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When institutions entrust individuals with senior roles, the vetting process is meant to catch any red flags — ensuring leaders uphold integrity and trust.
But the case involving McSkimming — once a top-ranking police official — shows that those safeguards can fail, with harmful consequences.
New information reveals that McSkimming, while serving as Deputy Commissioner, used his police-issued devices over four and a half years to perform 5,354 Google searches, many of which returned pornographic or objectionable content.
Traditional vetting and background checks can miss misconduct that occurs later — especially behaviour tied to digital activity rather than prior criminal history. In McSkimming’s case, nothing in the vetting flagged his later misuse of police devices — allowing the behaviour to continue unchecked.
Oversight mechanisms matter — but sometimes they’re quietly dismantled. In late 2020, internal monitoring of internet usage for senior leadership was stopped.
As a result: over the period between 1 July 2020 and 18 December 2024, McSkimming’s device misuse went entirely undetected.
From those 5,354 searches, roughly a third were adult or pornographic in nature.
And a total of 2,954 objectionable images were returned from 432 searches that were intended (or highly likely) to yield such content. That’s not a “singular lapse” — that’s systemic failure over years.
When a senior officer is found guilty — as McSkimming eventually was for possession of child-sexual-exploitation and bestiality material — the breach of public trust is vast.
It highlights how public-sector vetting must evolve: appointment-time checks aren’t enough. Ongoing oversight and accountability are essential, especially for those with access to sensitive systems and authority over others.
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