Former NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller says without volunteers across the state, many emergency services “wouldn’t exist”.
Mr Fuller’s comments follow the release of a report into the management of the floods which hit the Northern Rivers and the Hawkesbury-Nepean region earlier this year.
“Can I acknowledge particularly the challenges that the SES volunteers faced in the midst of these weather events, and I think they were themselves let down on many occasions,” Mr Fuller said during a media conference on Wednesday.
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