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30 July 2007
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Police sanitise recruit failin
A senior police executive appears to have misled the prime minister and the public by sanitising an official report to justify the police recruiting campaign.
Dominion Post investigations reveal that a report by human resources general manager Wayne Annan - claiming new recruits were brighter than serving police officers - omitted the test results of recruits who had done poorly.
The report was touted to the public and the highest levels of government as justifying the recruiting campaign.
Prime Minister Helen Clark may have inadvertently misled Parliament when she used it to defend police and claim that the new recruiting regime was tougher.
The police have been under pressure to deliver a Labour election promise, in a confidence and supply agreement with NZ First, of 1000 new recruits by 2009.
Police have consistently tried to deny evidence of the plummeting standard of police recruits, and appear to have ignored warnings of the problem from their own staff.
A secret report into recruit standards by Police College trainer Iain Saunders, uncovered by The Dominion Post last month, revealed internal alarm about the growing numbers of substandard recruits - one of whom had to be taught the alphabet.
The Annan report and the Saunders report are based on the same recruitment information, but contradict each other.
When The Dominion Post asked for documents containing that information, headquarters staff initially claimed they did not exist and then refused to release them.
Some censored documents were eventually provided on Friday after intervention by the ombudsman.
The complete document - seen by The Dominion Post - shows that graphs used to defend the recruiting campaign have been sanitised.
Thirty-three recruits who scored poorly - 18 per cent of the sample - were omitted from one graph, and one low scorer, who should not have been allowed into Police College, was left off another.
Mr Annan and Police Commissioner Howard Broad refused to meet The Dominion Post on Friday to discuss the inaccuracies, and whether they were deliberate or a mistake.
Police Minister Annette King launched a third investigation into the standard of recruits in response to the Saunders report, but said at the time that she had been assured the standards of police graduates had been maintained.
Ms King and Miss Clark would not comment further till the report was finished, which was expected to be in September.
The Saunders report described Mr Annan's data as "inaccurate, misleading and poorly interpreted" and noted "police risk significant embarrassment" if the truth came out.
Mr Saunders, who is understood to be on special leave, would not comment, and referred all questions to police headquarters.
Police headquarters refused to comment while the third investigation was under way.
Former recruit trainers, however, say headquarters has long ignored warnings about the standard of recruits slipping.
Former Police College training manager Craig Cameron said Mr Saunders' report was an accurate reflection of what was happening at the college at the time.
He and his colleagues had repeatedly warned management of the problem with recruits, but had been ignored.
"It's very concerning. Why was (management) so unreceptive to the red-flagging of the situation?"
Former police psychologist Jonathan Black raised concerns that recruit standards were slipping in the late 1990s.
He also said his concerns had been ignored.
Mr Annan's report was "smoke and mirrors", he said.
"When a senior manager can publish something like this and hold it up as gospel (it) is very alarming."
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