Deputy Premier Peter Ryan explains 'rumour files' exposed in secret police crisis tapes Tristan Weston was the former adviser to Deputy Premier Peter Ryan. DEPUTY Premier Peter Ryan has admitted his former adviser, Tristan Weston, used to create for him a list of unsubstantiated rumours around the police force. Mr Ryan explained the "rumour files" - mentioned on the secret police crisis tapes revealed by the Herald Sun - were given to him "intermittently." It comes as new documents emerged, showing internal memos Mr Weston drafted for Mr Ryan. Some of the memos written by Mr Weston contain slurs and aggressive language, including calling a serving police officer a "sanctimonious, disingenuous individual who would lock up his mother to get ahead." Audio: Tristan Weston-Damien Mantach conversation Another memo advises how police statistics on assault could be spun. "Victoria Police are very keen to use Family Violence to justify any increase in reported assaults however I have yet to see any real proof of this being the cause," Mr Weston wrote. Christine Nixon was the master of it. Another says the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity is "the most useless paper tiger Commonwealth Agency of all. Couldn't catch a cold, Couldn't solve a crossword. Copies of the documents were provided to Mr Ryan's office for a response. A spokesman for Mr Ryan, Les White, said the documents were not addressed directly to the minister and copies provided were not dated. He said the minister would not have accepted the documents as they were written. Many of the documents contain offensive and defamatory comments, which would never have been accepted by the minister. Earlier, Mr Ryan said he could not remember if the contents of the rumour files - which the minister confirmed he had seen - included mentions of ex-chief commissioner Simon Overland. I can't tell you now, off the top of my head. I don't believe we have the documentation from all of that. It was the first time Mr Ryan emerged to front the media since the secret tapes were revealed by the Herald Sun. On the tapes, Ted Baillieu's chief of staff, Tony Nutt, makes disparaging remarks about Mr Ryan, and says Mr Ryan treated his parliamentary secretary, Bill Tilley, like "s---." Mr Ryan said his relationship with Mr Nutt was fine, and Mr Nutt had admitted his choice of words was poor. The latest revelations amid the police tapes crisis come as Ted Baillieu resigned as Victoria's premier.