Disgraced former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming, who has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material, went to school in Dunedin and also trained as a teacher in the city.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old appeared in the Wellington District Court yesterday before Judge Tim Black.<\/p>\n
McSkimming pleaded guilty to three representative charges of possessing objectionable publications, namely child sexual exploitation and bestiality material knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the publication is objectionable.<\/p>\n
McSkimming grew up in Dunedin and attended John McGlashan College, where he was a day student.<\/p>\n
He then attended Dunedin Teacher\u2019s College after leaving school in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
He was believed to be involved in the student association while at the college.<\/p>\n
He did not take up teaching when he left the college and instead went to the police college in Trentham in 1996.<\/p>\n
In 2000, recently married, he was transferred to Gore from Auckland where he had first been posted, Stuff reported.<\/p>\n
While in Gore, McSkimming gained a police bronze medal after he subdued a man who had locked himself in a house, armed with kitchen knives.<\/p>\n
He then moved to Murchison in 2005 and began his climb up the police hierarchy.<\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers in a statement yesterday said McSkimming\u2019s conduct was “disgraceful and it is right he has been held to account for it”.<\/p>\n
“The outcome shows all police, no matter their rank, are accountable to the laws that apply to us all.<\/p>\n
“Mr McSkimming\u2019s behaviour was not only criminal, but goes against the core values of police.<\/p>\n
“I will not allow this to tarnish my staff, who are as appalled by this as I am.<\/p>\n
“This shameful episode has done their dedication an immense disservice.”<\/p>\n
Comm Chambers said from the moment he was advised about the circumstances he had taken it “seriously and acted on it”.<\/p>\n
“As soon as I was made aware of the nature of the material found, I raised it with the minister of police as a conduct matter to allow him to consider Mr McSkimming\u2019s position at the time as a statutory deputy commissioner.<\/p>\n
“Mr McSkimming subsequently resigned from police.”<\/p>\n
Comm Chambers also ordered a rapid review of the controls and security of police devices.<\/p>\n
“I moved quickly to remedy the gaps it identified and ordered auditing and monitoring of staff use of police devices.<\/p>\n
“We will investigate any cases of staff found to have accessed inappropriate or objectionable material and will take action where conduct falls short of standard and expectations.”<\/p>\n
Comm Chambers ended his statement acknowledging the “the outstanding work of more than 15,000 police staff across the country who work day and night to help keep our country safe”.<\/p>\n
McSkimming resigned as the country\u2019s second-most powerful officer in May amid separate investigations by the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) and police.<\/p>\n
The IPCA had earlier said it was investigating allegations of misconduct by McSkimming following a complaint from a member of the public.<\/p>\n
McSkimming made no comment as he left the Wellington District Court yesterday, refusing to answer any questions from the media. \u2014 RNZ\/Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disgraced former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming, who has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-121460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}