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Breakfast radio host Ben Fordham has put NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on blast after she cancelled a scheduled interview on his present.
Ms Webb has been on the centre of public scrutiny for the final month after a sequence of public blunders.
‘Morale within the police pressure is tanking, and the commissioner has gone into hiding,’ Fordham stated on his Monday morning present.
Fordham claimed that Ms Webb had approached media executives asking for ‘beneficial protection’.
‘The NSW Police Commissioner has approached media bosses at 9 Radio and NewsCorp. I do know this as a result of one of many conversations was about me,’ Fordham stated.
Breakfast radio host Ben Fordham has put NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on blast after she cancelled a scheduled interview on his present.
Fordham referred to the dying of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who was allegedly tasered by Senior Constable Kristian White at a Cooma aged care dwelling in Might 2023.
‘Once I was asking questions concerning the lack of transparency over the Taser incident, the commissioner complained to my boss,’ Fordham stated.
‘It was clear to me what was happening, Karen Webb wished me to ease up a bit.’
Ms Webb was resulting from seem on Fordham’s 2GB present on Monday to reply questions over the ‘crime wave’ in regional NSW.
She was reportedly busy each day final week however locked in a dwell interview to begin the week.
‘However the commissioner isn’t approaching our present this morning, (she) known as me on Friday to elucidate this,’ Fordham stated.
He stated she was not comfortable a few ‘cheeky’ query he requested Premier Chris Minns earlier that day inquiring about whether or not he had acquired her ‘letter of resignation’.
‘It is a dummy spit and it is one other instance of the commissioner taking issues personally as an alternative of searching for the lesson,’ he stated.
The month of scrutiny kicked off after serving police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with the double homicide of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Police allege he used a service weapon to kill the couple, prompting issues over the pressure’s weapon dealing with protocols and management.
Ms Webb was noticeably silent within the days that adopted Mr Lamarre-Condon being charged, and when she did lastly face the cameras, she was slammed for a sequence of embarrassing blunders, together with referring to the incident as a ‘crime of ardour’ and quoting Taylor Swift lyrics when requested if she ought to resign.
The top of the police pressure has additionally confronted criticism after sacking a staffer from her public affairs division in latest weeks.
NSW Police has been contacted for remark.
