Peter Doone is a New Zealand police officer who served as the Commissioner of Police from 1 July 1996 to 25 January 2000.[1][2]
A qualified lawyer, Doone has a master's degrees in law from Victoria University of Wellington and Public Administration from Harvard University. He served with the New Zealand Police for over 30 years.[1]
Doone resigned as Police Commissioner in 2000 following allegations, published in The Sunday Star-Times, that he had prevented the breath testing of his partner Robyn, who had driven the car they occupied, by telling the officer "that won't be necessary". Both Doone and the officer involved denied this happened. Doone sued the Sunday Star-Times for defamation in 2005 but the paper revealed they had checked the story with Prime Minister Helen Clark. She confirmed this, but denied that she had made attempts to get Doone to resign and defended being the source as "by definition I cannot leak". Clark also responded by saying that National supporters had funded Mr Doone's defamation suit.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "New Commissioner of Police announced". 28 May 1996. Archived from the original on 29 May 2004. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "Ex-police commissioner may sue PM". The New Zealand Herald. 27 April 2005. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Young, Audrey (11 May 2005). "PM confirmed story, says editor". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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