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A former Rugby League star turned cop has revealed the hardship he's faced after getting sacked from the force for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid.
Father-of-five Justin Poore, 39, was fired from the NSW Police force in 2021 after refusing an order from then commissioner, Mick Fuller, for all officers to get the jab.
Mr Fuller removed Mr Poore and 54 other officers under the same section of the Police Act used to fire corrupt cops and accused double-murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon.
The ex-cop said he is being 'treated worse than a criminal' and was unable to find other work to support his family due to the severity of the section used to fire him.
While Mr Poore was lucky to work as a sole trader in his former profession as a plumber, he and the other former-officers still want their old jobs back.
Former NSW Police officer, Justin Poore (pictured), has revealed the hardships he and 54 other ex-cops have faced since being fired for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid
Despite playing eight years in the NRL and represented NSW in the 2009 State of Origin, Mr Poore said policing was his real 'dream job'.
When the time came to get the jab however, he questioned higher-ups over the effect it could have on his health.
'No one could answer my questions, no one could tell me what was in it, and they couldn't tell me any long-term data that they had on it,' he told A Current Affair.
'I didn't want to take the risk.'
Mr Poore and the other officers were all promptly fired under section 181D of the Police Act which allows the commissioner to remove any cop that they have
