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Bent Uncensored

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by James Morton


  16 June 1952. Detective Fred C Krahe of Sydney Police, on the Fletcher case.

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  11 July 1971. Brisbane, Qld. Prostitute Shirley Brifman was a key figure in the 1964 National Hotel Royal Commission, which investigated alleged police corruption.

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  Pioneering whistleblower former Detective Sergeant Phillip Arantz arrives at the Crown Employees Appeal Board to lodge his protest against his dismissal from the force, 8 February 1972.

  © Fairfax Syndication/J. O’Gready

  Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Terry Lewis during the Fitzgerald Inquiry in Queensland.

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  7 January 1996. Police human resources chief Christine Nixon and Commissioner Peter Ryan at a press conference where he announced that he would establish a three-person internal tribunal as a safeguard to hear the cases of police targeted under the Commissioner’s Confidence provisions.

  © Newspix/Pip Blackwood

  Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Nixon and her Deputy Simon Overland in crisis mode, November 2007.

  © Newspix/Andrew Brownbill

  WA forensic police officers examining the scene of a car bombing explosion which killed former CIB Commander Don Hancock and his friend Lawrence Lewis in Lathlain, Perth, September 2001.

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  21 September 2001. Elizabeth Hancock with a photo of her late husband Don Hancock in Perth, Western Australia.

  © Newspix/Jody D’Arcy

  Simon Illingworth joined Victoria Police as a fresh-faced cleanskin. Within weeks he had observed corruption among his colleagues and superiors. Over time his whistleblowing and corruption fighting earned him threats, abuse and the epithet ‘filthy rat’. Courtesy Simon Illingworth

  Ecstasy tablets as evidence of police involvement in drug trafficking, in custody at the Corruption Unit, Victoria Police Ethical Standards Department. Courtesy Simon Illingworth

 

 

 


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