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| Victoria police assistant commissioner Brett Guerin resigned after reports he made racist comments on YouTube under an alias. |
The Professional Standards Command boss, Brett Guerin, who was also assistant police commissioner, was last week stood down and referred to the state’s anti-corruption commission for making “crude and coarse” comments online about people including the former police commissioner Christine Nixon.
Guerin resigned from the force on Monday night after Fairfax Media reported he also made racist comments on YouTube under the alias “Vernon Demerest”, a character from the 1970 film Airport.
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The newspaper also reported Demerest made sexually graphic comments about AFL, rugby league and cricket games, and separately claimed women shouldn’t be allowed to sing the national anthem.
“The National Anthem must never be improvised. It must always be sung by a male. A baritone. And accompanied by a band. No argument. No opinion. Just fact,” Demerest wrote.
Guerin last week publicly apologised for making sexually inappropriate remarks on a website about Nixon and ex-police union boss Paul Mullett.
“It’s crude and coarse language and, you know, what I’m most ashamed about is my mother and my daughters have read it now,” he told 3AW. “The language I used ... was completely inappropriate, embarrassing and I can understand people saying ‘what the hell is this bloke doing?’”
He said he used the alias Demerest because “if I had gone in under my own name, it would have been associated with police”.
In a statement issued on Monday night, Victoria police said Guerin’s resignation was linked to an ongoing Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission investigation.
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