*This story has updated to clarify that Commissioner Richard Chambers was in uniform when he was pulled over.
After a week of bad news for police, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has admitted he was "away with the fairies" when he was pulled over for speeding last week.
Chambers was delivering a speech to graduating police recruits in Porirua on Thursday when he told the new officers and their supporters he had been ticketed for going over the speed limit.
He told the gathering of recruits, their supporters and police staff getting pulled over was the "dumbest thing I've done" as commissio
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