Guest Post: My experiences of the Police Professional Conduct Unit.....

A guest post by Lucy Rogers on Kiwiblog

My experiences of the Police Professional Conduct Unit: the PPCU, not the IPCA, are the true villains

I knew immediately on the day of my arrest that there was something terribly wrong with police oversight and accountability structures in this country, and said as much in a Kiwiblog article at the time. The impunity with which the Police acted (e.g. not caring or reacting when I recorded their QID numbers, and the fact that they did not bother to delete footage from my phone recording my arrest) told me straightaway that they had got away with this kind of behaviour again and again and again.

Guest Post: Ignore the rumours: the IPCA are awesome

A guest post on Kiwiblog by Lucy Rogers:

It was with slight reservations that in November 2023 I laid a complaint to the Independent Police Conduct Authority about the police wrongfully arresting me. Literally everyone seemed to distrust the IPCA. At first I was cautious but kept an open mind. A few months later this progressed to extreme stress when someone purporting to have firsthand knowledge of the IPCA’s practices told me things about the IPCA that I later discovered to be factually untrue.