Victoria Police changes control structures as coroner highlights flaws in response to Bourke Street rampage of James Gargasoulas

Victoria’s police chief says officers will never again question who is in charge during emergencies like the Bourke Street rampage, insisting the force has learned from the massacre.

In the hours after the coroner handed down her findings into the deaths of six people, killed when James Gargasoulas went on a murderous rampage down Melbourne’s Bourke Street mall, Chief Commissioner Shane Patton stressed that Victoria Police had radically changed.

Gone, he said, were the…