Search for next top cop as minister to face more heat

LNP leader Brad Battin says Victoria's police minister should follow the state's top cop and resign. Video by AAP

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00:00The reality is the vote of no confidence should have been directly in the Minister here in

00:04Victoria for the failures that he has managed to overhaul and withhold for so long.

00:09This is a Minister who just a week ago said he's got all the answers in his bottom drawer.

00:13If he had had those answers they should have been out and keeping the community safe and

00:17maybe we wouldn't be in the position we are today.

00:20Premier Allen, who's continuously come out and said she backs this Minister, so we have

00:25to ask the Premier, do you continue to want to keep a Minister within your Cabinet who

00:30is so incompetent that he has answers in his bottom drawer but he hasn't given them to

00:34you to fix the crime crisis?

00:36We've seen a Police Minister clearly that's not up to the job at the moment, a Police

00:41Minister that only a week ago was backing the Police Commissioner, now we're sacking

00:47him and eventually we'll be blaming Shane Patton for the problems that this Allen Labor

00:52Government has done.

00:54The Police Minister is just clearly not up to the job.

00:57These are very important times, a crime crisis where we need leadership and that leadership

01:02is absolutely lacking.