As the public face of NSW policing,Karen Webb’s media performance this week has raised questions about her capacity to do the job.
Senator David Shoebridge says a close personal relationship could jeopardise the criminal investigation into the PwC tax scandal.
If community involvement in disaster management can be encouraged and supported,NSW will be better prepared for the challenges to come.
The NSW State Emergency Service was so overwhelmed by calls for help during record floods this year that it turned off its jobs deployment system,a key report has found.
Dominic Perrottet wants the “wonderful” members of Lismore’s community-led rescue effort to play a more permanent role in future disasters.
The community members focused on failures:inadequate flood watch warnings,a breakdown of emergency response,a collapse of essential telecommunications and the feeling that they were abandoned for days by state and federal leaders.
The former police commissioner was investigated by the independent law enforcement watchdog over his part-ownership of racehorses with a group of others.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has launched a probe into predecessor Mick Fuller over his horse racing interests while he was the state’s top officer.
The state government says former police commissioner Mick Fuller has been ruled out of the running for a position on the board of Racing NSW,two days after he confirmed his ambitions for the horseracing body.
Outgoing police chief Mick Fuller has doubled down on criticism of the William Tyrrell investigation under Gary Jubelin,saying Mr Jubelin illegally recording a suspect is what got him removed from the case.
The race to replace retiring Commissioner Mick Fuller as the state’s top cop is narrowing,with deputy commissioners Mick Willing and Karen Webb the frontrunners.