The consequences of me being here today is that I will be resigning from Victoria Police
effective the end of this interview, because the consequences of me coming out publicly.
would be dismissal. So I'm choosing to quit
and I'm quitting because I can't remedy
in my soul anymore the way in which
my organisation that I love to work for is being used
and the damage that it's causing
in the reputation of Victoria Police and the damage that it's causing to the
community.
My partner and I were out walking during our two hours of exercise on the weekend
and there were police everywhere. I live in the city.
And there was just police everywhere, you know, doing their reassurance patrols, which they're not reassurance patrols, you're not reassuring anybody in the community, you're scaring people in the community that there's that many police out in the city, you know, trying to stop mass gatherings or what have you.
The police don't want to look you in the eye.
You don't want to look the police in the eye.
There's this air of uncomfortability about it all.
All of my friends that are police officers,
that are working the front line
and are suffering every day enforcing show directions
that the vast majority or certainly a great majority
don't believe in and don't want to enforce.