The Northern Territory Police Association's calls for NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy to resign following revelations he was the subject of an ICAC probe which found he'd engaged in improper and incompetent conduct. Whether or not Commissioner Murphy will step down remains unclear and the Chief Minister's stayed silent over the matter as questions over her leadership on the issue continue to swirl.
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00:00Ironically, it's at a lunch for International Women's Day that the government faces a scandal
00:07over jobs for the boys.
00:09Do you think the Commissioner Michael Murphy should resign?
00:12I think that's a very complex matter and that's a matter for the Commissioner.
00:16No sign of the event's keynote speaker, Chief Minister Leah Finocchiaro, who cancelled at
00:20late notice.
00:22Less than a day after Police Commissioner Michael Murphy revealed himself to be the
00:25subject of an anti-corruption probe.
00:28It found he acted improperly, negligently and incompetently in the recruitment for a
00:33senior police position, which his good friend landed.
00:36I honestly couldn't think of a worse way of going about an application process.
00:42It completely flies in the face of all principles of fairness and most importantly the conflict
00:48of interest.
00:49The Police Association now calling for Commissioner Murphy to step down.
00:53We met at an emergency meeting last night, at 8pm last night.
00:57All our membership attended, all our appointed executive members attended and they voted
01:01unanimously to ask for the Commissioner's resignation in response to this.
01:05The Police Commissioner is the highest paid public servant in the Northern Territory.
01:10Everyone in the Northern Territory puts our faith in the police to do the right thing.
01:15Police on the beat, apparently appalled by the revelations.
01:19They were disgusted.
01:20They were distraught.
01:21They have no trust in the leadership.
01:23If the leader's not going to behave in the appropriate manner, they're expected to uphold
01:28as well.
01:29On the streets too, a lack of confidence in the integrity of the NT's senior executives.
01:34Once again in the Territory we always seem to end up in this situation where who the
01:38hell do we trust?
01:39His superiors should take an action maybe.
01:44One would assume he shouldn't have done it and he must have known that.
01:49The integrity breach by the Police Commissioner is one of the first serious tests of Leah
01:53Finocchiaro's leadership.
01:55As the fallout continues, some say the Chief Minister should have taken decisive action
01:59sooner.
02:00She is not showing any action or leadership.
02:03So she needs to step up or she needs to step aside.
02:06Northern Territory Police declined to comment on their Commissioner's next move.