The New Zealand Police executive leadership team at Police National Headquarters (PNHQ) during Andrew Coster’s tenure as Commissioner (2020-2024) consisted of the Commissioner and several Tier 2 roles, including multiple Deputy Commissioners and other senior executives overseeing areas like operations, strategy, and resources. Following the recent IPCA report on misconduct (November 2025) and a broader leadership shakeup under new Commissioner Richard Chambers, most of Coster’s team have left their positions, with only Chief Operating Officer Andrea Conlan remaining from that era. Below is a summary of key “other members” (beyond Coster and Jevon McSkimming, the convicted former Deputy Commissioner for Operations) who were part of the executive and are no longer in those roles, based on available records from that period.
Former Deputy Commissioners and Executives
- Tania Kura: Former Deputy Commissioner (Leadership and Capability). She was a key figure in the executive, overseeing people and capability functions. Kura briefly served as Acting Commissioner after Coster’s departure in November 2024 but has since left the role. She was criticized in the IPCA report for her handling of complaints against McSkimming but also cooperated with the inquiry.
- Mike Clement: Former Deputy Commissioner (Strategy and Performance). He served in this role early in Coster’s tenure (around 2020) and was a candidate for Commissioner before Coster’s appointment. Clement retired or left the executive by mid-tenure and is no longer in the position.
- Paul Basham: Former Deputy Commissioner (Resource Management) or similar Tier 2 role (e.g., overseeing finances and assets). He was part of Coster’s leadership team but has since departed PNHQ, as noted in recent reports on the post-Coster overhaul.
The IPCA report highlighted systemic issues within this executive group, including failures in accountability and complaint handling, leading to a government-mandated Inspector General of Police for oversight. The team has been largely replaced under Chambers to restore public trust. If you need details on current members or specific timelines, let me know!
The New Team
The current executive leadership team at New Zealand Police National Headquarters, as of November 2025, consists of the following members based on the official structure. Note that some roles are currently held in a relieving (interim) capacity following recent leadership changes.
- Commissioner of Police: Richard Chambers. He assumed the role on November 25, 2024, and is accountable to the Minister of Police for administration while maintaining independence in law enforcement. His priorities include core policing, frontline support, visible leadership, and fiscal responsibility. Chambers joined Police in 1996 and has held various senior roles in investigations and districts.
- Deputy Commissioner: Northern Districts (relieving): Jill Rogers. She started in this interim role on March 31, 2025, overseeing the Northern Districts (Northland, Waitematā, Auckland City, Counties Manukau, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty), iwi and community partnerships, deployment, road policing, district support, service, victims, and resolutions. Rogers joined Police in 1993, with a background in CIB investigations, and previously served as Assistant Commissioner of Leadership, Talent and Development, and District Commander for Counties Manukau.
- Deputy Commissioner: Central and Southern Districts (relieving): Tusha Penny. She oversees investigations, serious and organised crime, national security, international policing, media and communications, the Firearms Safety Authority, Next Generation Critical Communications, and the Eastern, Central, Wellington, Tasman, Canterbury, and Southern Districts. Penny joined Police in 1992, led reforms in child protection and firearms, and was the first Māori female District Commander (Waitematā in 2016). She is of Ngāti Porou descent.
- Chief Operating Officer: Andrea Conlan. She joined in 2023 and leads people (HR) services, information and technology, finance, policy and planning, capability and infrastructure, legal services, and integrity and conduct. Conlan has prior senior roles at ACC and experience in procurement from PHARMAC and other organizations.
The chief executive of Police is known as the Commissioner and is appointed by the Governor General. Richard Chambers is the current Commissioner of New Zealand Police. The Commissioner of Police is accountable to the Minister of Police for the administration of police services, but acts independently in carrying out law enforcement decisions.
Nationally we have 12 districts, which are administered from Police National Headquarters in Wellington, and a number of national service centres that provide administrative and specialised support, such as forensic services.
Each of the 12 districts have a District Commander and a team of Area Commanders who manage the day-to-day operations. You can find a list of these commanders on the district pages.
So one of them is a dei because they listed their fast track , don’t look at me tag.
Exactly, how many served on the frontline?
Or did they serve their time fighting counts?
Trust the top cops, sure can’t!
Should be,
Or did they serve their time fighting donuts?
Still wont trust them
From the same pool .
Nothing really changes
just who warms the seat.
and
From 2016
A top Hawke’s Bay police officer charged with careless driving may walk away without conviction.
Hawke’s Bay Area Commander Inspector Tania Kura, 49, was on duty in her patrol car when she was involved in a crash with another vehicle on Maraekakaho Rd in Hastings, on November 26 last year.(2015)
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So she crashed into a private citizen while in a cop car
and
got Diversion (i.e. no consequences)
Ok Then!
Kura was on duty and driving a police vehicle at the time.
After an investigation, she was charged with careless driving.
Kura was granted interim name suppression when the matter was first called in Hastings District Court.
Diversion for thee but not for me
Crooked is as crooked does .
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Now watch the piggies squeal and squirm and lie .
Just don’t give them a $130 million surface ship to turn into a submarine .
A very full and completely independent enquiry needs to be held and criminal charges need to be laid – even then I for one will still never have faith in the New Zealand Police Force. Will never forget the Arthur Alan Thomas case. When the funeral was held for that particular policeman who did the planting of the cartridge case was helf high up police spoke about what a wonderful policeman and career he had.
You know as well as anyone on here goo-mint INQUIRIES are a complete sham in ao tear zooland .
with predetermined outcomes.
They are bloodletting events to appease the simple minded .
No Head of an inquiry wants to get get the Erebus Peter Mahon Treatment
They piled in on him like HE was the CRIM .
not all the lying Air NZ execs .
and the fact it was 100% Govt shareholding so protecting the value
make it pilot error and not faulty procedures and communications .
That is the , you know, desired outcome.
Changed INQUIRIES forever
such that they are beyond useless.
lest we forget
10 years ago
Dunnydin again
where Howard Broad was it ? , with cops showing bestiality movies in someone’s house, a cop function in the 1980s
The cops also covered up that Christopher Lewis did take a shot at the queen in Dunnydin in 1981. He missed, obviously but got the shot away . They covered up their slackness .
Didn’t want to look look like incompetent dickheads to international press. How is that working out?
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April 2017 ODT
The public servant (ha ha sworn in cop) who subjected a Dunedin businessman to ‘‘a living hell’’ for two and a-half years has finally been named.
Jeremy Fraser Buis (39) was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court yesterday to 200 hours’ community work and ordered to pay the victim $15,000 after being found guilty of criminal harassment, threatening to do grievous bodily harm and intentional damage, following a week-long, judge-alone trial last month.
Here is how his harassment of victim Danny Pryde – who voluntarily gave up his own name suppression yesterday – unfolded.
June 14, 2012: Jeremy Buis parks his car blocking the rear entrance to Pryde Engineering in Ward St. The car is ticketed after Danny Pryde alerted the council and the pair later have a heated discussion.
15-06-12 The same vehicle is parked in almost the same position.
Mr Pryde sends Buis a text:
clever parking dick head” and takes a photo which he shares on Facebook. The defendant makes a police complaint about alleged damage to his car and writes a letter to the council which sees his parking fine quashed.August 2012: Mr Pryde receives messages to his phone featuring semi-naked pictures of an unknown woman.
March-April 2013: He begins to receive texts from men wanting to meet for sex. The victim discovers his number has been written in various locations at a notorious homosexual hook-up spot. He spray paints over the writing and replaces his phone number with that of the defendant.
19-04-13: Mr Pryde makes a statement to police about the harassment.
23-10-13: He receives a courier bag at work containing a male sex toy.
February-March 2014: Two photos are sent to the Mr Pryde’s phone showing his name graffitied around Dunedin alongside gay slurs.
12-02-14: A fake profile on an internet-dating website is created using photos and contact details of the victim from his work website.
Forensic analysis shows Buis accessed the business page online that day.
28-05-14: Mr Pryde is alerted to the profile by a person wanting to meet him for sex.
March-July 2014: Numerous instances of derivations of the victim’s name being tagged around town.
16-08-14: Mr Pryde receives a text from an unknown number:
You have some ***-up *** coming your way.”22-08-14 – 4-09-14: More instances of tagging around Dunedin.
10-09-14: An improvised paint bomb using a modified light bulb is thrown at Mr Pryde’s business. He says it happened a year earlier too.
Buis searching online for how to make paint-ball grenades around this time.
September 2014: Mr Pryde appears in the Otago Daily Times and receives a disparaging text message from an anonymous source. The same day Buis has a conversation on a messaging app with a colleague during which they deface the photo of the victim with pictures of penises.
21-10-14: Mr Pryde uses a new cellphone to try to unmask the stalker.
2-12-14: The harassment hits its peak. The victim receives a text:
Just make sure your affairs are in order. This last one might sting a bit.”Buy something bullet proof . . . better go to the cops.”9-02-15: Weed-killer is used to write
PRYDEE” in six-foot letters on a rugby ground.24-02-15: Police execute a search warrant at Buis’ home.
They find a note found in his vehicle bearing almost the exact email address used to set up the dating profile and the number of one of the phones used to stalk him. Forensic analysis of the defendant’s laptop finds various photos of the victim and his family that had been saved.
18-04-15: Mr Pryde receives mail sent to his home containing a photo of him vandalised with numerous phallic images. The photo is the same one the defendant had defaced with friends via cellphone app.
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So a serving poo lice officer was seriously harassing a private citizen after the offender parked his car illegally.
It all escalated.
The cops did not reel him in, he was on paid leave for over two years; continued extreme harassment ; still the cops did nothing coz you know, it was under investigation;
and the top cops lied (big fkg surprise) and said Buis was just a public servant, hired help, office staff; not an officer; and lots of other lies .
The cops were as usual bully boys and protecting their own, not the victims of harassment and crime .
So why would anyone be surprised at the latest set of events ?
Cops are the best dressed gang in town.
Have you payed your council IWI racial protection instalment ?
As part of the apartheid system te greenlabour forced on to us you must pay up and not complain about your unaffordable rates, as only 75% will be “assigned” in a monthly payout to ensure “the Gods are now happy” and stupid white woke cows can feel righteously empowered.
We are not required to let you know the amount, so fuck off and pay up.
I have noted the aparrent realtivity of gender and race in so many things that are most a clusterf**k