Allegations of Abuse
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Public
notices calling for submissions and comment on the Commission of Inquiry into
Police Conduct are to appear in newspapers this weekend. The
Government set up the commission to inquire into police conduct and procedure
when receiving and investigating allegations of sexual assault made against
members of the police or their associates. Police
standards and codes in relation to police personal behaviour including sexual
conduct will be included in the inquiry, the Department of Internal Affairs,
which is co-ordinating the setting up of the inquiry, said in a statement
yesterday. The
Government announced last month that the inquiry would be carried out by High
Court judge Justice Bruce Robertson and former senior public servant Dame
Margaret Bazley. It
was set up following allegations by Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas that police
assistant commissioner Clint Rickards, who has been stood down from his job
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three men strenuously deny the allegations. Another
woman, Judith Garrett, later claimed she had been raped by a Kaitaia police
constable in 1988. Internal
Affairs said information on the commission and its terms of reference could
be found at www.cipc.govt.nz.
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