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Episode: ‘A viper’s nest’: How Karen Webb became top cop
Description: The tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother, the double-murder of a Surry Hills couple, the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial and now the spike in domestic violence.These are some of the biggest stories in Australia over the past 12 months, and all of them have drawn in one very powerful woman – Karen Webb, the commissioner of the NSW Police Force.The veteran cop has found herself at press conferences and interviews having to defend herself and the force to a national audience.Today, senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton, on who Karen Webb re...