NSW Police are currently reexamining hundreds of cold cases in response to the recommendations handed down by the The Special Commission of Inquiry into historic gay hate crimes in NSW. This is as part of the police’s response to the landmark Special Commission of Inquiry, which found that NSW Police had failed to properly investigate dozens of serious crimes and missing persons over the last 40 years, which are potential gay hate crimes and hate crime-related murders. The Special Commission of Inquiry examined 32 of these cases, and their examination found that there was 25 cases that had a definite reason to suspect they were LGBTQIA+ hate crimes, or that bias towards sexual orientation was a factor.