Geez, cheap political point scoring on an excellent public servant.
Unbelievable.
Brad
I would agree, she made many enemies in Victoria doing a good job as Police Commissioner. And many of the more constipated were not comfortable with her sexuality. She is a good person from all that I have heard about her.
gg
Geez, cheap political point scoring on an excellent public servant.
Unbelievable.
Brad
Much of the cheap shots at Ms..Nixon are born out of a desire to punish her for having been a good copper.
gg
Really? Leave her alone.
After they put out her itinerary on what was already deemed to be the worst day for fire in history I think she should at least explain her afternoon/evening decisions.
When things were getting hectic you would think the top of the crop would be wanting to do all they can...not down burgers and work on a biography.
Absolutely GG, I have till now stayed away from this debate for obvious reasons. I remember black saturday. Only a few weeks out of hospital from having my prostate removed, was on a train to Bendigo. It was hot, could see smoke and the day reminded me of many right back through my career to my young days on the farm. On a hot day when the wind beats up from the north there is no stopping such fires. I fought them as a kid, directed people out and around them as a junior cop and was in control rooms helping to oversight in my later days. They always catch authorities off guard, there is never enough manpower and resources in the right places and if there were they would get in each others road and probably more of them perish.
How can we expect a Chief Commissioner to be an expert on every facit, of not only policing but every conceivable emergency to boot. Horses for courses. She would have had an Assistant Comissioner of Operations and his own support staff, there would have been equal on emergency services and in that the connection to the CFA, DFA and probably otherAAA's. Government today of course usurp what used to be purely police and emergency services stuff as they want there nose in too. So you get a small part of the drift. chaos
Now this fire was nothing till after lunch and within an hour it was beyond control and as lives were being lost few knew it was happening let alone the people back in the Melbourne City Centres.
In senior police operational training a huge emphasis is put on Command and Control, it is a real mancho thing in fact (and so it perhaps needs to be). What we do not train for and cannot accept is that some things you can do little about and some people you cannot help. After the event there is always the big shouda (SHOUDAI like that).
As you point out GG, Nixon was good at her human approach. A leader at that level has to fine tune the overall leaderships of all the sections and bits and pieces so they properly perform their respective specialist roles in tune with the overall charter of policing.
Her appointment abraised some huge egos, (I left before her appointment but was a peer with some of the players) so her task would have been extrordinarily difficult and on top of that she was an appointment from interstate (NSW) and a woman. This has happened only once before to my knowledge and that was Niel Comry, however he had been a Victorian Policeman prior to being a Commissioner for a few years in Queensland. (swy its so safe for you GG)
The problem with Black Saturday is that it was Black Saturday Nixon was about and on call if wanted, there is no evidence that anyone had called her and she did not reply. To those calling for the sacking, get over it and move on
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