William Merrick, thank you for joining us. How are you sir?

Good evening.

Good evening.

And where are you joining us from today?

I'm in Berkhamstead in England.

Heartfordshire.

Oh, great, okay. And maybe you can just explain a little bit about who you are and what you do. What would you say describes your work?

Yes, I'm a specialist investigator. I've been in the UK since 2000.

Originally I was brought up in New Zealand, although I was born in England,

and I was a member of the New Zealand police for a few years and until they branched off as an investigator and I concentrated primarily on insurance claims investigations.

And then I came over in 2000, that was 23 years ago to the UK,

continued with that line of work,

until around about 2014-2015 when the operation

U-tree investigations were in full swing and I went back to being a specialist investigator or

maybe a private detector depending on how you how people refer to me.

I've become involved with Rolf Harris that way.

Right, it's not every day I get to speak to someone who was in the police in New Zealand.

So I mean, what is the kind of crime scope like it in New Zealand then?

Because I think from outsiders looking towards New Zealand, it's got this idea of this very quaint, picturesque, almost peaceful

place which I imagine many people would think has very low crime rates. What were the kind of things that would come up on your day-to-day

tasks as a copper in New Zealand?

Far from it. There may only be a small population, but I think you can see by of recent times there's been some very bad publicity

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