Police are looking into the employment of a constable who is frontman of a thrash metal band which calls for the eradication of the "weak and inferior".
By day the heavily tattooed Rigel Walshe works as a court escort in the Counties Manukau police district.
In his private time he is lead singer and bass guitarist of the band Dawn of Azazel.
On the band's website, Walshe is quoted as saying the motivation for forming the band was to create a "dark extreme hateful metal".
A spokesman for the Office of the Police Commissioner, Jon Neilson, said yesterday that Mr Walshe's superiors were investigating his employment.
"The distinction is around his employment, not what he does in his private time."
Mr Neilson refused to comment on a quote on Mr Walshe's website in which he criticised strict gun control laws in New Zealand.
- NZPA
Spotlight on thrash metal cop
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