Shorter pieces on issues worth recording that would overwhelm the main report.
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...
In November 2018 the Police Minister asked the Auditor-General to examine Commission spending on overseas travel. The Auditor-General found the Commission "did not comply with s. 12A" of the Public Finance and Audit Act: the Minister had declined approval and the Commission spent $8,074.66...
Operation Askern examined former Police Commissioner Karen Webb in connection with 50 bottles of "Commissioner's Gin". The Commission gave a private report in August 2024, saying the evidence did not support a finding of serious misconduct; that report was subject to a non-publication order. On...
Since March 2025 the Commission has published its recommendations to police as a Power BI dashboard. Regulator Review found no download option. Applying its own filters on 11 October 2026 gave: 299 recommendations; 143 supported, 48 supported in principle, 12 partially supported, 57 not...
The Act requires the annual report to show the separate cost of the Commission's three operating parts: its own investigations (Part 6), oversight of police investigations (Part 7) and critical incident monitoring (Part 8). In 2024-25 these were $9,854,516, $2,107,045 and $771,260 (AR 2024-25 p...
On 11 October 2026 the Commission's website had five empty pages in its "what we do" and complaints sections, links to non-public staging hosts, and a strategic plan page still showing the 2023-2026 plan while another page linked the 2026-2029 plan. Its operational "snapshot" reports stop at...
In 2019-20 the Commission's two senior office holders fell out. An Inspector special report dealt with a complaint by the Commissioner for Oversight against the Chief Commissioner. The Commissioner for Oversight's appointment was terminated in January 2020 and the Chief Commissioner's term ended...
Every consolidated compliance or maturity figure for NSW Government agencies has been published by the Auditor-General, not by the office responsible. The office has described its own results only in words: maturity scores "decreased slightly from 2020 to 2021"; they "continued to improve in...
The 2026-2028 NSW Government Cyber Security Strategy, published in January 2026, carries "Document number: 1" and "Version number: 0.1" on its cover. On page 4 it says the NSW Government "put in place an updated NSW Cyber Security Policy" in February 2023. The updated policy was issued on 19...
Search the NSW statute book for "Cyber Security NSW" and you get one Act: the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. Two sections added in 2022 let the Information and Privacy Commission share information with Cyber Security NSW "to enable Cyber Security NSW to exercise its...
The Identity Protection and Recovery Act 2025 requires the Secretary to keep "the compromised ID register". The Minister's release of 6 August 2025 calls it the "Compromised Credential Register" in one paragraph and the "Compromised Identity Register" in a quotation further down. It was...
In May 2025 the Minister said ID Support NSW had "supported more than 40,000 customers impacted by identity misuse and data compromises" in 2023-24. In August 2025 the Minister said ID Support had "provided assistance and information to more than 75,000 customers" in 2024-25. The Department of...