Lance Burdett: Former Police Officer on the allegations of Jevon McSkimming accessing porn on work devices

A former Police officer says it's beyond him why Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming would ever access porn on a work device. 

McSkimming had been suspended on full-pay since December.  

He was under a criminal investigation by police on unrelated different allegations, the nature of which can't be reported.  

Our newsroom understands while investigating the original complaint, detectives allegedly discovered porn on one of his electronic work devices. 

Former crisis negotiator Lance Burdett told Ryan Bridge it's shocking. 

He says it's not the accessing of the pornography that's the problem; it's the fact it's on a police computer, which leaves it open to malware. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
More on this resignation of the Deputy Police Commissioner Devin Mcskimming.
Sources have told The Herald that he quit after porn
was found on his work computer. This is before basically
he could be pushed. Lance Burdett is author and former
police officer with us this morning. Lance, good morning, ring right.
Are you shocked to hear that? Surprised to hear that?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am very shocked. I don't know Jiven that well,
but I know of him. He was a high flyer,
a person that was very determined out of nowhere. You know,
You've got to remember that it's not the accessing of
the pornography or having it, it's that it's on a
police computer. And it's common knowledge that you know, viruses

(00:41):
and malware into computers from all sorts of unethical sites
where this gambling, gaming or restricted websites, and to be
doing that on a police computer is beyond me.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, this is alleged at this stage, obviously, but when confronted,
when confronted with what the Herald reporting is the cause
of this, he resigns. So yeah, now the criminal charge.
The interesting thing for me is that you've got, you know,
allegedly porn on a word computer. But then you've got
a separate criminal investigation going on, and yet you know

(01:15):
you keep your job during that.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, yeah, because they're obviously it's like any criminal investigation.
The idea is to get all the evidence there first
and then you speak with the person what they call
him personal interest. It's just I've never seen this before.
I've never It's none in my career and never happened
in I think my living memory where a senior police

(01:41):
officer has ever done anything like this and then having
been removed or you know, they're resigned before the investigations.
That's employment investigation. But now with this criminal investigation, I've
never heard of it, and I find it quite astounding,
to be honest, and I'm wondering what's behind it all
and what Like everybody else, do you figure out what

(02:03):
it is?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Do you think this is casting a long shadow over
the police? Do you think that the minister or the
commissioners should be more upfront about actually what's I mean,
obviously the criminal part you can't talk about. I get that,
But for the rest of it now, I mean, he's
left the building. Who can't just say what happened?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Unlessed I both linked and so there we have to be.
But you know the thing about I know the Commissioner
and also know the minister. They both have strong moral
and ethical codes and you've seen this with the with
the latest saga around the swim tests. So they both
are ensuring that police officers and police officers have to

(02:42):
be beyond approach. The higher they go up, the more
the higher expectation of them. And you know, as I say,
to get to them in the second top job and
then to have this happen to a person as I've
never seen it before. I can't even think in overseas
jurisdictions where it's happened befo or so. Yeah, they do
have to wait now for the rest of the investigation

(03:04):
to go through. He's no longer a police officer and
it does tarnish the rest of the service. But know
that I used to investigate police officers. We are tougher
on our own.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Appreciate your time, Lance, Thanks for that. Lance Burt, author
and form police officer on jivin mc skinning This morning,
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