Rotten to the core

Just a few months ago, Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming was one of the final two candidates for the position of police commissioner. Now, he's on leave and facing multiple investigations for unspecified wrongdoing:

The second-most powerful police officer in the country is on leave pending separate investigations, the Herald can reveal.

Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming is being investigated by the Independent Police Conduct Authority, and the New Zealand Police.

The nature of the allegations against McSkimming cannot be reported.

And he's not the only one. Stuff reported back in October that a (now-former) senior police officer is being prosecuted for grooming a 12 year old girl. How "senior" he is is unclear, but it all adds to the impression that the police are rotten to the core, and that their senior leadership, the ones who are meant to set standards for everyone else, are criminals themselves (and particularly grotty ones at that). And it invites the question of how they possibly expect to have the trust and confidence of the public when this is the case.