Given that Station Officer P Roxburgh has stated in an email sent on 16 April 2008 that the suicide death of NSW Ambulance officer Christine Hodder occurred as a direct result of workplace harassment and bullying by officers of the Ambulance Service of NSW, has this allegation been investigated? If so, who conducted the investigation? Has the investigation been completed? If so, what was the result of this investigation? If the investigation has been completed, what were the findings? Has any action been taken as a result of these findings, if so what action?
to (6) I am advised by the Ambulance Service of NSW that the allegations and the circumstances of the grievances were investigated in 2005 by a team of investigators coordinated by the Service's Professional Standards & Conduct Unit. The Ambulance Service accepted and implemented the recommendations of the investigation and the Critical Incident Review. These recommendations included implementing training programs for front-line managers to assist in the management of inappropriate staff behaviour and to performance manage and support staff; mediation for staff at Cowra; changes to the front-line management of Cowra Station and changing the management of workers compensations claims where harassment was alleged. The investigation and the recommendations were subsequently reviewed by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which declined to investigate the matter further, and the local Coroner who elected not to hold an inquest.