RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nAuckland-based police officer Matthew Rogers appeared in the Manukau District Court on Friday before Judge Luke Radich where he pleaded guilty to a representative charge of possessing an objectionable publication.<\/p>\n
The offending occurred between August 2023 and October 2025.<\/p>\n
Rogers will be sentenced in October.<\/p>\n
Rogers was one of three police staff to be charged following a rapid review of staff internet usage sparked by the resignation of former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming, after child sexual exploitation and bestiality material were found on his work devices.<\/p>\n
Another Auckland-based officer, a man in his 60s, faces 11 charges of possessing an objectionable publication.<\/p>\n
He has been granted interim name suppression.<\/p>\n
A Wellington-based officer, aged in his 50s, also faces 10 charges of possessing an objectionable publication between January 2024 and January 2025.<\/p>\n
He has interim name suppression.<\/p>\n
Acting Deputy Commissioner Tim Anderson earlier said each of the officers were being charged with multiple counts of possessing an objectionable publication, under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act.<\/p>\n
“Prosecution 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.<\/p>\n
“I would like to acknowledge the professionalism and commitment by our investigators in the National Integrity Unit for their work to this point.”<\/p>\n
Anderson said the investigations had involved the analysis of a “significant volume of web activity”.<\/p>\n
“It is important we now let these matters progress to the court process, which limits the level of information we can provide at this point.<\/p>\n
“These three police staff remain stood down from duties. Meanwhile, three investigations remain ongoing as part of the rapid review.”<\/p>\n
Police have investigated 22 cases, 12 have been resolved through either disciplinary action or performance management.<\/p>\n
Four people have resigned during this process, Anderson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has pleaded guilty to possessing objectionable publications. By Sam Sherwood of RNZ Auckland-based police officer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-561397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561397","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=561397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}