
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb did not respond to complaints about police cover ups
Justice Matters wrote to the commissioner about the 2 matters below, but she did not respond:
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The serious threat to public safety caused by the police clearing David Elliott of wrongdoing in a traffic incident.
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Evidence that proves several senior officers used threats and false premises to cover up criminal misconduct, but the commissioner did not respond.
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Public safety and police integrity are the police commissioner's most fundamental responsibilities, but Karen Webb (and NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley) has failed on both and should be dismissed.
Dismissal of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb
It is a sad reality that senior police officers are prepared to tell falsehoods to mislead the public, but how many times does a police officer have to deceive the public before they are considered untrustworthy?

Public safety and police integrity are the police commissioner's most fundamental responsibilities, but Karen Webb (and NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley) has failed on both and should be dismissed.
Serious questions raised about honesty of Karen Webb, in relation to police press release following alleged fatal tasering of 95 year Clare Nowland
Internal police emails sent after the alleged fatal tasering of 95-year-old Clare Nowland have raised questions about why police chose to omit details of the incident in a media release.
Both commissioner Webb and Catley have repeatedly said that police wanted Mrs Nowland's family to find out about the taser before they heard through the media.
But emails released under parliamentary order reveal Mrs Nowland's family likely knew the details of the incident soon after she was hospitalised — before a media statement was issued.
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the emails called into question Catley's version of events.
"It now appears that the family knew reasonably quickly, on the day of the tasering, what had happened," he said.
"The police minister has constantly told parliament that the delay was explicable because of the need to tell the family.
"It now appears that her chronology is inaccurate, it's misleading."
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Further questions raised about honesty of Karen Webb
Commissioner Webb refused to answer questions about the internal emails, telling media the matter was before the court. However, this did not prevent her from answering because the emails were sent after the incident, and are separate to the court matter.
Technically Webb is not telling a lie but she is being intentionally deceptive.
This is just one of the many unscrupulous tactics the police use to cover up misconduct, but people are not so easily fooled. They recognize it for what it is, a duplicitious tactic employed in order to avoid answering a difficult question.