to allow Rob Pope to reapply for his job would show her as a 'corrupt' Minister. Was it because of his, apparently best held intentions, to capture his best retirement fund options by going in 2012 or was it because of behaviour that the Minister saw as corrupt. She owes it to the public and Rob Pope to spell that out.
I personally suspect that the Minister is well aware of a pervasive and corrupt culture older than the NZ Police that has won influence for its own ends - the bros and secret hand shakers, if it is not that then Minister should put the country right on the issue. For all intents and purposes it looks like the bros are out in the cold having finally been partially exposed.
I'd also like to know from the Minister how objectively it could fall upon serving police officers with a total background in the Police Culture to somehow be equipped to remove that culture. What bloody nonsense, and what bloody nonsense for the non bros and the non corrupt to be responsible to remedy the behaviour of those higher in the tree above them. Get it right Judith the men and women of the Police didn't join to become responsible for what successive Governments have allowed and seemingly promoted. Good on you if you've worked out the core base of the corruption and are taking a scythe to it and I'm sure you don't forget those at the forefront of fighting crime and building a more inclusive and fair society - give them proper recognition and support.
The reason could have been that Pope needed to serve another few months or a year, in order to qualify for some special kind of retirement package. If she had let him stay on just to qualify and cost the tax payers money, then people might have started to look a bit to closely at why she would do that.
ReplyDeleteOf course Rob has the opportunity to clear the matter up if he doesn't believe that it would be corrupt for the current Minister to let him reapply for his job. To this point he has only observed that he is moving on to other opportunities, such, as we could imagine, which means not residing in a prison cell for example. Finally, the Minister or the deposed deputy of Police will restore their reputations on this matter.
ReplyDeleteIt said in the paper that another term would maximise Pope's retirement. But I doubt that is what is behind the 'corrupt' comment. It's more likely to be Crusher distancing herself from the corruption in anticipation of the election. Broad went with more dignity, Pope seems to be displaying a sense of entitlement. The way colleagues have leapt to his defence with a big pail of whitewash doesn't augur well for the clean-up.
ReplyDeleteAnswering skeptic. Yes Howard Broad has displayed more dignity. I don't know much about him but he's always been a good communicator in his time as Commissioner, it seems that those he has 'hand picked' have caused his reputation problems. That type of process of promotion has drawn criticism in the third report.
ReplyDeleteWith politics at play you have to wonder about the issue of Pope wanting to maximise his retirement which doesn't put him in a good light, the claim could well be a political tool played to the Minister's advantage. I recall she did something similar recently after the resignation of the ex Judge who was more or less tried in the media where she broke convention and implied that his first offer to go was too expensive thereby casting him in a disfavourable light.
Crusher has always come across as the hatchet 'man' but got no change in her efforts to get 'rid' off the ex Policeman who did an excellent job running corrections until recently when he retired on his own terms.
I don't know much about the incident in this old article, but Broad is involved, and it's a great example. It would be nice to remember what the incident was, one month prior to the article that Broad was in the hot seat over.
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