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Watchdog says handling of complaints against Jevon McSkimming show the public cannot have confidence that police will do their job ‘without fear or favour’. Laura Walters reports.

It’s been 18 years since a watershed report called out police culture in the wake of the Louise Nicholas rape case. Now, the police watchdog says the handling of complaints of sexual offending against former top cop Jevon McSkimming ‘graphically demonstrate’ the public still cannot have confidence that police officers will do their job ‘without fear or favour’.