Allegations
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Earlier this month,
Senior Sergeant Anthony Laime Solomona of Manukau-Wiri police was found
guilty of assaulting a 17-year-old on the forecourt of a Manurewa service
station in February last year. Judge Bruce Davidson
condemned Solomona's conduct, which also included photographing a 15-year-old
boy wearing a sign that read "I am the property of Senior Sergeant
Solomona". Judge Davidson was
unamused. "The practices may be reasonably widespread, especially in the
south Auckland area. In my view, the culture is as sick as the joke," he
said. The Commissioner of
Police Rob Robinson today announced Sir David would oversee the investigation
into the culture in the Counties-Manukau Police District, assisted by
Inspector Pieter Roozendaal from North Shore Waitakere. In a statement, the
Office of the Commissioner said the investigation's terms of reference were
"to determine whether there is evidence of a police culture that
condones or encourages acts of violence or other inappropriate treatment
towards prisoners, suspects or other persons in the Counties-Manukau Police
District." |