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A policeman has been charged with raping a teenage girl, adding to a raft of serious offences officers are facing.
The senior constable was suspended in early December and has been charged with sexual violation by rape of a female aged 12 to 16 years.
The man, from the South Island, has appeared in court and was granted name suppression. Police said the charge related to recent allegations.
The policeman, who has served at least 14 years in the force, is among 28 officers who have been stood down from duty because they face criminal charges, internal proceedings or allegations of criminal offending.
The total salaries paid to the suspended staff range up to $1.91 million.
Of the 11 facing criminal charges, one is an officer who was suspended in April 2005 and convicted of indecent assault, according to information released to the Herald by police national headquarters.
Among the other charges faced by the suspended officers were assault, attempting to pervert the course of justice, male assaults female off-duty, careless driving and providing a false statement to police.
Investigations are under way into allegations against officers of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, sexual assault domestic, harassment while off-duty and assault while off-duty.
One officer faced internal charges around timesheet discrepancies and a criminal charge of assault while on duty.
The longest period of suspension is three years and that is understood to be Assistant Commissioner Clint Rickards, stood down on full pay for alleged historic offences.
Rickards and former officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were acquitted last March of raping Louise Nicholas but then charged with raping a second woman in the 1980s.
The information, supplied under the Official Information Act, shows one suspended officer, believed to be Rickards, is earning a base annual salary of $150,000 to $159,000.
Superintendent Stu Wildon, national manager of police professional standards, said a rape charge was a "very serious matter" and the suspension of the senior constable was "at the serious end of the scale".
