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Shane Patton Resigns Effective Immediately · The Slippery Slope

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  How you going, Jay Fallon here, slippery slopes.
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  We've got to get into a bit of bit of things going on in
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  Victoria, Victorian Police. It's been a bit of a bit of
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  flux, a state of flux for the last couple of days.
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  Finally the police commissioner down there has fallen on his
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  sword handed in his resignation. I love these.
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  It's always the same thing. You get these resignations come
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  out from these high profile people and they always with a
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  heavy heart. I'd love one day for someone to
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  come out there and go crackers be.
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  Cracking so I'm a cracker. Lacking instead.
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  Of something stupid boy with a heavy heart.
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  Everyone's got a heavy heart. They've been going through all
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  this rubbish for how long now? How long has the the union been
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  picking at him? You could see things were
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  falling apart in Victoria. But anyway, he finally, like I
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  said, fallen on his sword. A couple of things just want to
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  go through I'm. Going to bring up these.
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  Articles. But is is more so what's the
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  Premier? How the Premier raised
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  everything we'll go through, go through two articles just very
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  quickly because there's not much else to say.
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  We, we've seen this going on. You can see the writing on the
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  wall. Really.
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  Like I said, with a heavy heart, this is Sydney Morning here with
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  a heavy heart. Police chief resigns effective
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  immediately. So Commissioner Shane Payton
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  stepped away from the role effective immediately.
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  He's released a resignation statement on Sunday evening, as
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  did the state government, after weeks of speculation about
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  whether he would see out the remaining months of his contract
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  that ends in June. Remind you of what happened here
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  in Queensland last year. Victoria Police was plunged into
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  a leadership process on Friday after a bruising no confidence
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  vote by 87% of rank and file officers.
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  That is huge. 87 Oh wow, that's massive, he says.
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  I have been. I have this evening advised
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  governments that given the current circumstances
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  surrounding my position, I have decided to step away from the
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  role effective immediately. Jacinta Allen said Rick Nugent
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  would take the role of acting chief commissioner in the other
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  article from ABC So Jacinta, Jacinta Allen Jacinta Jacinta
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  Allen she's blamed the overwhelming no confidence vote.
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  So she says an overwhelming no confidence motion moved against
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  the state's police chief on Friday was the trigger.
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  It was an outcome that simply could not be ignored.
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  Miss Allen Miss Allen said that the police union vote in which
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  the vast majority of members declared they didn't have
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  confidence. Ellen said following the vote,
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  conversations were held over the weekend with senior officials,
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  leading to Mr Payton's resignation on Sunday night.
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  Under sustained questioning by reporters on Monday, the premier
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  refused to confirm whether she or Police Minister Anthony
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  Carbons had personally spoken with Mr Payton over the weekend.
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  Out of respectful to Mr Payton, out of respect to the office of
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  chief commissioner, I'm not going to go into the details of
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  those conversations. How ridiculous is the Victorian
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  premier? I mean, seriously, she works for
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  the she works for the Victorian people.
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  She's the premier of Victoria. She's a public servant and she
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  she doesn't want it to even tell the public whether she had a an
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  actual conversation with former police commissioner Shane
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  Payton. Why can't she just come in and
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  say this is exactly what what happened?
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  You know, I've either spoken to him or the the police minister
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  has spoken to him. Be honest, be transparent.
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  This has been a long problem with Victorian governments.
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  They are not, they have not been honest or transparent for many,
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  many years. She was obviously just handed
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  the role after, after the other fellow Dan Andrews got out and
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  he was why I can't say much about him.
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  He'd probably anyway, we all know what Dan Andrews was like,
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  what he put the Victorian people through.
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  So, you know, she can't even come out and say, hey, we
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  actually had a conversation, but she goes and gives all these
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  excuses. I think this is very reminiscent
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  to me, reminiscent of what happened in Queensland.
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  You see a government that's starting to fail, that's
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  flailing and wanting to, to spread the the blame.
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  So what happened in Queensland, you know, we had a lot of things
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  going wrong, wrong. Part of the issues were we could
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  see crime escalating, a lot of issues with teen crime in
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  Queensland. Obviously our former police
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  commissioner just had one failure after another because
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  she wasn't much of A leader. Katarina Carol, just in case
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  you've forgotten her name, her. Unfortunately they didn't get
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  rid of Mark Ryan because as we've seen, he's a fairly
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  popular person within their government anyway, but they were
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  having problems. So part of the, you know, part
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  of their solution was, hey, we'll, we'll push the police
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  commissioner out hoping that that helps give their, give them
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  better numbers. That's what I think happened
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  here in Queensland. And this is to me, it seems
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  what's happened in Victoria. Shane Payton.
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  Obviously there's been a lot of, a lot of fallout from the things
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  happening in Victoria over the last couple of years.
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  Victorian government, as I said have been flailing and just one
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  bad news story after a next. We can see they are in dire
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  straits financially. They have made so many terrible
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  decisions when it comes to more financial decisions that put
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  themselves in extreme dire straits.
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  They've got a just a terrible problem with crime, crime rates
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  and youth crime down in in Victoria.
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  So how can they look as if they're doing something
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  positive, go through back channels and push the police
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  commissioner out? This is what I believe has
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  happened. It's just a political move.
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  All these high ranking officers are just political appointments
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  anyway and it's just a part of the government strategy to help
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  give them better poll numbers. That's all it is.
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  Because it's very, very likely that Miss Allen is not going to
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  win the election, the next Victorian election and be handed
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  the premiership again anyway. So they're just going down the
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  same path as what I think Queensland did.
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  And it didn't work for Queensland.
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  I don't think it's going to work for Jacinta Allen.
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  And that's the way it should be too, because they're pathetic
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  government, pathetic and corrupt government in my opinion anyway.
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  That's just what I think. You let me know what you think.
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  This is all just my opinion. My name is still Jay Fallon.
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  This is still a slippery slope and thanks for listening.
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  Crackers be. Cracking so I'm a cracker.
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  Lacking, they just feel.