{"id":472952,"date":"2026-06-12T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472952\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:26:09","slug":"south-auckland-police-officer-charged-with-making-intimate-visual-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472952\/","title":{"rendered":"South Auckland police officer charged with making intimate visual recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">All three charges carry a maximum penalty of three years\u2019 imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Gray said the officer had been stood down while the case remained before the Manukau District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs matters are before the court, we are unable to comment further at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">The officer first appeared in court on Wednesday. His next appearance will be a case review on September 24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed the latest charges were not linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/three-police-staff-to-be-charged-in-relation-to-review-following-jevon-mcskimming-scandal\/L4ERFMSJ5RGZ7H7C6PIZDEOXSI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/three-police-staff-to-be-charged-in-relation-to-review-following-jevon-mcskimming-scandal\/L4ERFMSJ5RGZ7H7C6PIZDEOXSI\/\">three officers prosecuted after a review of police information security <\/a>controls sparked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/jevon-mcskimming-case\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/jevon-mcskimming-case\/\">Jevon McSkimming<\/a> scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Two Auckland-based constabulary staff will appear in the Manukau District Court over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEach of the officers is being charged with multiple counts of possessing an objectionable publication under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act,\u201d Deputy Commissioner Tim Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA third officer will be appearing at a court in the Wellington region at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cProsecution of our own staff is a serious but important step to take as it recognises the significance of the alleged offending that has been identified.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All three charges carry a maximum penalty of three years\u2019 imprisonment. Gray said the officer had been stood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,1558,1121,13239,113068,42,21418,29819,700,1446,11518,43,10932,675,697,112922,74908,1240,1516,1529,40,38,41,39,5007,102],"class_list":["post-472952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-case","tag-charged","tag-counts","tag-headlines","tag-intimate","tag-involving","tag-latest","tag-making","tag-misconduct","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-recording","tag-recordings","tag-serving","tag-south","tag-staff","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-visual","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472952","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=472952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}