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Suspended police Assistant
Commissioner Clint Rickards could be forced out of the force by a new
non-criminal claim that he had intercourse with a woman on the bonnet of a
police car in 1983. The claim was one of the
"employment issues" being investigated by police, who refused to
reinstate Mr Rickards after his acquittal on sex charges, the New Zealand
Herald reported. The paper said the investigation
into police sex offending, described by Mr Rickards as a
"shambles", was understood to have uncovered damaging allegations
against him. The allegations did not have a
criminal element "but certainly, from a moral perspective, Mr Rickards
is not going to want it getting out", the newspaper said. Mr Rickards and former police
colleagues Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were found not guilty of historic
kidnapping and indecent assault charges on Thursday. He had been on suspension for
three years and after the verdicts said he wanted to return to work as His lawyer, John Haigh, QC,
refused to comment about the claim of car bonnet sex. A year ago the three men were
found not guilty of sex charges against Louise Nicholas. Shipton and Schollum are serving
8-½ and eight-year sentences respectively for the rape of a The car bonnet sex allegations
could be used by the police to force Mr Rickards out, the newspaper said. Police regulations prohibit
disgraceful conduct tending to bring discredit to the police. |
