Telstra owes WA more than one, for some of what happened (known, unknown and suppressed) involving Bradley Robert Edwards connected to his employment with Telecom/Telstra.
WA’s new top cop Col Blanch reveals his vision for the future of his police force, which also included modernising the agency to solve crimes faster, increasing officer safety and reducing repetitive paperwork.
thewest.com.au
'Sun, 24 July 2022 4:00AM'
'WA Police recently awarded a $4.9 million contract to “missions specialist” company Fugro — which specialises in autonomous vehicles, robotics, data analysis and remote communications.
The company has also recently partnered with the Australian Space Agency to build and operate the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex in Perth.'
'we’ve brought Fugro on, because they’ve got all the lessons from Rio Tinto, BHP, space exploration, NASA, and we are going to bring them straight into WA Police and use the exact same capabilities to find people who are lost out in the bush and to help people who are lost out in the ocean.”'
'Mr Blanch said another area of policing he was “very intent on expanding and growing” was targeting child sex abuse and child-exploitation material crimes.
“We are going to use technology super aggressively,” he said.
“I’ll be targeting those type of offenders in the community and we will be finding them through using partners like Telstra, like the FBI, like the Commonwealth, and we will be finding people in our community who are exploiting our children.”'
A few powerful comments by King Col in that article, and we can all only hope that they are working towards something concrete, they must have some pretty conclusive info they're working with and on for him to publicly say "he was confident that justice would prevail" re Sarah and Gerard.