The Independent Police Conduct Authority released a 135-page report on Tuesday detailing allegations made against the former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming and the police’s response to them.
McSkimming pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material last week.
Instead of investigating allegations made against McSkimming, the police used accusatory emails sent by the complainant, to charge her with sending harmful digital communications.
The police response to the complaints was “an unquestioning acceptance of Mr McSkimming’s narrative of events”.The allegations arose from a sexual relationship that began in 2016 between McSkimming, who was then 40, and Ms Z, an unsworn police staffer who was then 21, the report said.
After the relationship ended in 2018, McSkimming told his supervisor Ms Z was threatening and blackmailing him.
From 2018, Ms Z allegedly sent hundreds of emails to McSkimming and other police staff, made various posts to social media and lodged complaints with the police hotline, detailing allegations against McSkimming, including of sexual interaction without consent and threats to use intimate video recordings, the report noted.
In January 2024, Ms Z’s emails were used to charge her with harmful digital communication towards McSkimming.
The current police commissioner, Richard Chambers, described the actions and attitudes laid out in the report as “inexcusable” and apologized to Ms Z, who he said was ignored and badly let down.
“The ambitions of a senior police officer were put above the interests of a vulnerable woman.”...
.... to say nothing of falsely accusing her of a crime when she was reporting a criminal sexual assault against her
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