Two and a half years for a police report on a death

When police are involved in a death or serious injury, NSWPF investigates and later writes a Critical Incident Investigation Report. In 2024-25 those reports reached the Commission "an average of 2 years and 6 months" after the incident, and 11 months after any court case had ended. Thirteen incidents that had been finalised by the courts, or had no court proceedings, were still awaiting a police report (LECC AR 2024-25 p 57). The Commission had recommended three months after court proceedings; police accepted that "in principle" as "suggested guidelines only" (LECC AR 2022-23 pp 70-71).