Incident avoids criminal charges

The officer’s behaviour was in breach of police’s code of conduct, which resulted in an ‘‘appropriate employment outcome’’.

A police spokeswoman said the incident was now an employment matter. ‘‘Police have the same privacy obligations as any other employer, and have no further comment to make regarding the matter.’’

The hosts of the party, who declined to be named, earlier told The Press that they had invited about 150 people from the University of Canterbury on a private Facebook group to celebrate a flatmate’s 20th birthday.

They had registered the party on the Good One website, set up for party planners to alert police in advance.

The party went without incident until about 10.30pm, when people who were not invited started coming in from off the street.

The uninvited guests started damaging the property and causing fights.

One of the flatmates called police and asked them to break up the party just after 11pm.

While breaking up the party, one police officer was filmed as three people yelled at him.

One of the group told the officer her father was a police officer, to which he replied: ‘‘I’m sure he’s really proud of having a skanky daughter.’’

The group told the officer to ‘‘f... off’’, and another woman said, ‘‘She’s not skanky’’, before one of the men said: ‘‘F... off c..., don’t f...ing call my missus skanky’’.

After the group hurled verbal abuse, the video showed the officer walking up to the man, pushing him to the ground and pointing at him, saying: ‘‘You were told to go home, now go home.’’