New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson says certain police policies are currently “under review” following the murders of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Mr Hudson said the gun involved was signed out from Miranda police station where it is “normally stored” for the purposes of “participating in a user-pays event”.
“Post the incident we believed the gun may have been stored at Balmain police station before being returned to Miranda later that day,” Mr Hudson said.
“It is not unusual in current policy and the commissioner did indicate that there is independent review obviously oversided by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission because this is a critical incident in relation to those policies.
“The policies are under review; I would suggest that within policy with user pays events that is not an unusual circumstance when police deploy to locations that they’re not normally attached to where their firearm is normally stored.
“There are also approvals within the organisation for firearms to be stored at home as well, and we are working through all that as part of the investigation.”
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