/169325\/11%20November%202025%20-%20IPCA%20Public%20Report%20-%20Review%20of%20Police%20handling%20of%20complaints%20against%20Jevon%20McSkimming.pdf\">a 135-page report<\/a> on Tuesday detailing allegations made against the former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming and the police\u2019s response to them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/new-zealand-police-sex-case-findings-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspector general will be inaugurated to oversee service after report on how top officers steered investigation of Jevon McSkimming, who went on to become deputy commissionerNew Zealand\u2019s government will take the unprecedented move of appointing an ins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75141,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75140\/revisions\/75141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}