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Speaker 1: Andrew Costas three weeks of silence and negotiating, I think

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Speaker 1: speaks volumes about the sincerity of the apology we got yesterday.

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Speaker 1: If you really felt that way, if you hadn't until

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Speaker 1: yesterday realized what had gone on, which he had, of course,

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Speaker 1: because he saw the report long before any of us did,

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Speaker 1: then surely you would have come straight out the starting

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Speaker 1: blocks with an apology to miss z and the front

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Speaker 1: line officers, by the way, who've been copping flak. Wouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be a bit more credible. As for the government,

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Speaker 1: they've obviously been trying to get him out without paying

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Speaker 1: him too much. The bill is three months paid out,

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Speaker 1: essentially gardening leave, and crucially a statement from the government

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Speaker 1: that there was no cover up. Roach said, no collusion

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Speaker 1: of officers. That's despite the IPCA report having the strong

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Speaker 1: whiff of one, or, as Judith Collins put it, the

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Speaker 1: walk talk and quack of one. Cost has obviously done

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Speaker 1: the clcs in his head on this, and the longer

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Speaker 1: you stay on and fight the mess here it gets

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Speaker 1: reputation wise, he'll be thinking about the next job, of course,

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Speaker 1: whatever and where whorever that may be. He strikes me

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Speaker 1: as the sort of guy with a plan to maybe

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Speaker 1: one day go into politics. You know, local cop boss,

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Speaker 1: top cop boss, new modern approach to policing, champion of

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Speaker 1: progressive policing. That sort of resume would get you pretty

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Speaker 1: close to the top of a left landing party pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought he's not stupid, But this scandal

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Speaker 1: will rule him out of politics and pretty much all

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Speaker 1: top public sector jobs in New Zealand pretty much for life.

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Speaker 1: As for the police Association, well, the boss there told

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Speaker 1: us yesterday on this program that frontline officers are being

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Speaker 1: taunted over this association. With that sort of damage doesn't

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Speaker 1: evaporate quickly, and the meyor Kulper, the sorry wasn't quick enough.

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