New Zealand Public Service Commission (PSC) are responsible for managing the recruitment process of Police’s Executive Leadership Team.
On 6 March 2025, Public Service Commissioner Brian Roche received his independent review of Deputy Commissioner of Police appointment process report. (Strangely, his media release was not until 11 November – 8 months later)
Roche’s media release states:
– “We take this extremely seriously”
– “Commission responded immediately by strengthening our appointment processes & introducing new safeguards. This has been a wake-up call”
– “This doesn’t absolve us from the need to do better”
– Commission has introduced a number of improvements to strengthen future appointments. “These changes were necessary to maintain public trust in how senior appointments are made”
MERELY LIP SERVICE! PSC’s Deputy Police Commissioners appointment process continued to be appalling irresponsible! Public should not trust PSC’s involement in senior (Police) appointments!
On 2 December, Mark Mitchell appeared in front of the Justice select committee. From the 2 hours 17 minutes mark of this video, he said “I paused that process to make sure PSC double-checked all due diligence was done properly & every avenue was exhausted”. ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! PSC’s Deputy Police Commissioners integrity check process was insufficient/unacceptable, to say the least!
12 times up to 5 Senior PSC personnel totally ignored my very constructive & relevant input!
PSC did not even contact me – as they should have done as part of their integrity check – to determine the credibility of my claims!
I went to CONSIDERABLE effort to try to get the best Deputy Police Commissioner appointments for the Country’s sake – in return, I was TOTALLY IGNORED by PSC!
Note below my repeated “My STRONG recommendation is police are in DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite rightly Disgusted by police’s internal research … , responding with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements!!” 🙂 “
PSC are appalling irresponsible recruiters!
On 26 July 2025, “New Deputy Police Commissioners Recruitment Process” emailed Alex Chadwick – Deputy Commissioner Workforce, Heather Baggott – Deputy Commissioner & Rebecca Kitteridge – Deputy Commissioner.
“To ensure Quality appointments for the sake of the Country, mark mitchell MUST RECUSE himself from the process – No more of his ‘old boys network’ Poor quality appointments…!)
The attached will give you good from-the-Public’s perspective insight into all/most of the likely internal applicants. None of them deserve to be appointed as a new Deputy Commissioner! If they caN’t be trusted with a ‘little’ thing like Very Simply addressing widespread pnhq corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty; they caN’t be trusted with ‘bigger’ responsibilities!
Mike Pannett – page 10
Jill Rogers – pages 23 & 24
That in 4.5 years I could Not find a Single Responsible leader within pnhq…!, Proves police are in DIRE need of new EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite rightly Disgusted by police’s Own research referenced at https://realnzpolice.com/immediate-resignation-andrew-coster/ , responding with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements!!” 🙂 “
No response.
On 4 October; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Monica Dunkley – Principal Advisor, Kitteridge & Brian Roche – Commissioner. “Very Disappointing to see Yet Again (‘thanks’ to mark mitchell) the application process was Rushed!! Vacancy posted on 18 August – applications closed on 31 August …
By Rushing application process, EXTERNAL potential applicants are effectively eliminated – they had Little time to research the opportunity!
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The attached will give you Good from-the-Public’s perspective insight into all/most of the likely internal applicants. None of them deserve to be appointed as a new Deputy Commissioner! If they caN’t be trusted with a ‘little’ thing like Very Simply addressing widespread pnhq personal corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty; they caN’t be trusted with ‘bigger’ responsibilities!
Mike Pannett – page 11
Jill Rogers – pages 24 & 25
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As per research of their Own personnel, police DEFINITELY have a Tribal culture which values loyalty Over integrity! … Culture woN’t improve until there are EXTERNAL Senior appointments with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements” attitude. If there are External applicants, for the Public’s sake, PLEASE recommend them ahead of what Will be Apathetic/Irresponsible internal applicants”.
No response.
On 5 October; emailed Baggott (photo below), Chadwick, Dunkley & Kitteridge. “After reading the DC position description, I updated the attached police performance complaint …
Mike Pannett – page 11 &12
Jill Rogers – pages 25 & 26
As the WORST ‘offenders’ in this performance complaint are under Pannett’s command and for 4+ months & counting he has Repeatedly done Absolutely Nothing to address their Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty (or Even responded to me), Pannett is Definitely NOT Deputy Commissioner ‘material’.
Jill Rogers did her colleagues a disservice by ignoring this complaint first time around in July 2024. Then, it was ‘only’ 20 pages in length. Now, it is 39 pages. Rogers’ neglect of duty meant another 19 pages of her colleagues’ corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty over an additional year plus was exposed …
IPCA research of police personnel concluded police DEFINITELY have a Tribal culture which values loyalty Over integrity. Rogers (32 years NZ police veteran) & Pannett (44 years) Absence of action with my complaint Reinforce the Validity of that research!
… (& mitchell’s) ‘belief’ there is a leadership talent pool within police is a Myth.
IPCA’s research also concluded:
– police have an autocratic culture based on diversity of thought Intolerance!
– significant number of those in managerial positions have little emotional intelligence & few managerial or people skills!
Even though the research is 4.5 years old, I have Not experienced Anything over that period to indicate any initiatives to address/improve the numerous cultural deficiencies…
police’s culture woN’t Start to improve until there are EXTERNAL Senior appointments with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements” attitude. If there are External applicants, for Public’s sake, PLEASE recommend them ahead of what Will be Apathetic/Irresponsible internal applicants.
If there are no external applicants, I STRONGLY recommend the recruitment process be extended & Direct effort occur to attract such applicants 🙂
Enough of these, at Best, MEDIOCRE appointments … (‘thanks’ to mark mitchell).”
No response.
On 7 October; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche.
“https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575186/the-final-four-contenders-for-deputy-commissioner-of-police … what a ‘great’ bunch of ‘quality’ candidates!!
Wasting Your time interviewing mike pannett – WORST ‘offenders’ in attached performance complaint are under Pannett’s command and for 4+ months & counting he has Repeatedly done Absolutely Nothing to address their Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty (or Even responded to me)!!
I emailed pannett & rogers on Sunday – Monica was cced on them – rogers’ one is attached. Even though they are on the Deputy Commissioner shortlist, Neither of them have responded to me!! If I was them, would have thought on Monday “Shit, for sake of Minimising potential negative influence on securing DC role, I’m Immediately actioning & Today responding to Flanagan’s request!!” …
First interview question to pannett & rogers Should be “If Public member emails you about Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty of police personnel, what would you do?”. I’m sure they will respond along lines of “I’d Immediately respond to the Public member & initiate an investigation/review of their complaint. The Police values of empathy, integrity, professionalism & respect are Very dear to my heart. It is Extremely important to me I model high conduct standards to my subordinates”.
Interviewers’ response is “‘Interesting’. Does the name Andrew Flanagan ‘ring a bell’ to you? Let’s discuss how you ‘handled’ his complaint about Corruption and Serious Misconduct & Neglect of duty of police personnel”.
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‘Living in hope’ my STRONG recommendation is at Least being considered/discussed – police are in DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite rightly Disgusted by police’s internal research … , responding with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements!!” 🙂
P.S. Wonder if Tony Hill, Canterbury District Commander applied – if so, Should have been interviewed instead of Waste-of-time pannett.”
No response.
On 14 October; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche. “My police ‘grievance’ is Not that they Have investigated/reviewed my performance complaint & I am not satisfied with the outcome. My grievance is police, for No valid reason, have TOTALLY IGNORED my complaint for 2 years! While claiming their values include empathy, integrity, professionalism & respect!!
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pannett/rogers have Repeatedly TOTALLY IGNORED my police performance complaint addressing requests since 29 May 2025/13 July 2024!
Should you (Highly Questionable integrity) recommend pannett &/or rogers for the Deputy Commissioner (DC) roles; NZ will have… 1/2 DC who are Absolutely fine with TOTALLY IGNORING police misbehaviour!!
Again, Neither of these ‘characters’ have Any justification for Totally Ignoring my police performance complaint. As they are both police veterans & ‘Binned’ my 40 pages complaint, ‘hate’ to know how Much police misbehaviour they have ‘swept under the carpet’ over the decades.
‘Living in hope’ my STRONG recommendation occurs – police are in DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite rightly Disgusted by police’s internal research … , responding with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements” 🙂 “
No response.
On 30 October; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley & Kitteridge. “…for the Country’s sake, I hope you didN’t recommend jill rogers (or… , especially, mike pannett) for the DC roles.
…pannett/rogers have Repeatedly TOTALLY IGNORED my police performance complaint addressing requests since … 29 May 2025/13 July 2024!
Should you recommend …, pannett &/or rogers for DC roles; NZ will have … 1/2 DC who are Absolutely fine with TOTALLY IGNORING Serious police misbehaviour!!
Again, Neither of these ‘characters’ have Any justification for Totally Ignoring my police performance complaint. As they are both police veterans & ‘Binned’ my 40 pages complaint, ‘hate’ to know how Much police misbehaviour they have ‘swept under the carpet’ over the decades.
‘Living in hope’ my STRONG recommendation occurs – police are in DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal research … , responding with “Nowhere close to good enough, time for Major improvements” 🙂 “
No response.
On 6 November; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley & Kitteridge. “…for the Country’s sake, I hope you didN’t recommend jill rogers (or…, especially, mike pannett) for the DC roles.
Employment Lawyer who realises too police have Big cultural problems – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577953/extent-of-police-falsifying-breath-tests-unfathomable-employment-lawyer
Recently, rogers has been Assistant Commissioner of Leadership, Talent & Development – responsible for “… all training & development”. As such, rogers has to be held accountable for:
– widespread pnhq corruption and serious misconduct & neglect of duty
– absence of resolution leadership throughout pnhq
– very dysfunctional culture which covers up each other’s misbehaviour & blocks the Public from accessing the escalation process, because they Hate accountability
– ultimately, Not addressing police’s Tribal culture which values loyalty Over integrity!
‘Living in hope’ my STRONG recommendation occurs – police are in DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal conduct/culture research.”
No response.
On 11 November; “PSC canNOT Recommend pannet or rogers for New Deputy Commissioners (DC) Positions” emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche (photo below).
“…I started to read (IPCA McSkimming report reference) …, mike pannett & jill rogers Have behaved/conducted themselves in a way which Will bring them & NZ Police into disrepute!
On page 13; it infers mike pannett & jill rogers would have been asked in their interview “Is there anything you need to disclose about your integrity, conduct or behaviour – either past or present – that could bring you or NZ Police into disrepute?”
If answered “No”, they are Not being truthful.
If answered “Yes” & mentioned my complaint, their behaviour is Still Irresponsible!
As per attached:
pannett – pages 11 & 12
rogers – 26 & 27
I have Continued to contact the mike/jill weekly/twice weekly throughout the DC recruitment process – Still ZERO response from them! … Look forward to seeing my below STRONG recommendation occur – police are in Most DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal conduct/culture research.”
No response.
On 13 November; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche.
“At https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/statement-police-commissioner-richard-chambers-ipca-findings , I read with interest “Earlier this year, I invited Public Service Commission to conduct Performance Improvement Review into Police – focusing on integrity & conduct”
Attached are 2 inputs to that review:
– “6.2” summarises my 4.75 years experience dealing with predominantly pnhq personnel. ‘Good luck’ finding ANY acceptable conduct & integrity!
– “82” is my feedback on chambers’ Executive restructure early this year. After Gutting ‘conduct & integrity’ leadership, chambers is now reviewing conduct & integrity – Really!? …
Always/Very often these reviews do Not include end customers like me – so they are Not truly reflective i.e. personnel will rank their conduct & integrity Higher than customers experience!
As the purpose of police is to Serve the Public, are chambers &/or you ‘brave’ enough to Actively engage me in this review. Yes I will Quite Rightly be a Tough taskmaster – to the Benefit of police & the Public 🙂
Or – as I have seen police do before! – does chambers Just want a report where he can Cherry pick a good result, pat himself on the back & then put it in a drawer never to be seen again?
Be brave – take up my offer 🙂 …
Look forward to hearing from you & seeing my STRONG recommendation occur – police are in Most DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal conduct/culture research.”
No response.
(On 16 December; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche “Disappointing, though par for the course, you did Not even acknowledge my police conduct & integrity review inputs or take up my offer!
Look forward to seeing my below STRONG recommendation occur – police are in Most DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal conduct/culture research.”
No response)
On 1 December; emailed Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley, Kitteridge & Roche. “A reminder jill rogers & mike pannett are Not competent & credible leaders to be promoted to, non Or statutory, Deputy Commissioners (DC).
I am acting with Integrity by Forewarning you – acting withOut integrity would have been keeping quiet in the hope PSC recommended pannett &/or rogers…
Look forward to seeing my STRONG recommendation occur – especially given chambers appointment, police are in MOST DIRE need of at least 1 EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment. Somebody who is Not tainted by NZ police’s Super Stubborn Tribal culture which values loyalty Over integrity/will be quite Rightly Disgusted by police’s internal conduct & culture research.”
No response.
On 3 December, “WARNING: Police Deputy Commissioners (DC) appointment process” emailed Roche (ccing Baggott, Chadwick, Dunkley & Kitteridge) with 2 pages letter. “Since 26 July 2025, I have been corresponding with you &/or your people about this process. As nobody has responded, time has come to cc others into my correspondence so they have pre-existing record of my warnings before the DCs are announced.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you have not already done so, NOW is the time to organize & document a meeting with chambers, luxon & mitchell to discuss my STRONG recommendation Police are in DIRE need of new EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment.
I have conducted myself with integrity. Hoping pannett &/or rogers were promoted, I could have deceitfully kept quiet.”
No response.
On 15 December, emailed Baggott & Roche “A reminder jill rogers & mike pannett are Not competent & credible leaders to be promoted to, non Or statutory, Deputy Commissioners. I am acting with Integrity by Forewarning you… I will ‘take it’ that You have Not done Any integrity check with me means they are Not ‘in the running’ to be appointed.
Again, MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you have not already done so, NOW is the time to organize & document a meeting with chambers, luxon & mitchell to discuss my STRONG recommendation for the Country’s sake Police are in DIRE need of new EXTERNAL Deputy Commissioner appointment.”
No response.
On 17 December, “Mike Pannett named as new deputy police commissioner!!!!“ emailed Baggott & Roche. “Despite ALL my warnings, which did Not result in Any integrity check with me, psc recommended the Worst candidate!!!” …
Also on 17 December, “https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582040/mike-pannett-named-as-new-deputy-commissioner-of-police
second deputy commissioner…, Jill Rogers is widely considered to be frontrunner for the role. Again, Despite ALL my warnings, which did Not result in Any integrity check with me, rogers is the second Worst candidate!!!” emailed Baggott & Roche.
No response.
On 27 January 2026, “Jill Rogers named as new deputy police commissioner!!!!“ emailed Baggott & Roche. “Despite ALL my warnings, which did Not result in Any integrity check with me, psc recommended the Second worst candidate!!!” …
Appallingly Irresponsible Recruiters Confirmation!
On 17 December 2025, submitted “copies of all external & internal communications, messages & reports related to my emails between PSC personnel & any other party it has been commented on or discussed with not limited to Police (richard chambers) or government (christopher luxon &/or mark mitchell)” OIA request.
On 30 January 2026, received “Commission has read & noted the contents of your emails. I am refusing your request for copies of “all external & internal communications…” under section 18(e) of the Official Information Act 1982 on the grounds the information requested does not exist” response.
PSC confirmed they had read my repeated warnings & TOTALLY IGNORED them! The Government’s custodians & ‘enforcers’ of high standards of integrity & conduct are anything but themselves!!
Despite all the 2025 police scandals & Mark Mitchell stating the Deputy Police Commissioners integrity checks were extra thorough, PSC still TOTALLY Ignored my Repeated warnings!!
FFS, Police purpose is to serve the Public – yet PSC TOTALLY Ignored the experience of a Public member who has directly dealt extensively with both appointments about a significant police performance issue! PSC’s Deputy Police Commissioners integrity check process was corrupt!!
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Despite conducting myself with integrity – I could have deviously kept quiet in the hope PSC recommended Pannett & Rogers, they totally ignored my repeated warnings!
PSC did not even contact me – as they should have done as part of their ‘extra thorough’ integrity checks – to determine the credibility of my claims!
This article exposed the casualness/sloppiness of PSC’s senior (government personnel) police appointment process!
– “thorough psc vetting process” did not occur with recently appointed statutory Deputy Commissioners!
– it was “clear there were shortcomings in terms of way reference was obtained from Ms Brazier”
– PSC employee had only recently started conducting reference interviews & had done about 15 “for very different roles”!
– PSC commissioned independent review by Miriam Dean KC into its reference checks & probity processes for senior Police appointments such as Deputy Police Commissioners. “PSC accepted in full Dean Review findings & has implemented improvements to strengthen its appointment processes & disclosure requirements” (While continuing to totally ignore my 12 warnings about the recently appointed statutory Deputy Commissioners!)
A Senior public servant missed out on top job after anonymous unresponsive proton email account tip was investigated (Yet, PSC confirmed they read my 12 warnings about the Deputy Police Commissioners & TOTALLY Ignored them – did not even contact me to determine their validity!)
I went to CONSIDERABLE effort to try to get the best Deputy Commissioner appointments for the Country’s sake – in return, I was TOTALLY IGNORED by PSC!!
PSC are appallingly irresponsible recruiters!
You are amazing with your perseverance but you missed the memo: police purpose is NOT to serve the public. They are the one supposedly public service agency that is NOT for public service. That became the case some years ago now. Look it up.
I’m in top 1% of persistent people 🙂
Shockingly, it currently looks like my Significant police conduct issue won’t be resolved before the election – Despite me Starting the resolution process in October 2023! national, who in 2023 campaigned on being “incredibly serious about law & order” are anything But behind-the-scenes – they are an Embarrassing Mess 🙁
I was Lifetime national supporter Until this government. NO way I’ll vote this year to support Apathetic goldsmith, luxon & mitchell!