“TAIAHA UNSHEATHED: THE MCSKIMMING COVER-UP AND THE ROT AT THE HEART OF NZ POLICE” - 13 November 2025
How Former Commissioner Andrew Coster and Senior Police Executives Protected a Sexual Predator, Criminalized His Victim, and Exposed the Terminal Corruption of Colonial Policing
Ko Ivor Jones te Māori Green Lantern. This is the mahi.
The scales of justice didn’t just tip in the case of former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming. They shattered. And in the wreckage lies irrefutable evidence of what Māori have known for generations: New Zealand Police is a colonial institution structurally incapable of policing itself, poisoned by old boys’ club culture, and willing to sacrifice vulnerable women to protect powerful men.
A broken justice scale weighed down by a money coin, symbolizing corruption and imbalance in the justice system.
On November 10, 2025, the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) released a 135-page report that reads like a criminal conspiracy thriller—except every word is verified, every failure documented, every act of institutional violence proven. Former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster—who left his post in November 2024 to become chief executive of the Social Investment Agency—has been placed on leave. The report names him and multiple senior executives for serious misconduct that “undermined the integrity of the organisation as a whole”.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The Victim They Tried to Destroy
Ms Z was 21 years old when she met Jevon McSkimming at a sporting club in 2016. He was 40, already a senior police officer. What followed was a sexual relationship that Ms Z alleges involved coercion, misuse of police resources, threats involving intimate recordings, and sexual assault. When the relationship ended around 2017-2018, Ms Z began trying to report McSkimming’s conduct.[7][8][9][10][11]
The police response? They prosecuted her.[8][9][10]
Between December 2023 and April 2024, Ms Z sent more than 300 emails to McSkimming’s work address, copying Police Commissioner Coster, Deputy Commissioner Tania Kura, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, and Police Minister Mark Mitchell. The emails contained allegations of:[10][12]
Sexual interaction without consent[11]Threats to use intimate visual recordings if she complained[12][10]Misuse of police credit card and property to further the sexual relationship[10][12]
Police charged Ms Z with causing harm by posting digital communication. They used her 105 online complaints—the official police reporting portal—as evidence against her. One officer inserted the word “false” before her allegations in the prosecution’s summary of facts “because he thought that was what the victim (McSkimming) would want, without having taken a single step to investigate whether they were, in fact, false”.[9][8][10]
The IPCA called this “inexplicable,” “inappropriate,” and “misleading”.[9]
I call it institutional violence. I call it what happens when a colonial police force—built to suppress Māori, fine-tuned to protect Pākehā power—turns its full weight against a young woman who dared name a powerful man’s crimes.
Timeline of the McSkimming Cover-Up: From Sexual Misconduct to Executive Protection (2016-2025)
The Cover-Up: How Five Senior Cops Subverted Justice
The IPCA found serious misconduct by multiple senior officers:[1][2][3][4]
1. Andrew Coster: Former Police Commissioner
Coster knew about McSkimming’s relationship with Ms Z during the 2023 statutory Deputy Commissioner appointment process but failed to disclose it to the Public Service Commission. When complaints finally reached the IPCA in October 2024—as McSkimming was applying to become the next Police Commissioner—Coster attempted to influence the investigation.[1][2][3][4][9]
On October 22, 2024, Coster wrote to the IPCA expressing concern about the “chain of events” and the investigation’s timing. The IPCA found his actions “were perceived by some others within police as designed to bring the investigation to a rapid and premature conclusion so as not to intersect with the Commissioner appointment process and jeopardise Mr McSkimming’s prospects”.[2][3][13][14][1]
Eight days later, on October 30, Coster called a meeting with senior staff and demanded the investigation be completed in “a week”. One staffer’s notes read: “Time is of the essence. A week’s delay isn’t basically acceptable”. Another told the IPCA: “It was quite clear that he was very invested in Jevon becoming the next Commissioner”.[13][14][2]
Detective Superintendent Kylie Schaare—who later stood up against this pressure—told colleagues after the meeting: “We can’t and should never be dictated by a suspect’s needs, the fact that he’s applying to be Commissioner is irrelevant in terms of the criminal investigation... we’ve basically been asked to do an adult sexual assault investigation in a week, including interviewing the suspect”.[15][14][2][13]
Coster’s disclosure to the PSC during the 2024 Commissioner appointment process “fell well short of what a reasonable person would have expected, given what he knew at the time”.[1]
Cui bono? Coster’s career trajectory: Police Commissioner (2020-2024, $670,000 salary), then immediately appointed to head the Social Investment Agency. When the IPCA report dropped, he was placed on leave within hours. Finance Minister Nicola Willis said she was “shocked and appalled” and referred the matter to Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche—Coster’s new employer.[16][5][17][18][19][20][21][22][6][1]
2. Tania Kura: Deputy Commissioner
Kura—the first woman to hold the Deputy Commissioner role—told McSkimming he was under investigation. She confirmed to the IPCA: “Yes, he’s a suspect in the end of it, but actually there’s a lot of stuff on the table here and that’s just the way it occurred. Normally you wouldn’t do that…but this wasn’t a normal set of circumstances”.[13][23][24][25][15]
Why wasn’t it normal? Because the suspect was a senior colleague and potential Commissioner. The IPCA was blunt: this “highlights that the senior officers who were acting as decision-makers held an entrenched view that Deputy Commissioner McSkimming was the victim rather than the offender and were unduly preoccupied with ensuring he was not being unfairly disadvantaged in the forthcoming appointments process”.[2][15][14][13]
Kura appointed Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves in July 2024 to investigate—but the terms of reference did not include interviewing the victim. This violated every principle of adult sexual assault investigation. Kura told the IPCA she didn’t approach it as “an ordinary sexual assault preliminary investigation because of McSkimming’s rank and the prosecution against Ms Z”.[8][15][14]
Kura retired in July 2025 after 37 years of service. She briefly served as New Zealand’s first female Police Commissioner on an interim basis (11-24 November 2024).[17][23][26][24][25][27]
3. Assistant Commissioner A
This unnamed Assistant Commissioner—responsible for investigations—created the flawed terms of reference and repeatedly emphasized that if the investigation wasn’t completed quickly, McSkimming wouldn’t get the Commissioner job.[2][13][15][14]
Detective Inspector Reeves told the IPCA she “really got the sense that [Assistant Commissioner A’s] focus was on getting this out of the way so [McSkimming] could apply for the Commissioner’s role without this hanging over his head“. She reported a conflict of interest. She was told to report directly to Assistant Commissioner A—highly unusual for a criminal investigation.[13][2]
When Reeves said she couldn’t continue without speaking to Ms Z, Assistant Commissioner A asked “where in policy it said police had to speak to the complainant”. Reeves replied: “I know that this is our obligation, and look I don’t know that it’s actually written in black and white anywhere, you know that that’s what we do”.[15][14][2]
It shouldn’t need to be written. Speaking to the victim is the foundation of any sexual assault investigation. That a senior police executive questioned this basic principle exposes how corrupted the process had become.
4. Deputy Commissioner PLC
This Deputy Commissioner—with responsibility for Police Integrity and Conduct—initially dismissed concerns, telling colleagues the investigation was “into the complainant, who had been charged”. When Detective Superintendent Schaare raised alarms that usual processes had been bypassed, Deputy Commissioner PLC said he’d spoken to Kura and the situation “didn’t appear to be as it was relayed”.[13][15][14]
5. Detective Superintendent Kylie Schaare
Schaare is complex. She initially failed—forwarding concerns from Detective Inspector Reeves to Deputy Commissioner PLC, who dismissed them. But in September 2024, when Coster called asking about “open investigations” into McSkimming (prompted by his Commissioner application), Schaare warned him directly: “It didn’t appear that we’d actually dealt with that at all following our usual process... any defence lawyer worth their salt is going to say that this woman has acted the way she has because she’s been trying to raise these concerns for a significant period of time against Police and no one’s listened to her... That’s all going to come out… That’s a matter of risk to the police, it’s a risk to you as Commissioner“.[2][28][13][15][14]
When Coster demanded the week-long investigation, Schaare pushed back. She’s now named in media reports as one of the officers who stood up.[28][29][30]
Network of Institutional Failure: How Senior Police Protected One of Their Own
The Heroes Who Defied Power
Not everyone bent. In a culture of institutional rot, these officers showed moral courage:
Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves (Officer D in the report)—one of New Zealand’s most senior adult sexual assault investigators, who led major cases including the Yanfei Bao murder—refused to play along. She:[2][28][31][29]
Identified conflicts of interest in reporting structure[13][2]Insisted Ms Z must be interviewed[15][14][2]Called the IPCA independently on July 10, 2024[13][15]Documented pressure from Assistant Commissioner A[2][15][13]
Her assessment of the meeting where Coster demanded a week-long investigation:
“Really thought that the idea of rushing through some sort of quasi-investigation was fraught with risk”.[14]
Detective Superintendent Kylie Schaare (Officer M), despite initial failures, ultimately:[2][13]
Warned Coster of reputational and legal risks[28][15][13][2]Documented bypassing of usual complaint processes[15][14][13]Contacted IPCA independently[14]Stood up to pressure in Coster’s October 30 meeting[13][14][2]
Territorial Detective Superintendent (Officer V) reviewed the flawed terms of reference and told the IPCA: “It was clear Ms Z was a potential sexual assault complainant and should have been treated as such“.[15][14]
National Integrity Unit officers attending Coster’s October 30 meeting documented the pressure and later told the IPCA they felt the demand to complete an adult sexual assault investigation in a week—including interviewing the suspect—was impossible and unethical.[14][2][13]
The Minister Kept in the Dark
Police Minister Mark Mitchell’s office received 36 emails about McSkimming between December 2023 and the IPCA report’s release. Not one reached him. Mitchell said there were “clear instructions” from police staff in the ministerial office—Coster’s office—not to pass the emails to him or his political staff.[32][33][34][35]
Mitchell called it “an extension of the behaviour that we’ve seen highlighted in the IPCA complaint... where we had five very senior police officers that were subverting processes in what was a very overt attempt to protect one of their own”.[33][32]
Democratic oversight was subverted. The minister responsible for police was systematically blocked from information about serious misconduct at the highest level. This wasn’t bureaucratic error—it was deliberate institutional obstruction.
The Public Service Commission’s Failure
The Public Service Commission ran probity checks for McSkimming’s 2023 statutory Deputy Commissioner appointment. An independent review by Miriam Dean QC, commissioned in December 2024 and completed in March 2025, found the Commission should have examined more thoroughly a referee’s mention of a “strange relationship”.[36][37][38][22]
Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche admitted: “As identified by the review, that was unlikely to have changed the outcome“. But he acknowledged: “We must be able to rely on full and timely disclosure from other agencies. That didn’t happen in this case“.[38]
Coster and McSkimming both failed to adequately disclose the relationship and allegations during the appointment process. The safeguards failed. An unsuitable person ascended to the second-highest rank in New Zealand Police.[1][3][10][39]
The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre: Ignored Warning
In February 2024—nine months before the IPCA was finally notified—the joint Police/Health Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FTAC) reviewed Ms Z’s emails and identified “potential criminal and Police Code of Conduct concerns relating to McSkimming”. FTAC recommended referring the matter to the National Integrity Unit and IPCA with a view to possible investigation.[3][10][12]
The recommendation was ignored. Instead, police accelerated the prosecution of Ms Z. Her attempts to report were used as evidence against her.[9][10][3]
McSkimming: The Protected Predator
Jevon McSkimming joined police in 1996. He rose through ranks via a “relatively unique career path”—primarily in strategy, IT, and administration roles rather than frontline policing. He was promoted to statutory Deputy Commissioner in April 2023—a role with higher status and pay, appointed by the Governor-General on recommendation of the Prime Minister.[7][40][37][41][42][26][27]
Then-Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (Labour) appointed him based on Coster’s recommendation. Hipkins said after the IPCA report: “Nothing was ever raised about any of this during my time as Police Minister or Prime Minister, or during the vetting process... if it had he would never have been appointed”.[1][37][7]
McSkimming applied to become Police Commissioner in 2024 but lost to Richard Chambers. He was placed on “special leave” in November 2024 when the IPCA began investigating. On December 23, 2024, he was formally suspended.[43][44][41][45][42][10][39]
During the investigation into Ms Z’s allegations, police found child sexual exploitation and bestiality material on McSkimming’s work devices, accessed between July 2020 and December 2024. He pleaded guilty on November 7, 2025, to three representative charges of possessing objectionable publications. He resigned in May 2025.[46][47][48][49][10][1][7]
McSkimming will be sentenced in December 2025. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers is moving to strip him of his QSM (Queen’s Service Medal).[50][7]
The System Is the Problem
This wasn’t rogue officers. This was systemic institutional protection of power. The IPCA found no evidence of “collusion”—but identified a “consistent pattern of behaviour driven by a common mindset and perspective“.[2][3][13][39][14]
That mindset? The belief that “Police are justified in not undertaking, or in curtailing, an investigation into a sexual assault allegation if it would jeopardise a suspect’s work or promotion prospects—an argument that, in any other context, would be regarded as untenable“.[13][2]
For Māori, this is not new. Research spanning four decades—from Moana Jackson’s seminal He Whaipaanga Hou (1988) to the 2024 Understanding Police Delivery report—documents institutional racism, bias, and structural discrimination in New Zealand Police.[51][52][53][54][55][56]
The 2024 report found being Māori increased the likelihood of prosecution by 11 percent compared to NZ Europeans when all other variables remain constant. It found “bias” and “structural racism” were part of why Māori men are more likely to be stopped, prosecuted, and tasered. A 2021 IPCA report found “significant elements of bullying” and a “boys’ club” culture based on “power relationships, perpetuated by allegiances, cliques, nepotism and cronyism”.[57][58][59][56][51]
Emmy Rākete, University of Auckland criminology lecturer and spokesperson for People Against Prisons Aotearoa, told RNZ: “From Moana Jackson’s He Whaipaanga Hou report in the 1980s through every decade since then the New Zealand police have been shown that they engage in racist discrimination against Māori, the New Zealand police apologise for engaging in racist discrimination against Māori and the police go straight back to engaging in racist discrimination against Māori“.[51]
The McSkimming case reveals the mechanism of that discrimination: a senior executive structure that protects its own, subverts oversight, criminalizes complainants, and operates with impunity. If they’ll do this to protect a Pākehā deputy commissioner accused of sexual violence and consuming child exploitation material, what do you think they do to Māori complainants? To rangatahi stopped on the street? To whānau seeking justice?
Standard vs. Actual: How Police Violated Every Sexual Assault Investigation Protocol to Protect McSkimming
Five Hidden Connections: The Whakapapa of Corruption
1. The Career Protection Racket
McSkimming, Coster, and Kura were all appointed within three years (2020-2023) under the same commissioner (Coster) and same government (Labour, then Labour-led). Coster personally recommended McSkimming for statutory Deputy Commissioner. When allegations surfaced, Coster personally intervened to protect McSkimming’s Commissioner prospects. This is patronage, not meritocracy.[1][2][3][7][37]
2. The Public Service Commission Connection
Sir Brian Roche was appointed Public Service Commissioner in November 2024—the same month Coster left police to join the Social Investment Agency. Roche now oversees Coster’s employment. When the IPCA report dropped, Roche placed Coster on leave but said it would be “inappropriate to comment on any employment matters”. The same Public Service Commission that failed probity checks on McSkimming now decides Coster’s fate. Regulatory capture.[17][21][60][22]
3. The Social Investment Agency Timing
Coster announced his departure from police in September 2024, months before his term ended in April 2025. He started as Social Investment Agency CEO on November 11, 2024—one day before McSkimming was placed on special leave over the IPCA investigation. The Social Investment Agency had been established just months earlier under Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Coster’s appointment was announced before the IPCA investigation was formalized. Did he jump or was he pushed? And who benefited from getting him out before the scandal broke?[21][42][39]
4. The Political Timing
The IPCA report was released November 10, 2025—during the McSkimming guilty plea week (November 7). Police Commissioner Richard Chambers took office November 25, 2024. Chambers inherited this scandal but also promoted the police response, calling it “inexcusable conduct” and “a total lack of leadership and integrity at the highest levels”. The report becomes a legitimation tool for the new regime while containing the crisis to “former” executives. Convenient.[4][61][46][43][44][1][17]
5. The 36 Emails and Ministerial Capture
Mitchell’s office received 36 emails. Zero reached the minister. Mitchell is a former police officer (1989-2002), Armed Offenders Squad member, and known critic of Coster’s “policing by consent” approach. He represents the law-and-order right. Yet even HE was blocked by police institutional machinery. If a police-friendly National minister can be shut out, no minister is immune. Police self-governance is incompatible with democracy.[32][33][34][35][44][62][63][64][65]
Tikanga Violations: The Spiritual Dimension
From a te ao Māori perspective, this case violates every core value:
- Whanaungatanga (relationships): The senior executives prioritized institutional loyalty (protecting McSkimming) over the relational obligation to Ms Z, who sought help.
- Manaakitanga (care, hospitality): Ms Z was criminalized, not cared for. Police took her complaints and used them as weapons against her.
- Kaitiakitanga (guardianship): The guardians of public safety became predators and protectors of predators.
- Wairuatanga (spirituality): The spiritual harm—tapu violated, mana destroyed—is immeasurable. Ms Z’s wairua was attacked by the very institution meant to protect her.
- Kotahitanga (unity): Institutional unity became institutional conspiracy. Unity should serve justice, not conceal it.
- Rangatiratanga (self-determination): Ms Z’s agency was stripped. She reported crimes and was prosecuted. She was denied tino rangatiratanga over her own story, her own body, her own justice.
- Aroha (love, compassion): There was none. Only calculation, careerism, and cruelty.
This is mauri-depleting behavior at scale. It doesn’t just harm individuals—it corrupts the whakapapa of justice itself.
The Government’s Response: Inspector-General
On November 10, 2025, Public Service Minister Judith Collins and Police Minister Mark Mitchell announced the government would appoint an Inspector-General of Police
—”the strongest statutory oversight mechanism available”.[1][16][66][67]
Collins: “It has found serious issues within the former Police executive, which is why the Government is acting decisively”.[16][66][1]
Mitchell: “Their actions have raised serious concerns about integrity and culture within the then executive... At the centre of this is a woman who has been let down by the former police executive and the system. I cannot express how frustrated and disappointed I have been since becoming aware of the situation”.[1][16]
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said his party would support the changes and the Inspector-General appointment. “The report and evidence confirm that senior police failed to hold Jevon McSkimming to account... This is inexcusable and a complete failure of duty”.[1]
But an Inspector-General is not enough. The IPCA—theoretically independent—issued this damning report, yet it took years of a victim being criminalized before they acted. The IPCA has no power to prosecute, can only make recommendations police aren’t obliged to follow, and investigates only 1-2% of complaints it receives. In 2024, the IPCA investigated 1% of complaints, referred 22% back to police, and declined 74%.[68][69][70]
Adding another oversight layer doesn’t solve structural rot. It adds bureaucracy to a corrupt system.
What Must Be Done
1. Rangatiratanga-Based Accountability
Māori communities must have authority over policing in their rohe. Māori Wardens, with proper resourcing, can take over many police functions. Te Tiriti was a partnership—not a license for colonial policing. Police operate on stolen land under stolen authority. Restore rangatiratanga.[51]
2. Independent Prosecutorial Power for Oversight
The Inspector-General must have power to prosecute police criminally and administratively—not just recommend. IPCA has sought this for over a decade. Parliament has refused. Why? Because police don’t want real accountability.[69][70]
3. End Police Self-Investigation
100% of complaints against police must be investigated by external bodies. Police investigating police is structurally corrupt.
4. Criminal Charges for Coster and Executives
Coster, Kura, Assistant Commissioner A, and others should face criminal charges: obstructing justice, conspiracy, misconduct in public office. Placing Coster on leave is insufficient. Kura retired with honors. Unacceptable.
5. Abolish Statutory Deputy Commissioner Appointments
The role that gave McSkimming extra status and insulation should be eliminated. It concentrates power without accountability.
6. Financial Justice for Ms Z
Ms Z should receive substantial compensation from police, an official apology from the Crown, and immunity from any civil action McSkimming might attempt. Her legal fees must be covered. Her rehabilitation funded.
7. Immediate Cultural Review
The 2021 IPCA bullying report, the 2024 Understanding Police Delivery report, and now this—three major reports in four years exposing toxic culture. How many more reports before action? Dismantle the “boys’ club.” Implement zero-tolerance for sexism, racism, and abuse of power.[57][58][59][54][56]
8. Truth and Reconciliation
A public inquiry into police culture, specifically examining institutional protection of powerful offenders and persecution of complainants—especially Māori and women. Call it what it is: institutional violence.
For Ms Z
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers apologized:
“I am apologising to the woman at the centre of this for the repeated early failures... She was ignored and badly let down”.[1][4][61][71]
It’s not enough. Words don’t undo trauma. They don’t restore mana. They don’t make a young woman whole after years of being hunted by the institution that should have protected her.
Ms Z, you were right. Every email you sent, every complaint you made, every time you tried to be heard—you were telling the truth. They called you a harasser. You were a survivor seeking justice. They prosecuted you. You were the victim. They protected him. You exposed them.
The IPCA report is your vindication. History will record that you stood against a corrupt system and won. You are a hero. Kia kaha.
For Us
This is not an anomaly. This is the system working as designed—protecting power, crushing dissent, maintaining the colonial order. McSkimming is one man. Coster is one commissioner. But the machinery that shielded them, the culture that enabled them, the structures that empowered them—that’s New Zealand Police.
Māori have known this for 140 years. Women have known this forever. The McSkimming scandal is simply irrefutable documentation of what we’ve been saying all along.
The taiaha is drawn. The Ring empowers. Each essay: rangatiratanga manifested.
Kia kaha. Ka tū. No mercy for the corrupt. No peace for the guilty. No rest until justice is done.
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