As reported in the NZ Security Magazine, at the AGM of the New Zealand Institute of professional investigators in November 2017, our Managing Director Ron McQuilter was re-elected Chairman of the NZIPI.<\/p>\n
The NZ Security article also contains interesting comments relating to the NZ Bill of Rights, that PI’s are not bound by, unless they are working for a government agency that has enforcement powers and has vested those powers on the PI. The issue typically pops up when a PI has interviewed an employee in an employment related matter and the employee has during the interview confessed to what is likely to be a criminal offence. While the PI can and will take the information, Police are required to re-interview prior to laying charges. PI’s are bound by the good faith principle under Section 103A (3) of the Employment Act 2000 see this link<\/a> and also need to balance their interview having regard to Section 30(3) of the Evidence Act, see this link<\/a>. Note the reference to section 3 New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 see this link<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As reported in the NZ Security Magazine, at the AGM of the New Zealand Institute of professional investigators in November 2017, our Managing Director Ron McQuilter was re-elected Chairman of the NZIPI. The NZ Security article also contains interesting comments relating to the NZ Bill of Rights, that PI’s are not bound by, unless they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paragonnz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}