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One of New Zealand's leading employment lawyers says she's never seen anything on the same scale as the investigation into 120 police officers who were involved in falsifying alcohol breath tests across the country.
Employment lawyer Barbara Buckett says the number of staff and the fact it occurred across the country points to wider problems within the organisation.
"There must be something there that police have to look to in terms of its own leadership and its own culture within the organisation, because it needs to ask some hard questions about accountability, consistency and environment which contributed to the behavior, if it's to this extent.
"That's what seems to be unfathomable, the number and the geographical spread of it.
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