Police deputy commissioner resigns after porn allegedly found on work computer - reports

Monday, 12 May 2025

Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming has resigned with immediate effect.

McSkimming had been suspended since December due to an investigation into his conduct.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell said McSkimming’s position was “untenable”.

The country’s second most powerful police officer has resigned after pornography was allegedly found on his work computer, according to media reports.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell said Police Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming resigned before he could be dismissed, and that a process had been under way to recommend his dismissal to the governor-general. The resignation followed the discovery of pornography on his work computer, both RNZ and The NZ Herald reported.

McSkimming had been suspended since December. Stuff previously reported he was thought to have been under scrutiny over his conduct towards a former female non-sworn police employee many years his junior.

“I instructed the Public Service Commission to commence the process to remove Mr McSkimming from office after allegations of a very serious nature recently came to light, separate to the investigation that led to him being suspended,” Mitchell said on Monday.

Mitchell said questions had been raised as to whether McSkimming was fit for the role of deputy commissioner.

“The Policing Act is very clear: A Deputy Commissioner of Police must be a ‘fit and proper’ person. They are rightly held to the highest standards of conduct and this new information called into serious question Mr McSkimming’s fitness for office,” he said.

When McSkimming was invited to respond to the allegations against him he chose to resign, Mitchell said.

“Mr McSkimming’s resignation has confirmed my view that his continuation in the role was untenable,” he added.

Police said their investigation into McSkimming will continue.

No one answered the door of McSkimming’s Te Horo home on Monday, where Stuff understands he lives with his parents in law.

Two cars sat in the driveway, and dogs barked inside the home. The curtains on the ground floor windows were pulled shut.

A sign on the door read “unless you have been invited please leave the property”.

Stuff reported in December that McSkimming, who lost out on the commissioner role to rival Richard Chambers in November, was under scrutiny over his conduct towards a former female non-sworn police employee.

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said on Monday he had been advised of McSkimming’s resignation.

“The criminal investigation will continue and is not affected by the resignation,” Chambers said. “I have no further comment at this stage.”

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also declined to comment when questioned during his post-Cabinet press conference on Monday.