A police watchdog has called for telephone recording systems to be rolled out in stations across NSW after the officer son of an ex-premier was caught fabricating details of a key conversation.
Daniel Keneally, the son of former Labor premier Kristina Keneally, was convicted of making a false statement over the details of a phone call that led to an activist's wrongful imprisonment.
The then-constable wrote a statement containing numerous falsehoods relating to a call from the the founder of the website ISuepolice, Luke Moore, to Sydney's Newtown police station in February 2021.
Daniel Keneally's statement included false claims Mr Moore threatened to kill a police officer, resulting in him being arrested and held in custody for three weeks.
The activist was eventually released on bail and the charge dropped because of a secret recording of the conversation he made on his phone.
It revealed significant discrepancies in the officer's statement.
Keneally was charged in October 2022 following an investigation by the NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission after an internal police probe initially cleared him of any likely criminal wrongdoing.
In a report into the case, released on Friday, the commission called for the introduction of telephone systems in police stations with the capacity to record conversations with the public.
But it noted Newtown police station had the facility to record incoming telephone calls, a feature Keneally was not aware of at the time.
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