New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) has been conducting its own investigation into police violence at the 2022 parliament anti-mandate protests.
In a press release today the party says it gained a number of WhatsApp messages under the Official Information Act, including the correspondence between the police commissioner and various politicians.
“In light of the recent McSkimming and senior Police debacle, many of these have become enlightening. They highlight the communications between Government and Police and questionable actions of both.
“McSkimming was the Deputy Commissioner promoted from Assistant Commissioner to the non-statutory role of Deputy Commissioner, Strategy and Service on October 27, 2020.
“The above OIA shows that Richard Chambers appears to have been replaced as head of the Protest Operations with Jevon McSkimming. Yet the current Police Commissioner doesn’t know what McSkimming’s role was in the protest in this latest OIA?
“On Sunday 16th of November, 2025 we sent this Whatsapp (previously obtained under OIA) we have to the current commissioner Richard Chambers with an OIA and this was his immediate response below at 1.30am in the morning.
He states:
“Also, my role was National Controller for Operation Convoy. Former Commissioner Coster put Mr McSkimming into the structure but I am unclear what his title, role and purpose was. This approach and discipline sits outside of the structure and disciplines we apply to major events. This is an aspect the IPCA report into the Parliamentary Protest Commented on.“ (See his reply below)
“The NZOFP (OIA Gained) WhatsApps cover the period that Andrew Coster created the statutory role of Deputy Commissioner, approved by Chris Hipkins with approval from the PM Jacinda Ardern. See the WhatsApp below
“Also see our recent media release Commissioner’s WhatsApp message obtained by NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party Proves Police Nepotism.
“The behaviour of Coster and McSkimming and other senior leaders during this time raises serious questions about whether their actions or influence may have impacted the decisions of police during the protest, and the thoroughness and impartiality of the investigation into the approximately 1,900+ complaints submitted to the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) regarding police violence at the mandate protests.”
Messy. Imagine what is yet to follow.
More and more Kiwis are waking up to the parliamentary corruption started and perpetuated by Helen Clark.
Key was clever so didn’t need Helen Clark to tell him to allow the great Aussie banking theft to continue, Key extracted a plumb post politics job from his clandestine support of the corrupt banks, allowing them to continue stealing $8b in excess profits off Kiwis every year.
The special needs Ardern was a god send to Helen who quickly slipped in to become Arden’s personal adviser. Under cover of covid and aided by many incredibly stupid (predominantly female) voters Clark turbo charged the corruption out to $74.4b.
And now another prominent female politician, Nicola Willis, had adopted the Clark taxpayer fraud doctrine. Willis naked corrupt support of the Aussie banking, grocery, insurance, and energy cartels is straight out of the Clark play book.
Willis late night visits to Eden Park are paying off for her but aren’t so great for Kiwis. The few good ones left in NZ are packing their bags.
Is this really what tou entered politics to achieve Upston and Stanford? Your outstanding work is all a compete waste of time, and your reputations will be forever tarnished if you dont stand up and expose the Clark, Key, Ardern, Willis, and Luxon whose complicity is inexcusable, great Kiwi fraud!
The poolice replaced by poolice to investigate poolice, lol
I have come to the conclusion that the reason people st the top get all these golden handshakes is to KEEP THEM QUIET. Our country is CORRUPT to the core. Why is Robertson at Otago? Why is Allen at GNS? So many questions to be answered!
there’s an echo
Our country is CORRUPT to the core.
Yes its everywhere mate look at our mafia council in Tauranga.
Exactly. That corrupt council has just given themselves pay rises. They pay them such exhorbitant amounts so they will shut up and keep quiet about the secret deals, conflicts of interest, etc that go on EVERY DAY. We have it here in Rotorua. Shut up and you will get the plum jobs, speak up and you are vilified. You are part of the club or you are a problem. We have several highly paid unelected bureaucrat’s working for our council who are the real cause of our city’s problems. Self serving communists. Entitled and arrogant. Couple that with iwi self interest and elitism and bingo. Houston we have a problem.
Why did the govt with the councils approval pay $8 million dollars for a piece of land worth 1 million with major engineering and environmental issues to a developer with multiple companies in liquidation? Why is this developer still able to continue to develop with these govt contracts? I will tell you what I think. THATS THE PLAN. Go belly up, sell to the govt, put it all in social housing and usually only ones who receive the housing are “special” ethnic backgrounds. And guess who is paying for it? The Hapless NZ grafting taxpayer. That’s why people are leaving this smug hermit kingdom.
Successive globalist governments of national and labour have absolutely WRECKED, destabilised and hollowed out this once fine productive country . Hell is waiting for them all.
https://www.youtube.com/@Waynes_World_View
My disgust and distrust of the police in NZ is well placed by the looks of things, as is my even greater disdain for the likes of so called Labour. I imagine Michael Joseph Savage, would be turning in his grave, if he could see what they party has become.
Please don’t vote for this lot or National (who also largely supported what transpired during COVID) next election. The system is broken and needs to be fixed.
What’s going on between Coster and mcSkimming?
oh please, that was too much of a question
nekt Q is what was going on between cindy and them
and then who was handling c
Certainly looks like there has been some kind of long-standing power struggle or dynamic (aka feud), between Coster and McSkimming on one side vs. Chambers on the other.
This is quite a good summary…
https://aniobrien.substack.com/p/rot-part-3-costers-legacy-and-the-political-fallout
Great work from NZOFP – this is why I’d rather vote for them than others
Thank you for us we dont just work in the lead up to the election we work all year round as a party to bring pressure on the Governments and have been for 15 years . Thank you for your support
Thank you. As soon as I saw Mc Skimmings name in th epress I wondered what would possibly come out about his invovement in th eactual protest as he was put in charge so to speak of the complaints which is a direct conflict of interest or seen another way sheltering from the truth.
Well done Sue and everyone else working on this .
May love be with u sall.
Thanks Sarah Thank you for us we dont just work in the lead up to the election we work all year round as a party to bring pressure on the Governments and have been for 15 years . Thank you for your support Aly NZOFP (New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party)