NSW independent MP Rod Roberts has accused NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb of buying 'in excess of 100 bottles of gin' using taxpayer funds. The commissioner said the speech was 'solely intended' to damage her reputation.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has been accused of buying 100 bottles of gin with taxpayer money. This is what we know NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has been investigated over the purchase of a number of bottles of gin.
It stems from an anonymous complaint the LECC had received about the purchase of "Commissioner's Gin" in October last year.Under parliamentary privilege, Mr Roberts accused Commissioner Webb of buying "in excess of 100 bottles of gin", and said she "used" some herself.She said that so far, 24 of the bottles have been "distributed as gifts or donated for charity purposes" and she hadn't tasted the gin at any point.
It's not yet clear what Commissioner Webb's connection to the gin supplier was, and whether that was personal or financial. The commissioner didn't specifically address the finding that she had an "association with the supplier", and the ABC has asked for clarification on that.Police Minister Yasmin Catley said it was "an established practice" for the commissioner and parliamentarians to give bottles of alcohol as gifts.
"When we host dignitaries from other countries, such as consul-generals and ambassadors, we do not provide alcohol. We provide gifts of other standards, and I think it is up to the police force to do the same."Overcoming her past demons, Nina Kennedy was the perfect person to lift Australia to its greatest ever Olympic heights
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