 NSW Police refused to acknowledge the new data, which led Arantz to leak it to the press in November 1971.Following this he was forcibly admitted into hospital having been declared mentally ill by a police doctor, who later claimed he had been coerced into doing so by senior police, and in 1972 Arantz was sacked from the force.Allan at first denied the new figures were accurate but later confirmed their validity in a report tabled to parliament in September 1972.