Media releases 2025

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that Police in Hawkes Bay unlawfully entered a house to arrest a man for breaching bail.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found three officers were justified in tasering a man who was chasing a woman and baby with a sharp weapon in Wellington on 9 January 2025.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer who was involved in a driving incident while off duty and subsequently used the Police database to obtain information and contact the other driver, failed to recognise that he had a conflict of interest.

In a report released today, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found significant failings in the way in which senior Police responded to serious complaints made against Jevon McSkimming in 2023 and early 2024.

The complaints, formally referred to the IPCA on 10 October 2024, included allegations of sexual interaction without consent, threats to use an intimate visual recording, and misuse of a Police credit card and Police property to further a sexual relationship. Some of the complaints alleged criminal conduct, while others alleged behaviour constituting a potential breach of the Police Code of Conduct.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police officer was justified in shooting a man who fled from Police and then attempted to carjack vehicles at gunpoint in Auckland on 27 September 2023.

We have completed our investigation into Police handling of complaints against Jevon McSkimming. Other aspects of our investigation are ongoing.

Tomorrow we are releasing our report in confidence to a very limited audience. There is no public release at this time due to ongoing Court matters.

We will not make any further comment.

At about 3.00am on 17 September 2023, two Police officers in Hamilton engaged with a 17-year-old man who was in a car. The officers used legislation incorrectly when they took his car keys.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that the force used by a Police sergeant and a custody officer to restrain a detainee within the Auckland Custody Unit on 18 January 2022 was unjustified.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that Police at Auckland were justified in detaining a man although they relied on the wrong power of arrest.