A disgraced former Northland police detective jailed for stealing methamphetamine from the evidence lock-up at Whangarei Police Station and supplying it to others will go before the Parole Board in the next week.
Mike Blowers, 53, who once headed Northland's police drug squad, was jailed for four years and nine months in December 2014.
Blowers, who joined the police force in 1992, admitted to supplying methamphetamine between June 1, 2011 and June 31, 2012, as well as stealing methamphetamine from the evidence lock-up at Whangarei Police Station in October 2011, and replacing it with rock salt to disguise his theft.
He passed the drugs on to a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who sold them to criminals for thousands of dollars.
A spokesman for the Parole Board said Blowers would be before the board seeking parole in the next week. It was not policy to give the exact date or place of the parole hearing.
