The answer to that question, obviously, isn’t the Independent Police Complaints Authority……
‘Shamed cop given plum London job
The Dominion Post has a copy of the secret September 2009 IPCA report into a string of complaints laid by former policeman Dave White about the 2005 arrest of Mrs Teokotai, his mother-in-law.
The IPCA did not make public its findings because the authority deemed them not of sufficient public interest.’ source
This is no isolated case and there’s a growing perception that the police and judiciary in this country are a law unto themselves, or at least not as accountable as we serfs. High-ranking public servants who misbehave are almost always simply shuffled sideways into another lucrative position after a suitable time has elapsed and this is trumpeted as “disciplinary action”. When the public is allowed to know anything at all, that is. The perception of NZ as a country almost free of corruption is utterly wrong -it’s just that the ruling bureaucratic class and the media have a generally cozy relationship and the public is too damn lazy and apathetic to care.
