Former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster has resigned as chief executive of the Social Investment Agency following the damning Independent Police Conduct Authority report into police handling of sexual offending allegations against former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming.
Coster, who was stood down after the report’s release, tendered his resignation on Wednesday.
Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche confirmed his immediate departure, noting that while the IPCA found no evidence of corruption or an intentional cover-up, it identified significant leadership failures within the organisation Coster led.
Ministers Judith Collins and Nicola Willis both said Coster made the right call, with Willis adding that police actions under his leadership had “fallen far short of acceptable standards”.
Coster, who became the Social Investment Agency’s chief executive in November 2024 after leaving the police, accepted responsibility for the systemic failures identified in the report. He was appointed Commissioner of Police in April 2020 on the recommendation of the government, with then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announcing the selection and praising Coster’s leadership qualities. Coster served in that role until 10 November 2024, when he transitioned to a role as Secretary for Social Investment.
Will we get to see pending prosections for some of the heinous actions he ordered during the covid scam?
Will we get to see “Coster’s last stand?”
Yes let’s look into everything disgusting that happened while he was “in charge”. Also no corruption? PFFFFFTTT
The problem is the corruption starts at the top
Willis adding that police actions under his leadership had “fallen far short of acceptable standards”.
Why then did Willis employ Coster in her department?
Who will be prosecuted for hiring a police commissioner who:
– didn’t have the experience,
– didn’t have the backing of police staff,
– aided and abetted criminal enterprise with policing by consent?
– didn’t find, arrest. and deport convicted drug dealer Sroubewck.
– attempted to limit the scope of the IPCA investigation, protecting McSkimming’s position.
We knew Coster fell short of standards 5 years ago yet bizarrely Willis rehired him in her social investment agency??
FAFO – this keeps getting better and better, now we just need to get rid of his disgusting relative that gave him the job in the first place!
Does this bode well for Barry’s case being dismissed then???
Sure hope so!
Well well well.
At least Coster was man enough to say he got it wrong , that other one who highly praised him , the vainglorious one,she just fled and filled her pockets ..
He is full of it. I don’t believe he didn’t look into acusations about Mcskimmings.
Just covered for him in my opinion. Gels better with his ways of operating. Like NOT saying to the government of the day, ‘we will watch the protestors, but we won’t move them until you politicians have come out to address their concerns”
Would have been so simple and avoided the nasty outcome that was.
Willis needs to clean up her own backyard
Abysmal performance
Related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZewaNBkxk
Plenty of jobs out there that don’t GAF if you are a Pedos assistant.
Ohhh.
poor Coster.
Rest assured, he will receive a golden handshake and wizz…bang…off abroad for some woke appointment.
I’ve cried enough.
GITMO? Is my guess for him.
Exactly- disgusts me beyond belief
Good riddance…..
Good. I hope there is no golden handshake for him, bad enough he has been getting $1500 a day since he was stood down.
About time, no moral compass
Ardern sure knew how to appoint some absolute doozies.
The list of dodginess is massive and growing by the day.
I guess that’s what happens when you base your staff on DEI requirements and “suckuptiness” not qualifications.
I wonder if she still keeps in contact with him from her self imosed overseas hide out?
The uncovered McSkimming affair showed us morally corrupted people are at the highest level at the Police.
The two high-ranking Police members who visited McSk while he was under investigation and prior to charges being made showed us they behave with unaccountibility and now impunity.
Coster showed us these corrupt members are an Institutional Class within the Police; by protecting McSk for many years.
The Crown Prosecutors Office who railed against McSk whistle-blower to silence her showed us the Crown protects this Class of Police.
We are told the vetting process for the high-rank within the Police is secret. Are we talking secrete society stuff? Does it extend to high-level within the Crown? All of this is deeply concerning.
In the clear?
Some good points made in the comments…
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2025/12/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis_4.html