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Analysis - Headline writers have had their fun calling it 'Coster's Last Stand', and like the general's doomed battle, it ended with a crushing fall.
The comparison falls apart pretty quickly after that. Yes, Andrew Coster leaves behind a mixed legacy, but the former police boss will never gain the folk-hero sheen of his near-namesake.
Public Service Commissioner Brian Roche struck a somewhat conflicted tone in his interviews on Wednesday.
Clearly he thought Coster's resignation was the right and inevitable outcome, and named the former police chief ultimately responsib
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