Howard Broad and Police

MEDIA RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE

EMBARGOED TO MIDDAY SUNDAY MAY 13 2007

POLICE COMMISSIONER LIES TO PUBLIC ABOUT BESTIALITY VIDEO SCREENED IN HIS HOUSE

Police Commissioner Howard Broad has watched bestiality videos at his house with his fellow police officers and groped other female staff while stationed in

Dunedin

, reveals the latest issue of Investigate magazine in an unprecedented special report.

The allegations, by some of Broad’s former colleagues, are likely to see the Police Commissioner step down, and represent the tip of the iceberg in a massive investigation of police corruption and misconduct by Investigate magazine.

In this morning’s Herald on Sunday newspaper, Broad admits a bestiality video was screened at a party in his house but denies knowing about it until later in the evening.

“Later on in the night someone played a pornographic film. It was reported to me. I didn

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t see it. Later on it was reported to me as a film of the type you are talking about. It was in my private house," Broad told the paper.

Broad told the Herald on Sunday he was adamant he was not in the lounge at the time the film was played and did not even see the rugby films played that evening.

"I was in the kitchen talking to people. When I found out about it I was annoyed and irritated but there wasn

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t anything I could do," he told the paper.

On that basis, says the newspaper, Broad continues to have the confidence of Police Minister Annette King and Prime Minister Helen Clark.

However, Investigate can confirm that the real sequence of events contrasts sharply with what he has told the public. A former police colleague of Broad’s is prepared to testify on oath to a Royal Commission that:

“He was there, reveling in the video. He loved it. I was standing with him. The video also featured a pig, and the actors appeared to me to be mentally handicapped. Broad was laughing.”

Magazine editor Ian Wishart says Broad appears to be doing a Bill Clinton.

“To suggest he didn’t see the bestiality video and was unaware of it is a lie that has about as much credibility as Bill Clinton’s admission that he used to smoke marijuana joints ‘but I didn’t inhale’.”

Bestiality videos were (and remain) prohibited objectionable material and their screening is illegal.

Wishart says the magazine’s two year inquiry has pinpointed Dunedin and Christchurch as the hub of police corruption in New Zealand, with officers engaged in organised crime, drugs, rape, extortion, underage sex, kidnapping and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

“Some of the key figures in the corruption allegations were senior detectives on the David Bain case,” Wishart confirmed today, “and we are breaking major new ground on that case as a result.”

The devastating allegations, based on taped statements made by victims and on magazine interviews with witnesses willing to testify to a Royal Commission of Inquiry, also drag in no fewer than six Government MPs, including Attorney-General Michael Cullen, Social Development Minister David Benson-Pope and one of Helen Clark’s closest advisors, Pete Hodgson.

The magazine alleges Cullen and Benson-Pope helped police cover-up details of an alleged pedophile, bestiality and bondage and discipline ring in

Dunedin

in the 1980s, while the other MPs were aware of major corruption allegations about

Dunedin

Police in 2000, but failed to launch any proper investigation.

Wishart adds that Howard Broad’s admission that bestiality videos were screening adds credence to some of the other specific allegations about bestiality in Dunedin, which are specified in the magazine out today.

The following major allegations are contained in a 17 page special investigation in the June issue of Investigate magazine, the result of two years of background inquiries and six weeks of intensive investigation:

1. That current Police Commissioner Howard Broad had, and was watching, bestiality videos at his going away party from the Dunedin CIB at
   19 Arawa St

2. That current Police Commissioner Howard Broad fondled junior staff whilst stationed at the Dunedin CIB

3. That Howard Broad, when he stated that only a “few” officers were involved in sexual misconduct, either knew or should have known of the extensive sexual misconduct in the Dunedin CIB

4. That Police National Headquarters, Dunedin Police and the Labour Government helped quash an investigation into a child sex, bondage and bestiality ring operating in

   Dunedin

   in 1984 run by the father of a police officer and attended by at least one Labour cabinet minister

5. That current Attorney-General Michael Cullen and the current Minister responsible for CYFS, David Benson-Pope, helped run damage control over the child sex, bondage and bestiality case in 1985

6. That current Labour coalition MPs Pete Hodgson, Tim Barnett, George Hawkins and Matt Robson were aware of major allegations of  police misconduct from 2000 onwards, including the existence of videotapes of police rapes and bestiality involving police officers

7. That by failing to rein in police corruption brought to their attention in the eighties and again in 2000, the Labour government has permitted the culture of corruption to widen in that time, wrecking more lives

8. That former Wellington District Commander and current Police National Headquarters officer, Superintendent John Kelly indecently assaulted a number of women, including the daughter of a previous police commissioner
9. That

   Dunedin

   and Christchurch Police had arrangements to turn a blind eye to organised crime – including underage sex and drug dealing - in return for sexual favours from brothels

10. That police have maintained files on key politicians and public figures capable of being used to blackmail the government, judges, lobby groups and even police association members into supporting the status quo

11. That Dunedin police officers, former and current, have been involved in multiple rapes of junior female police staff, prostitutes and civilians, drug deals, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, including falsifying charges

12. That several of the top officers in the David Bain case, including Milton Weir, were allegedly corrupt police officers

13. That the officer involved in the alleged rape of a court worker, detailed in our last issue and cleared by Police National Headquarters last month, is also a corrupt officer

14. That the culture of police corruption, far from being localised to the

    Bay

    of

    Plenty

    or historic, extends to a large number of jurisdictions because of staff movements, and continues to the present day

15. That the only way to weed the bad cops out of the force is a Royal Commission, because the Old Boys Network within the police is currently looking after its own interests and bringing discredit to the many hardworking honest police who do not have the institutional power to bring change

Investigate has been shown the names and specific allegations about a large number of current and former police officers alleged to have been involved in multiple rapes, drug deals, extortion, perversion of the course of justice, sexual misconduct, abuse of power, bringing the police into disrepute, abduction and kidnapping, fraud and a range of other crimes. Multiple police districts and National Headquarters are involved. There is far, far more than we have published in this major investigation.

The magazine is calling for an immediate, full Royal Commission of Inquiry into the performance of the New Zealand Police, with wide terms of reference and full powers to subpoena, compel and take evidence on oath. Our informants do not believe the police have sufficient integrity to investigate these allegations against senior officers, and no other independent law enforcement agency exists capable of investigating the police.

Comments

[Paula]

And your sins WILL find you out

[milkguy]

Ian you the man.Just one question though did the pig consent or was it raped.Ian keep up the good work.

[AcidComments]

Good one Ian W.

And for all those individuals out there running around like headless chickens calling for tougher actions against the gangs and unworld criminals. You'll never clean them up unless you clean up the crap in the top echelons of police, judiciary, politics, Govt and big business, because certain individuals and Govt depts have contracts with the gangs and criminal underworld to either do their dirty work for them or for profit!

[fletch]

Bought the magazine this afternoon - good work!

[Shane Ponting]

Hopefully my copy will be in the mail tomorrow. I have no idea when my sub runs out....

[dad4justice]

Ian, I take my hat off to you sir, well done to the Investigate Magazine team, as this could be the final countdown for another liarbour party shrill puppet. Mr Broad must step down tomorrow, because police integrity is already in the gutter and no amount of rhetoric can explain this lewd behaviour as acceptable from a commissioner.

[Paul Marsden]

D4J. I wouldn't be surprised if it was by 11pm tonight.

[Oswald Bastable]

Light the blue touch paper and stand well clear!

[andrei]

Paul if you see the resignation of Howard Broad by 11pm tonight this press release from the Police is going to look very silly

Commissioner Responds to Allegations

And in the scheme of things, revolting as this movie incident may be, it is not the central feature of these allegations which will still have to be addressed.

Is it possible thatt there may be an attempt to keep the focus on this part of the story to keep the other stuff in the background?

[Mawm]

Points 5 & 6 - no wonder the police will not prosecute Clark or Labour, they know too much.

Was the Bazeley report just a white wash - show some of the dirty deeds to command the attention of the public and the rest can be swept under the carpet?

[Grant Philpott]

In November 1978 I was nearly killed in a collision with a police dog van that was driven through a red light in Christchurch.
I was carted off to hospital soon after the collision. While lying in shock on a table at the hospital, waiting to be x-rayed for a suspected broken neck, the boss( a sargeant) of the policeman that caused the collision came in and tried to get me to admit to commiting traffic offences. Realising he was trying to entrap me, I told him to f_ _k off.
At the time I was a Customs Officer. The Police at the Airport where I worked were told not to speak to me. I later found out from a Customs dog handler that the policeman that caused the collision(Constable Stock) had an apalling record of motor vehicle crashes.
The Ministry of Transport refused to do anything about it because it involved the police.
Somebody got to my lawyer and he never took the police to court within the one year statute of limitation.
Thus my introduction to New Zealand's injustice system.

[AcidComments]

In the 70s the MOT had a policy not to employ honest traffic officers. That was from the horses mouth of one of senior MOT officers in Auckland during the period.

[Psycho Milt]

I well remember the first porn video I saw, must have been 1983. No animals involved - although, if there had been, I and the rest of the drunken buffoons present probably would have watched anyway. Not at my house either - VCRs were luxury items back then. I'm fairly sure though, that I could reveal this admittedly unflattering fact to my current employers without risking dismissal, and without anybody suggesting it might render me unfit to condemn rapists for their crimes.

[Shout Above The Noise]

The Howard Broad 'down on the farm' revelation is a side issue. Much worse are the actions of Det Sgt Milton Weir for example - it seems he acted like a legalized mafia don.

[dad4justice]

At least the Mafia don't use the sexual baton on fellow mobsters .They just use the lead pill theory .Whether they watch animal farm porno crap is doubtful, but the cops do , great stuff for integrity levels !!

These blue pig thugs should be thrown in jail - and big tuff blue uniform rapist pigs' are scum , worthy of the stinking offal pit !!

[andrei]

What about

10. That police have maintained files on key politicians and public figures capable of being used to blackmail the government, judges, lobby groups and even police association members into supporting the status quo

That's J. Edgar Hoover territory.

[Gooner]

How can 'current' coalition MP Matt Robson be complicit? (6).

[Karen]

are you kidding? i can't believe you have to dig up a 25 year old indescretion to make news, or even to make a point about police culture.

[Barnsley Bill]

Karen read the whole story

[fletch]

Karen, you just have to read it- it's shocking to say the least. You'll come away shaking your head at the dishonesty and downright corruption.