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A senior police officer says former policeman Wayne Idour was well known for his ownership of and reference to pornographic material.
Mr Idour has denied he brought and played a bestiality film at a party at Police Commissioner Howard Broad's house more than 25 years ago.
Investigate magazine reported in its latest issue that the bestiality film was screened at Mr Broad's home in 1981 when he was a constable. Mr Broad has confirmed this but said he did not approve and did not watch it.
Police Minister Annette King said Mr Idour, now a private detective, had played the film at Mr Broad's house.
Former policeman Peter Gibbons said it was Mr Idour who was responsible but Mr Idour has denied this.
In Parliament yesterday, Ms King tabled an email from Senior Sergeant John Robinson which she said contained information to back up her view it was Mr Idour who supplied the tape.
In that email, Mr Robinson said he had started work in Dunedin in 1985 and was a relieving photographer when he met Mr Idour, who was Team Policing Sergeant at the time.
Mr Idour, tasked with training police staff and hotel owners on the Sale of Liquor Act, had approached Mr Robinson about making a video training tape.
Mr Idour wanted the photographer "to dub some short snippets" from a pornographic tape he had on to the training tape to make that "more entertaining".
Mr Robinson refused and said he was aware Mr Idour did the dubbing himself, playing the tape to a training session of hotel owners, their wives and staff.
Mr Robinson recalled there was "a complaint of some kind made".
"He [Mr Idour] was a person well known for his ownership of and constant reference to pornographic material."
He wrote the email after watching an item on television about Mr Broad and Mr Idour. He was passing on the information and it was up people to make up their minds.
- NZPA
