The state's police will test revised working relationships with the Australian Defence Force in a massive counter-terrorism exercise to be staged in May
The state's police will test revised working relationships with the Australian Defence Force in a massive counter-terrorism exercise to be staged in May.
"It's designed to test our whole prepare, respond and recover arrangements from the bottom right through to government, executive level," he toldMr Walton was speaking on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Lindt cafe siege of December 15, 2014, when gunman Man Haron Monis took 18 people hostage in the busy cafe in the heart of Sydney's CBD.
A two-and-a-half-year inquest conducted by then coroner Michael Barnes was critical of many aspects of the police response. The federal government later introduced amendments to the call-out powers, which came into effect in June this year.
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