Allegations that serving and former police officers were involved in crimes including rape and drug-taking will not be investigated by the Police Complaints Authority.
Investigate editor Ian Wishart, who wrote an article exposing an alleged seedy side of the Dunedin Police, renewed his call for a commission of inquiry into the claims, saying police investigating themselves was a "Mickey Mouse situation".
No one would make a formal complaint in a system that could not be trusted, he said. "There is a huge conflict of interest ... which was exactly the point of my article."
The Investigate magazine claimed that Dunedin police officers were involved in corruption, drug-taking, rape and child-sex rings, it also revealed that a pornographic film involving bestiality with a chicken was screened in 1981 in the Dunedin home of Howard Broad, now the Commissioner of Police.
Mr Broad has admitted the film was screened but said he was unaware it had happened until later.
Police Complaints Authority head Justice Lowell Goddard, QC, said yesterday that no claims from the magazine required investigation or action by the authority without specific complaints.
Policewatch says it past the time that a truly independant Authority be established rather than stakeholders under appointment.
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