Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon has firmed as frontrunner for the NSW Police Force’s top job after Premier Chris Minns said he’s willing to overlook “bad decisions” and that the NSW police commissioner did not need to have a “lily-white record”.

But an expert involved in the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force, which began 30 years ago and found systemic and entrenched corruption, disagreed, saying the state’s top police officer needed to meet the highest ethical standards.

Premier Chris Minns with likely police commissioner Mal Lanyon, right, at a press conference about Cyclone Alfred in March 2025. Credit: Kate Geraghty

The Herald revealed on Wednesday that Lanyon had been investigated by the police watchdog for taking his wife and another couple on the police vessel

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