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Mr BROGDEN: My question without notice is addressed to the Premier. Given that in June 2002 Deputy Commissioner Madden received allegations of criminal conduct and serious professional misconduct about the Government's special adviser on crime, Clive Small, why was the Bodor investigation delayed until after the March State election?
Mr CARR: I will seek advice on the Bodor investigation.
Mr Tink: It's your department!
Mr SPEAKER: Order! I call the honourable member for Epping to order.
Mr CARR: Those opposite are always loudest when their case is weakest. When their case is weak, their substitute is zoo noises. Currently Commander Clive Small is on secondment from NSW Police to the Premier's Department. He is a member of the police senior executive service and his contract of employment expires on 30 September this year. Police Commissioner Ken Moroney is responsible for matters relating to the employment of members of the police senior executive. I am not aware of any current investigation; I will seek a report from the Commissioner of Police and the Police Integrity Commission. For my part, having observed Clive Small working in communities in western New South Wales—the so-called river towns—where there are entrenched social problems, I have been very impressed by his capacity. I think I am correct in saying that he has gone into Redfern—
Mr Tink: Will you back Moroney?
Mr CARR: As I have said, zoo noises. I understand that Clive Small has gone to Redfern, where there are acute social problems and challenges of community building, to work on practical crime prevention. Clive Small has been used in other troubled communities, including Cabramatta. He has worked hard at those tasks and has brought a new dimension to the great challenge of strengthening communities and fixing up troubled or dysfunctional families, and therefore bearing down on the underlying causes of crime. It was a good use of his extensive policing experience to use him in this role. On the second day we are back in Parliament, if this is the Opposition members' number two indictment of the Government, they have spent a pretty lazy time off.