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Coster denies knowledge of ’email-redirection protocol’

Andrew Coster speaking during a televised interview amid controversy over redirected McSkimming emails.

Former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says he had “absolutely no idea” staff were allegedly instructed to divert emails about former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming away from Police Minister Mark Mitchell’s office, despite Mitchell claiming 36 such emails were withheld from him under a protocol set by police.

Coster, who resigned as head of the Social Investment Agency after a damning IPCA report on the McSkimming case, told state media’s Q+A he first learned of the alleged protocol only after the report’s release, insisting police staff could not have intercepted ministerial emails.

He referenced a recently discovered file note showing discussions between ministerial services and his office in early 2024, directing emails to Deputy Commissioner Tania Kura, though he said he did not know why the note was created retrospectively.

Police later confirmed the note’s details and said it was typed up in November 2025 to create a digital record. Mitchell responded that Coster’s denial was “unfathomable,” claiming multiple police staff had verified the protocol originated from Coster’s office and that ultimate responsibility rested with him.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. After Christchurch nothing would surprise me
    What we are dealing with is an ingrained mentality and culture of pervasiveness
    This country has baggage
    Problems don’t go away
    Nothing pervades light
    The truth will come out

  2. I just watched a clip about tue decline of the UK. Corrupt politicians and Rupert Murdoch lied to the UK citizens and convinced them to commit brexit harikari for the benefit of a small clique of business criminals.

    NZ is following the same path. H Clark initiated large scale Political corruption has spread throughout the public service, ruining the NZ economy, stopping quality export earning companies setting up in nz, and sending large export dollar earning manufacturing companies, which operated successfully in nz for decades, scuttling off to less corrupt countries.

    Luxon, Seymour and Peters have one year left to show Kiwis that are not just country ruining NZ equivalents of the brexit criminals

    If they dont the current flood of young talented kiwis fleeing will turn into a torrent!

    • If you are not already convinced National and co need to go, well, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Labour in my view, are every inch as bad, because both embrace globalism without hesitation. As for corruption, NZ has been rotten for decades, its just more obvious these days because of the internet and social media, a vehicle for exposing corruption to large audiences, quickly. Just watch as they try to censor it, under the pretext of “safety”.

      • There is only one party
        Changed around every so often so as to maintain the illusion of democracy
        And that Your vote counts
        NZ is a Corporation
        Its all Jewish folks
        And starts at the RBNZ
        It all started in 1962 with the signing of the ‘International Finance Agreement’

    • Where does that leave Nigel Farage and Reform?
      Out of the frying pan into the fire
      Farage is just another fly by nighter political shyster with no answers
      Who was deeply implicated in Brexit
      The UK is kaput
      Farouked

  3. Coster is teasing out that they all knew about McSkimming.

    Mitchell is behaving like this is serious enough to bring him down.

    Meanwhile twenty police staff investigated over ‘misuse and inappropriate content’ and six charged criminally.

    It appears the problem is much bigger than just McSkimming and they all knew.

  4. Yep… the good ol’ Masonic Lodge hard at work hiding and deflecting information that could be (and is) detrimental to one of their own..! Damage control only goes so far before the ship is lost…
    They DO lie in the Courts as well!
    America failed in 1913, then again in 1941, 1947, 1953, 1963, 1968, 1990, 2001, 2021, and finally in 2024.
    More failures are on the way…economically, politically, socially and spiritually!
    And behind it all: ZIONIST KHAZARIANS POSING AS J3W$..!

    • Yes we are headed for a global monetary crisis and reset
      The NZ dollar will plummet
      Interest rates will rise
      Imports will become more costly
      Exporters will be exporting into already saturated markets

  5. Al l this rot started right at the top. They talk about Hipkins being in the know, but never Ardern. She is totally untouuchable. Protected by freemason society, WEF and all the rest. Cant taint her .

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