The board of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will discuss calls for NSW Police to be banned from marching in this year's parade, sparked after a serving police officer was charged with murder following the disappearance of a Sydney couple. SBS News understands the discussion will happen at an upcoming meeting ahead of the Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said members of the force should be allowed to participate in the parade, adding that exclusion will impact LGBTIQ+ members of the force. "To shut the door on them would set us backwards," she said at a press conference on Monday. On Sunday, Webb apologised for police failures highlighted in a special inquiry into suspected LGBTIQ+ homicides , which found gay hate bias was a likely factor in 25 of 32 suspected homicides from 1970 to 2010.
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