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1. 2025 NZPSPLA 092 pdf [pdf, 77 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 092 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 against ALAFUA FALE HEARD remotely on 20 August 2025 APPEARANCES Sgt S Dillon for NZ Police A Fale – Certificate holder DECISION [1] Police are asking for Alafua Fale certificate of approval to be cancelled as he has been convicted of common assault after assaulting a patron while working as a security guard. Mr Fale admits he assault...

2. [2007] NZEmpC AC 5A/07 Ali'imatafitafi v CE of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 91 KB]

   ...“totally inappropriate”. [20] Ms Faith-Allen had not previously been aware that the plaintiff had made a visit to the school prior to the mediation on 22 March 2002. Ms Faith-Allen had been the decision maker in approximately 40 disciplinary investigations over the past 10 years as the Area Manager and had conducted the actual investigation in 15 of those cases. She had delegated authority to take disciplinary action, including dismissal. She decided that she would invest...

3. LCRO 55/2018 ND v RS (18 April 2019) [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...Review Officers is not appropriately equated with a general appeal. The obligations and powers of the Review Officer as described in the Act create a very particular statutory process. The Review Officer has broad powers to conduct his or her own investigations including the power to exercise for that purpose all the powers of a Standards Committee or an investigator and seek and receive evidence. These powers extend to “any review” … … the power of review is much broader th...

4. 2024 NZPSPLA 041.pdf [pdf, 99 KB]

   [2024] NZPSPLA 041 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint made under ss 73 & 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against CODY WAIHAPE & WINSTON TURNER HEARD Remotely on 24 May 2024 APPEARANCES C Waihape W Turner L Urlich & A McClelland for CIPU DECISION [1] In August 2023 I referred a complaint that a security business known as Legacy Security was operating without a licence to the Complaints Investigation a...

5. 2023 NZPSPLA 068 [pdf, 104 KB]

   [2023] NZPSPLA 068 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 against SAJID MEHMOOD HEARD virtually on 10 October 2023 APPEARANCES Snr Constable S Su for NZ Police S Mehmood – Certificate holder F Gul Qaisrani – counsel for Mr Mehmood S Singh – Interpreter DECISION [1] Police have applied to cancel Sajid Mehmood’s security certificate as he has been convicted of indecent assault. Mr Me...

6. 2023 NZPSPLA 035.pdf [pdf, 76 KB]

   [2023] NZPSPLA 035 IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by Police under s 74 of the Act against KATHY STEPHENS under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 HEARD virtually on 14 June 2023 APPEARANCES Snr Constable N Stringer for NZ Police K Stephens – dialled in after hearing concluded and spoke in her defence DECISION [1] Police are asking for Kathy Stephens’ certificate of approval (COA) to be cancelled as she has been convicted of recei...

7. 2021 NZPSPLA 012.pdf [pdf, 89 KB]

   NZPSPLA 012 Case Number 003324 / 2018 IN THE MATTER OF The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 AND IN THE MATTER OF Complaint by the POLICE under s 74 of the Act against FILISIKA KAVEINGA HEARD by telephone on 3 May 2021 ATTENDANCES Sergeant David Gallagher for NZ Police Filisika Kaveinga, certificate holder together with Claudius Ah Loe DECISION [1] The Police have applied to cancel Filisika Kaveinga’s certificate of approval...

8. 2025 NZPSPLA 049 pdf [pdf, 91 KB]

   [2025] NZPSPLA 049 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint made under section 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) AGAINST BRANDON ROONEY HEARD remotely on 5 May 2025 APPEARANCES J Mia & T Cuthbert for CIPU G Morrison for complainant B Rooney – no appearance DECISION [1] In October 2024 I asked the Complaints Investigation and Prosecution Unit (CIPU) to investigate a complaint that Brandon Rooney had been working as a secur...

9. [2019] NZEnvC 098 The Otahuao Burial Ground Trust v Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga [pdf, 13 MB]

   ...mangroves. The entire area has historically been, and is, inhabited by Maori , and the site is within the rohe of Te Uri Taniwha. For reasons we will discuss in due course, the archaeological site constitutes part of a historic place covering both private and public land. There is also a wider historic area involving, in immediate proximity, several fish traps and other archaeological sites recognised under the Act. Background The Authority and Appeal [4] Authority 2018/089 was...

10. 2025 NZPSPLA 111 pdf [pdf, 99 KB]

    [2025] PSPLA 111 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint made under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against GRM CONSULTING LIMITED & GEORGE PENJUELI HEARD remotely on 25 September 2025 APPEARANCES G Penjueli and T Clifford for GRM Consulting Ltd J Mia and T Cuthbert for the Complaints Investigation and Prosecution Unit (CIPU) DECISION [1] In February 2025 we received a complaint that Mr James was working as a crowd c...