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It is not known how long the device had been operational.
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Rickards faces disciplinary ch
Suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards will face an internal disciplinary hearing after being accused of 11 charges of misconduct.
Rickards was suspended in February 2004 when police launched an investigation into the Louise Nicholas rape allegations.
He was acquitted on the sex charges but the case prompted an internal police investigation into his behaviour.
Rickards' battle to keep his job as one of New Zealand' top police officers has taken a knock with the internal charges over alleged misconduct.
If found guilty on any he can be sacked, demoted or fined by the Police Commissioner.
"It's serious in the context of a police officer's employment. Depending on the outcome of the process, the police officer can be disciplined in the context of his job," says Andrew Scott-Howman, employment relations lawyer.
Rickards and former policemen Bob Schollum and Brad Shipton were acquitted of sex allegations in March.
The woman who started it all, Louise Nicholas, has nothing to do with the internal charges, and she does not plan to speak out, but left ONE News a message.
"Rickards has publicly stated that he was going to take me to court and he was going to sue me and all this sort of stuff. So I'm just going to lay off and not say anything at this stage," Nicholas says in the message.
Some of the disciplinary charges are believed to relate to Rickards' behaviour after the trial, such as admitting to group sex, harshly criticising the investigation team that put him before the courts, wearing his police uniform during the trial, and over allegations he had had sex with a woman on the bonnet of a police car in the 1980s.
Rickards' lawyer, John Haigh, says all 11 charges will be defended.
Queen's counsel Peter Salmon will head the Tribunal to decide Rickards' fate and he will not begin hearing the case until February .
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