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Speaker 1: Costa is a dead man walking at this point. Anyone

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Speaker 1: not completely brainwashed during COVID could see that there was

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Speaker 1: just something a bit off about him, and this IPCA

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Speaker 1: report is proof that basically they were right. He knew

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Speaker 1: about this so called affair mix skimming heads the woman

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Speaker 1: had worked for police. He didn't ask the questions he

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Speaker 1: should have, he promotes MC skimming, didn't tell the people

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Speaker 1: he should have told about dodgy stuff, which makes it

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Speaker 1: look well, just all the more dodgy, doesn't it. In

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Speaker 1: August I asked Costa about mix skimming. A lot of

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Speaker 1: your colleagues have said that they were sort of shocked

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Speaker 1: to find out. Were you guys mates. I'm just not

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Speaker 1: going to come in at the moment. I'm sorry, do

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Speaker 1: you does it make you uncomfortable seeing him, you know,

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Speaker 1: walking into court again? I just won't comment by on.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's a really disturbing situation, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to go into this until its spind was on.

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Speaker 1: So no answers then, and still no answers now. We've

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Speaker 1: asked to speak to him this morning. He's on leave.

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Speaker 1: Nikola Willis gets tangled up in this too. Unfortunately for her,

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Speaker 1: she recommended Costa for his current job. He's still got

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Speaker 1: five years on his contract. She says, she's appalled, but

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Speaker 1: she can't fire him. That's a job for Brian Roache,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any doubt that he's going

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Speaker 1: to get the sack unless he resigns first. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing is an absolute cluster. In a big

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Speaker 1: government job like police commissioner, you got to cross the

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Speaker 1: t's and dot the eyes. It's a seven hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year job, and Costa wasn't up to the job.

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Speaker 1: If he doesn't quit his current one, it's only a

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Speaker 1: matter of time now before it's taken from him. The

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Speaker 1: clock is ticking for Costa and for the front line. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: respect and integrity take a lifetime to earn in a

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Speaker 1: moment to lose. They're the ones who'll cop the backlash.

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Speaker 1: They're the ones who have to actually talk to real

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Speaker 1: people every day, and as of six o'clock last night, sadly,

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Speaker 1: their jobs just became a whole lot harder. For more

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