Code of Silence: How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force by Colin Dillon with Tom Gilling
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Code of Silence: How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force by Colin Dillon with Tom Gilling

TBM9781760290580
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ISBN: 9781760290580
Author: Colin Dillon
Additional Authors: Tom Gilling
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2016
Format: Softcover
Pages: 248 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Lower front cover right corner now reinforced with book tape. Pages are sunned.

Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story. He was also the first serving police officer to voluntarily appear before the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry in 1987 and give first-hand evidence of police corruption.

He did this at a time when the Fitzgerald Inquiry was beginning and struggling for traction. His evidence at the Inquiry was instrumental in eventually sending some police, including Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, and politicians to prison.

Revealing, powerful and uncompromising, this is the story of Colin Dillon's nearly 40 years in a police force rotten to the core. It describes the extraordinary range of criminal activities - drugs, gaming, SP bookmaking, brothels, and vehicle theft that were allowed to operate with impunity in return for bribes.

It also tells of the high price an honest man and his family paid for his decision to break the code of silence. (back cover)

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