NSW Police to March in Mardi Gras, Sans Uniform

Published on February 29, 2024

Mardi Gras organisers and New South Wales Police have reached an agreement allowing officers to march in this year’s parade, but with a caveat—they are to only attend out of uniform. Debate about police presence at the Mardi Gras parade intensified when their invitation to march was revoked following the arrest of Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon, 28, for the alleged murders of Jesse Baird, 26, and his boyfriend Luke Davies, 29. NSW Police Commissioner met with Mardi Gras organisers several times, urging them to let police march in the 2024 Parade. “Police have agreed not to march in uniform, in consideration of current sensitivities,” she concluded in a statement....

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