Stuff
March 6, 2004
Police commission of inquiry advertised this weekend
NZPA
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 as
The 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.