Police Minister's Ship Going Down With Sinking Rats

MEDIA RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE

17 MAY 2007

Police Minister Annette King has gone heavily into bat for what now appears to be one of the most bent police forces in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's already looking shaky.

Investigate editor Ian Wishart spent much of Wednesday talking to a number of police sources before putting a list of questions to Police Commissioner Howard Broad late Wednesday for his comment before they are released.

"Howard Broad is a drunkard. He has an alcohol problem and engages in what fellow officers have described to the magazine as 'offensive behaviour' and on the basis of the evidence now given to Investigate by Broad's colleagues, we believe he is unfit for the job. We are awaiting Broad's response to this and a range of fresh information.

"I had not expected to be looking into Howard Broad's problems in such detail," said Wishart, "but the media's concentration on Broad and refusal to examine more serious allegations in the magazine has actually backfired on the Commissioner: more police have come forward to us with stories about Broad's many indiscretions while stationed around the country.

"While Annette King attacked Wayne Idour in Parliament this afternoon over flashes of porn scenes cut into a training tape by Dunedin's police photography unit," senior police sources revealed to Investigate that Police College staff routinely screened porn and a bestiality movie called "Animal Farm" for recruits in the mid-1970s, the time that Howard Broad graduated. This too was apparently for "training" purposes and happened under the supervision of Senior Sergeant Evan Jordan, apparently with the approval of Police National Headquarters."

Former Detective Sergeant Tom Lewis has also cast fresh doubt on the versions of the bestiality screening put forward by Howard Broad.

Speaking from Australia, Lewis has told Investigate that the idea of 100 police officers and their mates holding a fundraiser in 1981 by screening "old Ranfurly Shield games" on a projector is a fabrication.

Lewis says film footage of old Ranfurly Shield matches did not exist on home movie format in 1981, and the idea that 100 cops had gathered to watch a fellow policeman's shaky home movie of an entire game is ludicrous.

He's told Investigate he was aware of a number of similar fundraisers, and the drawcard was usually the latest pornographic movies seized by police. Like Wayne Idour, he says they were not functions normally attended by women.

He recalls on one occasion two of his junior staff, Gordon Hunter and Jim Stacey, discussing the porn movies they'd viewed at a police rugby fundraiser, and he says that may have been the one at Howard Broad's house.

Lewis also scoffs at former Detective Peter Gibbons' claim that everyone left the room when the movie came on.

"Is he expecting people to believe that a hundred people suddenly crammed into Howard Broad's kitchen, and that Broad then asked Gibbons and Gordon Hunter to tell the one person in the lounge to turn the movie off, using his prime authority as the householder, but that the person in the lounge refused and neither Howard Broad nor Peter Gibbons did anything? That's almost an even bigger indictment on their policing and decision making ability than watching the bestiality movie in the first place!"

It is also, says Lewis, impossible to believe.

"In my view Peter Gibbons has a vested interest. He's a close mate of Broad's, and he also gets a lot of his private detective work from Dunedin Police. So it's in Gibbons' best interests to support the police on this," opines Lewis.

Wayne Idour's recollection is that the party was in fact Broad's going away party in the mid 80s, and Lewis also remembers Broad's impending promotion to Christchurch just before Lewis quit in 1986.

"If it wasn't 1981, but in fact 85 or early 86, then Broad would have been approaching 30 years of age."

Investigate's editor Ian Wishart says significant new information has come to light about Broad and other members of his management team at Police National Headquarters, information that should be put before a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Police Corruption.

Comments

[Psycho Milt]

Aren't you even slightly ashamed to be putting your name to this back-biting gossip-fest and trying to call it news?

[dad4justice]

I am glad Tom Lewis has spoken up about the dirty rotten corrupt piggy wiggy's, who tell lots of porkies !!
It was terrible what the filth bully boy spineless pigs did to his son and daughter !!

[Colin M]

Back biting gossip fest huh. Sorry, as much as I dislike this kind of stuff, Ms Clark started it by refusing to acknowledge the corruption allegations and personally attacking Ian and his sources. Remember the Brash furor? This seems to be how the labour party (and their lackies, eh sonic) operates, ignore the substance of the message and attack the messenger.

[PWC]

Two things a cop doesnt like. Crims and ex cops in no particular order. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Personal experience of the goings on in Dunedin and other places in the south are just reminders of my time in the job and the attitudes even prior to the 1980s

[Psycho Milt]

"This seems to be how the labour party (and their lackies, eh sonic) operates, ignore the substance of the message and attack the messenger."
And based on the media release above, the right's answer is to dive straight into the distraction, instead of concentrating on the important stuff? Excellent plan, that'll really work...

[Gooner]

Psycho - my thoughts precisely.

[ian]

Milt, Gooner...this is what is called point by point rebuttal of Beehive spin.

Like it or lump it, this is where the battlefield set by Clark and Co is, so this is where I'm going to have to meet them.

They have put Broad's and Gibbons' integrity in play, and I have no choice but to expose these men.

It isn't gossip, nor is it backbiting, and there is more to come.

I'm in this to get a Commission of Inquiry on behalf of those whose voices can't be heard because of the corruption exemplified by yesterday's parliamentary attack...

I could prattle on about the wider issue, and indeed I do and have...but I'm not going to be outflanked on the minor one either, because in itself it has enough powder to blow the Commissioner off his perch and some of his cronies with him.

NHQ probably failed to appreciate how much the rank and file think they are hypocrites.

Did you know that one of the senior boffins at PNHQ is nicknamed "Chookfeeder"?

Classic.

[peter]

Yes Colin M we all remember the Don Brash furore. We remember who was promoting and defending Don Brash. We remember which investigative magazine failed to highlight the matters that were so brilliantly exposed by "The Hollow Men".

We also remember how Don Brash, screaming and kicking, resigned from Leader of the Opposition, and then from Parliament, all within a couple of weeks.

It is nonsense to blame the Government for the current discussions about a bestiality movie 26 years ago. It was Investigate Magazine that put the story out, and it is the same party that is desperately trying to sustain media and public interest.

Tapu Misa in her column yesterday put this all into perspective.

John Robinson has put Wayne Idour's credibility into further doubt.

I don't see any Royal Commission of Inquiry any time soon.

[sonic]

Spen $7.99 and bought your magazine yesterday Ian. I must say I was struck by how much of your material was sourced from Tom Lewis, you sure about his credibilty?

[John Boy]

I'm grateful Ian is hanging on to this.

I would rather he'd laugthed of Helen's stupid comments on radio or turned a death ear but that's done and can be dropped if he wants.

There must be some very nervous policemen out there about now. At last they know some one is watching the watchers. About time too. Not so funny after all is it boys?

[bobb]

It amazes me that this comes as such a surprise to the public. Or infact I don't think in a lot of cases it does just certains sectors of the media protray it aas some great surprise. The Police are corrupt, the Customs service is Corruppt CYF's is at best incompetent anlong with the prison service, need I go on. It is about time that this was bought into the public arena and some truth was told. I know from personal experience these swines are bent and it is not just the ones in the cities you have mentioned this is far more widespread than it has been reported to this point.

[peter]

Bobby

Investigate will be grateful for your sweeping statements like

"The police are corrupt"
"Customs are corrupt"

Remember Don Brash's claims:

"The government is corrupt"

Where is Don Brash now?

Of course extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists are perfect. Reading about Jerry Falwell in today's NZH I had my doubts. Did he really support separtism in USA and apartheid in South Africa?

A truer statement is this:

Extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists are conservative and greedy. Is that a compliment? a fact? a right?

[Andrew Davies]

Peter, you are like a stuck record, even more than usual for extreme left wing atheist fundamentalists.

[Fletch]

Peter, I read Tapu Misa's column yesterday, too. Again, she's only commenting on the Broad video allegations which is the story that the mainstream media has picked up and run with. She obviously hasn't even read the whole Investigate article. I emailed her as much yesterday.

[aladin]

"Howard Broad is a drunkard. He has an alcohol problem..."

And how does the saying go? ...at least he'll be sober in the morning, but Ian, sorry to say, will still be a deluded, paranoid psycho.

Linda A

[bobb]

Just because Don Brash has gone does not mean he was wrong. yes perhaps Ians comments appear outlandish but unfortunately they may well be th reality. If it is the reality which it appears are we not all deluding ourselves byshooting the messenger and not lokking into his claims

[bobb]

Oh and I forgot to mention your reference to right wing fundamentalists was obviously not directed at me I wont go into my views on religion certainly aren't right wing or christian (muslim or any other). This is not a secular or religous issue, It has nothing to do with the bretheren or any other group. This is a bout high level corruption across a broad spectrum of government Authorities and granted not just this government, the last one and probably several before it. This is not so much a political issue simply an issue of justice or lack of it. How can anyone have confidence in the system when the system is so self governed and mismanaged that it does not have the ability to find criminals in its own organisation but professes to be able to recognise them in the public arena.

[peasant]

Peter's tactics, along with his fellow travellers in the media, echo those of Goebbels.

Repeat..
The Jooooos are Eeevill!!!
The Jooooos are Eeevill!!!
The Jooooos are Eeevill!!!
Extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists!!!
Extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists!!!
Extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists!!!
ad infinitum until it enters peoples subconscious. Then you no longer have to listen to arguments from your opponents, as they are no longer human.

Peter, you are a sorry excuse for a liberal

[Inventory2]

Add to that:

David Bain is innocent!
David Bain is innocent!
David Bain is innocent!

[usabikes]

Jerry Falwell ... Extreme right wing Christian fundamentalists are conservative and greedy. Is that a compliment? a fact? a right?

Rev Falwell, with all his faults, (more imagined than real I believe) wasn't without some insight.

From the Washington Post:~
"(Gerry Falwell) came to understand that if people of faith were not engaged in the
larger culture, eventually the culture would move in a direction so hostile
to its values it would be difficult to live in that culture," said Ralph
Reed Jr., former executive director of the Christian Coalition. "If the
culture becomes polluted, then ultimately the church and the faith community
suffer."

Falwell also built Christian elementary schools, the Elam Home for alcohol
and drug-dependent men and the Liberty Godparent Home for unwed mothers."

Not just a blow-hard. What have you done to help others less fortunate Peter? Kind of inspiring isn't it?