Record Number |
540654 |
ISBN |
1760290580 |
9781760290580 |
Author |
Dillon, Colin author. |
Title |
Code of silence : how one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force / Colin Dillon with Tom Gilling. |
Publication details |
[S.l.] : Allen & Unwin, 2016. |
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, |
Ã2016. |
Pagination etc. |
232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
Summary Note |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. AUSTRALIAN. 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...Colin was 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...He shares his observations, detailed accounts and personal experiences over many years. These include attempts to bribe him by fellow police officers caught up in the web of corruption during these decades of greed within the Queensland Police Force. |
Subject |
Dillon, Colin |
Queensland Police Service |
Queensland. -- Police Department |
Queensland. -- Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct |
Aboriginal Australian police -- Queensland -- Biography and autobiography |
True crime |
Police -- Queensland -- Biography and autobiography |
Police -- Australia -- Biography and autobiography |
True crime |
Aboriginal Australian police -- Queensland -- Biography and autobiography |
Police -- Queensland -- Biography and autobiography |
Police corruption -- Queensland |
Australian |
Biography and autobiography |
Biography and autobiography |
Added Entry |
Gilling, Tom author. |
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