Housam Khatib shared gangland murder plots, addresses, from police systems

An award-winning NSW Police officer has admitted to leaking secret intelligence information and will be sentenced on Friday.

An award-winning NSW Police officer has admitted to leaking information about the murder of gangster “Brownie” Ahmad, intelligence on associates of the Alameddine crime clan and details of planned underworld executions.

Housam Khatib, 34, was arrested last December after a Strike Force Killinger investigation by the Professional Standards Command into the highly-secret documents he was illegally accessing on internal police computer systems.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that between November 2019 and January 2023 shared sensitive police information on 26 occasions.

His first offence involved sending information about an underworld figure’s plan to “execute members of a rival group”, including photographs, names and addresses, to a relative complete with the text message: “Lol”.

NSW Police officer Housam Khatib will today be sentenced for leaking secret intelligence documents relating to underworld murder plots, personal addresses and Covid-19 deaths.

Over the years that followed Khatib continued to send sensitive intelligence documents to people outside the police force, one of which related to the gangland assassination of Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad at Greenacre in 2022.

In another incident, at the request of a friend he looked up details about a man, asking: “How much truth do you want?”.

“He’s actually not that bad, best mates with ppl (people) deep in the Alameddine organised crime network,” Khatib said of the man.

Khatib also “intentionally” avoided pulling over a relative when his partner noticed their car was “unregistered”, before later texting them to warn them they had “too many outstanding fines”.

“He (Khatib’s colleague) ran the checks and goes, ‘that bloke is unregistered’, lol I’m like ‘ah f**k it, can’t be bothered doing a u turn’,” Khatib said.

When Covid-19 hit NSW, Khatib regularly kept his family and friends across news of interesting incidents, including warning them about which venues had confirmed cases of the virus, alerting them to a “death which ambulance officers believed was Covid-19 related” and of a list of “30 people classified as either having Covid-19 or being ‘high risk’”.

Khatib has resigned from the police force and will face the NSW District Court on Friday.

His other indiscretions were closer to home, including looking at personal information about his neighbour and searching up the owners of a property his wife was interested in buying.

Khatib was named a Service Officer of the Year in 2020 by The Rotary Club of Padstow for his work in “keeping the community safe on our roads”.

He was also involved in running sessions about road safety with Sydney school children, including teaching them about the dangers of alcohol, drugs and not wearing a seatbelt.

In a statement, a NSW Police spokesperson said after being suspended with pay Khatib “resigned from the NSW Police Force earlier this month”.

Khatib pleaded guilty to four counts of holder of public office misconduct himself in the NSW District Court and will be sentenced on Friday, with several counts of accessing restricted data are set to be taken into account by the Judge Warwick Hunt on a Form 1.