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SARAH FERGUSON: Is it worse for police investigating a murder and handling public communications when it involves one of your own?
KAREN WEBB: It was important that when we became aware that we had, on Thursday evening in fact, last week, we had three missing people, but clearly something had gone wrong somewhere. While we've now located Jesse and Luke, we have a lot more work to do. We have got many more witnesses to speak to, many more crime scenes to examine, many more forensic examinations.KAREN WEBB: Yes, it does but it is a complex and unusual matter and certainly, as I said, the fact that it is an officer that used his service firearm that we will allege to commit these crimes.
KAREN WEBB: I'm actually not at liberty to talk about that in any great detail and that will obviously go before the court, but I understand that he had different counsel at different times and new counsel yesterday and there was a change in the situation. KAREN WEBB: Again, I won't go into the specifics because that will be subject to the court proceedings, but in our organisation, we have processes and procedures if officers are going to undertake duties away from their normal home command, where they are given permission or they can access them and store them at another location, with permission, et cetera.
If officers seek to approval to store firearms at their home, there are a number of steps to that approval, including that the safe in which the firearm is stored has been independently approved as a normal firearms holder would be, and the commander in that location or for that officer makes the decision.
KAREN WEBB: That will form part of the investigation and really that is in the hands of the Homicide Squad.SARAH FERGUSON: And is it your view that some breach of procedure has occurred here? KAREN WEBB: That will form part of the investigation because we will look at his recruitment file, his history in the organisation and it might even go back further than that.
KAREN WEBB: Um, I can't comment about that. It's going to be part of the investigation, because what happens when I issue a show-cause, the officer has 21 days to respond to me and I must consider in a fair process, that he has the opportunity to respond before I can then take that next step.SARAH FERGUSON: Talking about dismissal of someone who has been accused of a heinous crime?SARAH FERGUSON: There is a shortage of police officers in New South Wales.
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