Undercover Work
A policewoman in New Zealand has given up her part-time job after her work was uncovered.
She was working part time as a hooker.
While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer said sex work and police work don't mix.
The policewoman had worked for a limited time as a prostitute in the northern city of Auckland before her clandestine activity was uncovered, police said. Her name and rank have not been made public.
Police media communications manager Jon Neilson said he understood the officer had taken up "secondary employment due to financial difficulties," but had not sought police approval to work in the sex industry.
She has been counseled over the matter, which "under police procedures …. amounts to a censure," said Deputy Police Commissioner Lyn Provost.
"I can assure the public that … this type of secondary employment would never be approved given that the type of work is inappropriate and incompatible with policing," Provost said.
A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective said that depending on the brothel in which she worked, the police officer could have earned 500 New Zealand dollars (US$312) on a busy night.
I'm sure the brothel owners were sorry to see her go. Now they'll have to get their own set of handcuffs.
Weird Stuff, World news | Gaius Thursday, 20 July , 2006
By Roland Hesz, Thursday, 20 July , 2006 @ 7:20 am
Can’t see why she should not continue.
Just imagine a funny situation, when after entertaining a client, she arrests him next day for being a wanted criminal.
By K, Thursday, 20 July , 2006 @ 3:36 pm
At $500 NZ for a busy night it sounds like prostitutes in NZ aren’t doing well. Maybe that is net to the women.
Or maybe the estimate was for this specific hooker.
If it is legal I doubt they can discipline her.