News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
ENFORCING a proposed ban on smoking cigarettes in cars carrying children could not be a high priority for police, commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
A POLICEWOMAN who assaulted a teenager and went on a destructive rampage through a Northam property has been allowed to keep her job.Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan today said he had decided not to sack Sergeant Kellee Walters. In November, Sgt Walters - a police officer for 23 years - was fined $3000 in Perth Magistrates Court after admitting charges of assault and wilful damage....
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
POLICE Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan wants new information from the Corruption and Crime Commission before deciding the futures of two senior officers.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
POLICE Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan argues that people in WA have become desensitised to the carnage on our roads .
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
... had no further details at this stage.The fatalities follow a call by Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan on Sunday for people to become more concerned and less dispassionate about road trauma.He said he believed people had become insensitive to the carnage on WA roads.Today, a Midland man was charged with driving while having a blood-alcohol content of six times the 0.05 per cent...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
The Police Internal Affairs Unit is investigating the death of the 36-year-old police officer who was found dead in the Collie police station late yesterday afternoon.Speaking at the Collie station, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan expressed his deep regret at the officer's death, which he said had shocked his collegues and the police community.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Police Minister Rob Johnson said stations at Cranbrook, Wickepin and Dumbleyung would be recommissioned following talks with Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan and local shires. “There are some logistical issues to be resolved before the stations can be re-opened but this is great news for policing in regional Western Australia,” he said. “The Commissioner has full responsibility for...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
... advice and guidance to metropolitan and regional police on rural crime. Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said at the time that its disbanding was a drastic measure taken to inject much needed resources into the sex crimes squad. ``Quite frankly, this is about priorities,'' Mr O'Callaghan said then. ``We've got enormous pressure in the sex crimes division, we're still dealing...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... private security guards at police stations. Apparently Western Australian Police Commissioner, Karl O’Callaghan is unfamiliar with the concept of irony. “We might have to place security guards or something like that,” Mr O’Callaghan said. The second firebombing had sparked concerns among officers for their safety at work. “I’m concerned about any threat on police, obviously...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Security at stations was being reviewed and security guards at stations considered at risk were being considered, West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said today. "If we see this escalating we might have to place security guards or something like that in the short term," Mr O'Callaghan said. The second arson made officers concerned for their safety at work, he said."I'm...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
The attacks force WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan to suggest security officers would be engaged to protect his officers. Ryan Thomas Jones, 27, of Heathridge in Perth's northern suburbs, was taken into custody about 9pm after detectives released a mugshot of him earlier in the day, .An alleged accomplice, Craig Meyrick, 31, also of Heathridge, was arrested hours earlier after...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan sent an email memo on Saturday ordering the state's 5000 police officers and WA Police staff to cease use of the word ``suspect'' in their dealings with the media and in public. The memo comes after high-profile lawyer Lloyd Rayney, named the ``prime'' and ``only'' suspect by police in the murder of his wife Corryn, launched legal action against the force,...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
POLICE Minister Rob Johnson and top cop Karl O'Callaghan are on a collision course over moves to keep speed camera locations secret over Christmas.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The head of the Claremont taskforce at the time of the intense focus on "Lance" was Assistant Commissioner David Caporn, who was instrumental in the conviction of Mr Mallard. While Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan and Director of Public Prosecutions Robert Cock QC have both apologised to Mr Mallard for his wrongful conviction, Mr Caporn and the other police on the Lawrence inquiry...
