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Concerns About Accuracy Of Information Relied On For Police Vetting
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 10:52 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that Police officers who visited a man at his home on two occasions should have taken contemporaneous notes at the visits rather than after the event. The Police Vetting Service later relied on the ... More >>
Force Used On Youth Justified But Treatment While In Custody Inadequate
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 10:47 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found Police were justified in using force during the arrest of a 14-year-old girl in Christchurch. However, her care while in custody was inadequate. On 27 July 2022 at approximately 2.30am, the girl ... More >>
Punching Of Woman In Auckland Unreasonable
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 10:16 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer in Auckland used unreasonable force in punching a woman to the head, after she bit his arm. On 8 April 2022, the officer arrested the woman for breach of bail conditions. She was handcuffed ... More >>
Youth Kicked And Punched After Fleeing From Police
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 10:25 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that two officers were justified in striking the driver of a stolen car while attempting to extract him from the driver’s seat. However, it has also found officers kicked and punched the driver after he ... More >>
Inspector Breached COVID-19 Health Order
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 10:21 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that, on 5 September 2021, an Inspector from Tāmaki Makaurau personally breached the COVID-19 Health Order by taking a group of people across the border in a Police vehicle to attend a tangi. ... More >>
Force Used Justified To Arrest A Man In Matapu Taranaki
Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 10:51 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority found that officers were justified in using force, during the arrest of a man (Mr X) in Taranaki. However, we found that an officer was not justified in shooting at the tyres of Mr X’s moving motor vehicle. On 18 ... More >>
Force Used In Palmerston North Arrest Justified
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 11:00 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that two officers were justified in using force against a man who was resisting arrest. One officer punched the man in the head and wrestled with him on the ground, and a Police dog ... More >>
Use Of Police Dog To Arrest A Youth In Hamilton Justified
Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 12:29 pm | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police dog handler’s decision to use his dog to apprehend a 15 year old male was justified. In the early morning of 6 June 2022, a member of the public phoned Police after hearing ... More >>
IPCA To Review Police Response To “Let Women Speak” Event In Albert Park Auckland On 25 March 2023
Thursday, 20 July 2023, 9:29 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Authority has decided to conduct a general review of the Police response to the “Let Women Speak” event in Albert Park, Auckland on March 25. The Authority received 162 complaints about policing of the event. Of these, 34 were from people ... More >>
Force Used To Arrest Man In Palmerston North Justified But Search While In Custody Inadequate
Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 10:42 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer was justified in using force during the arrest of a man in Palmerston North, but that officers failed to adequately search him when later in custody, which enabled the ... More >>
Death Of Jaye Taueli While In Police Custody
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 10:00 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has concluded that officers in Counties Manukau Custody Unit failed to recognise Mr Jaye Taueli was losing consciousness while in a restraint chair. This led to a delay in calling an ambulance to provide ... More >>
Injury Caused By Poor Restraint Technique Causes Broken Arm
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 10:09 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a woman’s arm was broken during her arrest as a result of an officer using a poor restraint technique. Police were called to a disturbance in central Hamilton in the early hours of 9 July 2022, ... More >>
Unjustified Use Of Police Dog
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 11:06 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police dog handler’s decision to command his dog to restrain a woman who was hiding in bushes was not justified. On the night of 4 October 2022, Police followed a car that had been driven ... More >>
Use Of Force Against Man In Christchurch Justified
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 10:15 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that Police officers were justified in using force against a man who advanced on them with a knife in Rolleston, Christchurch, on 26 November 2021. Earlier in the day the man had stolen two vehicles, been pursued ... More >>
Use Of Police Dog In Respect Of Two Men In Whanganui
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 10:22 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police dog handler was not justified in using his dog to bite a man who was resisting arrest but was justified in using the dog against a second man who threatened Police. At a Whanganui suburb ... More >>
Police Shooting In Southland Justified
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 10:19 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police officer was justified in shooting a man who tried to stab him with a knife in Dacre, a rural area near Invercargill, on 19 March 2022. Police had information that the man had seriously ... More >>
Police Failed To Respond To Alleged Sexual Assaults Against Recruits
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 10:17 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
he Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that Police failed adequately to respond to multiple allegations over a 15-year period that a Police Medical Officer sexually assaulted Police recruits. In 2019, the Authority received two separate ... More >>
Decision To Shoot Tangaru-Noere Turia Not Justified
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 10:06 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that a Police officer was not justified in shooting Mr Turia outside a house in Papatoetoe on 25 February 2021. The Authority has found, on the balance of probabilities, that the officer’s ... More >>
Force Used On Youth In Tokoroa Justified
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 9:54 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer was justified in using force during the arrest of a youth, Mr X, in Tokoroa. At about 5.00pm on 29 May 2022, Mr X, aged 16 years, was driving a car north through Tokoroa. Due to ... More >>
IPCA Release Findings Of Review Of The Policing At Parliament Protest And Occupation
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 11:05 am | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has today released its review of the policing of the protest and occupation at Parliament in February and March 2022. Overall, the Authority found that Police served the public of New Zealand well in dealing ... More >>
