{"id":78900,"date":"2025-10-15T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:38:08","slug":"ipca-upholds-bullying-and-sexism-findings-against-senior-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78900\/","title":{"rendered":"IPCA upholds bullying and sexism findings against senior police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July, a senior police manager alleged she was met with swirling gossip<\/a>, private group chats and a pervasive \u201cboys\u2019 club\u201d culture when she entered a leadership role overseeing Northland\u2019s predominantly male detective team. <\/p>\n

Bridget Louise Doell was seconded to the crime area manager role in 2020 and oversaw senior detectives in the criminal investigation branch (CIB) at Whang\u0101rei police station.<\/p>\n

She claimed that over the next three years she was sidelined by detectives and described a toxic workplace culture marked by gossip, exclusion from key decisions, and repeated allegations of bullying.<\/p>\n

In February, a senior Canterbury police officer was dealt with after multiple complaints of offensive and unprofessional behaviour. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe authority oversaw a police process into an allegation of bullying and unprofessional behaviour by a supervisor in Canterbury district,\u201d the Independent Police Conduct Authority said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple team members complained that their supervisor made offensive jokes in the workplace, set an expectation that staff work through illness, singled staff out when discussing performance issues, and discussed the performance of individuals with the wider team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The authority also said police completed an employment process in regard to this case and \u201ctook action to remedy the situation and address the concerns raised\u201d.<\/p>\n

Canterbury district commander Superintendent Tony Hill called the officer\u2019s behaviour \u201cunacceptable\u201d and said \u201cappropriate action\u201d was taken in response to the allegations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July, a senior police manager alleged she was met with swirling gossip, private group chats and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,9092,26676,95,3620,61102,61101,12898,14566,1446,111,43,139,69,10932,675,16134,5843,31194,13798,35965,13017,2248],"class_list":["post-78900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-against","tag-allegations","tag-and","tag-bullying","tag-derogatory","tag-findings","tag-investigation","tag-ipca","tag-making","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-remarks","tag-senior","tag-sexism","tag-sexist","tag-upheld","tag-upholds","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78900","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=78900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}