Tuesday's damning IPCA report into how top brass at Police handled sexual assault allegations by former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming has lead to the confirmation an Inspector General of Police role will be established.
But Nine to Noon has spoken to current and former investigators within the IPCA who say it is unclear how the new role will work, what powers it might have and what it means for how the IPCA operates.
The IPCA has long-agitated to be given great powers itself, so that it can undertake a wider range of investigations, and have prosecutorial powers.
Questions remain about why the IPCA wasn't given these extra powers, and why instead they could sit with yet another oversight mechanism for Police.
An Inspector-General of Defence was established following revelations out of Operation Burnham that Ministers and officials were not given the full story on events that had transpired in Afghanistan.
And an Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security exists to oversee the GCSB and the NZSIS.
Chris Finlayson is a former National Cabinet Minister who held multiple roles including Attorney General, and the Minister for the NZSIS and GCSB.
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