Page 1164 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 6 April 2016
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Fettes asked:
Do you have a particular number of times that happened?
The Chief Police Officer said:
There are a number of instances but I won’t be discussing the specifics because they do relate to ongoing police investigations.
Mr Hanson asked how often, and when was the information leaked. The Chief Police Officer gave some information but he drew boundaries around that. Kirsten Lawson asked:
… are there recordings of conversations or how did you get that information?
The Chief Police Officer said:
The specifics of the evaluation and the methodologies used during the evaluation are police operations and I won’t be discussing that.
Tom McIlroy asked what the spark was that caused the evaluation. The Chief Police Officer said:
The evaluation was conducted because of an article that was run in the Financial Review on the 15th of December last year.
I find that to be an interesting component of this element. Nobody is asking about how the original information got leaked to the Australian Financial Review. I would be fascinated to know the answer to that, but nobody seems to be interested in that story, certainly nobody in this place, because nobody has raised that question.
I will turn to the last piece of the transcript which I believe is relevant today. There are a lot of other questions and answers that members can read for themselves. In terms of the question of what standard the Chief Minister can be held to today, Kirsten Lawson asked:
Can you just clarify the timing of the passing on of sensitive information. Was it all in the last year or was it ongoing through the year or into this new year?
The Chief Police Officer said:
The passing of sensitive information goes back to early last year. It came to the attention of investigators in April, who were investigating other matters. Because it was an ongoing police investigation it was not appropriate for anybody to speak about that information until that investigation or parts of that investigation were complete. That investigation was complete towards the end of last year.
Kirsten Lawson asked:
Just the timing—at the end, you said there was other issues uncovered during the evaluation so they started back early last year did they all relate to before April or was there ongoing things during last year and into this year.
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