{"id":15897,"date":"2025-12-03T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:01:13","slug":"inside-police-commissioner-richard-chambers-first-year-and-how-he-plans-to-rebuild-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15897","title":{"rendered":"Inside Police Commissioner Richard Chambers&#8217; first year and how he plans to rebuild trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A year on from taking the reins as the country&#8217;s top cop, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers sat down with National Crime Correspondent Sam Sherwood to discuss his first fraught year in the job and how he plans to rebuild trust and confidence in police.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sitting in an office on the 8th floor of Police National Headquarters, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers reflects on his first year as the country&#8217;s top cop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my job,&#8221; he begins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year has been tough, no doubt about that. I found myself dealing with a lot of things, but I always knew that that&#8217;s the job that the commissioner has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Chambers, the &#8220;at times chaotic&#8221; year began two days before he took on the role when he was briefed on an investigation into allegations of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/578090\/anatomy-of-a-downfall-how-jevon-mcskimming-s-29-year-police-career-came-to-a-shocking-end\">sexual offending by then Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A month later came another briefing &#8211; child sexual exploitation and bestiality material had been found on McSkimming&#8217;s work devices.<\/p>\n<p>And then, before the year was out the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) released a scathing report into police&#8217;s handling of allegations made about McSkimming, finding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/578534\/serious-misconduct-at-highest-levels-police-slammed-in-ipca-s-mcskimming-report\">serious misconduct at the highest levels<\/a>\u00a0of police &#8211; including former Commissioner Andrew Coster.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging sit-down interview with RNZ, Chambers discusses the last 12 months including the scrapped controversial retail crime thresholds, about 130 police officers under investigation for falsely recording breath tests and how he plans to rebuild trust and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year on from taking the reins as the country&#8217;s top cop, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers sat down with National Crime Correspondent Sam Sherwood to discuss his first fraught year in the job and how he plans to rebuild trust and confidence in police. Sitting in an office on the 8th floor of Police National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15899,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/15899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}