{"id":487725,"date":"2026-06-21T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:06:11","slug":"south-island-cop-charged-with-dishonestly-accessing-police-database-to-search-rape-complainants-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487725\/","title":{"rendered":"South Island Cop charged with dishonestly accessing police database to search rape complainant\u2019s info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">One of the charges is for accessing the Investigation Management Tool (IMT) database to search information related to a sexual abuse complainant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The other charge is for dishonestly accessing the police National Intelligence Application (NIA) to gain information on the same complainant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">He is accused of accessing IMT five times and NIA six times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Both charges carry a maximum of seven years\u2019 imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The detective is due to appear in court next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" 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":"One of the charges is for accessing the Investigation Management Tool (IMT) database to search information related to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,1903,27995,1558,13239,153365,22970,96596,17290,244601,3014,117715,15415,12898,2514,3556,111,43,139,69,675,34458,1870,17703,1240,61,102],"class_list":["post-487725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-abuse","tag-accessing","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-complainants","tag-cop","tag-database","tag-detective","tag-dishonestly","tag-gain","tag-info","tag-information","tag-investigation","tag-island","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-search","tag-sexual","tag-south","tag-to","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487725","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=487725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}