pleaded guilty to a representative charge<\/a> of possessing an objectionable publication.<\/p>\nHe will be sentenced in October.<\/p>\n
The summary of facts was released to RNZ on Monday.<\/p>\n
The court document says Rogers, who joined police in 1986, was a Senior Sergeant employed as a district shift commander in Auckland’s District Command Centre.<\/p>\n
In October 2025, police carried out 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
This revealed that between August 2023 and October 2025, Rogers used a police-issued device to conduct searches for pornographic and sexualised material.<\/p>\n
“Further forensic analysis identified nine images that matched previously classified Category 2B Child Sexual Abuse Material.<\/p>\n
“These images are assessed as objectionable publications. These images were not downloaded but were viewable on the Defendant’s electronic device.”<\/p>\n
After Rogers entered the search term on Google, he would be shown a series of thumbnails.<\/p>\n
“He would then have been able to scroll through the images and potentially stop or linger on an image he wished to view.”<\/p>\n
The searches occurred over an extended period, including while Rogers was on duty and using police systems, with no lawful purpose.<\/p>\n
Nine images of Category 2B Child Sexual Abuse Material were located.<\/p>\n
The court document lists nine search phrases Rogers used. Each of the searches returned a high number of images that were pornographic without being objectionable.<\/p>\n
The searches included “nude teen”, “nip slip drunk” and “tiny teen nude”.<\/p>\n
Each of the nine searches returned an image with at least one naked female aged between 14 and 17.<\/p>\n
Rogers was spoken to by police during a search warrant at his home on 16 October.<\/p>\n
“He acknowledged using his police-issued device to conduct personal internet searches.”<\/p>\n
Rogers has one previous traffic-related conviction dating back to 1990.<\/p>\n
Rogers was one of three police staff to be charged following the rapid review.<\/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. Four people have resigned during this process, Anderson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland officer used his work devices to search for pornographic material for more than two years. Matthew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-564236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564236","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=564236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}