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A culture long whispered about as the Northland Criminal Investigation Branch "boys' club" has now cost the police $15,000 after an inquiry found a senior female detective inspector was bullied and frozen out by her peers.
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ruled the behaviour went beyond personality clashes, describing a pattern of co-ordinated resistance that police failed to address, leaving Detective Inspector Bridget Doell disadvantaged in her role.
Doell, a 30βyear police veteran and the first woman to hold a Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) detective inspector role in Northland, took her case to the ERA, claiming she faced undermining behaviour, bullying, exclusion and genderβbased hostility from colleagues between 2020 and
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