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Rolph, CH 155, 265
Romano’s restaurant 4
Romeo, Giuseppe 172
Rooklyn, Jack
advises Herbert to leave Australia 205
alleged meetings with Lewis 210
charged with making corrupt payments 212
Herbert works for 192
links with Bill Allen 96
Rosenes, Malcolm 166–7, 169
rotten-apple theory 5–6, 60–1
Round Table 37, 39
Rouse murder trial 1
Royal Commissions see also Fitzgerald Inquiry; Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force
Cameron Royal Commission (Vic) 33
Ewing Royal Commission (NSW) 53–4
Gibbs Royal Commission (Qld) 182–8
into Alleged Chinese Gambling and Immorality (NSW) 23–4
into Liquor Laws (NSW) 73
Kennedy Royal Commission (WA) 178, 233–8
Longmore Royal Commission (Vic) 31–2
Macindoe Royal Commission (Vic) 46
Markell Royal Commissions (NSW) 60–5
Moffitt Royal Commission (NSW) 88
Stewart Royal Commission (Cth) 251
Williams Royal Commission (Qld) 195–6
Royal Hong Kong Police, corruption in 9
Rum Corps (NSW) 14–15
Runyon, Damon 265
Russell, Alec 59
Ryan, Lilly 182
Ryan, Morgan 92
Ryan, Peter
as NSW Commissioner 220–5
MacKay compared to 51
on integrity tests 264
Schuberg’s relations with 99–100
Rylah, Arthur 117
Sadleir, John 30
Sadler, Glenn 168–9
Saffron, Abe 90–1, 96
Santayana, George 268
Scholl, Justice 113–14
Schuberg, Geoff 99–100, 102, 108–9
Schurz, Carl 125
Scotland Yard
obscene publications squad 186
scrutineers sent to South Australia by 83
Victorian Police Commissioner recruited from 48
view of police corruption 259–60
Scott, Erica 91–2
Scott, James Frederick 81
‘scrumdowns’ 218
Scullion, Neville 149
seniority principle 52
Sergei, Rocco 176
Shadgett, Murray John 236
Shand, J 64
Shannon, Eric and John 36
Shead, Kara 272
Sherman, Lawrence 7
Short, Elizabeth 146
Silvester, Fred ‘The Cat’ 86
Silvester, John 156
Silvestri, Arduino 237
Simmonds, John 263
Simmonds, Kevin 71
Sin City 100
Sinclair, John 93
Sketch of a Proposed System of Police for the Colony of New South Wales 22
skiving by police in Victoria 37
Slater, Graeme ‘Slim’ 231–2
Slater, James Robert 131
Slater, Oscar 52–3
Small, Clive 220
Smith, Donny ‘The Glove’ 78
Smith, Constable James 14
Smith, Greg 272
Smith, James ‘Jockey’ 123
Smith, Arthur Stanley ‘Neddy’ 136, 137, 139, 140, 163
Smith, Ray 72
Solidarity Forever! 35
South Africa, police captain robs banks in 10–11
South Australian Police
corruption in 36
homosexuals allegedly assaulted by 82–3
involvement in drug trade 172–8
threatens to resign en masse 35
Whistleblowers Protection Act 1993 (SA) 111
South Australian Police Association 172–3
SP bookmaking 57–60, 86, 186
Spears, Assistant Police Commissioner 105
St James watch house attacked by rioters 22
Standen, Mark 250–6
Stander, Andre Charles 10–11
Standish, Frederick Charles 28–31
Standish Handicap 31
Steffens, Lincoln 147
Stewart, Don 70, 148, 156
Stewart Royal Commission 251–2
Stoddard, ER 8
Stone, Julius 113
Stoneham, Clive 114–15
Strawhorn, Wayne 166–7, 169
Street, Jessie 55
Street, Laurence 150
Stretton, LEB 46
Strong, Judge 135
Stuart-Jones, Reginald 68
Sturgess, Desmond 198–9
Sturt, EPS 26
sub-culture theory 262
Sue, Malcolm 208
Sugden, William 26
Sumner, Chris J 176–7
Sundown Murders case 190
Swan, Andrew 162
Swan, John 150
Swan, Joseph Lloyd 69
Sweeney, Basil 98
Sweeney, Gregory Joseph 264
Sweeney, James 72
Swift, John 213
Sydney Foot Police 15
Sydney Market, Commissioner’s ‘cold store’ in 87
symbolic crusades 55
Taciak, Alan 252–3
Tampa vessel, drugs smuggled in 250
Tapley, Alan 231
Task Force Bax 222
Task Force Eagle 257
Task Force Guardsman 165
Tasmanian Police
audiovisual recording of interviews 150–1
corruption in 25, 49
legal protection for whistleblowers 111
Taylor, Leslie ‘Squizzy’ 36, 145
Terry, Harry 179–80
Tesco, Operation 241–2
The Adelaide Advertiser 172
The Age tapes case 155–6
The Mickelberg Stitch 229
‘third degree’, confessions obtained by 147
Thomas, Clarrie 66
Thomas, Coleen 236
Thomas, Gordon 137
Thompson, WN 115–16
Thorne, Graeme 85
Tilley, Anne-Marie 199, 205–6, 208–9
Tirtschke, Alma 37
‘Toe-Cutters’ gang 77
Toole, William 66
Trial and Error 212
Trifon, Christos 178
Trimbole, Robert ‘Aussie Bob’ 88, 155–6
Tripp, Allan 101
Truth newspaper 54–5, 64–5, 266
Udy (suspect) 251
United Kingdom see also Scotland Yard
London Metropolitan Police 27, 32, 265
police imported to NSW from 16
prostitution arrests in 3
United Nations, Canberra seminar by 113
United States
corruption investigation techniques 264
Knapp Commission 243, 258, 268
treatment of suspects in 147–8
Vagrancy (Amendment) Act 1929 (NSW) 54–6
Van Diemen’s Land see Tasmanian Police
Vane, Morrie 98
Varley, Reg 75–6
Velasquez (murder suspect) 148
‘verbal’ confessions 112–14, 148–9
Victims of Crime Service 195
Victoria Fruit Market murder case 117
Victorian Police
attempts to reform 112–28
audiovisual recording of interviews by 150
detective divisions 26
early State police force 35–50
in colonial era 25–34
infiltration by motorcycle gangs 256–7
involvement in drug trade 163
‘Lawyer X’ case 269
recent events in 242
results of Operation Cobra 129–36
use of ‘third degree’ by 151–2
whistleblowers in 104–9, 111
Vincent, Howard 259
Vogler, Simone 189
Wainer, Bertram 118, 122, 137–8
Walker, Bertha 35
Walker
, George Ziziros 91
Walker, Levi 34
Walkuski, Patti 177
Wallace, Michael Anthony 252
Wardle, Stephen 234
Watching the Detectives 102
Waterhouse, Bill 96
Waterstreet, Charles 271–2
Weidinger, Val 182
Western Australian Police
Dixon inquiry into 185
‘dog squad’ in 105
involvement in drug trade 178
Kennedy Royal Commission into 233–8
Perth Mint Robbery case 226
Western, Philip 137
Wheadon, Greg 100
Whelan, Thomas 190
Whiskey Au Go Go fire 138, 188
whistleblowers 18, 96–111
White, Gary 231
White, Welsh S 146
Whitehouse, Sarah 19–20
Whitrod, Ray 193–5
Whitton, Evan 65, 73–4, 85, 121, 137–8
Williams, Alan 140–2
Williams, Charles 59
Williams, DR 85
Williams, Geoffrey 177–8
Williams, George 246
Williams Royal Commission 195–6
Williamson, John 145
Wilson, Douglas and Isobel 189
Wilson, Henry Croasdaile 16–17
Wilson, Paul 158
Winch, Frederick J 31
Windeyer, Richard 64
Winterton, Bill 40
Wood, Mervyn
as NSW Commissioner 88–93
authorises illegal phone taps 157
Olympic sporting achievements 62, 89
Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Force
corruption defined by 4–5
establishment of 215–20
evidence given to 1–2, 101, 252–3
on consorting laws 56–7
on ‘scrumdowns’ 149
Woodhouse, Michael 161
Wran, Neville 91, 94–5
Wyatt, Stanley Charles 117–19, 121–2
Yeldham, David 220
‘Yellow Rose of Texas’ gold nugget 228
Yip family, relations with Bill Allen 96
Young, David 182–4
Zebra, Operation 126–7
Zou, Zoe 252
Zubrecky, Eugene 101
Zulu, Operation 127–8
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Chief Commissioner Frederick Charles Standish, clubman and socialite, refused to let Ned Kelly upset his Melbourne lifestyle. © Victoria Police Historical Unit
William Thomas Brooks, leader of the 1923 Victorian police strike. Courtesy Bob Haldane
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