Hundreds of Uninvestigated Child Abuse Files Discovered, Police Lie to Cover It Up, Top Cop Promoted!

Here's Wairarapa Police Area Commander John Johnston, who boasted of his refusal to resign in the wake of the scandalous backlog of hundreds of uninvestigated child abuse complaints ignored by corrupt local police under his corrupt command, arrogantly boasting of his latest corrupt coup.  Here's the link to the story in the Dompost.

And here's the unbelievable story of how the man responsible for this outrageous incompetence and corruption, Detective Sergeant Mark McHattie, was promoted for it!!!!!

Like wily Justice Bill Wilson and John Moss, Dave Archibald and Gary Smith, arrogant, corrupt idiots like Johnston are being rewarded by even bigger taxpayer funded salaries for ignoring child abuse, violence and suicide epidemics in favour of harassing hard working law abiding people like me.

Go to the website of the Masterton Library and click on the link to 'Searches', 'Newspaper Index' (- not sure if that link will work), then type in keywords 'police', 'crime', 'child abuse', murder', 'suicide', etc to see John Johnston's shameful legacy.  Look how arrogant he is with getting away with this latest scandal - being appointed to the newly established role of director of sport with the NZ Police Sports Council, of which he's been chairman for 12 years.  "The position was not advertised." - no, of course not!  The old boys network creates jobs like this for themselves all the time!  And while Johnston and his police mates bleat about not having enough resources, Police waste the precious resources they're given on the Police Sports Council and the Mounted Police and other hobbies of their own.  Suzanne Mackle is being touted my the media as a hero in all this - nothing could be further from the truth!  Mackle wasted her time pursuing the malicious charges resulting in the complaint to the PCA by Michael Appleby, and committed perjury in her unsuccessful attempt to lie to the Masterton Court about the public meeting in Carterton.  She should have been getting on with investigating the child abuse!

Read the other posts on this site, such as those containing the opinions of lawyers,some more lawyers, and ex-police and Ministers of Police for more evidence.  Then do something about it - write to your Members of Parliament, the Prime Minister, and support Transparency in New Zealand in exposing corruption in New Zealand and working toward accountable, competent and honest government.

Meanwhile, local police refuse to take legitimate complaints from law abiding citizens:

Today's correspondence to police:
On Saturday at about 2 pm I was in Wild Oats cafe in Carterton.  Alan Donoghue and his mate Darren were seen touching my bike which was outside tied to a tree with a bicycle lock.  I opened the door and told them to leave my bike alone.  They accused me of stealing Donoghue's bike - which is more lies from him, and absolutely outrageous - given that he has confirmed in his own statement that he's stolen my bike!.  They also both threatened and abused me.

When I retuned to my temporary accommodation several hours later, I found a note from the manager on the door asking to speak with me about an incident that had occurred in my absence.  I was told that Donoghue and his shifty little mate had been round there as well, stalking and harassing me, and spreading their outrageous lies!  

On page 2 of Donoghue's statement - oh no, there's no statement from Donoghue, funny that, this is page 2 of the "Caption Summary" of Constable Wilton - same corrupt constable who refused to take statements from Reynolds and Murphy about the theft by Rachel Taylor - it specifically refers to Donoghue interfering with my bike on that occasion!  

This is a formal complaint that this statement statement from Wilton and others regarding the current charges are an orchestrated litany of lies, and that police are refusing to take my complaints, and refusing to take statements from Reynolds and Friend regarding the thefts of my property by Rachel Taylor, Wayne Friend, Kylie Donnelly and others, and the broken glass and putty throughout the drawers of my dressing table, etc, put there by Friend and others, the damage to the property in my car and the car itself, etc.  Police are ignoring all the evidence of the crimes I complain of and continuing a corrupt campaign of litigation against me based on no evidence or fabricated 'evidence'.

List of stolen property includes:

Acoustic brown wooden guitar, Kasuga brand, in hard case with yellow lining,
Blue electric guitar
Computer
Scanner and printer

Brown leather handbag and contents, high quality with two tapered straps going through a ring to form a backpack, zip on top.  

Clothing, footwear and jewellery

Russell Hobbs electric kettle

Sewing machine
Overlocker

Wheelbarrow

Saddle

Bridle

Chainsaw

I asked Constable Wilton and other police to arrange with the owner of the property for a lock to be put on the door months ago, this is a formal complaint that police demanded that I be bailed to an address where they knew I had previously been the victim of violence, as confirmed by the letter before the Court from lawyer Frank Minehan, and then did nothing about taking my complaints or safeguarding my property or taking statements regarding the theft by Rachel Taylor in particular but also the other complaints of theft and assault -

- I have told police repeatedly that Donoghue put his arms around me and pressed his disgusting little dick against me and said he'd like to have a relationship with me - after I'd told him I didn't like people coming within an arms length of me physically, and wan't at all interested in a relationship on several previous occasions.  He held me for several minutes and I felt physically sick and still do at the thought of it - that's called kidnapping and sexual assault as you know perfectly well.  

He threatened me with the axe on at least two occasions also, and was using it to chop wood aggressively within inches of my bike so I couldn't get at the bike when Harvey Pope arrived at the property in response to his other lies.

The manager tells me that their behaviour was shifty, touching a vehicle, asking questions, etc, the manager doesn't want them here and neither do I.  I want them charged with harassment and ordered to stay well away from me and my bike, and I request that police recover my bike from Donoghue immediately, charge Friend with stealing my guitar, etc and take statements from him and Reynolds about Rachel Taylor's burglary.

Friend is selling drugs from the property, and this is a formal complaint that police continue to ignore his drug dealing and that of Kylie Donnelly.  These people are methamphetamine addicts and steal to support their habits.  Wayne Friend's addictions are well documented, like Donoghue's problems with women.  Friend's mother Karen works in pubs to feed her addictions to alcohol, gambling and cigarettes, Donoghue is just repeating his father's nasty bullying hypocrisy, and sick, perverted sexual predation.

I request that my property be taken from the Carterton Police station to the Post Office for collection because of the many previous occasions when I've gone there to make statements and complaints and been treated with bullying and violence.

I request that you immediately forward the rest of the email from Basher, about my blog and the statements on it, and have him itemise the statements he objects to and advise me why he objects to them.  Also immediately forward any other emails from or to police about me.

Other complaints that local police have refused to investigate are the child abuse complaints I made about Michael Murphy, and the assault on me in the Salvation Army shop by David McKenzie and the theft of my property by him and his staff.

Merlene Chambers or Shedlock or whatever she calls herself stole $50 cash and a considerable amount of property from me as I have told several officers who refuse to investigate the matter.  This woman took a considerable amount of my property to the Salvation Army and David McKenzie accepted it knowing full well it was stolen, and when I went in and identified the property as mine he assaulted me, grabbing my clothing and pushing me out of the shop.  I want him charged with assault and knowingly receiving stolen property, he is a bully who was sacked from his last job for indecent assault of a child.  Chambers/Shedlock admitted to witnesses that she stole my property and disposed of most of it at the Salvation Army, and that she stole my money, now charge her.

Because of the repeated assaults on me by Dallinger, Pope, etc, and corrupt arrests every time I go to the Carterton Police station to report crimes, etc, I don't feel safe going there to collect the property you say is there, have it delivered to the Carterton post office immediately, I'll collect it from there.

Kate Raue

Transparency in New Zealand

Friends of Caring Communities

Photo- Wairarapa Times Age

Here's a link to a story entitled "Region's former police chief quits after 40 years" which was published in the Wairarapa Times-Age on 6 May 2011 apparently.  It's worth trying to locate a copy of this article, but I note it's been removed from the internet, or made extremely difficult to find - I wonder why!

Main Title:		Region's former police chief quits after 40 years [newspaper article]
Author:		Farmer, Don
Source:		Wairarapa Times-Age, Friday, 06 May 2011, p. 1
Summary:		John Johnston will retire from the police force at the end of next month after a 40 year career with the police.
Language:		English
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Here's another link, to an article entitled "Top cop - I have no reason to resign" published May 20th!

Let's Get Growing NZ

Let's Get Growing NZ, in co-operation with Friends of Caring (Cultivating) Communities, is part of a holistic community health initiative which aims to establish Community Gardens, and Community Resource Centres, in every community in NZ.  Kai for Kids and Mahi Mara work to establish vegetable gardens and frut trees in every school, particularly low decile areas, and teach kiwi kids to grow their own kai, cook it, preserve and store it, and trade it.

Imagine a big pot of soup and a big bowl of fruit for hungry kids, food they've grown themselves and taken pride in preparing.  This is primary health care in the community, teaching basic life skills, building self esteem and all sorts of other virtues.  The first day I went to the South End School I took a big basket of peaches off the tree I grew from a stone planted two or three years earlier.  The kids all came running outside into the afternoon sunshine and gobbled up the peaches, then we planted the stones.  Those same children are now eating the peaches from those trees they (we) planted, and the raspberries, etc, it's like magic to them, watching a tiny seed grow to something so amazing and colourful and delicious, then you remind them that it wasn't just magic, it involved a bit of commitment and care, watering and weeding, but that really, when you consider the size of the whole universe, and you look around at our beautiful planet, it really is a little bit magic, the magic of seeds.  By giving seeds and plants to children in schools we can encourage the establishment of gardens in homes, we facilitate tool libraries, time banks, and community markets.

Teaching them about the food value of sprouted seeds, brings in another bit of "magic", as in how the food value increases exponentially to such a hich degree when the seed is sprouted, just add air and water, and abracadabra!  You're teaching them good nutrition.  It's good physical excercise too.

Teaching kids to grow kai is fun, they love it, it addresses a lot of the problems they are facing today, and the value of our gardens and programs cannot be underestimated.  These community gardens are vital for the health of our communties, physically and spiritually.

Establishing these gardens in schools will also provide a sanctuary, and a physical presence in schools to address such things as bullying, depression, child abuse, youth suicide and depression, and other problems facing young people (and old) in our communities.

Facilitators will be trained in suicide prevention and identifying vulnerable children, victims of abuse, or bullying, etc, and trained in addressing those problems effectively and appropriately, listening, referring, advising, sharing information in a positive, constructive and lawful manner to achieve the best outcomes for individuals.

We aim to run a holistic community health program, including holiday programs in schools, because the main gardening season is over the summer holidays and school gardens need tending over the summer.  Too often we are seeing schools, kindy's etc, start gardens in October or November in the southern hemisphere, and then when the holidays start they are pretty much abandoned, or tended in a bit of a haphazard way.  We want to fill the gap and maintain the consistency and the maintenance of the school gardens throughout the holidays and provide this stable, consistent, basic, natural, place of rangimarie, peace.

As well as gardening, and the skills associated with growing kai all year round, and preserving and cooking it, we want to teach additional things like basic first aid, cycle maintenance and safety, swimming, music, art and other useful life skills, as well as facilitate other activities, sports and games, networking with other approved organisations where appropriate to provide these services using new and existing resources.

We also conduct and facilitate Pet Therapy, Riding for the Disabled is widely recognised as being thereapeutic, and Pet Therapy extends the benfit to the wider community.  The link between animal abuse and other forms of abuse has been established, and the benefits of forming relationships with animals and learning about the psychology of those relationships helps build confidence, emotional maturity, self discipline, and other virtues, as well as alleviate boredom, depression, anxiety, etc.

We started here in the Wairarapa, in Carterton, eleven years ago, and had huge success in the community with these community gardens, and it's been good to see it catching on throughout the country in recent years.

There's a huge opportunity here to bring the whole community together, and address issues like vandalism, bullying, youth suicide and depression, child abuse, hunger and poverty, boredom and poor self esteem, and turn these things around in a totally postive way, rewarding on so many levels, to everyone involved, and the community as a whole.  Kai for Kids, Mahi Mara and our other programs are beneficial to all communities, so Let's Get Growing NZ.

Checking Out: Time to talk about the silent epidemic.

New Zealand has the highest rates of suicide in the world.


Wairarapa has had twice the national average for several years.  


Corrupt and cruel governance and legal system doesn't help, this site's full of examples of that.  Here's someone else's wise words: “Our friend died on his own battlefield. He was killed in action fighting a civil war. He fought against adversaries that were as real to him as his casket is real to us. They were powerful adversaries. They took toll of his energies and endurance. They exhausted the last vestiges of his courage and his strength. At last these adversaries overwhelmed him. And it appeared that he had lost the war. But did he? I see a host of victories that he has won!

“For one thing, he has won our admiration, because even if he lost the war, we give him credit for his bravery on the battlefield. And we give him credit for the courage and pride and hope that he used as his weapons as long as he could." 




When Someone Takes His Own Life
by Norman Vincent Peale (thanks to Waynescot Lukas)

In many ways, this seems the most tragic form of death. Certainly it can entail more shock and grief for those who are left behind than any other. And often the stigma of suicide is what rests most heavily on those left behind…..

And my heart goes out to those who are left behind, because I know that they suffer terribly. Children in particular are left under a cloud of differentness all the more terrifying because it can never be fully explained or lifted. The immediate family of the victim is left wide open to tidal waves of guilt: “What did I fail to do that I should have done? What did I do that was wrong?” To such grieving persons I can only say, “Lift up your heads and your hearts. Surely you did your best. And surely the loved one who is gone did his best, for as long as he could. Remember, now, that his battles and torments are over. Do not judge him, and do not presume to fathom the mind of God where this one of His child is concerned.”

A few years ago, when a young man died by his own hand, a service for him was conducted by his pastor, the Rev. Weston Stevens. What he said that day expresses far more eloquently than I can, the message that I’m trying to convey. Here are some of his words:

“Our friend died on his own battlefield. He was killed in action fighting a civil war. He fought against adversaries that were as real to him as his casket is real to us. They were powerful adversaries. They took toll of his energies and endurance. They exhausted the last vestiges of his courage and his strength. At last these adversaries overwhelmed him. And it appeared that he had lost the war. But did he? I see a host of victories that he has won!

“For one thing, he has won our admiration, because even if he lost the war, we give him credit for his bravery on the battlefield. And we give him credit for the courage and pride and hope that he used as his weapons as long as he could. We shall remember not his death, but his daily victories gained through his kindnesses and thoughtfulness, through his love for family and friends, for animals and books and music, for all things beautiful, lovely and honorable. We shall remember not his last day of defeat, but we shall remember the many days that he was victorious over overwhelming odds. We shall remember not the years we thought he had left, but the intensity with which he lived the years that he had. Only God knows what this child of His suffered in the silent skirmishes that took place in his soul. But our consolation is that God does know, and understands.”

“There is no suffering greater than that which drives people to suicide; suicide defines the moment in which mental pain exceeds the human capacity to bear it. It represents the abandonment of hope.” 
                    - John T. Maltsberger, M.D., past president of the American Association of Suicidology, practicing psychiatrist, and teacher at Harvard Medical School.

Propaganda and censorship - New laws to silence the truth

Quoted verbatim from the Herald (Derek Cheng) 15 October 2010: (my comments in red)

The Government is looking into regulating bloggers, Twitter, Facebook and other internet-based publishing to protect the integrity of the justice system.  The police are already "looking into" sites that question their own integrity: Kevin Basher---07/09/2010 07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog" to make statements regarding our staff .   What?!!  Regulating blogs, or even reading them, is NOT police business.  Furthermore, let's remember that I was sacked from St Mathews Collegiate and South End School following the local police contacting both schools and putting pressure on them to sack me, telling the South End School that they'd recently charged me with child abuse.  

But bloggers warn it is very difficult to draw a line between what should and should not be published over the internet, and regulation can always be sidestepped by setting up a site overseas.

Television, radio and newspapers reports about criminal trials or other aspects of the justice system are regulated by standards of balance, truth and fairness.  They are not regulated at all, they are self regulated, which is if completely different.  The NZPA is based at parliament and journalists have an incestuous and sycophantic relationship with politicians.  The NZPA makes up it's own "guidelines" and enforces them or not as it sees fit.

But "new media", as Justice Minister Simon Power termed them, are not regulated beyond the requirements of the law.  The internet is subject to the same laws as other publications, the laws are perfectly sufficient as they are.  If someone defames person on the internet, that person can sue them just as if the statement had been published elsewhere.

"It's a bit of a Wild West in cyberspace at the moment, because bloggers and online publishers are not subject to any form of regulation or professional or ethical standards," Mr Power said.  Neither are mainstream publications subject to any real standards - and are we talking about professional standards or legislation - two very different things - why should mainstream media be self regulating but bloggers be regulated by law?

"Issues I'm concerned about include how trials can be prejudiced by information posted on websites and seen by jurors, real-time online streaming of court cases, breaches of court suppression orders, and republication of a libel."  The more information available to jurors and Judges the better.  Breaches of Court suppression orders and libel are already well covered by legislation.

He said there should be one set of rules for all news media, and the review - by the Law Commission - would look at extending the powers of the Broadcasting Standards Authority and/or the Press Council to cover new media.  Neither of those organisations have any powers, they write their own "guidelines" and apply them or not as they seem fit.  It's like the police investigating complaints about themselves under the auspices of the so-called Independent Police Conduct Authority, renamed to give weight to the idea that they are actually independent - which they are not!

Kiwiblogger and National Party member David Farrar welcomed the review, but said it was difficult to regulate what people said over the internet.  David Farrar is a mouthpiece for the National Party.

"Good luck to the Government if it wants to impose ethical standards for what people want to say on the internet."

Other issues included whether regulation should cover high-profile blogs but not apply to the average tweet on Twitter.

Mr Farrar said the law applied to all forms of publishing - blogger Cameron Slater has been convicted for breaching name suppression orders - and the internet could self-regulate.

"If you tell a lie you can be exposed as a liar, if you defame someone you can be sued for defamation," he said.

"You get pounced on within minutes if you have something wrong.

"The gap between traditional media and new media isn't what the minister makes it out to be."

Even if the Government imposed regulation on internet users, there was nothing to stop someone setting up a site from overseas.

"Then there's nothing current or future law could do unless they want China-style internet filters," Mr Farrar said.

He suggested a voluntary opt-in to the Press Council for online publishers.  The Press Council is archaic and a waste of time.  I have been defamed by the local Wairarapa newspapers, and the Dominion Post, several times, some more subtly than others.  Reports of bad behaviour at meetings in particularly, are lies, and refuted by other information on this site, such as witness statements.

The public will be able to have its say when the Law Commission releases an issues paper by December next year.

ETHICAL PROBLEM
* Media are regulated by standards of ethical reporting, such as being balanced and fair.
* Bloggers, tweeters and other internet users are not regulated beyond the law, and the Government is concerned about the adverse effect this could have on the justice system.

This is an extremely dangerous precedent of proposed censorship.  I have been seriously defamed in the mainstream media, complained about it to the Press Council and discovered that they are a law unto themselves and writing to them is a complete waste of time.  In my case they simply refused to investigate the complaint at all.

Mainstream media published articles about Mayor Gary McPhee's violent drunken home invasion under the headline "Why I Did What I Did" in a pathetic attempt to dishonestly portray the innocent victims as "criminals and troublemakers" and dishonestly portray McPhee as a hero instead of a violent criminal.  

Mainstream media ignored Georgina the Beyer's involvement in the fraud at the Carterton Community Centre, the reason for "her" resignation from parliament was "her" denial of it under official letterhead.

Journalists hold far too much power, it's time we legislated against dishonest and inaccurate reporting in the mainstream media.  Local chief reporter of the Wairarapa Times Age Nathan Crombie used his position to keep Georgina Beyer the Liar and Gary McGoophee in power when they should have both been in jail, and put posters outside all the retail outlets proclaiming "Mayoral Candidate in Court Appearance" to sabotage my campaign - refusing to publish anything when the charges were thrown out because the police had no evidence to offer.  The Times Age refused to publish my profile as well - that's the only way idiots like McPhee and Beyer can get in.

We urgently need legislation covering mainstream publications.  Bloggers are subject to the same laws as everyone else already.


This is an email received from police recently:


Kate,


I refer to your e-mail below, dated 06.09.10

The purpose of this e-mail is to notify you that Police require an extension of time in which to respond to your request, pursuant to section 41(1) of the Privacy Act 1993, because the request necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and consultations such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.

Police require until 15.10.10 to provide a substantive response to your request.

You have the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner about this extension. The contact address for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is P O Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143.


Murray Johnston
Senior Sergeant
Masterton


Kevin Basher---07/09/2010 07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog" to make statements regarding our sta


From:
Kevin Basher/POLICE/NZ

To:
Murray Johnston/POLICE/NZ@NZPOLICE

Cc:
John Johnston/POLICE/NZ@NZPOLICE

Date:
07/09/2010 07:47

Subject:
Fw: Formal Complaint, Information Request: Assault by police, refusal to take complaints or investigate them properly


----- Forwarded by Kevin Basher/POLICE/NZ on 07/09/2010 07:42 -----


From:
Katherine Raue 

To:
kevin.basher@police.govt.nz, "J Collins (MIN)" , Independent Police Conduct Authority , Ken Daniels 

Date:
06/09/2010 15:45

Subject:
Formal Complaint, Information Request: Assault by police, refusal to take complaints or investigate them properly



I request all information regarding me held by the NZ Police under the Privacy Act and the OIA.

Particularly, and with priority:
1. All camera footage, CCTV, street camera, etc, of the incidents involving Constables Dallinger and Wilton when I went to the police station to report the theft and assaults at Hodders Road South last weekend.
2. All camera footage, CCTV, etc, of me that same day at Masterton Police station, including footage of the alleyway I was sent down to the gate that wouldn't open.
3. All information regarding the complaints I made to Constables Dallinger and Wilton regarding theft and assault at Hodders Road South.
4. All information regarding any complaint of theft at Hodders Road South by Rachel Taylor.
5. All information regarding a complaint of theft of a bicycle - not just disclosure - ALL information, audiotapes, documents, all information.
6. All information regarding a complaint I made within the last few weeks about another assault at that address by Wayne Friend.
7. Audio recordings of all telephone calls to or from police regarding me since January 2007, in particular:
8. The audiotape of the call from Clare Cook and Kelly Wilson on 11 February 2009,
9. Confirmation or denial of whether Constable Dallinger was involved in any way in the corrupt investigation of the assault on me by Colin Allomes in Dannevirke.
This is a formal complaint that police continue to refuse to take complaints from me and treat me with prejudice and bias, regularly use excessive force amounting to sadistic violence and psychological torment, and have established a pattern of malicious and vexatious litigation against me which is unwarranted and a waste of public resources.

I received a message from the owner of the property at Hodders Road South, sent on 29th August at 9 pm, to say that a well known local methamphetamine addict Rachel Taylor had been caught red handed stealing my property from the room I rent at that address.  I received another message the following evening inviting me to the address to see what was missing this time and secure the room.  When I got there I was confronted, abused and assaulted by another well known P addict, Wayne Friend, whose mother is a well known local police informer, and who let Rachel Taylor into the address while the occupant was absent apparently, and allowed her to leave with my property after witnessing her in my room, and is refusing to make a statement to police regarding this blatant theft, apparently.

I was then assaulted and effectively kidnapped by the owner of the property, my former partner, and held against my will for a considerable time and assaulted during that time, while Wayne Friend called the police and told them a pack of lies.  I was only released after police advised the occupants to
do so, because they wouldn't be rushing to the address in spite of all the complaints.


--
Katherine Raue


Police should get on with providing me with the information I have requested, in particular: the recording of all the phone calls to emergency services on 11 February 2009 regarding the attack on me in my home by Michael Murphy.  In particular the phone call from Kelly Wilson and Clair Cook, which records Murphy screaming in the background "Get out of the way Kana and I'll smash down the door." - which rather contradicts the statements he made in the Depositions Evidence.

Lawyer Ken Daniels' Letters to the Area Commander:

Police have corruptly and arrogantly completely ignored these letters from lawyer Ken Daniels, as well as letters from about half a dozen other lawyers, (as well as letters from myself and other people, including two substantial community petitions), and so have the Police Complaints Authority, who are anything but independent! They ignore all these letters because their mates are involved in the blatant criminal activity at the former Carterton Community Centre, and the same people responsible for this are behind the widely unpopular plan to build a Community 'Event Centre'/'Facility', the same people who condoned the illegal takeover of the former Carterton Community Resource Centre by punching the Secretary and Treasurer in the face and changing the locks to conceal the fraud and misfeasance by the committee, mainly associated with the Carterton District Council, a major funder of the Centre. Here are some of Ken Daniels's letters to police, evidencing this blatant corruption!

From: Ken Daniels, Lawyer, Chapel St, Masterton

To: The Area Commander, New Zealand Police, P O Box 443, Masterton

26 August 2004

Dear Sir

Re: Katherine Raue

There have been numerous items of correspondence written between Kate Raue and yourself and correspondence with the Police Complaints Authority over a number of issues that she has raised in recent times.


I must confess that I have not given what I believe was sufficient attention to some of the matters that Kate Raue had raised with me in the past mainly I suspect because the matters appeared to be far too complex and involved and I tended not to see any relevance in some of the complaints that she was making.


On a recent visit to me however and after spending some time looking at documentary evidence that she showed me, I largely changed my view and believe that there genuinely are matters of concern that do need to be investigated.

I have not got to the bottom of all the matters Kate Raue complains about but there is one instance that does seem to suggest that there has been fraud at the Carterton Community Centre which has diverted funds designed for one purpose deliberately to another.

I enclose with this letter a copy of the accounts which appear to represent income and expenditure from the Carterton Community Centre for the financial year 01 April 2000 to 31 March 2001 as they related to the Community Gardens. You will notice how in the income received, there was a sum of $9,000 received from the Tindall Foundation. It is assumed that this money was received following an application for a grant from that Charitable Foundation. The monies would have been requested and received for purposes relating to the Community Gardens in Carterton. The sum of $9,000 was received in April of 2000.

The following month in May there was a payment of $6,000.00 paid from the Community Gardens account for a personal grievance payment. The information that apparently exists although I have not personally seen it is that there were insufficient funds to pay a personal grievance from the Community Gardens and the funding that was obtained from the Tindall Foundation was immediately paid out as at least part payment on that personal grievance. The payment apparently could not be made at an earlier stage and the fundng received from Tindall Foundation was a necessary receipt to enable the payment to be made to settle the personal grievance.

If the above set of circumstances is accurate then there is no doubt whatsoever that there was a fraudulent use of the monies received from the Tindall Foundation. There had been no budgeted allowance made for personal grievances. This can be seen from the budget column in the expenditure part of the accounts where an amount of only $220 was allowed for the twelve months involved. A payment of $6000 was needed and this was paid directly from the charitable donation.

I believe that the affairs of the Carterton Community Centre are in disarray. There is currently an application before the High Court to have them wound up because of insufficient numbers. There are numerous other complaints as well about the way in which members of the public including members were excluded from meetings etc. This letter does not purport to address all those issues but I am deeply concerned after having seen the information supplied to me by Kate Raue that monies received for one purpose be used for an incorrect purpose.

I have been advised that a similar improper payment may have been made in respect of the account that was run for the disadvantaged members of the community. This apparently exists under the copy of the account also enclosed which is headed up VOSP 2000 – 2001. You will see also that there is a “miscellaneous” payment of $1,000.00 made in September of 2000 following receipt of a substantial amount fromWINZ funding. It is understood that this also was a payment to an individual who claimed to have a personal grievance.

I am not an accountant (as will be obvious) but I believe there are sufficient genuine concerns raised here to warrant some investigation. These are community funds which were largely received from charitable donations which appear to have been siphoned off improperly.

I should add that according to Kate Raue there was possibly legal advice given to the people running the Carterton Community Centre that they should not make personal greivance payments in the way that they did. This is another matter that may need to be looked into because it would make the payments even less appropriate if they were done contrary to legal advice.

I appreciate the fact that earlier complaints may have been thought to be ill-founded or frivolous or for whatever reason were not properly investigated but I believe that there actually does exist hard evidence to suggest that a reopening of the investigation should be made with urgency. As I have said the Community Centre and its funds are currently subject to a High Court Application.

If it is more convenient for you to do so I would be happy to act as a go-between between yourselves and Kate Raue so that I can request further details from her.

Are you able to assist with what I believe is now a genuine complaint?

Yours faithfully

Ken Daniels
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The Financial Reports and the Minutes of the Carterton Community Centre Inc (scroll down at the link to view them) show that thousands of dollars were taken from organisations that had nothing to do with the particular organisation which was the subject of the "personal grievance" - a "personal grievance" that was never ever referred to the Employment Tribunal or Mediation Service and was not a formal personal grievance at all - that's theft - and it was one of two such "Personal Grievance" payments being made at the time, and there was a long history of similar fraud and malfeasance.

After receiving no response to that letter whatsoever, and no reply to my own enquiries to the police and Mr Daniels about the matter, and after the instigation of the campaign by local police to corruptly target me with a large number of charges which were an abuse of power and malicious and vexatious litigation, Mr Daniels wrote the following letter to the Police Prosecutor:

This is the unbelievably arrogant response:

From: murray.johnston@police.govt.nz
Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 12:01 p.m.
To: Ken Daniels
Subject: Kate RAUE – Your letter dated 18 April

Hi Ken

I’m having a quick look at issues outlined in your letter before I head off on a course for two weeks.

To assist me in doing so can I please have a bit more detail regarding points 1, 2, and 5.

I suspect that point 2 relates to REYNOLDS retrieving his car but may also relate to MANSON.

I suspect point 5 relates to Mayor McPhee’s unique way of dealing with a noise complaint that received so much publicity. I am not aware of Kate being in any way related to that.

I’ll have to consult the Carterton Police regarding other points in your letter.

I sent Kates latest letter off to the PCA for registering as a complaint. Will get a copy to you. The PCA has already ruled on a number of issues she raises and where that is the case they will not be re-visited .

I don’t remember your letter dated from 2004 but my apologies if I’ve failed to respond. I suspect it will have been put on one of Kates many files and may be hard to locate. Any such allegation by Kate against the Community Centre management would take a very low priority from a Police perspective. Her allegations about the Community Centre have mostly proved unfounded, emotive and simply not credible.

Murray Johnston
Risk Manager Search & Rescue
Wairarapa Area
New Zealand Police
P O Box 443, Masterton
Telephone Direct: +64 6 370 0307
Facsimile: +64 6 370 5952
E-mail: murray.johnston@police.govt.nz
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None of our complaints have been investigated, they've all been repeatedly and corruptly covered up.

Note Johnston refers to "point 1" in the second paragraph of his response but never mentions it again? He knows perfectly well that the "threatening text messages" refers to the messages to me from Masterton prostitute Rachel Betteridge and her husband, which say "You need a bullet" and "Watch your back" among other things. Police refuse to charge Betteridge or her husband in spite of statements from two JP's and the indisputable evidence that Betteridge and her husband had sent the messages, and instead charged me with sending unspecified messages to Betteridge! Of course I was acquitted, and it was established that Betteridge was lying, but only after a lengthy trial and months of extreme stress to me, and ridiculous cost to the taxpayer, all because the local police prosecutor and his live in lover, Court deputy registrar Liz Harpleton, think it's funny to play little games like this in the Masterton Court.

Point two relates to Constable Cunningham smashing the shed doors after Larry Manson's lies to police.

Point 5 relates to ex Mayor Gary McPhee's violent, vicious, cowardly home invasion, committed by him and his Council mate, they weren't the noise control officers and had no right to smash their way into the local flat where the occupants were innocently and quietly cooking their dinner - let alone assault the innocent occupants! Johnston knows perfectly well that I witnessed this attack, and tried to make a statement along with the other witnesses and victims!!! This corruption is outrageous!!!
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Another letter from Ken Daniels to me dated 25 July 2007 says this:

"I am pleased at the dismissal of a number of charges against you. That is as it should have been in my view. It was always apparent from an early stage that for whatever reason you were a "lightning rod" for Police attention in Carterton. This was, in my view, most unfair to you and unwarranted Police attention resulted in unnecessary charges being laid. On reflection it would have been far better if the Police had been able to discuss any concerns they had directly with you so that those concerns may have been laid to rest in a much more appropriate way." . . . "It is clear that there were many unanswered questions from the Police. We never did get full details from them regarding some of your cases. I have been unable to go back to "the matter of the 2004 letter" simply because of the volume of paperwork and the length of time that it would ave taken to have researched that matter. I do know however that numerous letters were sent to the Police and discussions held with them to try and get some satisfaction in relation to the allegations that they made against you. As I have said, those enquiries were not always met with success."

So instead of investigating crimes, police are busy plotting how to shut down my websites, sending each other emails like this one, which was sent by Sgt Keving Basher to Sgt Murray Johnston on 7/9/2010:
Kevin Basher---07/09/2010 07:47:45---Something needs to be looked at regarding RAUE using her 'Blog" to make statements regarding our staff .

The IPCA is corrupt, and anything but independent!