Police sergeant believes ammo received in internal mail a death threat

TWO live police-issue Glock bullets have been sent via internal mail to a NSW police sergeant in what he believes is a death threat.

The police-issue Glock ammunition was in a reusable internal envelope delivered with other mail to the officer at his desk in a north shore police station on Wednesday.

TWO live bullets have been sent via internal mail to a NSW police sergeant in what he believes is a death threat.

The police-issue Glock ammunition was in a reusable internal envelope delivered with other mail to the officer at his desk in a north shore police station on Wednesday.

“It’s the sort of thing criminals send to witnesses to say ‘don’t talk, I’ll kill you’,” a source told The Daily Telegraph.

“Police put people in jail for sending bullets in the mail.”

NSW Police confirmed they are investigating the complaint, including testing the envelope for fingerprints.

Police mail is sorted and distributed throughout the force via a third-party operator at an external location.

Internal mail goes into a blue satchel at each police station or location, which is collected by the operator.

The bullets are older ammunition no longer in use.

A source said the officer, who has served eight years as a sergeant, had suffered as a whistleblower after dobbing in a former colleague — dubbed “Sergeant Sleaze” — who secretly filmed himself having sex with girlfriends and boasted about it with colleagues at Gladesville Police Station. A police internal investigation found the officer, Marc Osborn, 46, was allegedly seeing up to 33 women at a time, some of them while on duty.

Osborn was convicted in Downing Centre Local Court of three counts of filming a person engaged in a private act without their permission, for sexual gratification, and sacked from the force.

There is no suggestion Mr Osborn has anything to do with sending the bullets.

At the time, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione praised officers who had been whistleblowers in the case and said the fact they had dobbed in a colleague showed how the police culture in NSW had changed.

But the sergeant allegedly targeted this week had had a “tough time” from some other officers for his actions, the source said. He is reportedly now on sick leave.

“He has been copping some fallout. He’s a mess after this week,” the source said.

A spokesman for NSW Police said they could not comment specifically as the matter was being investigated.

He said the police were supportive of whistleblowers.

“Any whistleblower will be supported in this organisation,” he said.