NSW cop hired for UN role to solve assassination
ONE of NSW's top investigators has been hired by the United Nations to find the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Who is he?
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ONE of NSW's top investigators has been hired by the UN to find the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas will take 12 months' unpaid leave from his position next March to act as Chief of Investigations with the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
"It's daunting and a bit humbling really," Mr Kaldas said yesterday.
"(But) it has the potential to have an impact on the whole of the region."
The Lebanese PM died in a car bombing in February 2005.
Mr Kaldas became deputy commissioner this year and said he would return to it when his UN stint ended.
The Arabic-speaking officer was head of the homicide and gangs squads and now the counter-terrorism command.
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