Victoria’s top cop apologises after taking police helicopter across Bass Strait to Tasmania
by Guardian staff and Australian Associated Press from on (#70XSZ)
Mike Bush says commercial flight would have been more appropriate for travel to Hobart for meeting of commissioners
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The Victorian police commissioner who used one of the force's helicopters to fly nearly 600km from Melbourne to Tasmania to attend a conference has apologised for his mistake".
The chief commissioner, Mike Bush, used Victoria police's secondary" helicopter to cross the Bass Strait and attend a meeting with his counterparts in Hobart - where a mechanical issue caused it to be grounded on Monday night.
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