Code of silence : how one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force / Colin Dillon with Tom Gilling.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016.Description: 232 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmISBN:- 1760290580
- 9781760290580
- 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
- True crime stories -- Queensland -- Biography
- True crime
- True Crime
- Police -- Queensland -- Biography
- Police corruption -- Queensland
- Police -- Queensland -- Biography
- Police -- Australia -- Biography
- Police corruption -- Australia -- Queensland
- Aboriginal Australian police -- Queensland -- Biography
- Police
- Australia
- Australian
- 364.132309943 23
- HV7911.D55 A3 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 364.132 DIL | Available | 064717 |
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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.
