The executive director of the Firearms Safety Authority Angela Brazier, has been cleared of misconduct after an employment investigation linked to disgraced former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming.
The investigation, led by Kristy McDonald KC, found it would have been prudent for Brazier to disclose that McSkimming was receiving harassing emails and that police were investigating them when she gave a reference to the Public Service Commission during his 2024 bid for interim police commissioner.
However, the report concluded shortcomings in the commission’s shortened seven-minute reference process — including no warning to provide full disclosure, no follow-up questions, and no advance notice of the interview — meant her conduct did not amount to misconduct or bring police into disrepute. Deputy Commissioner Mike Pannett accepted the recommendation and confirmed no further action was required.
Brazier, who is retiring in April after more than 20 years in senior police roles, told state media the investigation was a waste of taxpayers’ money and criticised police for not publicly confirming she had been cleared.
She said the process had affected her health, reputation and career prospects, and argued the reference check was conducted too quickly to allow proper reflection. McDonald’s report also highlighted that the Public Service Commission relied on a shortened vetting process because McSkimming had already undergone full checks when appointed deputy commissioner in 2023, with only three nominated referees consulted. The commission has since changed how reference checks are conducted and provided further interviewer training, while two other employment investigations arising from the same Independent Police Conduct Authority recommendations remain ongoing.
Recently I don’t believe anyone has much confidence in NZ police headquarters. Hard to get that back. Suspect this generation never will.
I dont think checks and balances will work as well as a complaint process direct to the minster of police. Anything less is police investigating themselves.
If you have ever been involved with being on the end of police corruption you will truly understand just how soft landing the police complaints authority is.
The police complaints authority are overly generous towards police. Everything from not investigating to early retirement. It is rare for police to be held accountable to the same level as the very citizens they claim to serve. A bit like a discount if you are an employee.
You might think what on earth happened to me to write something so harshly. My complaint is a detective who was caught out on a number of things including switching and withholding evidence. Perjury in court.
Found not guilty but just too time consuming to pursue justice, proper punishment. All you are left with is a wrecked life, wrecked reputation and relationships, lawyers to pay off by selling your home and other belongings. To start again in another city.
I don’t hate police. Just one member of police and the soft approach to the serious crimes they commit.
A fish rots from the head down as this obvious coverup demonstrates.
NZ needs a new honest centre right political party thanks to immoral, dishonest thieves Luxon, Peters, and Seymour, Willis, Watts, Simpson, Hipkins, McAnulty, Davidson, Swarbrick, and the Irish clowns posing as Maoris.
Voters, academics, and business people; who are currently being ripped off even more than usual by the Aussie petrol and diesel cartel, need to get behind a new party. NZ Loyal appears to be the best of the existing parties so get involved, check them out, and if you have the skills, time, and money, give them a hand.
If you find out NZ loyal, isn’t all they present (I only know what i read on web sites), then start a new credible party…… NOW!
Before more of our children are murdered for a $34 million payment from Gates.
Political Parties are the problem, as they owe their allegiance their ‘owners’ and not the voters. All Parliaments are Church Parliaments. This goes back to the Magna Carta, where King John gave the Roman Catholic Church the ‘rights to free elections’ which evolved into Westminster Parliament/House of Lords. Church parliaments are controlled by the military orders of the Roman Catholic Church ( Knights of Malta/Jesuits). In our case this is under the guise of “The New Zealand Company”. This whole ‘stacked’ house of cards needs burning down. We are sovereign individuals with inalienable rights, not corporate citizens/subjects/commonors to be used and abused by a corporate church state.
Ah yep, the NZ Police Force.
Sinister, creepy, bent, corrupt and mostly masonic.
Best just avoid them if at all possible. Not easy obviously.
No idea what this story is about.
In fairness they both look like vile repugnant wronguns.
These days, when it comes to our ‘public servants’, I assume guilt until proven innocent.
Lest we forget, Jevon McSkimming is an evil depraved kiddy-fiddler who was let off lightly by our corrupt ‘justice’ system.
“It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in it!” – George Carlin
Putting all of this aside, the simple solution globalist government wont take, is to have a wholly independent organisation tasked with overseeing police conduct. Body camera’s on front line staff should also be compulsory. Like China, sentences for police found guilty of a crime, should be substantially tougher, based on the wholly valid point that they know the law better, than the average person and moreover, the accepted responsibility for upholding it.