It comes amid reports NSW Police are preparing to create a new role to respond to emergency and disaster situations across the state. 9News
Fitzsimmons, previously the commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service and NSW Australian of the Year in 2020, will be stood down from his role as commissioner of Resilience NSW.
Resilience NSW is an agency set up after the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires to coordinate emergency services and their disaster management.Resilience NSW Shane Fitzsimmons speaking at the Upper House estimates committee at NSW parliament in April.Following the floods which devastated northern NSW earlier this year, an inquiry was launched to investigate the response to and recovery from the catastrophic event.
Accusations were levelled at Resilience NSW for "dropping the ball" during their flood response and that there was confusion about who was in charge between the multiple emergency agencies.
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