Former police officer Adrian Van Der Eik faces charges of cultivating cannabis and threatening to injure. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON
Adrian John Van Der Eik, 66, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday charged with cultivating cannabis and threatening to injure.
The charges were laid on Monday after police attended Van Der Eik’s Waitahuna address.
He was remanded on bail with conditions he reside at a Clutha address, not contact the victim or go to their home and not to be violent or threaten violence to anyone.
In 2004, the Otago Daily Times reported that Van Der Eik was employed by police from 1978 to 1991.
He had been a sole-charge officer at Clinton, and transferred to Middlemarch in 1989.
Van Der Eik was forced to "medically disengage" from police in June 1991, with chronic severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
He is due to appear in court again next month.
