Newstalk ZB
Monday, 24 May 2004 (b)
Commission hears rape complaint procedures
Police procedures
for handling rape complaints have been outlined at a hearing of the Commission
of Inquiry into Police Conduct.
The commission is sitting in
It was established following allegations by Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas that
three officers pack-raped her in 1986.
Superintendent Dave Trappett, the national manager of
planning and policy for the police, told the hearing a 1980 instruction
confirmed that officers committing criminal offences should not be treated
differently to the general public.
Investigators were also to use the same skills in those circumstances as in any
general criminal investigation.