Karen Webb warns police can’t risk 250,000 people being ‘trapped in the city’ with no way out amid ongoing industrial dispute
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The New South Wales police commissioner, Karen Webb, says she has “grave concerns” about the safety of Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks proceeding during a train strike – and she could recommend they be cancelled.
“Leaving the city is based on access to transport, including trains, and if trains aren’t available, and people can’t leave the city, I have very large concerns of the risk that will create to the public, because families won’t be able to get home and they’ll be trapped in the city [with] no way out,” the commissioner told reporters on Friday.
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