Daily review 12/11/2025

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, November 12th, 2025 - 4 comments
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Dennis Frank 1

12 November 2025 at 7:38 pm

Hey, the media are onto it for a change! They've listed the 5 top cops who didn't want to do their job properly. I was particularly impressed with #5.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578678/revealed-the-key-figures-in-the-ipca-report-which-found-serious-misconduct-at-the-highest-levels

RNZ understands Deputy Commissioner PLC is former Deputy Commissioner of People, Leadership and Culture Chris de Wattignar who now works as the head of aviation security at the Civil Aviation Authority.

The IPCA said de Wattignar had an obligation to exercise independent judgement and take any necessary action to ensure senior officers were acting in an appropriate way. "Despite his Director of Integrity and Conduct raising her concerns with him in the clearest language, he clearly failed to fulfil that obligation."

"His failing lies in the fact that he simply relied upon Commissioner Coster's and Deputy Commissioner Kura's assurances without further enquiry of his own, despite the continued expressions of concern from Officer M."

De Wattignar's perception that once he became aware of concerns he lacked the necessary authority was proof of the "inadequate status and independence of Police Integrity and Conduct".

The real cool bit is that a female Director of Integrity and Conduct who expressed her concerns to him got ignored by him, which the report reckons is proof of her inadequate status. That a bureaucrat can ignore a director is a glorious example of deep state theory being applied in real life in lil ole Aotearoa. Who'da thunk we could be doing such a world-leading thing? And such a staunch defender of the patriarchy too!

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- Dennis Frank 1.1
  
  12 November 2025 at 8:08 pm
  
  I probably ought to point to #4 as another strong contender for a merit award from the patriarchy:
  
  The IPCA also criticised Page for inserting into the summary of facts in relation to Ms Z's prosecution the word "false" in respect of her allegations, despite knowing they had not been investigated.
  
  Of course he must think her allegations are false! That's Patriarchy 1.01, I suspect. If you know they must be false, why would you want to investigate? The truth isn't something a loyal servant of a neocolonial state can empirically discover – it has always been handed down from on high. In China, it has always been known as the mandate of heaven, but state agents here are likely more prosaic. Apparently Labour made Coster top cop. "Yeah, he's not wearing a badge that says Deep State Agent so he must be okay." I presume he will tell everyone he asked McSkimming if he'd been naughty and was told "Nah, I'm cool."
  
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Stan 2

12 November 2025 at 8:23 pm

You can clearly tell that there has been a huge amount of cleaning/laundering/preparation here, hurried obviously as the story was always going to get out.

A lot of people must have known about this but have been carefully trying to remove any trace. I suspect the higher you are, the more work that has been done to try to remove any possible connection (politicians – I'm talking to you!).

It's not over yet.

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- Tony Veitch 2.1
  
  13 November 2025 at 5:31 am
  
  Yes, I found it interesting that Mark Mitchell, in delivering his statement to parliament yesterday took some pains to detail the dates in which events happened, almost as if establishing in advance, that he was a Sergeant Schultz in this drama: "I know nothing. . . nothing!"
  
  P.S. he even looks like him!
  
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