Code of Silence: How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force.
by Dillon, Colin; Gilling, Tom (with)
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- ISBN 13
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About This Item
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2016. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition. 232 pp. 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. His evidence 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, 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.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17002
- Title
- Code of Silence: How One Honest Police Officer Took on Australia's Most Corrupt Police Force.
- Author
- Dillon, Colin; Gilling, Tom (with)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1760290580
- ISBN 13
- 9781760290580
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- biography, autobiography, criminology, corruption, police, policemen, aborigines, indigenous, australian government, queensland
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIMINOLOGY;
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