RNZ has obtained a series of emails in relation to the audit of senior leaders under the OIA.<\/p>\n
This includes an email from Chambers to senior leaders on December 1 last year.<\/p>\n
In the email, Chambers said the ELT had agreed to additional internet usage checks over all existing staff in senior leadership positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will include myself as Commissioner, Assistant Commissioners, Executive Directors, District Commanders, Directors, and the leadership of the Firearms Safety Authority and Next Generational Critical Comms (NGCC).<\/p>\n
\u201cThese audits will check staff internet usage and search histories on police devices for the past 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those who were in contention to be Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners had already undergone an \u201cextensive audit\u201d as part of the selection process, Chambers said.<\/p>\n
In response to questions from RNZ, police\u2019s Chief of Staff Cassandra Anderson said on Monday that the audit of senior staff and leaders had now concluded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no concerns about the usage of the Executive Leadership Team, the Senior Leadership Team, and District Commanders.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, two \u201cmatters of potential concern\u201d were identified among the \u201cwider cohort of senior staff who were included in the audit\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne matter relating to potential misuse is under assessment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other was a minor issue which was investigated and has been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n
No other usage of concern was identified across senior staff, Anderson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOngoing regular checks of all staff device use, including leaders, will continue and have been implemented as part of NZ Police\u2019s routine practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Checks on staff seeking promotion to the ranks of Superintendent or above would also be conducted, in line with the Independent Police Conduct Authority\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Commissioner is confident the tighter controls implemented after the Rapid Review and the use of alerting and regular auditing has greatly strengthened our ability to quickly detect instances of inappropriate content and misuse of police devices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anderson said that in total, police had investigated 19 cases following audits of internet use.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo date, 11 have been resolved through disciplinary action or performance management. Four staff have resigned through the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree staff remain under investigation for potentially objectionable and inappropriate searches. Three staff have been stood down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anderson said that no charges have been filed to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ has obtained a series of emails in relation to the audit of senior leaders under the OIA.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,23070,41666,359,111,43,139,69,675,5843,15768,55629,8238,6306],"class_list":{"0":"post-377924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-assessment","10":"tag-audit","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-senior","18":"tag-sherwood","19":"tag-staffer","20":"tag-under","21":"tag-use"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377924","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=377924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}