Commissioner Karen Webb will be farewelled at Goulburn today after an extraordinary 38-year career with the NSW Police Force.
On behalf of the NSW Government, I thank her for her decades of self-sacrifice and service to the people of this state.
Commissioner Webb has been a force for change, achieving landmark reform that will leave a lasting legacy on the NSW Police Force.
Joining the NSWPF in May 1987, she has held every rank in the NSWPF, working across General Duties and Specialist Commands in both metro and regional NSW.
Under her leadership, we have introduced significant recruitment and retention measures including delivering a once-in-a-generation pay rise for police, paying recruits to train and establishing pathways for regional recruits to return to the bush and experienced officers to transfer from interstate and New Zealand to the NSWPF.
Commissioner Webb's commitment to tackling one of society's most shameful crimes - domestic and family violence - is to be commended.
Under her command, the NSWPF now have the only Domestic and Family Violence Registry in Australia, a Domestic Violence Liaison officer in every Police Area Command and District, the strongest cooperation with WDVCAS workers in our buildings and so much more.
Her achievements are an enduring legacy for how NSW Police will deal with domestic violence for decades to come
Commissioner Webb's drive to modernise the force for the 21st century will have a lasting impact on our police and community.
At today's Attestation Parade for new recruits in Goulburn the Commissioner will 'march off' the parade ground a little over 38 years after she herself attested on the same ground.
It is fitting she does so with her head held high as we welcome the largest class of recruits in more than a decade to the force - a result of her reforms to police recruitment and retention.
Commissioner Webb has a great deal to be proud of in her long and exemplary police career. We all owe her a huge debt of gratitude.
Congratulations Commissioner Webb.
