{"id":253367,"date":"2026-01-27T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:46:09","slug":"police-announce-jill-rogers-as-deputy-police-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253367\/","title":{"rendered":"Police announce Jill Rogers as Deputy Police Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJill Rogers been acting in the role since Jevon McSkimming stood down last March.
\nPhoto: RNZ\/Mark Papalii\n<\/p>\n

Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Jill Rogers has been provisionally appointed to the role on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n

After the initial shock at Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming<\/a>‘s resignation in May one of the questions that emerged was who would replace him.<\/p>\n

Then, in July Deputy Commissioner Tania Kura<\/a> announced her retirement after 37 years in police, leaving both Deputy Commissioner roles vacant.<\/p>\n

Mike Pannett was announced<\/a> as the statutory deputy police commissioner in December.<\/p>\n

Rogers, who was widely considered to be the frontrunner for the role, was announced as the other Deputy Commissioner on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers also announced the appointment of Cassandra Anderson as the Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n

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\nFile photo. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers attending a Justice Committee hearing at Parliament. Chambers said new appointments meant police began with a “stable and strong executive”.
\nPhoto: VNP \/ Phil Smith\n<\/p>\n

Chambers said Rogers was “an outstanding leader of people, is strongly connected to the communities she has worked in, and has dealt with some particularly challenging operational matters”.<\/p>\n

He said Anderson had “extensive experience” working at Police since 2007, including as chief of staff to former Police Commissioner Mike Bush.<\/p>\n

“She returned to Police last year after two years in a Tier 2 role as a deputy chief executive at Oranga Tamariki. She has a strong knowledge of the public sector environment and takes on a key role in the executive team.”<\/p>\n

Chambers said the appointments meant police began 2026 with a “stable and strong executive”.<\/p>\n

Superintendents Corrie Parnell, Jeanette Park and Tim Anderson will also begin as Assistant Commissioners from 9 February.<\/p>\n

“I have full confidence in my refreshed leadership. They bring the experience, competence and integrity that is needed to deliver on the priorities of Police.<\/p>\n

“I know they will serve the frontline and staff of New Zealand Police and the communities of New Zealand well.”<\/p>\n

Chambers earlier announced the focus for 2026 was on the four priorities he outlined a year prior: core policing, supporting the frontline, leadership and accountability, and fiscal responsibility.<\/p>\n

Specifically, he had set specific goals around service, safety and trust, including getting trust and confidence up from 69 percent to 80 percent.<\/p>\n

The other benchmarks included getting satisfaction for services to 80 percent from its current 71 percent, a 15 percent rise in resolutions for retail crime, and a 15 percent reduction in violence in public places.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to a 20 percent increase in M\u0101ori at police over the past five years.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jill Rogers been acting in the role since Jevon McSkimming stood down last March. Photo: RNZ\/Mark Papalii Acting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-253367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253367","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=253367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}