Stuart Nash: Former Police Minister on Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming watching porn on his work devices

A former Police Minister says watching porn on a work computer is a pretty dumb thing to do. 

Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon 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. 

Stuart Nash told Mike Hosking he struggles to understand McSkimming doing this. 

He says every bloke knows there are ways to watch porn without watching on your work computer.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So a lot of questions around the resignation of Deputy
Police Commissioners given mc skimming been suspended on full pay
while under criminal investigation. As a result of that investigation,
new issues emerged. It was suggested pornographic material that was
found on his work computer. They were going to sack
and he jumped first. Former police Minister Stuart Nash is
with us. Good morning to you, Good morning Michael, well,
thank you. How well are you known?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I knew Jiven very well, so I can talk about
the man who was the Any commission when I was
a police minister. Look, if you've been in the police
for thirty years and you've risen to the rank that
he has, you've impressed some very some very good, very
competent and capable people over the time, and he rose
to the almost to the top. So he's a good man.
I don't know about these allegations, but I can tell

(00:43):
you I can talk to you about the man that
I knew. It was confident, he was capable, he was
respectful and an overall good blow.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
You appointed him, not you personally, but the Labor Party
appointed him to the job. He is was until yesterday.
There was nothing there presumably at all to indicate trouble
was ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, nothing at all. Keeping in mind that there are
two types of deputy commissioner. Is the deputy commissioner that's
been appointed up the ranks, and then there's a statutory appointment.
So you know, when you say we appointed him, he
was he was an officer for about twenty six years
before he reached the role of statutory deputy commissioner.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
How deeply does anybody look into the background before a
bigger job is given in these pretty deep right, so.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Pretty deeply actually, certainly after you know, there's been some
reasonably high profile cases where we've appointed someone as a
statute deputy and stuff has come out, so you know,
you do a pretty thorough search. But you know, the
thing I don't quite understand, Michael, I'm brtally honest with
you as I read some reports that there has been
porn found on a work computer. I mean, every bloke

(01:48):
listening to the show knows there are ways to watch
porn without without watching on your work computer. So I
struggle with that because given's a really smart guy, and
you know, watching porn on your work computers that's a
pretty dumb thing to do.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So the criminal this seems to be secondary to what
they were investigating in the first place. Do you You
don't have to tell us, but do you have an
indication as to what it might be?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, I don't, actually and that's the truth. I couldn't
tell you if I did, but I actually don't. That's
why I can tell you about the man that I
knew when I was commissioner. And like I said, thirty
years deputy commissioner. That's almost at the top. So you've
done some really good work over thirty years, dogar.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
So this is a shock. If something criminal comes out
of us, beyond the porn thing, you know, as in charges,
you will be shocked.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I will be shocked well, because that's not the man.
Keep in the mind, you know, when the minister you
have officials through your office once or twice a week.
Geven was off on one of those officials who came
in as also, as you have alluded to, when he
was appointed as a statutory Deputy Commissioner, there was a
little bit of work done to make sure that he
was a fit and proper person. He checked out all

(02:56):
the way through his career progression. There will have been
checks and balances in place to ensure that this guy
is suitable for the next level of police and as mentioned,
over thirty years he's passed every single one of those,
so it is surprising, but I don't know what's there,
and no one does until either charges are late or not,
as the case.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
May be, time will tell. Appreciate your time. Stuart Nash
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