KEY POINTS:
There are no excuses for sexual misconduct by the police.
None were accepted in the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct - and it seems none were offered.
And in the same spirit, the Government says it will implement all 60 of Dame Margaret Bazley's recommendations.
And rolled out an hour after the release of the report is a new draft code of conduct for the police.
The aim is to create an environment of zero tolerance both within the force and in the mind of the public, whose confidence in the police has been stretched with every fresh case - and acquittal.
The report tells us a little more than we knew yesterday: there are a few more ghastly illustrations of so-called "misconduct".
That word, however, begins to sound like a euphemism: the report describes the evidence of a woman who as a schoolgirl had joined a couple of officers on several occasions for work experience because she wanted to become a police officer. She went on patrol with them to a house one weekend and found herself having sex with the other watching.
She complained about it only in 2004 but there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute.
Prime Minister Helen Clark at a press conference said she did not want to get into individual cases but in an extraordinary move, went on to acknowledge the "courage" of the two women, Louise Nicholas and Judith Garrett, whose complaints were the catalyst for the inquiry.
That endorsement was repeated by Police Minister Annette King and Justice Minister Mark Burton.
They, and Margaret Bazley and Police Commissioner Howard Broad, made a strong case to retain or restore confidence in the police.
But the strong endorsement of Louise Nicholas in particular, whose complaint failed in court, suggests that the Government does not have confidence in the justice system.
