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Speaker 1: So we can now name the prominent New Zealander facing

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Speaker 1: serious charges in court it as deputy former Deputy Police

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Jim mc skimming. He's facing charges of possessing objectionabable

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Speaker 1: objectionable material, good design need to go and study again,

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Speaker 1: including child exploitation material and unfortunately best regality. Jared Savage

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Speaker 1: is an investigative reporter at the Herald High Jarrett Hither Jared,

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Speaker 1: is this content that he got through his work in

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Speaker 1: the police or is this stuff that he just got

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Speaker 1: from the internet as a civilian.

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Speaker 2: I don't know there answer connect, but I would say

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Speaker 2: that I strongly doubt whether the police would have laid

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Speaker 2: such serious charges against the former Deputy commissioner if it

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Speaker 2: was something that he had been looking at as part

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Speaker 2: of his duties as a police officer. So there's a

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Speaker 2: lot more to play out with us in the court process.

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Speaker 2: Are going to be pretty careful that the allegations, but

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Speaker 2: I would suspect that if that's a defense to be raised,

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Speaker 2: that will come later at trial.

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Speaker 1: Right and was this found because police were looking for

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Speaker 1: the stuff or did they stumbled across across it when

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Speaker 1: they were investigating the separate staff related complaint which came first.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you're right, there's a separate complaint that the

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Speaker 2: police were investigating late last year with the Independent Police

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Speaker 2: Conduct Authority. My understanding is this is part of that

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Speaker 2: inquiry and we can't get into the details of that

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Speaker 2: for other reasons, but as part of that they have

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Speaker 2: had such wants of his group devices and allegedly found

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Speaker 2: this objectional material on his computer that led to a separate,

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Speaker 2: a separate police investigation. And it was at that point

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Speaker 2: where you know, the police Minister Mark Mitchell was, you know,

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Speaker 2: sort of given this maturity. Look, we found an issue

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Speaker 2: here separate to the original complaint and that's read the

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Speaker 2: mixed skimming resigning. So in may I.

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Speaker 1: Think, and why did he allow his name suppression to

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Speaker 1: lapse today?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what you allowed it to lapse, but

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Speaker 2: it's sort of one of those things that is actually

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Speaker 2: is quite hard to keep name suppression ongoing for a

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Speaker 2: long time unless there are very good reasons for it.

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Speaker 2: That the threshold can be quite high the media. So

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Speaker 2: the heroinesed me stuff are and zealous come be banding

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Speaker 2: together and sort of finding the suppression aspect of it earlier,

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Speaker 2: and I think given the significant public interest in this,

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Speaker 2: I think it would have been very hard for judge

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Speaker 2: to sort of maintain the status quo.

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Speaker 1: Really, and so, what's the maximum sentence he faces here

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Speaker 1: if he was to be found guilty.

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Speaker 2: If he was to be found guilty, then a maximum

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Speaker 2: sentence is ten years in prison or a fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars fine. But that's the viear, that's the very maximum

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Speaker 2: end of it.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant. Hey, thank you for running us through that, Jared appreciated.

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